Critterhunter
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We are gearing up for a camping trip in about a month to do some turkey hunting during the day and some crappie fishing at night.
We usually head to a remote area well away from the typical spoiled fishing or hunting types who prefer public restrooms and powered camping grounds with a fast food joint not too far away.
Not us. The more remote the more peaceful. Whole point of camping is to get away from society and all it's problems. Very relaxing knowing you don't have some nosy person looking over your shoulder or trying to spoil your relaxation.
Shouldn't be too long before crappies are schooled into the shallows around brush and such to warm up. Nothing like watching minnows dance in your lantern light, attracted by the glow of it being placed right at the water's edge, and then seeing crappies cruise by looking to feed on the schooling minnows.
There's something "magic" about seeing that bobber slowly take a dive and just knowing a big fat tasty crappie might be on the other end of the line. One of my favorite forms of fishing, besides night fishing for cats or wading a river for small mouth using surface lures.
Then there's that distant gobble of a turkey the breaks the peaceful silence of an early morning sunrise as you stalk down a long deserted old logging trail. Talk about something that will wake you up from your morning fog real quick and get your heart going all of a sudden.
The day gets capped off with us cooking wild game or fish around an inviting warm fire and washing it down with a healthy dose of cold ones, staring up at the stars and thinking of what happened that day and what the next day hunting and fishing might hold in store for us. Nothing like it this side of heaven.
We usually head to a remote area well away from the typical spoiled fishing or hunting types who prefer public restrooms and powered camping grounds with a fast food joint not too far away.
Not us. The more remote the more peaceful. Whole point of camping is to get away from society and all it's problems. Very relaxing knowing you don't have some nosy person looking over your shoulder or trying to spoil your relaxation.
Shouldn't be too long before crappies are schooled into the shallows around brush and such to warm up. Nothing like watching minnows dance in your lantern light, attracted by the glow of it being placed right at the water's edge, and then seeing crappies cruise by looking to feed on the schooling minnows.
There's something "magic" about seeing that bobber slowly take a dive and just knowing a big fat tasty crappie might be on the other end of the line. One of my favorite forms of fishing, besides night fishing for cats or wading a river for small mouth using surface lures.
Then there's that distant gobble of a turkey the breaks the peaceful silence of an early morning sunrise as you stalk down a long deserted old logging trail. Talk about something that will wake you up from your morning fog real quick and get your heart going all of a sudden.
The day gets capped off with us cooking wild game or fish around an inviting warm fire and washing it down with a healthy dose of cold ones, staring up at the stars and thinking of what happened that day and what the next day hunting and fishing might hold in store for us. Nothing like it this side of heaven.