Hiking, Kayaking and Checking Cameras.

June 17

This camera did pretty well during the rut, but the rest of the year activity here was pretty slow so I moved to a new location.

I moved the camera mentioned above here. This spot is more open than I like but a bunch of trails intersect here so it should be a good spot.

Moved this camera, there were lots of beds and a few trails crossed through here but it was to out in the open for lots of action.

This is where I moved it, I’ve had cameras in this area before and they did really well. Lots of trails pass through here and all the open ground will be covered in skunk cabbage within a few weeks so I know this camera will do really well.

I’ve had a camera here for several years.

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I’ve used this spot for a couple years, the camera overlooks a main trail through a feeding area. The only problem with this spot is the deer linger for a long time so I get so many photos of the same encounter with a deer that the SD cards are always in danger of filling up if I don’t make it out here often enough.

This has been a good spot except when the creek is really high it triggers the camera constantly filling the card. I will probably move it next time I make it out here.

This spot doesn’t get a ton of action but the picture quality is good plus when wolves move through this area they often use this trail. Didn’t get any wolf pictures over the winter on the 6 cameras I have in this area, so either they are sticking to a different part of their territory or they didn’t survive trapping season, which would be good, the deer population in this area is getting depresses, hardly got any pictures of fawns last year.

Setting 3 Cameras

I took 3 of the 30+ cameras I need to set back up with me on a long hike and found new homes them stopping along the way to bother some steelhead and sea-run cutthroat. I managed to catch 1 of each before a family of otters took over the pool.

Set this camera to watch a series of trails at the top of a ravine.

This camera over looks the intersection of 3 main trails

Set a camera here to get pictures of the deer and bear that are always leaving their tracks on this gravel bar.

After catching the sea-run cutthroat and the steelhead a family of otters showed up and started chasing the fish around until they realized they were being watched.

Okeechobee Vacation #2 Part 2

The first set of pictures was our best big fish day since we started going to Florida to chase bass about 15 years ago. The day started off terrible, we made an hour long run to the south end of the lake and by noon we had one dink for our efforts so we ran back north, the weather was calm enough we could cut across the main lake, and ran into a wave of fresh spawners that nobody else had found. We ended this day with an 8, a 7, two 6s and five or six 5s, plus a bunch of 1-4 pounders.

March 17

Our hot spot was still really good the next day and continued to produce until some high winds kicked in and forced us to spend most of our last 3 days fishing from shore. We always schedule about 2 weeks for our trips so challenging weather doesn’t mess up to much of our trip.

March 18-23