Went fishing at Lake Pleasant outside of Phoenix today caught one nice striper on a scrounger, or the dirty grubbing whore as I call it.
I recently have been reading about snares, leg holds etc. Just wondering if anyone here has any experience with it. I know there is probably some PETA members or supporters but aside from all that bullshit, I realized it's all about finding a narrowing in a rabbit trail and then placing wire and what not. Does anyone trap on the board? Any advice to give?
If you want some general information check out FM 21-76 from the US Army. This book has lots of valuable information for free.
I just confirmed that I'll be making not one, but two trips into the Boundary Waters this summer. One May trip and one June trip. We've got some pretty sweet day trips planned. One will involve a 345 rod portage (5520 feet) into a very secluded lake. Fuck. Yes! Open message to any game fish in the area: Get ready.
I am happy to see this thread, and I'm hoping to learn a lot from it. This hunting season was my first official hunting season. I had been deer hunting only once before. My entire family is a bunch bunny huggers, and they are quite distressed about it all. My mom still can't understand how her youngest daughter can somehow find interest in killing bambi. Anyway, I am proud to say that I shot a Doe and 7 point this season. However, they are Florida white tail so they aren't the biggest. I figure it is a start though, right? This past year, I've also been introduced into hog hunting with dogs. I still haven't been able to find the right words to describe that sport. I find it so much fun though. Do we have any people involved in that? I would love to get some pointers.
I used to shoot hogs from an airboat with an SKS while nearly blackout drunk. If you run over one and the water is too shallow, you'll spill your beer. Does that count?
This is why a "traveler" bottle of whiskey is the only choice for imbibing while hunting. The cap prevents spillage, and the fact that its is made of plastic allows you to drop it without it breaking. In all seriousness,a friend of mine from Florida (real florida not the beach) claims he has met rednecks who hunt boar with nothing but bowie knives. Is there any merit to this awesomeness?
So I just moved into a place on the beach, and am looking to take up surf fishing. I have done deep sea fishing and freshwater fishing, and want to get into surf fishing, but haven't found the most info out there on how to start. Does anyone have a decent resource for this?
Just take it with a grain of salt. I had an older version of this manual (1956 or so) and I'm amazed to see that much of the information, and many of the pictures, are exactly the same. Apparently survival skills haven't advanced much in 50 years. I spent hours, days and weeks trying out many of the skills in the manual, between the ages of 15 and 25. Look at Figures 8-5 through 8-7. Notice that the snares are defying gravity. These snares do not work well unless you are using wire. Reference is made to using "cordage", which i take to mean twine, thin rope, or maybe jute cord. Find one of these, make a nice loop out of it as shown on the illustrations, and arrabge it to stay open across a trail. Go ahead, I'll wait. The snares made of "cordage" will not stay open. The manual states "Filaments from spider webs are excellent for holding nooses open." Bullshit. Go ahead and try it, I'll wait some more. Didn't work, did it? Unless you are setting snares flat on the ground (with a trigger) or across a brush filled trail and can use vegetation to hold them open, it won't work unless you use wire.
Funny part is I ended up wearing orange juice and everclear over a crazy stunt like that. Except, it wasn't an SKS it was a 7mm, and I was a passenger.
When you hog hunt with dogs you stab them with a K-bar. No one ever warned me to be prepared for getting drenched in blood. I had blood from my boots to my hair. Leave it to Florida.
I got a bad case of cabin fever and took off for the Spring River at 4:30 this morning. I was on the water by 8:00. Fishing was good. I caught about a half dozen, which isn't bad considering this is the first time I've fished a spring creek, and the first time I've fished for trout outside of eastern North Carolina. I caught most of the fish on an egg or a wooly bugger, but there was a pretty good caddis hatch when the sun came out. Hindsight being 20/20, I should have fished a caddis fly with a scud or egg dropper, but I wanted to explore more water. I made it home in time to pick up a ribeye and wash it down with an amber beer. All in all, it was a great day. If anyone is in driving distance of the Spring or local tailwaters, shoot me a PM. I'd love to meet up and wet a line. The rivers aren't very dog friendly and it gets kind of boring fishing alone.
I don't hunt, but love fishing. We've been stocking our lake with rainbow trout for the last 5 years and its been great. I grew up fishing for walleye and northern pike, but love trout fishing now. They fight hard, do spectacular jumps, and are one of the best tasting fish I've had. Fishing season opens 8 weeks this Friday, and I can't wait. Below is a picture of my 5-pounder from 2 years back. The rainbow below it is more typical of what I catch at the lake. I have a fly rod and reel setup, with sinking line to get the lures down. I mostly fish with various colours of woolly buggers, however I did come across a Rapala lure which I'm thinking of trying this spring. Its intended to look like a juvenile rainbow. I figure since the fish are cannabalistic its worth a try.
Quick question for all the hunters/rednecks of the board: We have a bit of a fox problem. Specifically, there is (I think) one fox, and I keep seeing it fairly close to the house, where I have two small dogs. I bought about a 3' x 1' x 1.5' box trap, a few cans of soft cat food, and placed it along the last place I saw the fucker. Other than this, any ideas? The cliche is that foxes are smart, and whether or not this is true, I am afraid that they may be smarter than me.