Saturday, January 31, 2009
Friday, January 30, 2009
Friday, January 23, 2009
Ice Fishing
A friend of mine and myself, went ice fishing at Canyon Ferry last weekend. We didn't catch them fast and furious but we caught some nice Rainbows. We lost one pole and holder through the ice as well. I just set it up and turned around for a second to set the ice dipper down and down the hole it went. Must have been a dandy. It was a cold day, with around 18 degrees F and a 20 mile an hour wind.... We where using 4 fishing poles each, the law says you can have 6 but that gets a little busy at times.. Was fun though..........
Eerie looking mountain
Sheep
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Locked up
RENO, Nev.(AP) -- It's not all checking hunting and fishing licenses. Sometimes the issues are bigger. Like when a Nevada game warden was handed the chore of figuring out how to separate two bull elk who locked horns while sparring and couldn't untangle themselves.
The saga began Nov. 21 when a rancher in Reese RiverValleyspotted the two elk. By the following day, the animals were gone,and the rancher assumed they had separated.
A week later, according to Nevada Division of Wildlife biologist Tom Donham, the rancher was out looking for some of his cows and saw the elk again. This time, he called the wildlife department and Donham, game warden Brian Eller and Bureau of Land Management wildlife biologist Bryson Code headed out to see what they could do. When they reachedIndian Valley, south of Austin, it was Nov. 29, one week after the elk were first seen.
'When we arrived where the rancher had last seen them, we found them pretty quickly. They were both lying on the ground, and one of them was in a very uncomfortable-looking position with his head directly above the other's head and his nose pointing straight up to the sky,' Donham said. Eller said he wondered if they had survived their ordeal.
'Once we found out they were alive, I was hoping they couldn't move and would stay where they were. That didn't happen. When they ran off, I was hoping they could not go very far. That didn't happen either,' he said.
The elk may have been sparring at the outset, but Donham and Eller say they used teamwork to run for nearly a mile to evade the newcomers. 'It looked like they had been doing it all their lives; serious cooperation if I've ever seen it,' Donham said.
After two unsuccessful att empts, Donham was able to get a tranquilizer dart into one of the elk. With one down, the other could not run, but was also partially tranquilized in order to separate the two.
Eller and Code helped hold the elk down while Donham used a hand saw to remove part of an antler from one of them.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
The Hennings bucks
Found on November 16 near Henning , MN . Our deer shack is located
about a mile from the swamp where the bucks were found. Here's the
story... the guy that found them had left his stand Sunday morning and was
walking back to their shack when he noticed a tine sticking out of the
swamp grass just off the side of a four wheeler trail. He walked over to
check it out and found the two bucks frozen in the swamp ice with only
about one foot of each deer's side and about 10 inches of the tines above
the ice. After getting help from some hunting partners, they managed to
chop the deer out of the ice and get them loaded onto a flatbed trailer.
The deer were then brought back to the shack and the word started to
spread. The "smaller" of the two was a massive 8 pointer that green
scored an estimated 150+ inches and the "larger" monster was a true swamp
buck with what was thought to be 18 scorable points and a green score of
190+ inches. From what I've heard since these photos were taken, the two
bucks are gaining statewide attention and the larger buck actually has 23
scorable points. It is thought that the bucks had been dead for 2 weeks
before being discovered. Because of this, the capes had begun to
deteriorate and were not capable of producing a mountable cape. However,
new capes have been supplied and the bucks are in the process of being
mounted locked together in battle. The twine on the antlers was to
prevent the bucks from coming unlocked when the heads were removed. Also,
check out the cup on the tip of the main beam on the big guy! Hope you
enjoy the pictures. A truly once in a lifetime opportunity.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
WYOMING BUCKS
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