Going to have an entire week off! Getting a kayak paddle for my canoe as part of my Christmas. (She wouldn't let me have it till then.) So I'm going to do some paddling up and down the lake shore and up creeks looking for deer and hogs. Don't have to be back till the First!
Enjoy it!
Terry
I'm right there with you! Our season ends on the 2nd, and I took my vacation to hunt all week! I haven't filled a single tag this year, but it hasn't/won't be from a lack of effort. What a great way to end the year. I'm going to squirrel away my vacation time to do it again next year. I wish you the pleasure, relaxation and success that I intend to enjoy!
Same here!
First time having the week off between the Holidays in 45 yrs of working FT. Going to take my grandson up to the VT camp for a few days and relax down here playing around with bows and stuff...a little elf told me he saw a Pac Seat being wrapped.
Snowshoe Hare is open up north and I've always wanted to try stalking them in the white stuff but my knees are still recovering from rifle and the late bow season....but that's another thread.
My canoe is put up until spring. Paddling on hard water is tough. Much easier to drive the truck on the ice right now lol. Enjoy your week off.
What is this "hard water" you speak of? :biglaugh:
I love kayaking - but the water isn't cooperating hereabouts.
Takes to long to chop a long channel to paddle along.
I spent the evening on the water tonight as well. Drilling 8" holes through 9" of ice. I so wish I could be hunting hogs in Oklahoma right now!
Come on down! I live on the lake so there's deer and pigs everywhere. I've found where they've been rooting in my yard.
Sounds like a great hunting adventure.
Finally got a chance to take the old Grumman Aircraft co. canoe out and tootle around on the lake. Saw one deer but it was screened by a thick line of brush about 30yds from shore. The lake went nearly dry a few years back and a bunch of trees grew up all the way around the lake. Well, I couldn't get past the brush before it had slinked off into the woods. Oh well.
Before that I'd seen two other deer. The first when I woke up because my wife came in the room and said there was a doe just outside the fence beside the road. She fed alongside my fence for several minutes until she heard a truck approaching and high tailed it across the opposite side. Then I went walking down the Corps/WMA firebreak. I slowly ambled down along, using my new Leupold binos and occasionally stump shooting. I saw a doe off about 150yds on the edge of a field about the time she saw me.
It's supposed to be in the low 20's with a light North wind in the morning here. Going to take the canoe to the headwater creek slip up it, stopping to still hunt every so often. At the mouth of the creek it's mostly canebrake and transitioning hardwood flats. There's also a wetlands development unit with planted fields both flooded and not. If all goes the way I want, I should spend most of the day out there unless I get a deer or pig.
:pray: