"Let's get out of here, I'm not letting him mount my deer" "What's wrong with it, it looks like a mounted deer?" "That's what's wrong with it" This is the conversation I had with a buddy once when looking for a quality taxidermist. Most folks don't look at a deer mount or any mount for that matter close enough to realize the difference in quality taxidermy work and just a deer mount put out by an untrained guy looking to make a few extra dollars but for those of us that do you need to …
Adventures
Trinity River Alligator Gar
When some one says alligator gar or gator gar the first place most people think of is the Trinity River in Texas. The Trinity is the number one alligator gar location in the world. Fisherman have known this for a long time but thanks to shows like River Monsters and channels like Animal Planet and Discovery who have all filmed shows on this river now even more people know and a lot of those folks don't even fish. There are several places to catch alligator gar, Louisiana for example has a …
Hopper Poppin
After several weeks of 100+ degree days it was time to cool off so I called the whole fam-damily and told them the plan, even my sister-in-law Roxy. When I was a kid I remember the men in the family doing what they called "hopper poppin", they took fly rods and popped grasshoppers around brush piles in the river. This never worked as good in lakes for some reason but still would yeild a few fish. Every fish in the water will eat a grasshopper but the big yellow hoppers seem to work best. They …
Food and Family
This post will be different than most I write but something happened that triggered a flood of memories and I realized this may be most of the reason I do what I do and I wanted to write about it. I get asked all the time why I kill an animal or how can I kill an animal and usually I say I eat them, that's the easy way out of the conversation as most folks can deal with that mentally even if they don't agree with what I do, but it's really more than that. Sure I do eat them and I love the …
July 4th at the coast
We spent the 4th in Sargent Texas, a cool little fishing town on the coast that's built around the canals which lead to the intercoastal waterway which leads to Matagorda Bay which leads to the gulf. Although it would be a real long boat ride to get from the canal to the gulf it can be done. I really liked the fact that any size boat could fish in this area, if you only have a small boat you could stay in the canals and on calm days the bay but a big boat can also get through the canals to the …
