Pictures from my latest hike in the Quebec Run Wild Area

I was able to visit Ohio last week while I was out of school and went turkey hunting with Kenny for three days. We had a great time, but unfortunately, didn't bag any birds. Every day we saw deer either up in the winter wheat field or the meadow. One morning, 5 deer came across the meadow toward me from the wheat field and from what I could tell, they were all bucks (see pic below). That bodes well for deer season this fall. I also had a couple of jakes come to my call from across the meadow. They got to within about 100 yards and then Mass drove by the corner of the meadow on the OSU field with his tractor and they got spooked and flew off. Leroy (Ken) and I also fished a little bit on the Big Darby Creek in West Jeff. I was dumb enough to try and wade across the creek without shoes on and just about fell in 5 times. Kenny couldn't stop laughing at me. In the first picture you can see one of the new tree stands I set up on the property. It is right where the meadow, the winter wheat field, and the bottoms all come together. It overlooks a section of the fence where the deer have been crossing. The other tree stand is set up right in the middle of the bottoms along the old logging road that cuts diagonally across the woods. I took a machete down there and cleared out all of the brush around the stand for shooting lanes.

Last weekend we had a great time steelhead fishing up on the Grand River in northeastern Ohio. We actually never fished the Grand river but a few small streams that flowed into it. As you can see by the pictures we caught a lot of fish. Kenny and I probably caught around 10 fish a piece over the two days we were there. A couple of my buddies from dental school came with us and they had a killer day. They hiked 2-3 miles up this little tiny creek and caught 30-40 fish each. They weren't using anything different than we were but they thought the fish had just never been fished before. The tiny creek they were fishing wasn't more than 5-10 feet across and 1-2 feet deep at most flowing right through peoples back yards. You wouldn't think these huge fish would travel that far up such a small stream.

We caught all of the fish on different types of egg pattern flies. The most popular fly was a cream colored sucker spawn fly which looks like a little clump of eggs. We would put a couple small splitshot about a foot above the flies and caught fish in both the deeper pools and the quick runs. It was the first time my dad and Kenny caught steelhead on a fly rod and I am pretty sure they are hooked. This is by far my favorite type of fishing! I think the largest fish we caught was around 10 pounds and Ken caught the smallest and ugliest fish (minnow). It was so small he could have swallowed it in one gulp!

2008-2009 Hunting Season!!!!!!!!!

Well the season drawls close to the end for deer on Feb. 3 for the Ohio crew. It's been a great year for some and an average to below average for others. Not sure that do to the weather I'll get out any more before the season ends. However, I am starting to look forward to the hunting adventures that are soon to come. I'm sure that there will be a little coyote hunting in the future for the Ohio crew as well a some Ferrel hog hunting in southern Ohio. Not to mention that we have the all important Spring Turkey season of 2009 just round the corner. Just as are wives thought they had us back it's time to hit the woods to scout out "Ol'Tom". I'm hoping that this season will bring some more video with a few kills on them for some excitement. This will be the first year testing those waters. Happy Hunting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a little video I took when Kenny and I went deer hunting a couple of weeks ago. Kenny's friend Mike shot a doe while we were there but of course I forgot to turn on the camera.
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Anthony has been having a heck of a season. I know what your thinking he already killed a buck this isn't one that he shoot but he did find it this morning while looking for his 4th deer that he shoot at last light the night before. This deer was shoot some time during the muzzle loader season we think he is a huge 10 pointer. I believe that this may be the same deer that I happened to miss with my bow early in the season. The deer in the area just keep getting bigger and lots of sighting of even bigger ones in the area. Bryant and friends look forward to a great week of hunting in the early archery season next year!!!!!!!!!

Well Blow decided to come into town the week after the black powder deer hunt for Ohio was over. So, I treated him to a little bow hunt which was less then exciting. All we seen that morning in those stands were squirrels every where. It wasn't till we got out of the stand that we seen some deer. Mike was out with use and came over and said there were twelve in a near by field. We hustled over to see by the time we got there only one remained minding her own business eating. I told mike to walk straight at her to see how close he could get to her.I kid you not mike walked to with in 40 yards of that deer as she walked toward him and turned broad side mike let an arrow fly and got a nice little doe that morning. some guys luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Here is a fun video of Bryant and I up in a couple of trees.