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.
Topic: Week off (Read 444 times)
