Well the official gun season of the
year has been closed. I now have to wait
until muzzle loading starts up before I can hunt again. I could use my bow but I think that I will
just wait and in the mean time I will be able to get a little bit of fishing
in. I know a couple guys that have went
out already and they were doing alright considering that it is early yet for
fish to be in. They called me up and
said that they got about twelve in four hours, they were just hogs though. My friends said they did not have one under
twelve and I didn’t believe him of course because being a fisherman I knew that
fishermen lie. So I went over there to
help him clean up his catch and sure enough there in his pail sat a little mess
of fish and there really was not one under twelve. Where he caught them that is usually what
they catch out there is big ones. It is
usually hit or miss with the location they sit but for the past few years it
seems like it has been mostly hit.
My grandpa also caught a mess of
perch. He ended up with thirty one the
morning after thanksgiving. I was not
really too happy to hear that because I was supposed to go out with him that
morning but I got suckered into work. We
will get out eventually and probably catch our limit. Being the man he is he knows just about every
location where the fish are biting and what they are biting exactly.
My friend is making a killing with
all of his traps that he has set up. He
has a line which runs from my town to his and he has about sixty coons already
so that is a pretty decent year so far.
I was considering buying some traps and getting involved with that more,
but I couldn’t swing it this year.
Trapping is really a lost art, there isn’t very many people who do it
anymore. It seems to me that if it wasn’t
passed down then no one would continue the hobby. I think it is kind of cool and it will bring
in some extra cash during the winter.
Sure it takes time to do but what doesn’t. Usually people just sit around in the winter
time because they don’t like the cold but I like to be active all the time and
who couldn’t use a couple extra buck, I know I could.
