Shedding velvet… A few cool pics )

  • Fife
    Ramsey, MN
    Posts: 4056
    January 23, 2008 at 3:06 pm #646641

    Should have been there the day before. JK, I had about the same luck as you did. I got there a little late at 10am and only caught an hour of the hot bite. The fish were suspended 6 feet off bottom and were coming up 4-5 feet to smack the lure. No bait and very little coaxing required. After an hour, the fish disappeared and I couldn’t find them again. I drilled about 40 holes and wasn’t able to mark a fish. I called it a day with 5 for the pan and another dozen back down the hole. BTW, the Fifeweeds (my homemade Reelweeds) didn’t impress me much. The school of fish started thinning out, so I dropped down some structure hoping to keep them around or attract some new fish. I kept them down there for an hour and half and I never marked a fish in those holes.

    Fife
    Ramsey, MN
    Posts: 4056
    February 5, 2008 at 3:38 pm #651720

    I spent about 3 hours on Green this Saturday and it was bad. No fish in spot 1 or 2, and only a couple little perch is spot 3. I forgot my GPS that day and I don’t know the lake very well, so I drilled a ton of holes but I never found what I was looking for. I didn’t want to get right in any of the fishhouse crowds, so after running out of gas in the auger I left for another lake.

    whittsend
    Posts: 2389
    August 26, 2009 at 12:51 am #200437

    Got these off the camera a few minutes ago. From last night. Roughly 100 yards from the house.

    Mike


    lick
    Posts: 6443
    August 26, 2009 at 1:01 am #56322

    cool pics

    but nooooooo i want a velvet buck

    jcthorson
    Austin, MN
    Posts: 200
    August 26, 2009 at 1:16 am #56323

    It kinda seems early for that but maybe its a little different were you are compared to southern MN. A velvet buck would be really cool though.

    Brad Juaire
    Maple Grove, MN
    Posts: 6101
    August 26, 2009 at 1:39 am #56331

    Cool pictures whittsend! From my experience, they typically shed the last week in August to the first week in Sept. It won’t be long now!

    mpearson
    Chippewa Falls, WI
    Posts: 4338
    August 26, 2009 at 1:58 am #56334

    Would be nice to get one in velvet but chances of that are slim to none!

    coppertop
    Central MN
    Posts: 2853
    August 26, 2009 at 2:15 am #56335

    Very neat pics! Thanks!

    herefishyfishy
    MN
    Posts: 862
    August 26, 2009 at 10:27 am #56355

    gotta love the trail cameras. Very cool

    robstenger
    Northern Twin Cities, MN
    Posts: 11374
    August 26, 2009 at 11:20 am #56357

    Cool pics!

    mossydan
    Cedar Rapids, Iowa
    Posts: 7727
    August 26, 2009 at 12:51 pm #56389

    It would be nice to get some pictures all within the next couple weeks to see them harden up too to see how long it takes.

    robstenger
    Northern Twin Cities, MN
    Posts: 11374
    August 26, 2009 at 12:56 pm #56393

    I have seen deer (through trail cam pics) lose all the velvet within about 27 hour period. Sometimes I have seen a couple days.

    mossydan
    Cedar Rapids, Iowa
    Posts: 7727
    August 26, 2009 at 1:05 pm #56395

    Ya Rob, does anyone know about how long it takes for the antlers to get to thier normal color and whiten and to harden up. A couple days or week or two? Does the rain play a part in washing the blood off.

    sonniebutt
    River Falls, WI
    Posts: 13
    August 26, 2009 at 2:43 pm #56414

    very cool! Thanks for sharing! They look like devil antlers.

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