NE SD.

I’ve heard the LX-7/9 get pretty heavy if you are a big hole hopper. Sore shoulders in the morning.

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So how about a Tananka head with a 6″ lazer. I have seen these run and they are about the best out there? Anyone have one? Thanks.

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This is what I have, I also own a Solo but hardly ever use it. My whole auger weighs <15lbs, crazy fast, I can cut holes with one hand and carry it with 2 fingers if I wanted. I haven’t run into many fish I can slip through a 6in hole.

Sturgeon spearing will be interesting.

I run that setup all the time, works great.

I bought a browning micro midas for my son, pretty adjustable, nice little bows. $150 on craigslist almost brand new all decked out with arrows, quiver, release, everything.

My cousin down in South Central IA just found 3 dead bucks they passed on a few weeks earlier, all 3 would have been huge next year. What a bummer.

I compare MN to the Colorado of elk hunting. Colorado is managed for opportunity and the occasional trophy, where as a place like Arizona is managed for trophy quality. It is what it is. Go hunt Iowa where it takes you 3 years to draw a bow hunting tag and a majority of the state is leased or super expensive to buy property. Be careful what you wish for. Residents in Arizona can wait years to get an elk tag, obviously its an extreme.

Fun hunt. Did you guys hunt BLM land or Wilderness just out of curiousity. WY you need to hire a guide to hunt Wildneress correct?

Nice job. Just curious how big of farm do you own that you can keep deer on it like that? Is this SE MN or Central?

Go back to SD where there are more big deer, haha. I love SD.

Good, job. You learn every time you fish a tournament. As a fellow tournament angler my advice to you is no spot should ever produce 50 fish during practice! That’s 50 you won’t catch in the tournament. I rarely set hook in practice anymore, unless you have a boatload of active spots assume at some point during the tournament day you’ll fish the areas you got ‘bit’ in practice, might as well save em.

Let me know when there is a .NET/SQL Server Senior Developer job open!

My buddy just got back, his group got close to 300 fish in 3 days, 12lbs being the biggest, I think they got 4 over 10lbs. Live Target rattle baits on one road, buckshot on the other, said its the best bait. They tried the Rapala rip baits, regular traps, blade baits, etc.

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The outlook here in south central WI is averaging 40’s through Feb 16th….with lows in the 29/30ish and only a couple days of a high of 30.
With all the general discussion of how mild of a winter we’re having, I’m getting the feeling we are all in for a rough March/April. I remember a few years of having the boat ready and looking forward to an early March Miss trip, only to be slapped in the face with 16″ of slush and dropping temps….Though on the bright side, hopefully we don’t have 30″ of snow melt off and send the Miss and other rivers from almost perfect to flood in 2 days

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Wonder how many fanatics will go through the ice chasing Sturgeon on Bago this year. Its bad on a good ice year.

Yep, your better off going shopping for a new one. They might not even fix them period anymore.

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Cullens the man. Hope this was the game they turn things around.

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I had the pleasure of playing against Matt and his Moorehead crew growing up. In Bantams one time they edged us 21-0. They had alot of D1 players on that team that took 2nd at state 3 years.

Probably thousands of acres of land locked land they could sell and not affect anyone. Might as well make the guys that hunt it like private land pay for it.

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I wish it wasn’t this way, but its time to face the facts that are put in front of us. Now its time to band together and find a management plan that can get these areas back on track.

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I agree very much. After talking to all my neighbors, I was very shocked to have seen all the deer that we did this year. Two guys to the north property of me only saw 3 does wondering around by them throughout the entire season, and not a single buck. Guys to the east of me ran a lot of deer out of their property on opening morning, and didn’t see much there after. Property to the west was only hunted a couple times by only a couple of us. Our saving grace for seeing deer was having the perfect blend and locations of food sources. My leased corn field and my food plots all coincide with bedding areas. We had deer take residency by us that resulted in drawing the deer from the surrounding properties.
With all the management projects that I have done in the last couple years, in addition to trapping my land, I know the population is way down with just small pockets of deer. Trail cams on the most heavily used trails and I was only getting about 1 picture per day. When the plants in my plot turned over for high concentrations of carbohydrates after the freeze, that increased a lot in the plot and bedding area only. I didn’t see any significant traveling from my plot to other properties. I wonder how much “food plots” have taken a toll in other regions with people drawing in deer and keeping them there rather than the deer covering larger ranges seeking food?

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Where we hunt in burnett county I think a big reason (for gun season anyway) don’t see near the deer we used to is partially because of QDM. Alot of land around has been bought buy guys that practice it put food plots in etc(we do also). But along with that comes that exact ‘safe haven’ word that was just mentioned. Everyone putting work in to have better deer and no one wants to move deer of their property with doing deer drives etc, which used to be common place a few years back. I can’t blame them we do the same, but what I think it leads to is once teh guns start firing these deer head to the swamps on these 120 acres parcels that have 2 or 3 guys stand hunting and just never leave except for at night. I think it leads to alot less deer being seen than just a few years back.

I have no problem with it though as I will just hunt them during the rut with a bow when they are on their feet moving around.

Nice post. Yes, the more prehunt time you put in on the treadmill the way more fun the hunt can be!

Plus good clothes for that active style hunting are key, check out Kuiu layering stuff, I got some and its the ticket, keeps you dry!

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Extremely slow weekend for our group in the Danbury area. We had 11 hunters in our camp and through 2 1/2 days of hunting, we’ve seen a total of 2 deer.

Overall harvest numbers are down significantly throughout the area so far this season and other hunters are reporting similar sightings to what we’ve experienced.

Not sure what gives, but based on trail camera sightings, offseason scouting, and days afield bowhunting so far this season, I’m under the impression that the population is down considerably in this area.

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$2 dollar doe tags and 2 legged wolves for the last 4 or 5 years is what gives. We got one deer for the 4 of us, we at least saw a few does, but not much shooting. I probably won’t be buying a non-resident tag next year, just not worth the money right, its a bummer.

If he caught them you should know who they are, prosecute!

Seems like if you own land now a days in the ‘big buck’ country you’d better live right next to it or have a caretaker.

Ponies are the key, imagine packing those elk out on your back….. Best be hitting the gym every day.

Nice bird? I’m curious as I have a 5 year old, when can they legally shoot with a mentor?

I got some new clothing from GameHide called ElimiTick? All I can say is a hunted for 3 days this weekend laying/sitting on the ground all day long and never had a tick when I showered each night. Check it out, works. Something they inject into the fabric.

Nice buck. I’m just curious do you guys use an outfitter or DIY? I always thought you must have a guide to hunt in saskatchewan as a non resident.

Thanks

There isn’t much for weeds left in the lake and the water dirty. The lake is a shell of its former self before they got the itch to want to kill off all the milfoil. A few years back the water would be gin clear in June now its dirty all year long.

BTW, what do you call the Camel Humps?

Go to a different lake, that lake can be insanely tough in August.

If there are still birds around you can still kill them, you may just have to hunt differently than those before you, leave the decoys/blinds at home and get off the fields. Get in the woods, call less, call more softly, etc. Move more to get on an active bird.

For awhile Joe’s had a deal where you could buy a Revo SX for $169 and you got a free Vendetta Rod, it was a good deal, it was last years Revo’s SX model.