Fish are spawning

Well I been reading that the sand bass run at Rowlett Creek is in full gear. The local guide has reported seeing 1000's in the rapids, we are going to go Friday. I was going to go tomorrow which is Thursday, but I am going with my mother to the dentist while she gets her bottom teeth removed. I think my sister will be home early enough so we will be able to go. I need to find the other set of waders that I have, so Morgan will be able to wear them if not he will have to cowboy up and wade wet.

Time to fish

It is that time of year, the Bradford Pear tree's have been blooming for right at 2 weeks, the water temp is close to 55 degrees and as this is all happening a month or so early the Rowlett Creek sand bass run has begun. I have been reading reports on the TexasFishingForum.com for about 2 weeks now, Carey Thorn, who is a guide, that guides on the creek reported yesterday that it was on, he was catching sand bass and hybrids in limits. Well today is Friday and I an leaving work early and going.

These are some sandies that Morgan caught several years ago while we were camped at Tawakoni State Park. He gave these to the folks in the next camp over.

This weekend will be elbow to elbow with folks out there, but since Rockwall girls basketball won their semifinal game last night we are going to Austin Saturday to watch them and visit some friends who live in Lakeway for a while. Next week we shall be going every day for a few hours. This is such a great time of year.

A little rain

We this past Tuesday-Wednesday 1/24/12-1/25/12 we had a little rain come our way, Ray Hubbard added 48’’ and Lavon added 72” Lavon was down 144” and Hubbard was down 66”, we needed this rain. We still need more and folks need to learn to conserve water. Our lakes were looking really bad in North Texas. I don’t know what kind of rains they got down in the hill country, but they are in bad shape also. I guess you really don’t appreciate water till it is not around and you need it.

A New Year

 It is a new year 2012, so I hope everyone will have a very good year. We hunted in Grayson County at our new lease, and it was more of a learning year than a killing year. We seem to have a good place from the pictures on the trail camera, the deer are few and far between  but the potential is there for some quality deer.  We have some pretty dense cover for them to live in and lots of oak tree's for acorns.Then there are the coyotes, they seem to be running things, unlike in Lampasas, where they trapped them on a regular basis.

The north side feeder and tripod, where are all the deer at?



Our trail cam, Primos 46 with a custom
lock box, we got 7 of these setup's.




The tree stand project in green acres,
 the place that needs the most work.

 We have identified several little projects that we will need to take care of  for next season. We need to build a couple of feed pens, repair a tree stand, relocate a tripod from the swamp and from green acres and do some more exploring. We  also need to find out why the deer are not active on the north side, it is like there is a forbidden zone over there.

Early December

We was going to go hunting this past weekend but the weather was really not good hunting weather. Now some will argue that there is not any bad hunting weather and they would be right most of the time. There was over 3 inches of rain which we really needed and we really need for it to rain another year or so, so that the lakes will fill up and the cracks in the land will heal.

Here is a report for the 3 segment hunt that wound up that weekend at Hagerman 

http://www.friendsofhagerman.com/images/userfiles/file/20111206204541_6_Arrowhead2011.pdf

           It is 11/29/11 and we, that is Morgan, Charlie and I have hunted for the first 3 weekends in November at this new lease. I have not seen anything to shoot at, Morgan has seen a few small bucks with nothing in range and Charlie was sitting in the stand and had a little 6 chasing a doe come through his area on the third weekend.  We did see one good buck on the tc’s in the swamp area.

I took a break from hunting the Thanksgiving weekend so that we could do some stuff around the house and I was getting to be a little tired from going out of town every weekend. Me and Morgan have been gone 5 out of the last 6 weekends before Thanksgiving.

I have tried to pattern the rut by reading different posts and I think it is around 11/10/11, which also happens to be the Harvest Moon. Now, for those that don’t know, the Harvest Moon is the 2^nd full moon after the fall equinox and many believe that is the moon that triggers the does to go into estrus.

Deer hunters believe many things and many believe the cold weather triggers the rut, I am not of this camp. I believe it is the amount of daylight combined with the light from the full moon that does this. This is a constant, it is always there year after year, the cold is not. Well some may say that the clouds can throw this theory out the window, but I say when it is cloudy during the day we can see without a flashlight and when it is cloudy during the night of the full moon you can tell there is some light in the sky.

Now we have 7 trail cam's out and there is a lot of anticipation to see what we have on there. A person can spend hours dissecting all the pics on these cams, it seems as though it can be as fun as hunting almost, just another element to the hunt.

Grayson County lease









  Charlie found a lease up in Grayson county with these 2 other guys. It is 500 acs. the majority of the property is pasture, it is split down the center from east to west with a blacktop road which it drains from the road to the north and south, there is a creek at the bottom of the north end that is part of the property line and there is also one down on the south end but I haven't made it down into that area yet.
This past weekend we put out Trail Cams (tc) when we were not hunting, we put out six and they are the ones that have the white pins.
Hunting up here in Grayson County is a lot tuffer than when we were down in Lampasas, down there there was a deer behind every bush it seemed like. Me and Morgan would see at least 6 deer and up to 10 deer a time when we gun hunted out of our blind. I told Morgan that he had been spoiled all these years from getting to hunt down there. but he got to shoot some deer and see what all was involved in a hill country lease.