Time to do some quick catching up. I had a pretty solid spring. H-dog and I started off turkey season by making our annual pilgrimage down to South Carolina to hunt with out buddy Ragsdale. As usual we had a bunch of great hunts culminating in these two birds. Ragsdale pretty much serves them up on a platter. H-dog and I did everything we could to mess it up, but still we both got a bird. There were almost too many birds around this year!! Rags and his dad are doing a bunch of predator management this year and I am excited to see how it affects the population.
My friend Steve Mclean invited me to one his honey holes the second to last weekend of the season, and he shot this bird about 20 minutes after we sat down. This place was loaded with birds, and we were really lucky to get this bird because we bumped 3 off the roost and we were late getting to our spot. We never got a good picture of the bird in the woods, and Steve had to rush off to a meeting so Dex and I decided to show off his bird for him. He was a HOSS. 10.5 " beard and 1 inch spurs.
After Steve took this bird it was still so early we decided to hang this bird in a tree and try to set up on another. It only took about another 30 minutes before this big female coyote came running right to Steve. We think she was smelling that turkey, and Steve laid the smack down on her. These things are hell on turkeys so we were pumped to get it out of the population.
Mase and I headed to the Jackson River to try to get an elusive mountain turkey. We got worked by the birds in the morning, but had a stellar afternoon on the river. These are just two of the nice fish we caught. There was a great caddis hatch coming off and we caught a lot of fish sipping in the flats. I caught the fish in this pic on a double bunny before the bugs started coming off.
My friend Chris Smythers is a pro bass fisherman and he took me out on the Potomac and we wore the fish out.
Caught this thug on a crank bait in the weeds.
This is one of the first fish we boated and Chris got him on top water.
That my friends is a Potomac River Snake Head and they are fowl!! This thing has teeth going all the way down its throat. I dropped it shortly after this pic and Chris and I were both dancing around in the boat like a couple of teenage girls trying not to get bit.
