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 …
A week in Michigan
After a few hour drive over from Ohio where I had a great hunt I was in Detroit Michigan. Detroit to Cleveland would be a real short drive except for some little lake in the way, Erie I think they called it. I think if it had been frozen I could have made it on a snow mobile in 45 minutes but I chose the highway like everybody else and had to sit in a car for three hours. We stayed there for a night and went to a hockey game then had a four hour drive the next morning to the hunting grounds. …
