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| Just wondering how many of you try to fit some tree-time in along with boat-time?I am guilty and have been doing a little scouting already.Seeing no less then 9 bucks coming out to the bean field behind Dads!One is a dandy!So I will be doing some tree-sitt`in,how bout you?If you do good luck! Jeff [:praise:] |
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| Definitely! Especially with the way this season is going. Can't wait for fall. It was awfully nice to wake up Tuesday morning and feel the cool crispness in the air. One month!
Tim |
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| Tree time kills my fall fishing every year.Seems like I see a good one and I just slip up an ruin my fall fishing.Going to try and stay out of the tree til November.Seem like that the frist week is (usally) my peak of rut and is also when I normally stick one.Some years I will note that it does take longer.Wack'em and then go stick a real pig.Dennis Blume |
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| I was going to concentrate more on fishing this fall, until last night. I took a quick walk behind my dad's house to see 3 nice bucks in the alfalfa field. Since the muskie's haven't been too cooperative with me this year, I will resort to the peace and quiet of the woods with a little time left over for the ski's. |
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| I cant think of the last time I have wet a line after opening day (oct 1st). Bowhunting is my religion. Stuck my first booner last year During the full moon in october. Would have been a hell of a time on the water I bet. However I dont regret being in that tree on that fine, fine morning!
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| I do both, been scouting for 2 wks already. But chasing muskies is number 1 in my book. Saw 19 good bucks this year already![:p] |
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| I''m fortunate as I can bow hunt off my deck, saltwater + musky fish all in a week easily though I can fish year ''round. Fall here is too daggone nice to limit oneself to one thing! To make it exciting though I''ll probably head back behind the house + hunt some so as to have that "back to nature" experience. W/ little Sponge, working 6/7 days week makes it rough as I have to use vacation now to get these things in. Nothing like the excitement of opening day![:sun:] |
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| I'm not anonymous, button slipped[:praise:] |
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| No Bowhunting for me but I have this incredible obsession with waterfowl hunting[:p] [:p]
It's more about my dogs than killing ducks but given the choice between waterfowl or muskies in the fall.......
Well I can't make up my mind so I hunt early and late in the day and fish mid-day. BIG THANK YOU to my wife for her understanding and support every Oct. Nov.
Been known to sit on an island hunting diver ducks and have a decoy spread going one direction and soaking a sucker in the other, painted up a special float so the orange doesn't scare the ducks [:praise:]
Have a safe hunting season.....
Mark
Northwoods Musky Adventures |
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| Don't do much bow hunting. Used to do a lot of rifle hunting, but got caught up in grouse and phez hunting. Watching good dogs work is really a passion of mine. Don't do a whole lot of fishing after grouse season starts and none at all after phez season starts. |
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| Mark/Jackpot, we have tons of grouse here + a few people hunt them but the mountains are pretty steep w/ saddles + some flats + the vegetation is thick also. Drive 1/2hr. + you start hitting piedmont terrain + the hunting is easier. Is it flat up there? Wish I had the knees to get out + hump now to try some new stuff.
the Atlantic Flyway produces some unreal duck hunting but I haven''t tried that either. we used to jump hunt black/mallards some but much of the river bottom below the house now is posted or being built on so that''s history now![:sun:] |
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| This subject brings many things to mind.
"You can`t serve two masters."
"I wish October and November were half the year."
and..."You gotta have your priorities in line."
When I bought land out in western Wisconsin some 8 years ago, I put my priorities in line. Walleye fishing in the winter and spring besides all the other countless fishing opportuntities and Pope and Young bucks. Found a nice piece on the end of a dead end road and things in the fall got prioritized in a hurry.
I don`t scout now. I scout all during Feb, March and April. I`m all set for this year except for thinning trails, which I`ll do in September. I`ve got portable stands, some of which haven`t been moved in three years, and others I move around once in a while. Basicly, I`m set for bow-season.
The last few years have been so damn warm in October that I don`t plan on doing any hunting til November unless the weather pattern changes. So this year, I plan on doing more muskie fishing in October than before.
I wish I could do both, but when the weather cools off and so does the water, I head for the trees. As much as I would love to stick a 50"er, I`d much rather stick a 150"er. I came close last year with a 146"er, and he wasn`t the biggest one that I saw. Big muskies get me pumped up, but they don`t make me shake uncontrollably to the point of almost puking.
So, if God wills it, I`ll kill a big boy early enough to still have some time left to go out chasing skis. If not, I`ll be in a tree.
This year also brings up another task that I`m not looking forward to. The day after I kill a deer, I have to schedule rotator cuff surgery that I`ve been putting off since February. I put it off so I could fish this summer and hunt this fall. A guy just doesn`t know how many seasons he has left, so I wasn`t about to miss one. I learned to cast left-handed and have to draw my bow a little funny, but hopefully I`ll only have to draw it once.
This is getting long...........big bucks win out over the skis for me. But let me tell ya, my mind often wanders when I`m up in a tree........out to the lake slinging baits and having a follow......then I hear a "crunch-crunch-crunch", and everything changes.
Good luck to all you guys, whatever you choose to persue.
Beaver [;)] |
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| BEAVER
P.S-Tell your Doc you want the cooler with the pump,he`ll know what you mean! [:0] |
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| Got it all set already. He told me that I`d be spending lots of time hooked up to it. |
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| I switch into grouse hunting mode in October. I've got a pretty good wirehair and we hit the grouse, woodcock, and pheasants full time. It pretty much ends my fishing season. |
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| I have my stick flinger tuned and ready to go, and my stands are up and ready to go, also. I wait until October to get really serious about deer hunting, and LOVE it. Phone does not ring. No one complains about anything. Don't have to put gas in it.Makes my heart really RACE, kinda like the Muskie Goddess.
In my house, one has three choices in foods...Pike, other fish, or venison. For special occasions; grouse, bunnies, and hare (yes, there is a difference) grace the table.I buy turkey at holiday time, just because I have not started hunting them yet, that is for later in my life.
I would Duck hunt, but could never figure out how to shoot with my head down. Besides, doesn't seem right to blind the things first, heard of a duck blind, how does it work? |
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| Jeff,
I am heading out this weekend to build some stands. I haven't bowhunted in a number of years but I sure love rifle hunting. I still shoot my bow and plan on hunting some bear from a ground blind in the next couple years. I love bird huntin' too. Give me some Grouse and a trip to South Dakota for Pheasant and I couldn't be happier.
Jim McCullough |
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| Rik - It's not necessarily flat around here (MN) but there is no mountains. I am still a young buck so I don't have to worry about my bones holding up. Used to do a lot of duck hunting out in western MN. It was good hunting till 5 years ago or so. I think the flyway shifted west more to ND. Lots of good water dried up around me and you don't get many migrating ducks coming through there anymore. You can still shoot the locals for the first week or so, but my water/decoy spread isn't big enough to attract the big northern mallards. |
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| Jack Pot, heard they are losing wetlands bi time out that way.... daggone geese here are way too many inland but the coast is only 4 hrs. so there is plenty of water. It is STEEP here + 20-30 mins east begins to flatten out. I plan to take at least 1 day + hump the bump but only after consuming mass quantities of Motrin! I remember Crash Mullins + I almost going through a bottle of those a couple of yrs. ago! Fun just sitting around thinking of the "good old days"![:sun:] |
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| Hi,
yup, thats me hunting and fishing are 2 or my favorite sports. i will prolly do more archery this year because the woods are closer than the lake.
petasucks
drew [:knockout:] |
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| Been traveling for work on and off for past six weeks and my boat has cobwebs on it...ugh! Going to take a quick run up to the cabin this afternoon and hang one stand, the other is still there from last year. Then hope to hit the Manitowish Chain and try to get some slime back on the Beckman. So the answer is YES...I love bow hunting AND Muskie fishing. Like someone stated above, man I wish we had a full year of October and November!!!! |
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| SWORRALL,
DUCK BLIND......you quack me up....[:bigsmile:]
You and I really need to cross paths Kemosabbi.....
Here's the scoop, I have had an honest 55" fish up twice this year that I haven't been able to get to take the bait. I went for her again last Saturday and didn't see her. She happens to live on the very same lake I duck hunt allot.
My offer, I bring the stuff to "blind" the ducks and maybe together we can "stick" this girl after the hunt. My boats, my dog, my treat...
Bring your musky stick, shotgun and a smile......[:praise:]
Mark "Curly"
Northwoods Musky Adventures
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