Thanksgiving Morning on Deer Creek

I have started a new Thanksgiving Day tradition.  Went out the Fox today, Kevin Fox that is.  We have been meaning to get out on the pond all summer, finally made it out today.  It was a great morning, fog was heavy! Awesome way to start out, definitely like one of those horror movies where you roll into the fog bank and the creature comes out of the water and gets you, LOL. The ice on the ramp had me spooked but the mule did well coming out.  Set Kevin up with 7 blade willow brass/nickle diamond pop gear and he started us off good.  We ran a worm for a while Kevin got 2 relatively quick, first one quick released which was okay it wasn't that large the 2nd was a nice Brown, yes I said Brown, just off the highway side.  We started to turn around and got turned around, I was trying to cut across the bay to the Island and run the dead sea stretch to pick up a couple but it was so thick and the GPS was set to take us to the rabbit hunting ground...any ways we ended up listening for the cars and found the highway again.  Kevin traded out for a brassy triple teaser and knocked them dead, if you notice most of the pics with fish are with him holding them ;-).  He let me use the triple teaser and I got one in the boat and then lost the teaser in the rocks DOH!  So then we went to perch rapala and flat fish pattern, still on the pop gear and Bang a big Bow hit Kevin largest of the morning, he caught another Brown on the perch pattern, very nice.  I had a hit and a couple reels and lost one on the way in.  We were only on the water for a couple hours and ended up with 7 decent fish, 2 nice Browns, yes I said Browns.  What a morning, my new Thanksgiving Day tradition catching nice fish with good friends.  Made it home around noon and started the turkey breast on the smoker it is still smoking, hickory/cherry with a special dry rub I came up with, hope it turns out good....  To everyone Happy Thanksgiving, Mr. Fox thank you for a great morning, memories and your friendship.
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Deer Hunt 09

Well we gave it a valiant effort.  But no such luck.  We set off opening morning and went up to Little Baldy and looked around for the morning.  Then we went to Sheep Creek and look all over there, continued on into Strawberry valley.  While there went to the lake and tried our luck at fishing in Indian Springs same luck there.  We  headed off in search of Deer again got up on top of Main Canyon headed back toward sheep creek then went down into Diamond Fork and went through Hobble Creek rt fork, and ended up going over Squaw Peak connection.  We ran into Danny Adams and his group it was good to see him and the Drury's they had got a small 2x3 opening day and were looking for the monster bucks in the blue cliffs on Provo Peak.  They target shot to check range of a couple of there rifles, 1035 yards dead on it was crazy distance to see them hit the target at that distance.  Danny sent me a pic of his 4x4 he got later in the week 651 yards one shot he is a great shot, but puts in the time to be good.  We packed it in for the weekend and went out a couple times during the week.  Closing weekend we tried a couple of stand by areas but didn't see even does in those areas.  Only seen 3 buck taken all season, I'm sure there were more but still not great productivity.  Had fun with Parker his last hunt for a couple years, he will be Birmingham, England for a couple years, so good memories.  During the week Parker's girlfriend lost her brother, he gave a valiant battle against Cancer, losing it courageously.

A good week!

Took Thursday off, vacay day, went fishing with my father-in-law and Parker.  Of course we hit Deer Creek and limited out on some nice Bows and caught a couple perch they are hitting more often now kinda fun.  It was absolute perfect day for me Jim drove and I fished without worrying about pattern or direction all day it was truly a perfect day for me! We spent the morning on the water and then headed home and smoked them over Pecan they are delicious.

Saturday went out again with Bob and got our limit he actually caught couple we had fun it was a great morning on both days.  The colors in the mountains are great if you haven't been out you need to get out take in the beauty!  Looking forward, hope to get out with Gary this week, if times and weather cooperate.

A morning on Deer Creek with Bob!

Start off with Parker and I did hit DC last week and caught a couple it just wasn't real productive for us and I had forgotten my license and didn't fish until about 10.  But it was still good to get out.

This weekend we got out earlier and took our friend Bob with us.  He hasn't been around much this summer so we haven't got out much together.  It was a good time on the pond.  We were off the water by noon, between launch and load we had a blast laughing, catching, and losing fish.  We limited but the last 3 took a while to find.  We were fishing a nice hole and then got run out by all the other boats coming in and taking over our spot...go figure.  We headed to another spot and finally got into the last of the days catches.  Bob being from the south was used to have to "SET" the hook each time he did he would lose the hit and it just got funnier as we went on.  There were some nice bows caught and a few perch, once again.  It was a beautiful day out and fun was had by all.  I videoed some of our trip with a flip camera enjoy, we DID!

Another fine morning on DC

Parker and I headed to Deer Creek Thursday morning for some easy fishing (trolling). We got on the water about 6:30 and hooked the first by 6:50, Parker got the first in the boat and was quite happy, it was small by the end of the day. We caught over 20 bows and one PERCH, first in many years especially trolling, but it was a blast. Parker was hooking up about every 20 minutes or so keeping only the larger of the fish we landed. We got off the water around 11:30 after our limit the last fish caught by Parker was in the 3 lb range he was quite excited as was I.