Well I am back from my deep woods excursion. 4 weeks of hunting and fishing, not bad but not what I wanted. The fishing was good, ate all the walleye I wanted & was still able to bring back 4 (the limit) between 15-18 inches. The grouse was more difficult but ate some there and was again able to bring back my limit of 15. Now the moose, it started out well with my scouting, found 3 nice sheds, two from about 4.5 year olds and 1 from a year and half. The trail cam got 5 good pics of moose (3 different moose), all bulls, but then things started to unravel. I left the main area alone for over a week, to stay out of there, but 2 days before the season, a new group of hunters, 10 in all showed up to hunt cows. Even though they told me that they would not interfere with me and my hunt of the Bulls, I got pics of them trapsing all over the area I told them I was hunting with my dad.
Once the season started, I never saw a bull or even had any sign of them in my area, then the winds and rain came. One 24 hour period we had 50mm (2 inches) of rain, I also think that I got one day of sunshine during my moose hunt. But hard to believe but the bulls were not even in the rutt yet, not even a sign of moose running the trough the sand hills. Had to come home without fill my covented bull take with a week and a half left in the season, my dad was starting to feel the hunt, even though he did not go out after moose too much.
Since I have not been able to read all the posts since I have been gone .......
Good luck to all hunters, Congrats to all that have been successful ..... even if |I wasn't
in the shallow water on the lake (200 yds of blowdown between them & me).
