Coach

Very cool! Thanks for sharing the pix.

Just an FYI, I've asked Amanda to change my handle from AZOnecam to Coach. The old handle was one I came up with for the Bowsite many years ago when I got my first single cam bow. Well, I don't shoot a single cam bow anymore, and duh, of course I'm from AZ. Seems I'm always coaching one of my boys' baseball, football or basketball teams so I figured that handle was more appropriate. Besides, the older I get the more I remind myself of Coach Ernie Pantusso from Cheers Jason

Ya know what blows? Every shed hunt I've been on, I've gotten skunked minus a little 2 year old spike shed from last week. Seems I only find the sheds on a turkey hunt, but I can scour miles of country looking for one good shed and come back empty time and again. Congrats on those awesome finds. Just once I wanna see a big old brown laying out somewhere that I know they are dopping - sorry for the "sour grapes" but I've put some serious miles on my boots in the past couple years trying to get a good brownie and all I find are bulls still wearing their headgear. I'm a little jealous - but hey, that's how shed hunting goes.

Ouch! I heard of ATV'rs getting wrapped up in cholla and stumbling out looking like a teddy bear, but wow - that poor gal had to be in some serious pain. One of those nasty cactus heads is incredibly painful and hard to get out. Not to hijack the thread, but I've chased quail into some cholla that look like stag's head- kinda spindly, low-to-the-ground and unassuming and have little red berries or fruits on them. I STILL have scars on my hands and wrists 15 years later from those things. You get poked and it seems like any other cactus, but they turn into these burning little sores that scar up something horrible like mini snake bites - anybody know what those lilttle suckers are?

Yep, we difinately "bumped" as you were leaving. Some brain-donor pitched a dome tent dead center in the middle of the West boat ramp. LOL. In years past, that main ramp was good, I'm glad I've seen it in shallow water so I knew to avoid it - that's why I always launch in one of the other "natural" ramps on that peninsula. In Spring Breaks past, we've camped out on that peninsula and when the fishing is slow you can chum carp in to the little inlets there with corn and have a ball all afternoon watching the kids reel in 10-15 pound goldfish on ultralight tackle for hours on end. They don't care what the crappie or bass are doing if they're reeling something in. We had a real nice family from Mexico the last couple of years that gave us a recipe for "shrimp coctail" that basically entailed soaking carp fillets in orange soda and onions at room temperature for a couple days and adding pico de gallo....I'll take her word for it, but I just end up chopping 'em up for cut bait for the cats

Obviously meant as a joke, but it's a bit of a fine line to call out a member by name like that. I know your intentions were not malicious, .270 and you preface most of your posts as humor, but I can see how Bill might have percieved that as a little below the belt.

Might well have passed you heading out - yeah we launched at Mojave (I think), so the time was right. I was surprised to see the number of camps inside the SC arm. I don't have any marked maps of the lake, and I used to launch at Soda. We took the first access point past the tribal farm that follows the SC arm. If you stay left, you would be right out on SC point. Is that the Mohave ramp site? You can either use the main ramp or head out on the penensula with 2 unmaintained ramps on the West and South ends? We were in a blue ford Excursion with a teeeny little aluminum boat.

Ran down last night for a *really* quick trip hoping to get the kids onto some fish under the lantern. We had baseball tryouts 'till 2:00 PM, an hour to get everthing together and 3 hours from Lakeside to the water including stops for minnows and permits. We hit the white point on the NE side of where the San Carlos Arm hits the main lake with about 40 minutes of light left. After rigging up poles for 3 kids it wasn't long before the first bite so I figured it would be a good night - we missed a few good bites before light dwindled and didn't put our first fish into the boat until almost 8 - thankfully it was my youngest son, Joshua who got to land the first crappie. He's the only one that went fishless over Spring Break at Roosevelt. Unfortunately, it kinda went from light bite, to really slow, to pretty much no action and the fish just got smaller as the night wore on - opposite of what I was hoping for. The good news is, everyone got to pull in at least one crappie, and I got a little "eater" catfish, but overall a pretty disappointing trip - at least as far as the bite went. It was pretty cold for this time of year with the constant breeze and low pressure system flowing in. The water was way warmer than the air temp, but even in the warmer coves, we just couldn't find a good bite. Pulled the boat out at 11:05 PM and made the haul back. The kids slept the whole way back and at about 1:30 this morning we home. Fun, but I sure would have liked to see the kids get into a good crappie bite. We'll keep trying, but if last year was any indication, a Spring like this with cold front after cold front, it may not turn into one of those years that you can get the kids on to fast biting fish - hopefully we'll get another crack at it but according to the weather we've got yet another front moving in this week. Here's some pix... The mighty fishermen Rigging up Sunset Josh - first crappie Carrie Nick's first Matt One more for Joshie Enjoy, and let's get down there when the bite really kicks IN!!!

Happy Easter!

Anyone else tried out the Meindl Perfekt Hunters? Man, have I torn through the boots in my time, but I'd stack these against anything out there. The 10" feel like you're in running shoes - even on our volcanic rock mixed in mud up here. I have light weight Danners that I use as "utility boots", and let me just say, their customer service is second to NONE. I've sent back Danners twice and each time got a brand new, upgraded pair. That said, I did have to send them back after the stitching tore loose or the gore-tex failed. It's great that they treat their customers so well, but I'd prefer NOT to have to send my boots back. And I'm not one of those guys who beats the heck out them and then expects a new pair 3 years later. IMO, the Meindl Perfekt Hunters are the real deal. Pricey, but when you already KNOW what your next pair of boots will be, well, that says something. When I get back from a hunt or scouting trip, I might leave some mud on my truck, and maybe let the oiling down of my gun wait, but my Meindl boots will get scrubbed down and treated to preserve them as long as possible. They take care of me and my legs, so I take really good care of them. I put their importance right up there along side good optics. If your boots fail you way back in, you are hosed. NEVER compromise on boots. Not to say ASOLO or Danner or a number of other manufacturers aren't good, and I may not jump up and down about Toyota or Swarovski or Bowtech or any number of products I truly count on - BUT I will go ape-nuts over Meindl boots - I just believe they live up to the expectations and needs of hunters - And nothing can wreck a tough hunt faster than boots that fail. Just my humble $.02

Thanks Brian, I think I'll try to get down there late Saturday with the boys and a bunch of minnows for some night fishing under the lantern. We have to endure a full day of baseball try-outs before we can get out of town. I'll try to get a report out a.s.a.p.

I'm really glad to see these roads still closed. I know it's an inconvenience for some, but let's face it. The ground up here is totally saturated. It simply can't support heavy travel yet. We'll all be out chasing turkeys or looking for sheds soon, but if the roads get rutted up it will make it that much harder for all of us to access the land. Let's be patient. The forest service is really looking at the big picture by trying to maintain the access to some of the most sought-after resources in our state. If those roads get rutted badly, it's just that much harder to bring the kids up for a fall cow hunt.

Nice!!! Every time I go out all the horns I find are still stuck to a bull.

Now that is SUPER COOL!!! What a find. There's a spot where I lilke to quail hunt where it seems there are always some rattlers hanging around. Well, turns out there are also pictographs very similar to those you posted, that depict people with swollen hands and snakes all around. Kinda makes you wonder about these places we drive by all the time. Have the snakes been denning up in the same area for a thousand years, and the ancient people marked the surrounding rocks as a warning? Pretty cool indeed.

Don't you just love the guys in LAYERS of camo with rubber boots sitting in a club house over a clover field? Too freaking funny. Just once, I want to see some dude in a day-glo ski getup shooting out of one of these "blinds" just to prove what a doofus it takes to dress up in camo and sit a permanent blind over a hay field and pretend to be hunting. What a bunch of dip-sticks.

Awesome! I hope you take good notes and write up a story about your hunt!

krp, Thanks for posting that. It really gets into the meat of this problem. Unfortunately, this is a political problem. But no matter how aware of it our politicians are, they are unwilling to do anything about it. They care more about their own aspirations than any single citizen - and they don't think they can advance their carreers on an agenda that will make formative change WRT illegal immigration from Mexico. It's a "catch=22" for them and a big old "sh!t sandwich" for us. The problem could be easily solved through a variety of means - force, diplomacy, legislation. But our so-called leaders don't want the problem solved, because for them it is NOT a problem. That's why its our job to make it their problem. We have to find a way to pressure them into doing what must be done, or they will continue to look the other way. It has to hurt them politically NOT to address this problem or it will only get worse.

Muzzle Loader

Happy Birthday Dan.

Dang!!! Nice horns!

Thanks Brian - looking forward to it! Have fun catching all those fish.

3A/3C cow for the boys and Unit 1 Bull (Muzzle Loader) for me - my DREAM HUNT!

3A/3C cow for the boys and Unit 1 Bull (Muzzle Loader) for me - my DREAM HUNT!

You guys ever watch a good "steak cookoff" in Texas - they literally melt a slab of butter or chunk of solid milk creme over it as it cooks. Not too good on the arteries, but some tasty eatin' right there.

Everything I've heard about SC has been really bad this year. Know some guys who went out for Crappie and ended up shooting carp with a bow all day - they had fun for sure, but no crappie fillets. Took the family to Roosevelt Wed thru Sunday and fishing was VERY slow. We caught a total of 3 bass in 4 days of fishing, two being under the slot. Couple more weeks to warm up, or go with Standman if you want to eat fish.