Dragonmaster's Blog

Today started off slow. Filled brid feeders, pick up all the corn cobs from last night deer feedings. feed and water the ducks. One of these days I will have to tell the story about my retared ducks, but thats for some outher time . Walked the dogs and got the ice shack of of west lake.Ice fishing for walleye is pretty well over for me here in the Iowa great lakes area. It was a good season, a lot of 14-16 3/4 in fish. Don't known what the deal was but I just could not land the big ones. Brokeoff 4 times on fish that were well over 10 lbs. Any way just had to get out and do a little shed hunting. What a bust that was. Went out to some public land west of the lakes area. Now this is some outstanding ground. On the north side is private and I have permission for this ground and for 75 days straight I watch two 10 points. One is 5.5 year old and going 150+ the outher 3.5 year old about 115-120. One eight point that lookes like a mule deer and might be a 3.5 years old and some where around 115-120. And a 6 point that is in the 130-135 in class. And all kinds of 1.5 year olds. So I had high hopes on finding a shed or two. Wroung One we have about 18+in of snow with a mix of frezzeing rain on the ground. And we just got about 5 in of snow the outher night, with my way of thinking the new snow should show me how and where the deer were going. It took me over a 1/4 of a mi befor I found a deer track. This was wroung, man I have been hunting this area for years. There should have been tracks all over the place. Then one more bend in the river and I found out why, DOGS, dog tracks every where. I don't care where I went or what I did, there they were, DOG TRACKS!! you could see where they jump the deer from there beds. You could see the running deer tracks, and right behind you could see where the dogs started to run after them. Iam PISSED OFF!!!! got to put an end to this kind of BS. So I start to back track to find out where the dogs are comeing from. Man this is not good, right back to the land owner who gave me permission to hunt his ground.

I have got too thank God for two things today. One No one was home. Two he gave me time to go home and cool off. I can be a real hot head at times. It will take a little time but Iam am sure that I will come up with a way to talk to him about his 2 black labs and the german short hair thats running deer.

Wendell