That is funny. Shaking like a scared little girl. I would have whacked it over the head on it’s way up. But then I play with them regularly. Might be why the wife says it’s a bear that will kill me before anything else. Slapping me back one day.
Not surprised at all by drawing a tag in 4yrs in C. Huge increase in tags there. May change next year depending on harvest and numbers that apply. More folks are applying for that zone now. Being closer to home, and less points needed.
A is a bit surprising due to the cuts in tags in that zone. A lower number of applicants, and high permit numbers in years past I’m sure have helped that.
Odds of harvest are always high. At least if you do your home, and leg work.
I’m still a few years out but that dont matter. My tag always goes to a kid. Could care less to kill one. Just enjoy helping others be successful, and chasing them around. It’s all about enjoying being out there, and the dog work.
That’s pretty cool BP!
Congrats Scott!
It was once unheard of, and 3 was rare. Now 3 is becoming pretty common, and 4 is rare. 5 is not unheard of, but normally is a orphan or 2 that found a home. Hard for a sow to carry that many to term.
Shear amount of food in the woods has increased over the years. So as a result seeing larger litters.
Our camp tagged out opening day. Only booked 2 out of 87 contacts. Now just waiting for the phone to ring again. Otherwise it will be back to trainign season for us starting on wednesday. A lot less pressure on us then, and can just enjoy the woods without any worries about making sure a tag is filled.
Here are a couple of pics of our successful hunters. One with older guy is 316lb boar. The other is a 262lb sow.
Figured you were in one of the 3 spots. I don’t mess with the baits there anymore because of the wolves. The big swamp SW of there we call the wolf swamp! One of my partners still runs them baits, just to tempt fate I think. A lot of bear in that area. It’s just scary to me to hunt them there. The last one we harvested last year was very close to that pic. The big guy came in a few hours earlier that day, and let a 200 pounder sneak in. He won’t be doing that twice though 
Lot more birds that way!
Nice pic. I agree it’s a fox. Don’t know about that dating, or eating thing 
Mark, your right about that pic. had to squint to see the blob.
Looks like you were real close to me. If that’s where I am thinking. There is a bait real close.
Ohh, did you have your permits for being over this way 
Here is another pic of that black monster!
How high is the feeder bucket. With that info may be more accurate. Guessing by the size of that butt, and the width across the back. I would put it at over 300. A little more info would help. It may be bigger than that.
Always hard to say. Even with being up close and personal with over 50 of them so far this year. With at least 15 over 300. It’s a still a tough call.
Don’t take this wrong the wrong way. Not assuming your as old as me. But at our age you may want to use a program like P90x or the 5 minute trainer. Only using them as reference for examples. They are a least programs that are easy to follow and stick to.
Being involved as an athlete/coach for over 30yrs. Doubt I could get myself in the right shape without following a good program, or without of the use of a trainer. So that things are designed for gains. Rather than a hap hazardous of things here and there.
Hardest thing is going to be sticking to what ever plan you choose to follow. The aches and pains, the time involved. All make it real easy to fall of the wagon. Becomes a mental thing. When I was still lifting a few years back. Would come home from working barely able to get out of the truck. Would drag myself to the weight room. Within 20mins of being there would feel better than all day. Real tough to get there some days though.
Realistically cardio is going to be the biggest to work on for that terrain. Then general strength training for the whole body. Being sure to work the core. Called that for a reason! In the time you have. Keep in mind that depending of your age, and current fitness level. A 30% increase in overall fitness is going to be on the high side. Perhaps a bit more, or less. Push too hard though and you will burn out. Not hard enough you will not peak properly.
Lastly, test your self before starting. So you know where you end up at the end. Even again midway through to see where your at. That’s enough before I start talking anaerobic/aerobic thresholds.
Good luck. I hope you have a great hunt.
That is a good sized sow for sure! Have not even bothered to put our cameras out yet. Going to wait till just before training season. So won’t be long now.
I know I have posted about this somewhere before. SO won’t go into a lot of detail unless needed.
The cheapest way to take care of ticks is with 37% permethrin straight. You can buy a QT for less than $20 on amazon. Brain not working fully yet, but that is a lot of doses!! You can apply this in a lot of ways. You can go with 3cc straight on the average lab sized dog. Draw up in a syringe and apply like anything else. I have been diluting down in a garden sprayer. Then hosing the dogs down. Normally I use 1 OZ per gallon of water. Most of the time I am doing this on a weekly basis throughout the summer. I then also use the same sprayer and spray the kennel, houses, and runs. I then will also put it in a ortho sprayer. Set it at 3tsp I think, and spray my house and yard. Really keeps the bugs down!!
Then top it off. On a daily basis when we are hunting in from July on. When I pull the dogs out of the box. Before turning them loose. I spray them again with Bronco fly spray. Also has permethrin, and a few other ingriedients. Along with citronella. Helps even more. I also spray myself with this. Not on the skin if I can help it. It has a bitter taste to it, and the dogs do not like to lick it. SO my hunting partner swears it helps prevent wolf kills. Can’t say that it works in that aspect. Since we have not had a dog killed, or attacked by a wolf while using it that we know of. Yes, dogs have come out tore up and full of holes. But that could have been from the bear they were chasing. Never know though.
Also have used the Equi Spot. Bio spot for horses. WHcih is much cheaper as well. We just have to apply anything more often so the straight permethrin is a better option. Nothing lasts a month with dogs in the field on a daily basis!
I have lost dogs to tick disease. So it has become a personal war on them. What we are doing know results in very few if any ticks on the dogs. Have not had or seen any ill effects on the dogs by doing this. Using it with a straight 3cc’s came right from a vet. Not going to get many to say that though. As it does not make them any money!!!
To be honest with 10-12 dogs or more in my yard. I cannot afford to use Frontline or the like on a monthly basis. Then to have it not work for more than a week. Running a dog in the early morning dew. Can get them just as wet as if they jumped in a lake. Washing the anything away.
We do a lot of self medicating/care including minor surgeries for our dogs here. Most of which comes from experience, and under the guidance of several vets. So I am not pulling this stuff out of my arse. With a pile of dogs hunting dangerous game you have to be proactive in health care to keep the costs in check.
Hope this helps. More than happy to give more detailed info if anyone wants to hear it.
I’m not a vet, but did watch ceaser last night 
really they are both going to be about the same. They all use maps provided by the USGS. The detail, zoom level, and age of the picture is all dependent on the last time the USGS took the photo. Here at my house it has been close to 10yrs since the last pic of the area. Got a little subdivison behind me that only shows 1 house when there is 5 now.
I use GE all the time. I upload the tracks from my dogs GPS collars. To analyze the hunts. Will also use it to get an idea of where an old logging road goes. In order to get a better idea of where I may come out. Have also used it in the past when fishing a river for the first time. Can see sandbars and other structure to key on.
SWEET 
Might have to ask you to help with the name on our next one. That is a unique one!
That’s horrible! Sorry to hear about it! Hope you are able to find what you are looking for!
I realize that. Was trying to make a point about the reason the bear were going nocturnal.
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This will definatly put more hunters in the woods. This can be good but from my Experience the increased hunting pressure reduces your chances of daylight sightings of the bigger smarter bears. More baits per square mile doesn’t Necessarily mean that more bears will be shot.
Just my .02
Try to tell that to WI or MI bait sitters. They will tell you that you are full of it. They don’t see bear because of the hounds only!!! At least in the northern zones that is what you will hear. More baits all of a sudden, mast crops, deer hunters, bird hunters, other people. Have no affect on the bear. Imagine that! 
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What kind and how many batteries do this things take?
Are they all run off of SD cards?
Since it’s going to be within range of my WI-FI network, wouldn’t that be nice to be able to down load wirelessly?
HAH! I’m thinking about a $40 cam and wireless download at the same time.
Why don’t you just put up a web camera. Then we can all watch the BK cam.
Feeling bad for you guys 
Been a very windy day In N WI. Forecast is now for 3-5″ of snow!!!!
Well thanks Kooty. hate to look at gift horse in the mouth. BUT! Of the low end cameras. Them wildviews are by far the worst. All I really care about is the time date stamp, and seeing what was there. Yet the pics on the WV’s are horrible. Very grainy and blurry. They eat batteries a lot more in cooler weather of the fall as well!
Not looking pretty that is fir sure.
18 this morning here in N WI. Just checked the accuweather forecast for St Germain. Says there is 1.5″ of snow on the way!
That is a scary deal!!! I wonder about the number of depredations they listed in the article. At 1/3 the pack size here in WI. We easily had better than twice the number of depredations.
Just scary period!
RR- It depends on the person I suppose. I care less about killing. So just pet the dogs up for a job well done and walk away. Others and and times they will be harvested. Just like with any other type of yote hunting for the hides.
Please understand that this is not the norm when it comes to running them. Everything has to be just right to catch them in the heavy cover we hunt in.
Years ago we we harvest 70-100 a year. Anymore now it just about the dog work. Just enjoying the sport, the kill is not even secondary. We maybe harvest about 10 a year now. Although I now some will not be happy about us not taking more. The amount we take though is keeping them in balance in the area we hunt. So we have enough to continue hunting, but the are not overly abundant. It is hard for some to understand why we even bother hunting without killing. Enjoying the outdoors, the dog work, and the swamp music is what it is about for me.
Just like with any other activity that involves a dog. It does take a lot of work to be able to provide videos like that. Cats, coyotes, bears it’s all hard work. Just can’t buy a dog and catch game. Even with birds it’s a lot of work.
I have been using 6 of the 1.3’s for 2 yrs now. Of all the low end cameras they are by far the best. The moultries did not even make it a year. The others took horrible pictures at best. After 2 seasons in the woods only had 2 problems. 1 lost the flash, the other the SD card holder does not lock anymore. Although out of warranty Wildgame was very nice about it. Going to replace them both for $35. Can’t beat that.
I went to using these cheaper cameras due to problems with theft. Easier to handle loosing $50 than a $500 cuddy!!
No need to worry about that Bob. They would only lick you to death. Unless you you smelled like a coyote or bear! Even then it may only confuse them for a little bit until they figured out you were a human.
Really it is not too often we catch them like this. Snow conditions have to be right to bay them up in the thick cover we hunt up this way. Most of the time the yotes is way out front of the dogs.
It’s not any easier to harvest a yote this way. Yet, to us it certainly is more exciting. A lot of adrenaline pumping all day as you try to get in position for the shot.
Like Lynard Skynard said. It’s SWAMP MUSIC!
That was good. Got to love movie maker!
Do little playing with the snapshot feature. You can add the stills into the vid. Like when the fox was on top of the wood pile, etc. Can put transitions in between the action and still as well. I made a few of them yote hunting with the dogs this year on bays.
Will post one in another thread as an example.
Makes sense to me on the tag thing. Not even a population thing yet. Just a way to increase the harvest rate without increasing amount of tags for a bunch to go unused. Actually smart for a DNR to do that. Now the anti’s have to spend some money to keep you out of the woods!
