tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18526011572804222772024-03-05T23:58:51.869-06:00flowing watersOne man's journey through life, where everything seems to involve some aspect of fishing or water.Wolfyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06144231875392437832noreply@blogger.comBlogger207125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1852601157280422277.post-77868796733214853332015-04-17T20:24:00.000-05:002015-04-17T20:24:00.275-05:00A few more picturesas promised - here you go<br />
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Black Duck<br />
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Canvasback Duck<br />
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Pair of Green Winged Teal<br />
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Eastern Bluebird<br />
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Bald Eagle<br />
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Osprey<br />
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Snowy Egret<br />
<br />Wolfyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06144231875392437832noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1852601157280422277.post-1481750850462355852015-04-17T11:16:00.000-05:002015-04-17T11:16:09.389-05:00Still alive and kicking. Well - alive at leastAs I look back over the past decade, i realize that I go through a metamorphosis of sorts every couple of years. I dive into something - fossilling, for example - go at it hard, and sort of burn out then pick up something different. A few things in life - most notably, fishing , remain as constants.<br />
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Well, my new OCD focus has been getting, or trying to get, photos of birds. Its not as easy as it sounds. And I'm trying to do it with equipment that, while decent, is certainly not of the quality the professional photographers use. I'm not interested in dumping $15,000 bucks into a lens to get the perfect picture - I'll make do with what I have. But I can still aspire to shoot some nice stuff.<br />
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So - here's a couple mediocre examples of what I've been doing for the past 6 months. Oh yeah - I just got back from a day and a half at Dale Hollow last week, and actually caught a couple of decent fish, too.<br />
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The good photos are at home on that computer - I'll post more of those photos over the weekend.<br />
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Palm Warbler<br />
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A couple of nice smallmouth from Dale Hollow<br />
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<br />Wolfyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06144231875392437832noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1852601157280422277.post-49194878470176149782014-09-18T14:47:00.000-05:002014-09-18T14:47:16.379-05:00A Slice of HeavenAll you bloggers located in the Rockies know how fortunate you are to live there. Those of us who only get out there occasionally are constantly stunned by its beauty. Although I've been going out to RMNP for over 25 years it continues to captivate me. I got a chance to do a little fishing with my brother a few weeks ago, and the following are some of the pictures.<br />
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And, in an interesting quirk of fate, the final evening we were out there, we stayed with teh aunt and uncle of my brother's wife. Drove there via GPS instructions, so I had some idea of where we were on the Front Range, but not really. As we were getting ready to call it a night, with an early AM flight, I asked our hosts "Are we anywhere near Superior?" Ken looked at me with a surprised look and said "yeah - about 2 miles that way", pointing west. Our hosts live on what used to be Coal Creek Golf Course in Louisville.<br />
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Sorry Howard - next time I'll know better!!!<br />
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I've been catching a few fish<br />
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Finding a few fossils<br />
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I'll have more to show soon. Wolfyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06144231875392437832noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1852601157280422277.post-17466615427793117612014-02-12T16:36:00.002-06:002014-02-12T17:04:13.086-06:00Waiting for the next storm, and a pretty cool gooseThe next in the seemingly endless progression of storms to roll up the East Coast this winter is set to hit us tonite and tomorrow. This one looks like (for those of us in So. MD) a mix of sleet and snow, with 4-6" likely. If you've ever had the horrifying experience of being on the road with the locals in a snow situation - it isn't much fun. Many of them fail to realize that it takes longer to stop your moving vehicle in the snow than it does on dry ground. They must have missed that day in Science Class.<br />
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I've been chasing the sea ducks that winter here from their summer haunts in the Arctic. I never paid much attention to them before, but they are really cool birds. And not very easy to get good photos of. A recent sensation in our area - among the bird watchers - has been the sighting of a Ross' Goose among a flock of about 2,000 Canadas. Now, a Ross' Goose in and of itself isn't really noteworthy, but it IS when it is in MD. They normally migrate south to California and Nevada, not east of the Mississippi. AND certainly not as far east as Maryland. So - the birders have been out in force, looking for this goose as well as hoping to see one of the Snowy Owls that have been sighted throughout the winter here (I've blanked on the Snowy so far)<br />
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I got lucky over the weekend and found the Ross. On Saturday I couldn't get a picture but I did get some on Sunday. According to what one of the online birder folks tells me, this is the fist substantiated Ross Goose sighting for Calvert Co in MD. So, from a Birders perspective - it's pretty cool<br />
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Here's a few others from over the weekend.<br />
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<br />Wolfyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06144231875392437832noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1852601157280422277.post-86684994911077472432014-01-22T17:05:00.001-06:002014-01-22T17:05:12.946-06:00New Year, New Post, New Pics, New TeethI figured it was about time to either pull the plug on this or resurrect it for the umpteenth time. Something just won't let me kill it, although I am certainly giving it a long, slow death by ignoring it. But enough nonsense.<br />
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Just got back from SHOT Show. Highlight from the show - meeting Lisa Baron (aka the Writing Huntress, blogging as Lisa Jane) I've admired her writing style for along time and, let me tell you - she is the real deal! I hope things work out and I get to get out to North Dakota and hunt with her and her husband Mike next year. Great people.<br />
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I am still loving the picture / photo thing. Trying to get good shots of birds - particularly sea ducks - is tough but occasionally rewarding. The backyard types are easier.<br />
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My wife and I went out to the beach yesterday afternoon - first time looking for sharks teeth in about 6 months. Bad tidal conditions but a beautiful day. 63 degrees in the end of January. (Can't believe its a winter storm today, but it is) Despite tough conditions and a lot of other people looking, she found our FIRST Megalodon from the local beach. Its a posterior tooth, but it's complete and, I think, awesome! Also found 3 porpoise teeth, including out biggest ever. And a possible croc tooth. Not a bad day.<br />
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3 Porpoise teeth, and a probable croc tooth<br />
<br />Wolfyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06144231875392437832noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1852601157280422277.post-41608213960357008552013-11-20T19:36:00.001-06:002013-11-20T19:36:25.574-06:00Wild Bird WednesdayTo see some REALLY NICE wild bird shots, click over to <a href="http://paying-ready-attention-gallery.blogspot.com/2013/11/wild-bird-wednesday-71-king-parrots.html" target="_blank">Paying Ready Attention</a> each week for Wild Bird Wednesday.<br />
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Wolfyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06144231875392437832noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1852601157280422277.post-862042642266150162013-11-09T20:16:00.001-06:002013-11-09T20:38:16.621-06:00SkywatchFriday - a Photo Link UpI'm making a concerted effort to participate in a bunch of Photo link ups around the web. Here's my submission for Skywatch Friday. Check out the other submissions <a href="http://skyley.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">HERE.</a><br />
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<br />Wolfyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06144231875392437832noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1852601157280422277.post-77096654199421841292013-11-03T17:28:00.000-06:002013-11-03T17:28:02.195-06:00I'm back - more picturesAfter another rather lengthy absence, I'm back. Lots to do at work. (But - the work outlook has improved considerably. The few of you out there who knew the work situation will understand!)<br />
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I've been taking tons of photos. I am really getting into the whole photography thing. Can't wait to get back out west - RMNP will take on a whole new meaning now.<br />
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Here's a few recent attempts. Hope you enjoy. As always - click on the photo for a larger image.<br />
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First - a couple of photos from Urbino, Italy<br />
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Wolfyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06144231875392437832noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1852601157280422277.post-71167091998699123692013-09-19T20:50:00.000-05:002013-09-19T20:58:24.234-05:00Fly Fishing in Italy, and a new butterflyI finally got to go fly fishing this year. First time in 2013. And it happened in Italy. Go figure.<br />
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There are many great things about my new job that brought me to Southern Maryland. But the one not-so-great thing is that it has virtually eliminated my fly fishing for trout. Nothing really close by - the Gunpowder is almost 2 hours away - and my travels haven't been taking me to any trout areas. Until now.<br />
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I just got back from 2 weeks in Urbino Italy for work. The city is beautiful, the food insanely good, the wine plentiful and wonderful. And, since we had a fee weekend, I decided to look into going fishing on the Saturday we had free. Through the power of the Web, I found Luca Castellani, <a href="http://www.lucacastellani.it/">http://www.lucacastellani.it/</a> a guide in the Tuscany region of Italy. We emailed back and forth and I secured a day with 2 guides for 4 of us. We met near Sansepolcro in the morning, secured our licenses, and set off for the Tevere River. (Which, as I later found out is actually the Tiber River, which eventually flows through Rome.).. The section we were to fish is a Catch and Release tailwater section that is home to brown trout and grayling.<br />
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Luca took our two more inexperienced flyfishermen. Reports back from both of them was that they had a blast , Luca was a great and patient teacher, and they caught some fish. I fished with my rep, Greg, who has limited fly fishing experience. Our guide was Moreno Borriero, a very experienced fly fisherman originally from South Africa. He has intimate knowledge of the stream, hatches, and fish. He is also a very accomplished bamboo rod builder. He showed me the water and then spent some more time with Greg, working a bit on his casting. (After my first few casts, I felt like he should be helping me. When you take a substantial amount of time off from fly fishing, it becomes apparent that you can no longer make even a simple effortless cast. It all came back, but it did take a while!)<br />
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A morning brown trout <br />
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Greg fishing a bugger against the bank<br />
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Wooly buggers work everywhere!<br />
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The fish in these waters are pretty highly pressured and are extremely selective. There were a few rises as I worked my way upstream. Occasional BWO's lifted off the surface. I had to go to a 9' 6x leader with a 3'-4' 7x tippet, and a #20 CDC olive. I brought a few trout to hand in the morning, but really had to work for them. It was, in a word, perfect. Nothing big for me - fish were all around a foot in length. The other guys were throwing buggers and brought a few nicer fish to hand - 16"-18" fish. There are some really big fish in these waters, too. I set up on what Moreno thought was a rising grayling and , after a couple dozen casts, finally got him to take. Of course, a grayling has an over-slung mouth and needs to come up and over a dry fly to take it - much like a redfish in saltwater. Of course, I pulled the fly away before he actually go it in his mouth. Nice move, Joe!<br />
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A light lunch was to be provided, per Luca's website. To me, that meant a sandwich and a bottle of water. Instead, we went to a very small cafe along a nearby road. We sat outside, drank wine and beer, and were served a couple of large platters filled with the most delicious cured meats and cheeses imaginable. A couple loaves of fresh bread, some olive oil. Awesome lunch!! Then the bowls of pasta came out. This "light lunch" at a roadside café was seriously better than anything from the finest Italian restaurant in the states. The food in the region is amazing.<br />
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The second or third course of the "light lunch"<br />
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So - back to the river after lunch. The afternoon turned out to be the kind of day you dream about. Well - at least I dream about. Good, solid hatch of BWO's. Constantly rising fish. TOUGH, selective fish. So selective that they consistently refused the NATURALS that were floating down the current seams. I had a dozen fish within casting distance of me rising steadily. For 3 hours I cast to them, extended my tippets, changed flies to smaller , more subtle patterns, got ignored, got refused, missed hits, got ignored some more. I finally got one small brown trout, and I couldn't have been happier if it had been a 26" trout. These fish were tough, selective, and demanded perfection. I LOVE fishing to these kinds of fish, even though they almost always win.. I had a ball.<br />
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A very well colored brown trout<br />
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Me and Moreno with another brown<br />
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Finally, at the end of the afternoon, I decided to see if I could still catch any fish, and tied on a San Juan worm under an indicator. 3 trout and 30 minutes later, I decided that, if I really needed to catch something, I could still nymph fish and bring something to hand.<br />
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Now I remember why I love fly fishing - it is days like this that live on forever in my memory.<br />
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On the home front, my wife saw a new butterfly come into the butterfly bush. After a couple of failed attempts, I finally got some pictures of it. The shots I tried to get with its wings upright were blurry, and this little guy doesn't hang around very long. Also, I leave you with a photo of my favorite spider - the Orb Spider. He's got quite a lunch, feasting on a pretty good sized grasshopper.<br />
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Our new butterfly - a Red Spotted Purple!<br />
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Orb SpiderWolfyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06144231875392437832noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1852601157280422277.post-46568445986115217262013-09-03T08:10:00.000-05:002013-09-03T08:10:39.206-05:00Butterflies to get you through a week and a halfI'll be out of town - in Italy, actually, for a week and a half, so I'll post a few pics to pass the time before I go. (For those few folks who have been long time sufferers at the hands of this blog - you're probably thinking "A week and a half??? Usually you only post twice a year!!") I should come back with a lot of photos - keep your fingers crossed In addition to spending the time in a beautiful old walled city - Urbino - I get a chance to fly fish for trout and grayling on Saturday, and hunt pheasant and red legged partridge on Sunday. Plenty of photo ops.<br />
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The pictures below were taken on our vacation. We visited the Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens in Richmond VA - I HIGHLY recommend it if you're in the area!. They had a butterfly exhibit, and these shots came from there. Nothing really artistic - just cool butterfly photos.<br />
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See you in a week and a half<br />
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Joe<br />
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Wolfyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06144231875392437832noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1852601157280422277.post-56617898742749557862013-08-27T19:36:00.001-05:002013-08-27T19:36:46.522-05:00A walk on the BoardwalkAbout a week ago, my wife and I finally got around to taking a walk on the Boardwalk in the neighboring town of Chesapeake Beach. This relatively new boardwalk follows a saltwater creek into a salt marsh. It was a nice day, so I grabbed my camera and off we went.<br />
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Nothing too eventful - just a lot of opportunities to take pictures. I did find a couple of things that were, I believe, helpful in my development as a photographer. Taking a lot of photos of everyday life will usually result in a photo or 2 that are really nice. Next time out I want to try some more shots of crabs in the water using my polarizing filter, but I forgot it this time.<br />
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Probably the thing I came away with most was the opportunity to practice taking shots of moving birds. It's not an inherently easy thing to do, but when there are a lot of seagulls around, you get a LOT of practice. I'll continue practicing on the seagulls to ensure that , when the opportunity presents itself for a great heron / osprey / bald eagle photo, I'll be ready and comfortable in the setting.<br />
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Here are a few of my favorite photos from the walk<br />
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Crab boats<br />
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This crab was chowing down on something on this buoy - seaweed maybe?<br />
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This is why I need to remember to bring along the polarizing filter<br />
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Osprey in flight<br />
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This is what I love about taking a ton of digital photos. Every once and a while you get one that is, well - perfect!<br />
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Trying to freeze the seagulls in mid-flight. It's harder than it looks - at least for me.<br />
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Even though this one isn't in perfect focus, I like the reflection in the water<br />
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Another one that, to me, turned out really nice.<br />
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JoeWolfyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06144231875392437832noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1852601157280422277.post-35434092623780419252013-08-19T19:57:00.002-05:002013-08-19T20:56:52.405-05:00A few more photosA few more photos on this quick post. Going out of town for a week for business. I'll post more over the weekend.<br />
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I erase a LOT more bad hummingbird photos than few acceptable ones I keep!<br />
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The big gross bug I photographed earlier in the year. This time eating a moth or butterfly<br />
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Wolfyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06144231875392437832noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1852601157280422277.post-67598454969765040142013-08-12T19:00:00.000-05:002013-08-12T19:01:18.172-05:00Butterflies and bugsMan, I am really liking this photo thing. Probably to the point of really starting to irritate my wife. Like most things I do, I'll jump into this with both feet, and pretty soon I'll get the "eye-roll" when I pull out the camera again to take another (100th? 500th?) picture of a cool butterfly. Oh well.<br />
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This week I have a few butterfly pics and 2 (what I think are ) really cool bug pics. As always - click on the photos to enlarge them and see their detail.<br />
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Oh yeah - we just got back from vacation. While away we went to a very cool Conservatory/ Arboretum which happened to have a Butterfly exhibit filled with the coolest butterflies I've ever seen. All just flying around next to you in the enclosure. Needless to say, my camera got a workout. I'll post those on the next few posts, but I think I took around 200 photos in the Butterfly exhibit.<br />
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This photo is not a special one, but I love the coloration of the calibrachoa flowers<br />
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A nice photo of an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail<br />
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Playing around with some color over saturation<br />
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I love these Hummingbird Moths!<br />
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Praying Mantis' are always fun to photograph<br />
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Not sure what this is, but it's big and looks like it would hurt if it bites!Wolfyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06144231875392437832noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1852601157280422277.post-7436148552232301082013-08-04T20:48:00.001-05:002013-08-04T20:48:52.494-05:00Fishing in Minnesota, and a few more photosThat's right - actual fishing. A rare occurrence these days in my life. I had to go to Minneapolis/ St. Paul area for business and had all morning before leaving for the next flight. My rep and I decided we'd try to get out in the morning for a few hours with a local guide. Ken did the arranging, and he did it well! Our guide on Lake Minnetonka was Shane Raveling. Shane and Dean Capra have, over the years, teamed up to win just about every noteworthy tournament in the upper Midwest. So, I knew we were in the hands of a guy who knows the lake and knows how to fish.<br />
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I just didn't realize we'd have so much fun! Shane was a blast to fish with! He knew the water intimately, and showed us the pattern to use to catch fish. It has been a couple years since I actually fished for Largemouth, but it came back to me pretty quickly. We used a technique that I believe was developed on Minnetonka - fishing a Senko on a jig head with an exposed hook in 10-15' deep weed beds. The idea is that the fish either hit on the drop, or when you RIP the worm free from the wed and it falls back. It took some getting used to, but I ended up boating about 9-10 largemouth over the morning. Shane was fishing to try to locate fish and establish a pattern, which he did. He also caught a 5 pound LM - beautiful fish for MN. He got a few pike, too.<br />
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Great day, great fun.<br />
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Here are the couple of pictures I took.<br />
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So - there you have it - I have NOT forgotten how to fish!!<br />
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Wolfyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06144231875392437832noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1852601157280422277.post-14836085564252524452013-07-27T13:05:00.000-05:002013-07-27T13:05:07.124-05:00Moths, and more buterfliesThis post has some very cool moth photos, as well as a few more butterflies. The moths are, well - they're just cool. but since I only really find them on the porch in the morning if a leave the porch light on, they aren't very artistic. Just neat photos of cool moths. <br />
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I think the butterfly photos have more "artistic" qualities, even though I wouldn't know an artistic quality if it bit me in the ass. I'm having more fun with the butterflies using different lighting techniques and various focal points. Some accidental, some on purpose. Oh well.<br />
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I just received a new 50-300 mm zoom lens for my camera, so I expect to be posting this stuff for a long time to come.<br />
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And - I actually went fishing last week, and caught a few fish. I WILL post that rare event!<br />
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This is probably my favorite moth - reminds me of a bat<br />
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Wolfyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06144231875392437832noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1852601157280422277.post-54162730674867112622013-07-21T12:58:00.001-05:002013-07-21T12:58:42.462-05:00It's BUG Week on Flowing Waters!Wow - 2 posts in row!! I'm feeling like this might be a regular thing!<br />
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This week's photos are some bugs from around the house. I'm really sort of liking this photography thing and I think I'm going to get a 300mm zoom for the camera. Then - watch out. I might actually get to take some REAL pictures.<br />
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Wolfyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06144231875392437832noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1852601157280422277.post-69619237861291506682013-07-12T18:57:00.000-05:002013-07-12T18:57:20.606-05:00A new beginning for Flowing WatersI can't imagine anyone will actually read this, since I'm sure the folks who used to follow this mess have long since given up on it. <br />
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The truth is, the blog started as an online fishing diary, and I rarely get to fish anymore. Work has occupied my every waking moment and I have written nothing for over 3 months. I haven't even been out shark tooth hunting. <br />
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But - don't cry for me, Argentina! I have been bird shooting in Italy, South Africa, and Argentina over the past 4 months, and will eventually post some of those adventures.<br />
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In the meantime, I have acquired, and am learning to use, a real camera. I bought a Nikon 3100 and have had a ball learning to use it. LEARNING is the operative word, because I have barely scratched the surface. But, with a big butterfly bush in the yard, I have had a lot of opportunities to photograph butterflies and other buggy critters. I will be posting them here on a weekly basis.<br />
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Please be sure to click on the photos for larger views.<br />
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I welcome any and all feedback, especially hints on how to get better!!<br />
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Wolfyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06144231875392437832noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1852601157280422277.post-32376444344431841592013-04-04T18:57:00.000-05:002013-04-04T18:57:02.673-05:00More teeth - but a GOOD ONE this time!I haven't been out fishing since FLA, so there are no fish updates. And, I've really none very little fossil hunting. But I did get out this past Monday, and it was worth the trip. At least for me. <br />
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I went to our local beach with my wife. It was a beautiful day, and the tide was perfect. I ventured down the beach like I always do, and started finding a good number of the usual stuff pretty quickly. Mt first good find was one of the nicer Hemiprisitis (Snaggletooth) teeth I've found. The ones I find are usually beat up and broken - this one was petty much intact.<br />
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Hemi on the left; Mako on the right<br />
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I found a lot of Tiger shark teeth - nice sized ones for this area. Great day so far. Picked up a cow shark tooth - the only one of the day - and a tooth I thought was a porpoise tooth. As I got ready to go, I dug around the base of a tree root and, voila! - my best mako ever from MD! A really nice "blonde" colored mako. It was a great day!<br />
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And it would get better when I got home.<br />
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Cow Shark on top<br />
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A ring of Tiger Shark teeth<br />
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The porpoise tooth intrigued me. I've found 4 others in the past year, and this just didn't look like the others I found. So, I posted it on the ID section of the Fossil Forum. What came back made the trip a REALLY good one - I had found a pretty rare fossilized tooth from a Dwarf Sperm Whale!! It has now become my prize find from the Calvert Cliffs.<br />
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I guess its a little odd to get excited over a broken 10 million year old tooth, but I'm pretty happy with it!<br />
Wolfyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06144231875392437832noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1852601157280422277.post-11510446972586312982013-02-25T08:27:00.000-06:002013-02-25T08:27:36.830-06:00Time to resuscitate this blog3 months is an eternity to go without a blog post. It really means you've pretty much given up on the beast.<br />
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I came close to giving up on it, but there's still something inside me that wants to keep writing, at least periodically.<br />
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So - I am going to re-dedicate myself to keeping this blog somewhat constantly updated. No matter how worthless and mundane the nonsense that comes forth actually is.<br />
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I'll start by going back to my roots - fishing.<br />
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I just returned back from a long weekend in Captiva FL. The plans were to split time between fishing and fossil hunting. In keeping with my past experiences, the weather turned to shit while I there - fronts blew through, temps dropped to the mid to lower 60's, brisk north winds. On the one good day, it was only raining. Like, raining buckets.<br />
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So, the one day I had set aside for fishing only got cancelled. I was going out with an old friend - Dave Gibson - and after talking the nite before, we mutually decided that, for a simple, fun day of fishing, Friday wouldn't be much fun. We'd be battling cold temps and high winds, post-front conditions, and the bay was a little torn up from the relentless winds and rain the day before.<br />
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No problem - I'd sleep late, and spend the day looking for shells, or drinking, or something.<br />
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I went out to the beach on Friday morning to look for shells and get some exercise. Winds howled, and I was glad I didn't go out fishing. Then I saw a guy walking up the beach, throwing a lure into the surf. Of course, I had to ask him if he was doing any god. "Not from this beach", he said, "but I got snook yesterday and jacks this morning from the beach between Captiva and Sanibel. Throwing a spoon." Of course, my fishing subconscious kicked in, and I was off.<br />
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I always bring a 3 piece spinning rod and a very basic assortment of lures on trips like this. Bucktail jigs, Stingray grubs, spoons, Mirrolures, swimbaits. I grabbed the one other guy on the trip who fished and we went to the cut between the islands.<br />
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The incoming tide was pretty heavy - a good thing. I have no idea what works here, but I have a little bit of an idea on the basics. Everyone seemed to be using live shrimp, but I felt like throwing lures. We watched a small (20") snook come in, then a flounder and a catfish. I rigged up a 1/2 oz. swimbait and started to cast. And cast. And cast.<br />
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2 short hits (or maybe they were just mullet that I hit with my bait on the retrieve). I was getting pretty close to calling it a day, when I got a hit. A SERIOUS hit. Lure stopped dead, fish jumped and took off. By some unfathomable stroke of good luck, I had actually looked at, and set, my drag. It screamed but held. Long story short - about 10 minutes later I held my biggest snook ever. Not a giant by Jupiter Inlet standards, but I'm pretty happy with it!<br />
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Hopefully, this is the beginning of more good things to come.<br />
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There are certainly more fossil stories coming!Wolfyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06144231875392437832noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1852601157280422277.post-46581727961851306512012-11-16T21:06:00.000-06:002012-11-16T21:06:28.241-06:00More teethBy this time, anyone who actually used to read this blog for its fishing content has long since departed, so I feel less and less of a need to aplologize for the fossil content. Still, a little voice nags me from the far reaches of my brain, reminding me that I have become useless as a fishing blogger.<br />
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Oh well - shit happens.<br />
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I made it down to the local beach last weekend to take a walk and see what I could see. I got there at 7:00 AM but was beaten there by one other car. With a low tide, I would be able to walk past the cliffs and get down the beach as far as I wanted to go, but there is DEFINITELY an advantage to being there first. Oh well. <br />
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The day was beautiful - chilly at first, but warming quickly. I love being outside early in the morning - it's always invigorating. It must have been the opening of deer season for some of the zones because I could hear pretty constant shooting from the Eastern Shore - about 8 miles away, across the Bay. It never ceases to amaze me how far you can hear across water.<br />
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Overall, I had a pretty good morning looking for teeth. I found:<br />
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The best cow shark tooth I've ever found<br />
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A big hemipristis (broken on one side - would have been an awesome tooth if whole.)<br />
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Some pretty nice tiger shark teeth<br />
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Bigger than average ray crushing plates<br />
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Overall - a great day to be out shark tooth hunting. Thanks for coming along for the ride.Wolfyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06144231875392437832noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1852601157280422277.post-74345417715869221602012-11-09T19:13:00.003-06:002012-11-09T19:13:50.620-06:00A fossil adventure in FLAI had to go to FLA for a short business trip but had a half (OK - 3/4) day available for some "me time". In every instance in my past life, that would have meant go fishing. Well - not this time. And, for once in my life, I made a good decision. On Tuesday there were record lows throughout FLA, and I have NEVER had good fishing there on cold post-front days. But the fossils don't really mind a change in conditions. Maybe when they were killed by the Ice Age or some catastrophic event 20 million years ago, but not now. So, it was off to the Peace River for a day of digging for fossils.<br />
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Before the trip, I did my usual research and came upon Mark Renz' <a href="http://www.fossilexpeditions.com/fossil2.htm" target="_blank">Fossil Expeditions</a> on the Peace River. His website sold me, and a little more research on <a href="http://www.thefossilforum.com/" target="_blank">Fossil Forum</a> confirmed that Mark was held in high esteem by all those fortunate enough to have met and dealt with him.<br />
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Well, in person, he's even better.<br />
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Mark went over the fossils we might encounter at our meeting place in Arcadia. We did a kayak trip, where I learned that I like going downstream, but don't like coming back upstream, even in the gentle Peace River current. We tied up near a gravel area and started digging and sifting. There were 5 people on this trip - 2 other couples, and me. Absolutely great people to spend a day with.<br />
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The results of the dig were somewhat along the lines of what I expected - a TON of bone material, a fair number of smaller pieces of various teeth, and lots of rock and unidentifiable "junk". The crown jewel of the area is , of course, the giant Megalodon shark teeth. Our group had one couple find a Meg tooth and 2 Meg tooth halves, while I found a couple of fragments of Meg teeth. The other couple found a few pieces as well. That' s NOT to say I didn't find anything good - I did! My best find was a fossilized Tapir tooth, followed by some fish tooth/jaw pieces, 2 croc / gator teeth, my Meg pieces, a softshell turtle shell piece, another turtle piece, a bunch of smaller sharks teeth, a possible echinoid, and a lot of Dugong rib pieces and vertebrae material. The river is full of Dugong pieces. The Dugong we were finding is an extinct relative of the one found in thewaters of the Indo-Pacific, and both are / were related to the Manatee. Every scoopful of sediment held something neat. I absolutely loved it and can't wait to go back, and I will absolutely book Mark again for my next trip to FLA.<br />
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Mark (on the right) with fellow fossil diggers<br />
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Mark's faithful fossil dog (can't remember his name)<br />
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Dugong rib pieces<br />
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Tapir tooth - chewing surface<br />
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Tapir tooth - root<br />
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Fish teeth , jaws<br />
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A pretty big, but very worn, tiger shark tooth<br />
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Assorted smallish shark teeth<br />
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A decent little Hemipristis<br />
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Some of the haul on the kayak - gives a better perspective of the size and mass of the Dugong ribs<br />
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A few words about the day and the experience: Mark spends the day rotating among the groups digging and sifting. He ID's all your stuff for you if you have questions (and you will!) and is a treasure trove of knowledge and information. He's also a keen observer of the incredible natural surroundings found along the river. We saw a small gator while kayaking in, the usual amazing assortment of birds - herons, hawks, ... Heard a Pileated Woodpecker, and saw a Red Shouldered Hawk attack a Green Heron. He (the hawk) failed in his attempt, by the way. Mark is entertaining and knowledgeable without any feeling of being anything but helpful. A great guy and guide.<br />
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However, if you think that you are going to come here and simply walk into the river and scoop out shovels-full of Meg teeth, you are delusional. That doesn't happen anywhere. Are there Meg teeth here? Absolutely. Will you find any? Maybe. It's much the same as hiring a fishing guide - they'll determine where to take you and what method to employ but the end result is always in question. You WILL find fossilized material - it's everywhere. If you want to learn and appreciate the awesome resource, and maybe find some GREAT fossils, but definitely find neat stuff - this is the best money you can spend in FLA. I'll do it again next time I'm there, and hopefully every time after that.<br />
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Mark can be reached at <a href="http://www.fossilexpeditions.com/">http://www.fossilexpeditions.com/</a> or by phone at <u><span style="color: #1122cc;"> 1-239-368-3252</span></u>Wolfyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06144231875392437832noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1852601157280422277.post-70250504416118153132012-09-14T20:09:00.000-05:002012-09-14T20:09:07.584-05:00Another Fossil post, and a contest!!!Alright all you folks out there interested in my new pursuit of fossils. [ That's basically Howard and maybe one other person] Today is your special day. I have a fossil-related contest, and the winner gets actual shark tooth fossils. That's right - you can start your very own addiction right here!! <br />
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We've been hitting the beach pretty hard recently, and it has been generally uneventful. By that , I mean that, on a normal 2 hour beach search, my wife and I will find about 120 - 150 shark teeth, but only 4-8 of them are what we put in the "good specimen" box. The others go into a box that has, literally, thousands of teeth in it. Small ones, broken ones, just normal, run-of-the-mill teeth. And, every once in a great while, we (alright - she) finds something really cool.<br />
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Like the subject of today's contest. The last picture is our first find of a certain unusual fossil. Identify the fossil and I will send you a set of 5 each, 15 - 17 million year old shark teeth fossils. One each: Sand Tiger, Tiger, Hemipristis, Lemon, and Requiem shark, and a crushing plate from a Ray.<br />
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There haven't been any major storms to stir things up, and summer has the most people on the beach, so the "toothing" can be tough at times; still, here are a few of our recent finds:<br />
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A really nice speciman of Cow Shark<br />
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A good Mako for the area we hunt<br />
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A couple of Hemipristis, or Snaggletooth shark teeth<br />
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Some nice Tiger Shark teeth<br />
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<strong><u>AND FINALLY, THE MYSTERY PIECE. FIRST CORRECT GUESS WINS!!</u></strong><br />
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<br />Wolfyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06144231875392437832noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1852601157280422277.post-19946943115408406022012-09-04T18:39:00.000-05:002012-09-04T18:39:04.369-05:00Brook Trout and Bears in MaineWhile I haven't gotten out to fish very much at all this year, I'm at least getting out to the places I like to go, or the ones I've wanted to go to for quite some time. This trip - the week before Labor Day - took me to Maine. I would be working for the majority of the week, but had a few periods of down-time. The guys told me that the creek on the property where I stayed used to have brook trout in it, but no one had fished it for a while. (That IMMEDIATELY sounded like my kind of creek!!) They also asked if I wanted to go bear hunting. While I am a hunter, I have no desire to shoot a bear. But I'm always intrigued by different ways to hunt, so I agreed to go out on stand with the property owner for a couple of evenings to see if anything came into the baits. First up - the fishing report.<br />
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The stream on the property could not have been nicer. Beautiful, clear water, cascading waterfalls - it just looked fishy. But - there weren't many trout. I consider myself to be a pretty good small water trout fisherman and I struggled mightily. I really don't think there were many fish in the creek. I purposely walked up to a couple of the deeper pool to see what I spooked, and - NOTHING. No little trout darting around the bottom, nothing shooting up toward the undercuts at the head of the pool. The water was cool but not uncomfortably cold - I almost think that may have been a problem, that it got too warm for good brookie fishing. Also, there were precious few deep pools to have fish survive the long, <u>very cold</u> Maine winters. Possible winter kill? Or maybe its just the obvious - that I'm a crappy trout fisherman. Regardless, measuring the net worth of a day spent walking the woods and fly fishing for wild trout is never measured by the shear numbers of fish caught - at least not by me. I had a ball even though I only brought 6 or 7 little brookies to hand. I did, however, nearly have a heart attack when a grouse decided to explode out of a small patch of cover about 3 feet from my head while I was walking in the creek.<br />
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There were SOME Brookies there, and at least this one stupid one!<br />
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I went out with the owner of the property 2 nights in a row to sit on baits. Bear baiting is the accepted way to hunt bear in Maine, but I had never hunted over bait. Like I said - I wasn't actually hunting, but I wanted to experience it and see what it was like. Growing up hunting in a state where baiting of any kind for anything was illegal, I admit to having some preconceived notions about hunting over bait. Well, the folks up in Maine take their bear hunting seriously, and there is definitely a science to doing it successfully. The real science, though, lies in the use of trail cams. Before game cams, the only thing you would know about an area was whether or not the bait had been hit since the last time you were there. Now you can see the number of bears, the size of the bears, and the times they hit the baits. Very cool! Speaking of size, the owner paints a orange stripe around the tree and the barrel where the baits are placed. The stripe is 38" off the ground and, according to the DNR, that is a BIG bear if its shoulder is as high as the stripes. This guide helps you from shooting a small bear - they're tough to judge unless there are a few of them at the bait. <br />
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Evening 1 ended with a total of 1 red squirrel sited. Still, the anticipation that, at any moment a 400# plus bear could step into the clearing made it a great experience. Actually, anytime you are in the woods for daybreak or nightfall, it's pretty special.<br />
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The second evening found us at a different bait - one that had been being hit in the afternoon. It didn't take long to see we made the right choice - we watched 3 separate bears from 5:20 - 7:20PM. All were about the same size - the first maybe a bit smaller at an estimated 104-150 pounds. The next 2 were close in size and probably 175 each. At the very end, one of the bigger bears was at the bait and ran like hell. We saw another bear in the very dark background but it was way too dark to see how big it was. So - 4 bears in one evening. We certainly could have shot any of the 3, and a 175 pound bear , while not a trophy of a lifetime, isn't one to be embarrassed about, either. But the owner has shot a few before and would only take a really big one now, and I just liked watching the show, although I could feel my "hunter instinct" kick in when the bear would show up. On the way out from the stand, we drove up on a cow moose in a clearing. A great ending to a great evening. Oh yeah - the steak dinner that followed didn't suck, either.<br />
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The first, smaller bear<br />
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The second bear - a little bigger<br />
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All in all, a terrific couple of days in Maine.<br />
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