Green River

We made our yearly pilgrimage to the Green last weekend.  We get out there every year around Thanksgiving.  This year it was Paul, Trav, Willis, and Tyson that made the trip.  Usually it is a day trip but we decided to get a room and make it a two day trip.  The first day we fished various stretches of the A section.  The fishing pressure was a little heavy but we were still able to get some good fishing in.  The numbers were down from years past, but the fishing was still pretty good.  The wind was blowing pretty good all the first day making it a little tougher to have accurate casts, but it was still fishable.   

The second day we decided to hike down to Grasshopper Island.  There was a couple of spin fishermen down there, but we never were to effected by fishing pressure.  The problem that day was the wind.  The wind blew constantly at 30+ mph and we had gusts up to 45-50 mph.  It made a lot of the day unfishable.  We did manage to get into a bit of fish here and there though.  We did not catch any of the really large fish we have become accustomed to catching out there, but we did get some nice 15-18 inch fish along the way.  The colors were incredible on a lot of these fish.  One rainbow that was hooked but not landed would have made for an incredible art specimen.  Here are some of the pics from the weekend's action.   

Although the fish numbers didn't end up what we were hoping for, the weekend was still an awesome time out on the water.  Thanks for the good time fellas. 

-Tyson 

Montana Hunt

We headed for our annual trip up north to Montana to target honks and pheasants.  The numbers were down a bit this year compared to years past, but they increased every day we were there and should be getting better as time goes on.  We were able to shoot a good number of geese with a bunch of Lessers and even a Ross.  We shot a good number of roosters but didn't get any pictures at the end of the pheasant hunts.  All in all it was a good trip and look forward to doing this again in the future.

Blake and Jedd with a portion of one of the day's take.  

Jed, Brandon, and Avery out in the spread with a few honks.  

Blake with a Ross that will likely end up on the wall.

3 bands were shot this trip.  Here is Blake and Coot with a couple of them.

Got to give a shout out to the hounds.  Avery and Coot got their work between the honks and the pheasants.  It's always nice to have a couple good dogs to do all the real work!

Have to give old Coot a shout for hunting with a bunch of porcupine quills in his face.  Later this day we were hunting pheasants and while working got hit by a porcupine.  We did what we could to field treat him but knew he had to get to a vet to get them all out.  We were about 1.5-2 miles from the truck so we started back to go see a vet.  Coot hunted the whole way back, flushing a couple hens and pointing a nice rooster.  We winged that rooster and Coot ended up finding it a couple hundred yards down the field, brought it back with a face full of quills!  It was cool to see him want to keep going and wish we would have had the camera to take a picture of that.  

It was a great trip boys.  

-Blake