Shot a turkey, made lures with his feathers, and hammered fish with them. Life is good.
This was a pretty cool evening on the river. Game fish were everywhere, but getting them to bite my what I was throwing was an obvious challenge when they had this buffet of minnows to eat instead! Eventually I just stopped trying to fish and sat back to appreciate the Mississippi River food chain. Full video of this outing on the youtube channel linked in bio.
P.S. If anyone knows an artificial bait that closely replicates these minnows and would work in a situation like this, please let me know 😅
#thatsprettyneat #mississippiriver #fishing #whatgetsyououtdoors #walleyes
Here is a video of how to sustainably harvest wild ramps. I’m making this post because I see too many people harvest ramps in a non sustainable way. It apparently takes 7-10 years for a ramp to reach maturity, and if you dig up the entire bulb/roots it kills the entire plant. Harvesting them in this fashion keeps the roots in the ground and allows them to grow back every year. If we want to enjoy the resource, is our responsibility to respect the resource.
#sustainableharvest #wildramps #forage #naturesbountry #forager
Note to self & anyone else who ventures around in the woods: If you hear a mysterious noise coming from a hole in a tree, don’t climb up to investigate.
While turkey hunting yesterday my curiosity got the best of me. I couldn’t quite reach my head up to it (thankfully), so reached my phone up on video mode to see what it was. This was the result, and it scared me enough to make a noise I don’t think I’ve ever made before. 😅
#thatwasahorribleidea #raccoon
While motoring around on the Mississippi this past Saturday we had a peculiar encounter when we saw this groundhog swimming in the main channel of the river. Oddly enough it swam towards our boat as we approached it, obviously disoriented and exausted from treading water. My initial reaction wanted to scoop it up with the net, but that would have been a horrible idea with a young lab in the boat. It instead followed our boat as a current break, and we led it to shore. Long live the aquatic groundhog.
#neature
🤣 “If your name is Ray”
But in all seriousness a kid from Wisconsin named Carson Ray reached out to me about his fishing company he’s starting up, so I bought some stuff from him like this @13fishing combo that’s been crushing walleyes. Help support him by checking out his page or website @reel_ray_fishing
#reelray #fishing #fishinggear
Brook trout are beautiful things.
Was sight fishing them earlier this winter when I decided to film a slow motion video with my phone while jigging a spoon. Sure enough this guy came up and hammered it right below the ice. This is the result.
#brooktrout #catchandrelease #iphone #troutfishing #icefishing #trout
Fishing with Beaver Tail Bait 🦫
Santa should have brought some of that North Pole weather 😭
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#icefishing #icereport #hardwater #midwestfishing #icefishwisconsin