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My bad. I thought you wanted to double hook a blue gill

Barracuda. I also caught this that day.

I learned this from the guide when i was kayak fishing anchovies . Standard Carolina rig, a free untied hook, silicone slide through stopper and then the tied second. Adjust the slide/stopper to the length of the bait. Put the free hook through the nose/mouth and the tied hook behind the dorsal.

True story. Not a Will Ferrell skit. My youngest brother had an archery antelope tag. Myself, my other brother, my nephew and a good friend were on hill glassing for him. It was a very warm day and I had glassing Crack. My nephew found the sharpest pointiest stick he could find and 12 ringed me. My flight or fight response was triggered and I get up wanting to hurt the person that violated me with the stick fully cinched between my cheeks. Everyone is laughing hysterically I pull the stick from my cheeks look at it and see middle brother sitting there laughing. I poke the business end of the moist, now smelly stick at his mouth, feel no resistance and get it all the way to back of his throat. Holding the stick there like I was a Samurai that just vanquished the final boss. The other three are now on the ground laughing in tears while my brother finds a new level for his gag reflex and I rub the shock out of my violated area.

Someone post a late hit so I can keep hope.

Hopefully its just starting. I put in for 3 javelina hunts with 100% draw odds and I don't not have any hits yet.

When you get the tag. Believe your eyes more than what people tell you. That was my biggest mistake on my hunt.

I have the b2 that I do not use

When i used to get late season archery tags. A friend called in more than a few bulls for me in November. I think there are two reasons for the later and later rut. 1st is all the females are not bred in September making them go into a second estrus cycle. 2nd and I see this with deer as well, the amount of human interaction with elk during September is extreme and forces them back a month to the less interrupted of October. Back in the 90s when archery and calling was still fringe. I would watch full rutting on September 1st.

Its been raining most of the time here in showlow for the last couple of days.

The elk and other animals are the property of the people. Free for us all to enjoy. Tag or not being around elk is not really an ethical question. We are allowed to be out there. Learning an animals patterns and your own abilities, when you do not have a tag, during the rut is a good thing that makes you a better hunter. Now that being said, its annoying AF to run into a non tag hunter with a fox pro or one of the 15 helpers to a tag holder checking bugles.

You would be in the bonus round for north of the canyon. Your odds are 5% or below for elsewhere with a rifle. Back before archery hunting was cool I got alot of tags (5) I am hoping they open up a particular unit for archery so I can go after a particular buck.

Good luck! Did you get rained out?

The day before you get there and the day after you leave are usually the best for the rut.

I have been watching people do that for decades now. It use to be noisy diesels. Now its noisy sxs

Same as now. Either the nutrition is not there or there is a lot less elk.

He was fortunate

Nephew sent me game time updates yesterday. He was at 91 yards for a couple of hours

This year has been really dry. The nutrition just might not be there. That being said I have noticed that the rut has been getting later and later each year. I have watched full rutting in mid November.

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I forgot to mention the "little" buck she got green scored 83-2/8. My brothers and one of my nephews over the weekend were giving me crap about weapon selection and what might have been if she used one of their PRCs.

Big congrats!

I used the term encouraged because I did not see all the details. Some reports say when he turned himself in, he was already in cuffs.

His father and his minister encouraged him to turn himself in Tyler Robinson