Happy February - What's Everyone Up To?

[HuntingGuy]

So I sit here doing my 2006 taxes, letting my mind drift over to thinking about hunting and fishing.  I remember BF mentioning he was revving up for a vacation of hunting and pike fishing.. You started that yet??

It's been too damn cold for me to have an interest in ice fishing, and besides that, staying busy with warmer activities (ie. Working or sitting here reading GlockTalk and GrayBeardOutdoors).

Hope all has been well for everyone.  Needless to say, I'm ready to move to Florida.  Current temp:  Negative Six Degrees.

[rifleman]

I've been working on my taxes also. Lately been thinking about coyote hunting, but it's too cold to do anything about it (-9 here). Maybe in a month or so it'll be a little better weather for that. Already thinking about summer fishing and the upcoming camping season. Lining up ideas for where to go and when.

Dave

[bearfat]

Read it and weep boys just getting back from a week vacation in the artic....brrrrrrrrr

Was -22 when I pulled the 1st sled load of gear into the cabin. Had a wolf on the bait within 3 hours (at midnight), tried a couple of pics but no good. Had a chance at 2 coyote the next day, took one, wounded the other (shot high).

Lax Lake was brutal at -10 air temp and -33 windhill. Had two northern come in and one was eatin size but I threw in front of his nose. 

Here's a bunch of pic's of various highlights...also a short 2 min video out on the lake.















http://s94.photobucket.com/albums/l89/dmkilbride/?action=view&current=buckmt2-07xp1242.flv

The ice was 24' thick. I'm in about 6' of water.

The ATV ran flawless despite the cold. Was able to pull start it every morning in -10 temps, took a long time to warm up though. Put about 45 miles on it. We took a run down to the Split Rock River with it. The river was froze solid and very cool looking.



The ATV hauled some monster wood loads in from my buddy "Corky" who gave me some nice big poplar trees the beaver had gone to town on next to his cabin. He's in a pickle with them...he want to keep them around but they are dropping stuff right next to his cabin. He put chicken wire around some of the trees hoping it works.



Apparently they don't like spruce trees. I recommended putting spruce boughs around the trunks. It'll look silly but might work?

But hey it was so brutal up there I had to really drag myself out into it. I only got out on the lake once, fortunately, I had unexpected guests show just as I reluctantly was heading out the door for day two.

The last pic is in the outhouse showing -18. Times like that a guy wishes he had high speed internet to download believe me   

[HuntingGuy]

BF, AWESOME PICS MY BROTHA!!!

[bearfat]

Here's one more shot from the couple hundred I took that week.

I had some enlarged finally with the new digital camera and definitely the 7.2mp shows the diff compared to the 4.2mp.

The one of the frozen river above has some very cool blue ice colors to it I had not noticed before.