Quote (SheriffCool @ May 28 2017 04:41pm)

We have Hardy Dam and Croton Dam reservoir with 15 minutes of my house with big pike in them and a few local lake with good populations. Robinson lake has good pike fishing about a half hour away. The Shack resort is on the lake but it doesn't get fished a ton and has some 40+ inch pike in there. I like to fish for them with a 4-6 inch minnow about 3 foot off a bobber in the summertime. In the inter we can spear them through the ice here. I'm about an hour and 15 minutes from Houghton lake as well. 30 minutes from Lake michigan. Water everywhere here.

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(SheriffCool @ May 31 2017 06:00pm)
That Deer was shot in Sheridan, MI, on private land south of the golf course. The salmon were taken on the south fork of the Pierre Marquette river by Baldwin, MI.
Now pretty much all my outdoor adventures that I document I put in my other thread as well as answer questions like yours : http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=65910440&f=200
I have been trying to catch up on work lately and haven't had much time outdoors to mess around and I have been spending what free time I do have working on my mustang. I have guided deer hunts coming in October so I'll start really scouting end of July or August. I'll do some pan fishing this summer(just charged the boat battery yesterday) and get some pictures of them. I live by Kent City/Cedar springs where are you from?


Here they start dark and are greenish when they are fresh. They start to turn white as they die. They grow up in Lake Michigan and after 3-5 years old they come back to the rivers and spawn in the same spot they were hatched and then they die. So we usually only keep keep the males, unless a female is spawned out, or we will put a steel cable around the females jaw and let her spawn out and draw more males into the hole to fertilize her eggs and we try to catch them too. These are Coho and Kings also, but freshwater, not saltwater. We also have steelhead and they come up the river and eat the salmon eggs in the fall, but they also spawn here in the spring/end of winter. The salmon spawn here in the fall Sept/Oct.

Quote (TooL89 @ Jun 1 2017 11:39am)

Live down in Hillsdale county. Spent a lot of time not far from Baldwin. Friends have a cabin about 5 miles south of Irons on the little Manistee river. Lots of fly fishing there.

Quote (SheriffCool @ Jun 3 2017 03:15pm)

Right on, I used to live in Montpelier Ohio which isn't far from Hillsdale. Big corn fed deer down that way.

Quote (LeadFoot @ Jun 6 2017 03:17pm)

you ever seen deer that dont respond to regular calls (grunts/fawn calls ect)

in my area they call eachother with alarm calls only it seems.

they have the actual loud ass alarm call that sounds like a raptor blowing through its nose, and then they have a quieter and shorter version of that for calling fawns across fields and stuff.

im pretty sure bucks and the does only use that nasal alarm call even when there isnt anything to be alarmed about.

Quote (SheriffCool @ Jun 6 2017 03:13pm)

We call it the "Snort" here. The deer exhales all its air and makes a weird whooshing sound. That is the way they alert each other of danger. When you have a herd that is really stressed out they will act that way. In that kind of a situation, I find where some runways meet if possible and set up a tree stand and don't make a sound. It kind of depends on terrain and how much area you have to hunt also. If they alert when you make calls, don't do it. If they are too far where you have to call them in, do more scouting and find a closer spot to hunt from if possible. It takes deer around here a week or two to get used to a ground blind if I build one or bring one in here. I hope this helps, but if not we can get more specific.

Quote (LeadFoot @ Jun 6 2017 05:42pm)

well theres the whooshing sound im familiar that we call the "snort wheeze" and then theres alarm snorts that sound like raptors from jurassic park (much much shorter than a wheeze)

but im saying "regular" grunt calls wont work because i see does call their fawns (across 300y wide corn fields) with a sort of modified alarm call that is much quieter and shorter than your regular "alert every deer in a 100 acre radius" type call

when you say stressed out you are probably right, i have a HELL of a time bow hunting deer within hunting hours, when 10:30pm rolls around they come out in droves.

going on my 4th season without a deer, i gotta get my first one with a bow, actually hit a doe in the stomach last season and bumped her way too early. was falling through frozen creeks trying to get her i messed up.

they easily spot my ground blinds, trails will totally avoid them until i move the blind. then a trail will go right through the old spot. i like hunting in stands anyways, because i cant draw a bow in my ground ones easily at all.

im thinking they just smell me too easily... like i said about the neighbors dog earlier, my scent blockers just dont work. and the terrain is like a 25 acre timber bowl with a 13 ft deep dry creek running the middle so the wind is always doing weird things...

Quote (SheriffCool @ Jun 9 2017 06:58pm)

If your serious about it, and I only say that because it costs some loot, is buy an activated carbon hunting suit. It works, even on the ground I have had does walk so close I could have clubbed them with my gun instead of shooting them. It does something about blocking electrical impulses the animals can feel and blocks your scent 100% I have almost $300 into my pants and undergarments and coat.

Quote (Greet @ Jun 10 2017 04:00pm)

Lots of ticks this summer, more then I've ever seen before. Any tips on avoiding/spotting them while on a hike/in a field?