slickrockpack

awesome day glad you got out! I will quote my letter to the montana fish and game written each year that they suspend fishing at 2pm during august. You misguided piscatorial experts believe it is too warm to fish and it will stress them?? BOSH! The herons and otters, kingfishers and mink et als, don't lay off the trout when its warm, they hit them harder in the shallower drying up pools, and they have done so for millennia before a latin spewing man set a wader clad foot in stream! And the fish were the better for it! It is the arrogance of man to overestimate his effect on the natural world. In fact, if one truly cared about improving fish one would push the fish harder and harder just as athletes are pushed, ever improving the fish so that only the best and strongest survived. We would push the fishes stamina to the point where dropping an EHC on a stream would result in a trout leaping from the water and snapping the fly rod in half and beating the fisherman with it and taking his tobacco to boot. coddling fish and babying them is no favor to the future genetics of the trout!

http://www.sierratradingpost.com/hunting-gear~d~32/?osid=hp-3.0-_-080916 I like to buy locally made stuff when I can, there are some pretty good makers of things near us here, from boots to guns to saddles to tents Sierra is a Wyoming grown company and while a lot of their products are china made that's more a reflection on the American consumer than on them as a company. Sale prices are really hard to beat. Whatever happened to Campmor? they used to have really cheap stuff in their catalog sales. I haven't gotten a catalog from them in decades. I bet 25years.

lavender scented dryer sheets from the dollar store is what I use to keep scorpions, bees and mice out of our sheds, I don't see why a box of them in the blind wouldn't work just as well if you worry about scent that much is set off a Doe P bomb inside it when you set it up, just be prepared to come back to find out the deer stomped all over your blind trying to find the 'new' deer in their home.

where's "ohio" ??

yepper, ton and tons of land, Wyoming is almost twice the size of NY and the population is just over 500,000. big game starts in some units Aug 15 for sheep goats pronghorn elk bear and bison.

that's an old photo. I was screwing with the kid. I don't use those cameras, they would make me a lazy tracker, I cn her my mind now asking why read sign? I probably got it on the camera over there! I know how lazy I am, that would be me in a few months time. I use the camera on the cell phone. I was a full time trapper for many years back east, have lots of cage trapped critter photos and here in Wyoming we catch furbearers for domestication and breeding, if it's got fur or feathers we probably have a photo of it live and dead. mostly live.

front legs are way way too long and gait is wrong for a fisher, fisher front legs shorter than rear, even ambling they have a weasel rolling gait, tail is very long and up curving which is feline trait, weasel family tails stay straight when they move they don't arc. that's a long haired black cat. That ground will hold tracks beautifully, what's the track say it is!

nice photo, yeah, its close by , its about 100 miles due west of us, little north of West Yellowstone, once the tourists leave we'll be over there a lot more, this time of year a 2 hour ride turns into 4 hrs real quick. there's smallmouth over that side of the divide that's why we go, that and to shoot wolves and test bear proof gear on the grizzlies. if he likes to trout fish he's come to the right place! tell him if he gets over to pahaska look us up we'll grab a cold one and fish some up on sylvan before it freezes up.

Hebgen in MT

Hebgen?

no worries John. one update I'd love to see is the option to remove attachments, there may be a large file I attach to a post that in four days, hours or months may not be relevant and I'd like that MB back . just an idea

More likely it's people that have hunted it for generations before you bought it and don't want your cameras showing who they are. What do the tracks tell you? How many people were there, men, women, kids? Where did they go in and out, by car, atv, foot? Did they just walk through, hunt, fish, trap, scout, that will tell you who they are and why they're coming through

How the heck do you delete one of your attachments once the"edit" button is gone?? Thanks for the help

No its turned into a bobcat post now I saw a couple too, I don't use cameras. I put them in a borrowed dog crate

I'm out of Likes Grampy but I liked that. No, we don't bother with the skins personally, shoot a few a day walking to the mailbox, some people keep the rattles stuff like that, I don't I toss them belly side up and let the eagles get a meal that doesn't involve my chukars or fawns. there's a few rattlesnake wranglers that come through Cody each year and they travel the country doing live rattler shows, maybe you've seen them? the handling of the rattlers makes them docile, they are to begin with anyway, but they eventually will refuse to coil or strike they tell us , so they need new snakes if they tip us off they need snakes I'll keep them in buckets for them, but other than that I shoot them as I see them if they're in our yard. the packrats are fun little guys, make good pets, kinda stinky, but friendly, I trap them if I can and let them go way down the valley by the No Hunting Signs..... if you let them go within 3 miles they just come back. they will wreck a vehicle in a week if you let it sit that long. real pain in the seat meat.

yepper, that's what some of the reservation hunts are like, they point to a mountain that they know has buffler on it and off you go once you find them its pretty much you shot your own burger a long walk from the freezer instead of in the barn where you shoot your cows and pigs and butcher the chickens and turkeys etc. even in the wild they aren't spooky like you'd hope, we hunt them on horseback where we are allowed and draw tags, after all if you miss them they will eventually come back, its not like they move to the other coast and never return, you miss it they will be back and you'll kill them the next time they stop to drink or feed or what have you. they only have so much area they call home, its crappier in a fenced in area but even if the fences are 200 miles apart, somewhere there is still a fence. I just like to eat them and the blankets are awesome as are the coats

couple counter points BK, I understand your points, however first and foremost this is America and if the cops don't like their jobs they can quit, just like the guy at burger flippers R US, if they think it's that bad turn in your notice, world needs plenty of bartenders right? another is the police are not judge and jury, so pounding a Suspected Criminal into the ground or shooting them Prior to be being judged and Convicted of the alleged crime is Fascism, not police work. we have due process in America, for now, and that protects you and I from being randomly yanked out of our truck or house and beat to death, or jailed without being accused of a crime, or tried without a jury of our peers. we are a nation of laws. Innocent until Proven guilty, not Guilty because some civil servant who got D's in high school suspects in his heart that you broke a law, likely a law he or she does not fully understand but saw on TV so many times that they are sure it must be illegal. further it is the state's or feds burden to prove guilt not your burden to prove your innocence. I suspect the civil servants often forget the Servant term pretty much describes the relationship they are expected to have within society. Disarm the police, take them out from behind their bullet proof glass and vests, and you'll find a much more Civil, civil servant. maybe not.

I'm new to this and with big game kicking in in less than a week I won't be on much so its not a big concern to me, but bottom line, yes, I am having a hard time figuring some of this format out, especially on the smart phone. my gut tells me this is going to be more effort than it is going to be worth

do me a favor? don't shoot anything until I say 'ok, go ahead and shoot', I don't need you shooting one of my horses out here....where is there a bobcat?

non game pests packrats and rattlers top the list today grab the pistolas boys and a box of shot

If they leave federal land we have to shoot them, but no one really minds them other than all the fences they break through. the wardens will come and chase them back onto the fed land until may usually, then they start working their way up into high country. we really enjoy them, mostly....;) how do you put a video on here?

sorry you're short on water! rained here today again 0.05", helped put down a lot of the fire across from the house, 12,240 acres with 65% containment now, glad it rained! was a big help.