05/02/2016
Went up to try to shoot a turkey this past weekend. Of course it rained all day Saturday, Sunday cleared off fairly nice. Problem was I only heard two turkeys within a mile! Didn't see one all weekend, weird year.
After a slow day of turkey hunting I decided to load the kid up and go get some groceries out of the pond. I caught about 10 bass and he was working over a top water lure. Hadn't caught anything but he was getting better at casting. All of the sudden I heard a bunch of splashing and he was wallering a three pound catfish up on the bank. Like an idiot I reached down to take the popper out of his mouth and he rolled and stuck one of the treble hooks in my index finger to the bone. Had to pull it out with my pliers, still don't have feeling in about half the finger tip. But the kid got a lesson in hook removal! Fried the fish up last night.
Sunday morning I was setting in a draw calling heard something to my left. At about 15 feet a coyote ran out of the ditch. I started some pup yelps on my mouth call and another one popped out of the ditch. It sometimes better to go first! At about 10 yards the Longbeard XR #6's worked just fine.
With the dreary weather I didn't take many pictures. My rye is about 10 inches tall. Way too muddy to get anything planted yet.
Out of the 4 bluebird boxes I checked, I had two batches of birds. Evicted mice out of the other two. This wet weather will be hard on the turkey nests, wish I could build a box for them.