Time or Money

All my life it has been, either I have time or money. Unfortunately at this point in my life I have time, which would be good if I had a little bit of money. I did get to do some fishing this week and I also brought home a meal. I went to tippy for the day, and got into some great white bass fishing. It was the first time I caught them on a Zara spook topwater. I had a great day on the water, I also caught quite a few largemouth. All in all I was in the fish all day.

Hopefully I'll start getting into some money really soon.

Morels....MMMMMMMmmmmm

Not sure where we are at on the season but I got out today and found some mushrooms.

I think if we get some good rain they should really be popping.

Roosted was Roasted

 Finally turkey season got here, and I was lucky enough to get drawn to hunt Mississinewa. So I got all my gear ready and headed south for my 3 day hunt. I set up camp then I went to check out the turkey situation, I saw 3 hens. Around 5pm my neighbor Tom showed up to accompany me on my hunt the following day. He had never been on a turkey hunt before and I was more than happy to invite him along.
After we ate, we waited until it was close to dark then went out to roost some birds. In the next hour I hooted up at least 5 turkeys, and fortunately 1 of them was in an area I had already scouted and had seen plenty of sign in.
I could tell you all about it right now...... or I could just let the video do the talking.

Just a little behind the scenes here: 5 minutes after I got to the parking area and started to get ready. A truck had pulled into the same parking area I was in. He wanted to hunt the same section of property I was going to hunt. Since we were there first he did the honorable thing and bowed out to find another section of the 10,000 acres to hunt.

Thanks to that hunter for doing the right thing. I hope he got a turkey also.

I had a great Turkey season.
By the way here's the stats: 23#'s, 13" beard and 3/4" spurs a nice 2 year old.

Let's play a little game.......

Let's play
Guess what MONTH it is.....

       Choices:

1. October
2. November
3. December
4. January

 The correct answer is......
March!!!!

What's that?? That was an unfair answer because it wasn't even a choice???

Well we didn't have a choice to get a foot of snow in March... just deal with it.

2013 It's the end of the season......

Gold rush anyone????
Ok so lets get on with the end of the season. I had a really good year, I hunted and shot a record number of ducks. Along with that my first duck band, I also shot a dove and another goose band.
Yes that's right folks the grandfecta (a cross between grand slam and trifecta) of wing shooting a dove, a duck, and a goose band.

 With all the snow and freezing temps this year, finding open water was,"a game changer" ......still nothing????? 










I finally broke my coyote streak this year. In the past 2 years I went out for a day and brought down a coyote....not this year. I told Sarah my call must be broken - well it didn't call in a yote?!?!?- so I get to get a new one next year. : )
The real only regrets I have from this season was I didn't get as much video as I would like. Since we got the new computer making the movies won't be such a chore. I will be getting more video in the future, starting with fishing season.

2013 Hunting Season Breakdown

Species          |  Days Afield        |  Number of Critters Taken

Turkey                  8                           0

Deer                      2                           1

Dove                  3 1/2                       32

Pheasant                2                           3

Coon                     0                            0

Coyote/Fox           4                            0

Waterfowl         38 1/2          45 ducks/21 geese

Total                   58                         102

Well that's it for this season, hopefully ya'll had a good year. I am looking forward to bonus Turkey season and of course fishing season is only a month away.
I will be taking care of the house stuff and preparing for both of the upcoming seasons so until April take care, stay safe.

Here's a bonus video of some stuff I had layin' around that I haven't put on anything else...enjoy.