Hogs 0 Sheds 1 Snakes0 Spring pics

[Kip]

A nice Saturday Spring day off of work,grass cut,wife out with my daughters time to go to two of my favorite places.First stop my hunting club to pick up some things left after hunting season.
This is the camp and bunkhouse on right.
 
We have to pass through a large farm to get to our woods ,this is a crawfish lake with traps set and a few ducks.Rice may be planted soon after fishing.Hogs love rice
 
Walking down a trail ran into a coyote at 30 feet but in a second he was gone.It was sitting right by this small wallow,shot a few stumps and this tree bottom one of hundreds blown down from a huricane
 
 
Plenty sign of deer and hogs moving but not while I was there so headed out to spend the rest of the day at my camp.Next pic is entrance to a duck blind and hole about 250 yards in the swamp.
 
Back soon.

[JC]

C'mon with it Kip, waiting for some more great pics and story.

[Gunnar Mullins]

i wanna hear the rest!!

[Kip]

Not real exciting in the kill dept.but a very relaxing day.I am very fortunate to have two good hunting areas 1/2 hour from home and two different type of woods.One bottom land hardwoods and solid palmetto ground cover and the other pine and hardwood mixed.The rut is late October in one and after Christmas for the other so I have bucks always ready somewhere.This is my camp and my sanity when work gets me worked up.
 
Tom Phillips asked me to get him some copperhead skins, so of course cannot buy one now that I am loking for some.I killed this one a while back just off the porch next to B-B- Que pit in above pic.
 
Started looking for sheds in the woods and around pond and just enjoying the early spring colors much lighter that later in summer.Wood ducks love this corner and many others in the bayou through the woods.
 
 
After walking and stump shooting in the woods went to the pond.I found this shed in front betwen the two trees across but forget to take pic until got to the camp.I have some hunting season pics of him but never seen in the daylight.
 
 
I went ahead and jumped in the canoe and caught a few and kept a small mess for the wife and I for supper.Not big ones but eat real good.Hope this pic. stays caught on a ultralight but at least it was in a canoe which is traditional.
 
On the way out couple of pics.Tung oil trees in bloom company.Just an enjoyable relaxing day.Kip

[Kip]

Pics from above last line.Kip
 
 

[Whip]

Wonderful pics Kip!  Your camp looks exactly like what I imagine a Louisiana hunting camp should be.  I can see why you love it so much!  

[JC]

Great pics Kip....bet them sac-a-lait ate fine! That rack looks to be a pretty good one. Do you see many that size down there?

[ron w]

Very nice, looks like a great day....love to eat them crappies....sooooooo good!!!!!

[Doc Nock]

Oh, Ron...they gonna keel haul ya now! You called them fishes "Crappies" (me too) but they'll tell ya theze "croppies".      :rolleyes:    :D  

Kip. We'd all be a lot saner if we had a place like that to go and detox! Congrats. I feel more relaxed just looking and reading!  Thank you!!

 

[Bill Turner]

 That be nice.

[Eugene Slagle]

Man that is the spot there bud, I hope to have a location like that when I grow up..  

[elknutz]

Nice, thanks for the trip.

[ARCHER2]

Looks like a mighty fine day you had there brother.

[bolong]

Thanks for sharing!   Nice place.  

[Caddo]

That's awesome, Kip! I've got a place like that, just no camp house. Gotta get one of them built!

LD

[Kip]

Thanks for all the kind words.Larry good luck in Quebec.Joe I knew you would know the French word for crappies.We have a few nice bucks on camera but not sure if they ever move a muscle in the daylight.Them piney woods deer are very nocturnal.The deer at the first camp are bigger and very secure in the palmattoes and do move more in my opinion.No these are not mine but have seen a couple but no shots yet.Another wall has about the same amount and the whole porch has the 110/120 scrubs.
 

[JC]

I had no clue you boys had deer that size down there. Very nice wall!

[meathead]

With a place like that how do you get any work done.  I would spend 5 days a week there and just work weekends.