More Early Morning Visitors

[Winelover]

These four fellas were having some snacks out back, while I was enjoying my coffee this AM. Antler growth is just starting. They showed up two days ago, about the same time.

 

[Rick]

Cindy's photography pays off again.

 

[smokeywolf]

John is there 40 acres for sale next door to you?

Wherever we end up, I'm hoping to cultivate a healthy wildlife population on the place and what little hunting we do on the place will likely be with bow.

 

[Winelover]

Actually there is 31 acres bordering my 26 acres, for sale, but most of it is downhill from mine. Been up for sale for 6 years and no takers. He bought it for 108K during the recession and is holding out for 129K. All the property, surrounding mine is large tracks that sees little use. MLS# 104742 Peglar Real Estate.

I usually take one during archery season. This one was my first archery buck, taken the first season (2012) I hunted my acreage.

 

[Winelover]

Cindy's photography pays off again.

Actually, I took the pic's, with her camera. Was quite foggy out this AM.

 

[freebullet]

Nice!

That definitely beats what I see out back of my place.

Provide bedding cover, food, and water and the does will almost never leave, and the bucks will come.

 

[Cherokee]

For the last 25 years, I've had from 3 to 8 doe living in the back woods of my place. Watch the little one grow up and see a buck now and them. A few get hunted each year.

 

[Winelover]

Last year we had an orphan fawn hanging around all summer and through hunting season. We named her "Little Orphan Annie".

 

[Winelover]

 

[Cherokee]

We usually have 2 or 3 fawns come around each year. They are so much fun to watch as they play, learn their way around the woods and lake, and trim (strip) my hanging trees for me. My dog barks his head off at them but they quickly learn to ignore him.

 

[Winelover]

We have a fawn colored female Boxer. We would bump into Annie on our walks....she wouldn't run off.....I think she thought Bella was a short eared deer.

 

[Rick]

Not only does that Boxer have the biggest tongue in Baxter County it's also the fastest tongue in Baxter County.

 

[Brad]

Isn't she your girlfriend Rick?

 

[Rick]

Yeah, she's my buddy. She's always happier to see me than my own dog. There is no convincing her that she's too big to be a lap dog, she isn't buying that.

 

[Hawk]

My daughter has a female Rottweiler that's the same way.
Nothing like having 110 lbs. land in your lap when your snoozing in the recliner.

 

[Winelover]

Early last evening, the 4 bucks returned and brought 3 more with them. Two does were there, twenty minutes, prior.



Earlier this week, I weed wacked the shooting lane. You can barely see the sand berm in the upper left corner.

 

[freebullet]

Nice, thanks for sharing. Here's the other end of that spectrum.

 

[Winelover]

Nice walleye. Wife and I were out on Norfork Lake, yesterday. Took the pontoon out for the day. Marina is 10 minutes from my front door.
We do have walleye, but it is primarily a Striper lake. We caught and released over a hundred Stripers, last year, all on artificial baits. Walleye have to be 18" to be legal and they are considered "rough" fish. They actually spearfish for them. Here is a picture of a 22" one the wife caught on her B-day, last year.

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This was the best Striper, I caught last year. Twenty one pounds on a Alabama rig.

 

[Winelover]

BTW....is that a Hot n' Tot? Used them on Burt Lake, when I lived in Michigan.

 

[smokeywolf]

That's a beauty Winelover! My wife is envious. Her biggest Striper, out of Silverwood Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains, was a little over 18 pounds; on frozen anchovy as I recall.