AN OFF-SEASON IS A TIME TO REFLECT ON WHAT WAS DONE RIGHT, WHAT WAS DONE WRONG, AND WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE TO GET BETTER. In sports, as in every walk of life, there is a busy time and a not so busy time. There is the ‘off-season’, a time when everything is kind of slow, not much to do…
Map Skills Between GPS maps and Google Earth, my mapping work is never done, I am always looking for new potential areas. That is where the fun is for me, exploration. I set a goal of adding 15-20 new hotspots every year. Some years we make it and some we don’t. There are a few areas that we probably overfish…
Ice Fishing an Untapped Resource Ice Fishing on Lake Alice Federal Wildlife Refuge is a GO for 2016-2017 We were anxiously awaiting the opportunity to fish this body of water a year ago, we knew that for the most part it had been an untapped and fertile resource. We were able to access areas that were cut off from most…
Yikes!! Either you have corn and birds or you are left wanting right now. The Golden Kernel is ruling the day and any areas that are not loaded with harvested corn are basically devoid of fowl. Access to the worked wheat next to the JAMMIN” corn field only produced these juvies! With not many options left we went to the…
A whole lot of nothing. About 3 hours of nothing to be exact, and then,……….. a skunk. That’s right, a squatty, waddling, butt scratching, bait stealing skunk. I watched that skunk steal the bear bait and scratch his butt for well over 30 minutes. In hindsight, that butt-scratching skunk probably saved my trip. He was calming. Watching his bait stealing…
