Highlights from 1 Camera

December 5 – April 27

The deer in the later photos are starting to shed their winter coats, some shed quickly making them look like they have some kind of disease or wound but they’re fine and will be wearing their summer red coats first.

I’ve had a camera here for a few years but even though it’s been one of my best spots in this area I decided to change locations anyway.

Setting up 4 Cameras

I set a camera here to watch an intersection of a main trail and a few secondary trails.

This camera overlooks where a bunch of trail cross the top of a ravine which starts at the left side of the picture. This spot is full of skunk cabbage which is just beginning to grow so it will be a good feeding area too.

A trail crosses this small creek here and a main trail parallels the creek along the its other side.

The 4th camera I set up was at this puddle I’ve been using for a couple years.

1st Hike Since January

Hiking, setting trailcams, and catching Sea-run Cutthroat and Dolly Varden

I moved 1 of the 4 cameras I left out all winter in this area and added 3 more.

Moved a camera here. This opening in the brush looks like a good spot to capture bucks butting heads before the rut and it’s on a good trail I used last year.

Set a camera here to watch an intersection of multiple trails at the bottom of a small ridge and a near a creek crossing.

There is a large muskeg to the left of this camera and a timbered hill side to the right about 50 feet high then another large muskeg. The camera looks down a main trail which travels along the forest at the edge of the lower muskeg.

I found this spot last fall while working on filling the freezer and it looks like a good place to sit quietly for most of a day. The camera I set here watches an intersection near the bottom of this slope of open forest.

3 days on Lake Istokpoga

We were hit with record high temperatures and calm winds during most of our time here, but we still managed to catch 3 over 5 pounds and enough smaller fish to keep it interesting. Caught them on a variety of lures, the 3 big ones came on a swimjig, spinnerbait and flipping a craw. We also caught them on dragging around a worm, a jerkbait, and a chatterbait.

Crazy Insect Hatch

Almost every piece a emergent vegetation was covered with midges, all this life at the bottom of the food chain is probably why the bass were so fat and healthy

Florida Bass fishing Vacation #2, Part 1 Okeechobee

Day 1 shore fishing

We always start are trips with a day of fishing from shore after an all night flight from Seattle to Fort Lauderdale, after a 2 hour flight from Ketchikan to Seattle. Sometimes we actually fight through the sleep deprivation enough to catch something, this time we did better than normal.

10 Days on Lake Okeechobee

Though they area we fished on this giant lake was pretty small fishing was really good and we caught 21 over 5 pounds including a couple 7s and a handful of 6s, plus countless others smaller than those, it was a blast. Most of the fish we caught were on crankbaits but we also caught them on spinnerbaits, buzzbaits, propbaits, worms, spooks, swimjigs and chatterbaits.

Stuffing the semi stray marina cat named Cat with treats twice a day was probably responsible for our good luck

I also picked up the 7 cameras I set on our first trip, they did really well. Here is some of the footage from the 4 I had set to record videos.

We finished the trip with 3 days on Lake Istokpoga, caught some nice ones there too, will be posting more about that next.