Fred Bear Does its Job once Again!

This buck came in minutes after using one of those doe/fawn cans. I dont know if that brought him in our not, but I am glad I gave it a try! I was dealing with swirling winds and he was about to bust me when I shot. My camera failed in the field, so these garage are what I have to show for this buck right now. I am now in the hunt for a camera...any ideas?

Fall Update

Bowhunting has been pretty slow lately, but I did manage to arrow a mature doe a little over a week ago. It was a quick, clean kill at 25yds with a two bladed Rage broadhead. I have been sold on these after seeing the results the last two years.

A trip up north to Nashwauk about a week ago resulted in an abundance of grouse in front of my 870 12 gauge.

Also I will be posting a bunch of venison/upland game recipes on my food blog in weeks to come. I have been writing up and testing recipes this fall.


Pecan pheasant/grouse Salad


Pheasant/Grouse Parmesian

Deer Camera Pictures

Coyote taking a dump right in front of the camera



Doe with some sort of abnormal growth

Rainy Day Off

Granpa Walsh gave Jim and I almost twenty antler plaques. I sanded them, stained and sealed them the last few days. Thanks Grandpa...Hopefully we can put them to good use soon!

Visit to Last July

During July last summer in Alaska was when the fishing really heated up. Here are some re posts of some of my catch. The salmon and Halibut tasted so much better fresh than after I shipped them home. They were still good, but eating them the day I caught them couldn't be any better! This summer the lodge I was at has had to deal with forest fires near by and record heat. From what I have heard their summer has been just as warm or warmer than our summer here in MN.

Fishing from the past two weeks

The last few weeks I have been back up to Buck Lake a few times and have fished the lakes in the area. Over a week ago Andy and I hit up Owen lake with winds over 30 mph. We went to catch northerns and changed our plans because of the very strong winds. We hit the secluded bays that were protected from the wind. In these shallows we were able to catch some very nice largemouth bass on topwater plastic worms. We were also checked by the sherriff even though we were the only boat on the lake. In the afternoon we went over to Stingy Lake where we caught a few eater size walleyes and a few large bluegills while slip-bobbering in cabbage in seven feet of water.



This past Sunday Andy and I took Stef and Cory out on Buck for northerns. The fish were biting well on spinnerbaits and Andy even had hits on his huge muskie bucktail spinnerbait he was using. Pulling the pike through the weeds was quite the workout for Stef with the spinning rod. She liked the pulling power of the med-heavy baitcaster rod much better after.

Knight Lake

With my work schedule this past week I have had odd days off. I got done with work at three on Sunday and took off to Knight Lake in Wisconsin to Brianne's parent's cabins knightlakecabins.com. They have cabins available if anyone is interested. They are located Between Merrill and Tomohawk. My stay there was short, but I had a good time with Brianne and her family. The weather was very nice and the water was warm. The only thing we could have dealt with less was the mosquitos, but they are bad anywhere you go in the country in WI or MN.


Brianne and I gave fishing a try for a short time before sunset on Monday night. I set Brianne up with a sluggo for bass, while I threw a buzzbait. Brianne had a few bites and was bit off by a northern. We could see sunfish swimming around, so I threw out a fly that I had. I ended up with my catch of the day...a golden shiner


It was too nice to not be in the water! The lake was nice to float around in since it isnt that big.