managing 60 acres in the dunn county warzone

That looks like fun. I envy you !!!

Cool pics, thanks for sharing

It doesn’t get much better than that! Thanks for the pictures!

Wish I was there rather than stuck in MN where I’m being forced to prep or open water.

Nice pics.

WOW! That sure looks like a awesome place to be fishing this time of year.

Awesome shots!

Wow, those pics sure are cool. I enjoyed looking at them. Thanks for sharing!

Nice fish Bro, your putting the pressure on me now LOL. Come home this summer I’ll take you out for a weekend for real fish………Muskies.

Wow!!

Thx guys….takes my breath away every time I go into the high country
muskies shawn? nah i’d rather go after those other toothy critters…something i can eat

Well we can chase those to. Fact I will be later today soon as I get the boat ready.

Sounds good, let me know how you do. I’m heading to the high country for 3 days!

Wow, that last pic is beautiful…looks like it would be nice place to call home…

Do many people ice fish out there? Sure looks like a slice of heaven to me!! Thanks for sharing…

Ted

I think more people are catching on to ice fishing here in Colorado. Advancement in equipment makes the sport more enjoyable. I think that is true anywhere in the country that gets a lid on it. Pioneers of the sport like Genz and Brosdahl have done a good job promoting it. I hope the trap attack makes it back next year. A couple tourneys out west here would go over really well.

Glad you enjoy the pics fellas, got some more coming. Still iceing in the high country and just tickled pink about it. This little guy was hungry.

Makes it hard to consider living anyplace else….well maybe ALASKA.

Peace

Caught 11 lakers all about the same size. No kokes. Time to head furthur north.

Dang! Keep them coming! If you can get me through until next season that would be great! I may break out the Clam in July and print a few of these out and put them on the floor. Hey can you get a picture of one coming up through the hole so I can just hold my rod over it? I’ll put the Iced ones outside the Clam door. and tape the Scenery shots to the windows that should work.

Iced two different places. Put a few really nice macks on the ice and just tickled pink to still be walking on water still!

First one of the trip and the biggest one…quick photo and back down the hole…didn’t have the stanley out yet.

Frickin FATTY



Only fish on tubejig and boy did he hoover it. I really like this picture.



20″ nice eater



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Different water different color

Total count 13 kept my possesion limit all nice and fat. Enjoy the pics fellas, peace

Thank ya dude

Very cool

Your killing me bro, nice pics. Some of those places look familiar though, shoot me an e mail and tell me where your at.

Shawn, Williams Fork Res by Kremmling (aka Sportsmans Paradise) and Grandy Lake on the edge of Rocky Mountain Natl Park. That was my first time fishing Grandby, big water 7200 surface acres.

Ice out has been killer, glad you guys enjoy the pics

We have all read the articles on managing deer on small tracts–most of us have said “yeah, right”-and sometimes it’s true, but the flip side is-it can work.
In a nutshell, create bedding areas, give them food, build waterholes and hunt the perimeter-and above all, during gun season don’t drive your property.
Here are some 2010 deer we have pics of from multiple years-the one thing all deer need to grow big is: time.
Two of these 8 points are the same deer (one with rip in ear is “holyfield”). We don’t have a great pic of the 10 pointer yet, but still a darn nice deer.

Good luck to everybody this year!

Jeremy

Great pics Doc

Good work making your land the best it can be

wow!!!!

Thats awesome. and great advice, hope to get enough land to do the same some day

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We have all read the articles on managing deer on small tracts–most of us have said “yeah, right”-and sometimes it’s true, but the flip side is-it can work.
In a nutshell, create bedding areas, give them food, build waterholes and hunt the perimeter-and above all, during gun season don’t drive your property.
Here are some 2010 deer we have pics of from multiple years-the one thing all deer need to grow big is: time.
Two of these 8 points are the same deer (one with rip in ear is “holyfield”). We don’t have a great pic of the 10 pointer yet, but still a darn nice deer.

Good luck to everybody this year!

Jeremy

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Very good info Sounds like you have it figured out

Great pics Doc

That is a perfect example of what a lot of hard work, patience and Ido knowledge can do! Awesome name for a deer too Thanks for sharing

AWESOME DOC.!! Dean and i put are cams. up last week. Going to check them in a few days. Hope some of the BIG boys are still around from last yr. No one bow hunts back there, so they should have a chance..

Randy, if those deer got bigger—look out!!!

On a side note, I should point out is we can’t control our neighbors or what they shoot. We all know these deer jump the fence and go elsewhere. To combat this, we have taken a proactive approach and share our trail cam pics with them-this way they get excited too, this has made a difference in their choices. That being said, focusing on creating small bedding areas (heck, plant 15 spruces in a patch or knock down a bunch of popples and let the shoots pop up.) allows these bucks to ride out gun season. Really, you only have to truely “manage” your land for two weeks out of the year(gun season). We simply avoid these bedding spots and hunt down from them. If a buck makes it into one of those spots, he’s safe. We just wait for them to slip up, or get pushed from the neighbor’s property and intercept them on their way to those spots to hide.

Doing this tactic as allowed us to shoot 5 bucks in the last 5 years gross scoring between 125 and 140.

It can work.