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Anyone hunt or fish for everything available? #7072409
12/03/20 08:52 PM
12/03/20 08:52 PM
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On Georgian Bay, Ontario Canad...
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I try to go hard as my free time will allow after everything I can.

I fish for whatever is open and able to be caught, I net smelt in the spring. Pike in the spring, bass in summer and walleye in the fall. Rainbow trout in early spring, and Lakers in winter.

Trap everything that's open as time allows, foot snare bears, and snare wolves in winter. Fisher and marten are always fun! Nuisance animal control spring through fall. When snowshoeing and snowmobiling my favorite activity is snaring varying hare in the snow.

I bowhunt bear and deer. And make sure to take a few grouse a year too.

Really enjoy shooting diver ducks late fall too, and get a few geese and puddle ducks as well early season. Nothing like decoying bluebill, ringneck, goldeneye, bufflehead, and hooded merganzer.

About the only thing I haven't been able to do is hunt moose. Just a time thing. Getting time off work is tough at that time of year.

Anyone else do their best to enjoy hunting, fishing and trapping as much as possible?

Re: Anyone hunt or fish for everything available? [Re: Hutchy] #7072482
12/03/20 09:28 PM
12/03/20 09:28 PM
Joined: Dec 2018
Posts: 5,214
Crivitz WI
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Crivitz WI
You're lucky. You have access to a lot of game.


No Jab.
Re: Anyone hunt or fish for everything available? [Re: Hutchy] #7072490
12/03/20 09:30 PM
12/03/20 09:30 PM
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Central NC
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Central NC
Not any more.
Hardly hunt or fish much anymore. Actually my daughter has started hunting and when her husband can’t go with her I have. ..and carry a custom rifle I built for Dad but he never scored with before he passed.


www.sevenoakstrappingsupplies.com for trap mods and gear
The 10 Commandments are not suggestions.
Buy a soldiers meal EVERY chance you can.

Re: Anyone hunt or fish for everything available? [Re: Hutchy] #7072500
12/03/20 09:34 PM
12/03/20 09:34 PM
Joined: Jan 2018
Posts: 548
Bismarck Arkansas
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Bismarck Arkansas
Yes i fish in spring and summer and hunt and trap in fall and winter

Re: Anyone hunt or fish for everything available? [Re: Hutchy] #7072520
12/03/20 09:41 PM
12/03/20 09:41 PM
Joined: Mar 2017
Posts: 70
Michigan
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Michigan
Me and my kids do our fair share of chasing as much as we can. Turkeys, fishing, and bowfishing in the spring and summer. Then ducks and deer in the fall to early winter. First of the year we start trapping and chasing rabbits. [Linked Image]
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Re: Anyone hunt or fish for everything available? [Re: Hutchy] #7072572
12/03/20 09:59 PM
12/03/20 09:59 PM
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Posts: 1,511
Kanabec Cty, MN
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3 of seven dinners each week are from the wild. It would be more but being the sole builder of our retirement home time for cooking is limited.


I've learned enough thru the years to now know that I don't know enough. KNOWLEDGE IS FREEDOM.
Re: Anyone hunt or fish for everything available? [Re: Hutchy] #7072638
12/03/20 10:32 PM
12/03/20 10:32 PM
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western mn
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western mn
Since a young kid, I hunted n fished my tail off until just a few years ago.
Never went out for sports, no prom, none of that.
Gun,bow,slingshot or fishing rod.
I have slowed down a "bit" last few years. Not sure why?


swampgas chili and schmidt beer makes for a deadly combo

You have to remember that 1 out of 3 Democratic Voters is just as dumb as the other two.
Re: Anyone hunt or fish for everything available? [Re: Hutchy] #7072661
12/03/20 10:53 PM
12/03/20 10:53 PM
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 41,592
Northern Maine
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Northern Maine
I hunt moose,caribou, elk,deer,bear,waterfowl,grouse,turkey,rabbits with beagles,bobcat and bear with hounds,open water and ice fish,trap,and find moose and deer shed antlers.When not doing all that I'm scouting.


Nevada bound
Re: Anyone hunt or fish for everything available? [Re: Hutchy] #7072756
12/03/20 11:58 PM
12/03/20 11:58 PM
Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 188
Southeast, Alaska
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Southeast, Alaska
Time and weather are my biggest enemies. But I enjoy hunting for mountain goats, ptarmigan, blacktails, ducks/geese and black bear (in that order). I fish for salmon, halibut, ooligan for sport and commercial fish for king salmon, blackcod, shrimp and crab. I also enjoy beach combing in the spring and prospecting after trapping season ends. I primarily target wolves but marten, mink and otter are more frequently caught. I also trap beaver for myself and nuisance beaver for the forest service or private. Last fall I helped trap/collar a wolf for the fish and game to monitor with hopes of being included on kill site sweeps in a helicopter but never got approved for that. The collared wolfs territory overlaps my trapline so I’m waiting to come across a wolf print with a long toenail.

Re: Anyone hunt or fish for everything available? [Re: Hutchy] #7072768
12/04/20 12:13 AM
12/04/20 12:13 AM
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Newark, Ohio 83 years
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I don't waste my time any more fishing for sport. If I fish, I want to take fish to eat. hunting is too hard for me any more. So try and trap a little. I can't trap all of the things I used to... so now, trap a few coon, a few rats (if any around) and and a mink or 2. Prices are so bad there isn't any money in it and it doesn't seem like much of a sport to take something you can't or don't use. Tanning what I now trap and trying to perfect that chore. One day will make some wearable pieces.

Garry-


“Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.”

Have been trapping 77 years…
Re: Anyone hunt or fish for everything available? [Re: Hutchy] #7072773
12/04/20 12:16 AM
12/04/20 12:16 AM
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Most of my life Hutchy,living in Abitibi Canyon hunting fishing and trapping was 24/7/365.


Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
Re: Anyone hunt or fish for everything available? [Re: Hutchy] #7072774
12/04/20 12:17 AM
12/04/20 12:17 AM
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Custer SD
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Yep everything possible.

Re: Anyone hunt or fish for everything available? [Re: Hutchy] #7072812
12/04/20 12:58 AM
12/04/20 12:58 AM
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Posts: 11,194
Maine, Aroostook
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I lived a vicious cycle when I was in Alaska, I chased anything with fins, fur or feathers year round. Now it's mostly deer.

Re: Anyone hunt or fish for everything available? [Re: Hutchy] #7072849
12/04/20 02:26 AM
12/04/20 02:26 AM
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AK
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Yep. Everything is fair game for me wherever I am on this world. Different seasons, different states, different animals.


Psalm 34:6
Re: Anyone hunt or fish for everything available? [Re: Hutchy] #7072856
12/04/20 02:44 AM
12/04/20 02:44 AM
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Kenai AK
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That's always been my goal, but at this stage in life work and family usually take precedence. When the stars and schedule align though, there's always something to chase or catch. Spring bear, fall moose and winter trapping are my main goals.


Originally Posted by Dirt
Originally Posted by Rat Masterson
Boco couldn't catch a cold.

But if he did, it would be Top Lot.
Re: Anyone hunt or fish for everything available? [Re: Hutchy] #7072909
12/04/20 06:59 AM
12/04/20 06:59 AM
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Michigan
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yes !!!, I'm outside chasing some thing all the time , and keeping the freezer full , smile

Re: Anyone hunt or fish for everything available? [Re: Hutchy] #7072918
12/04/20 07:11 AM
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On Georgian Bay, Ontario Canad...
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Really great replies so far. I realize the luck that ensured i was born here as opposed to in the city somewhere, to have had the mentors and opportunities I have had.

I am 34, and thinking about having a kid or two now, so things will likely slow a bit because of that but the goal is to do this forever.

Re: Anyone hunt or fish for everything available? [Re: Hutchy] #7072930
12/04/20 07:24 AM
12/04/20 07:24 AM
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It seems like we're either hunting, fishing or trapping or planning to. It starts with spring turkey and ends with ice fishing and then the cycle starts again. My favorite fall days are duck hunting the morning, fish mid-day and bow hunt the afternoon- our annual triathlon.
Turkey, grouse, bear, deer, ducks, pheasants catch & release smallies and muskies- keep and eat walleyes, cats and panfish. I'm having as much fun managing our deer hunting property than hunting, my legacy - their future.

Re: Anyone hunt or fish for everything available? [Re: Hutchy] #7073025
12/04/20 08:48 AM
12/04/20 08:48 AM
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Southern NJ
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I don't hunt much. I did. I got bored. I'll still hunt small game with my son. When he's out of the house, I'm probably done.

I fish a lot for whatever I can fish for. Salt or fresh water. My son would tell you I don't catch fish, I just fish. I catch some. If I spend an afternoon fishing and come home empty handed, I still had a good time.

Started hobby trapping last year. So far, it's been a lot of fun. Wish I had discovered this 20 years ago when I got bored with hunting deer. Hunting deer is suspiciously like sitting in the cold all day. Trapping keeps me moving, exploring, trying to figure things out. Trying to figure out, within an inch or so, where an animal is going to stick it's head - is more interesting to me than trying to get a deer to come within 50 yards of me.


-Ryan
Re: Anyone hunt or fish for everything available? [Re: Hutchy] #7073216
12/04/20 12:02 PM
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You guys better get as much in now as possible, cause there will come a day when everything hurts so much you'd rather sit next to the stove.... cool

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