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A few more cabo pics

2009-07-03T20:43:00.000-07:00

The coolest part of this fishing trip was seeing how different (and the same) fishing can be in another part of the world. I was impressed with the depth of the water near shore, the amount of bait fish around cabo and the amount of game fish within a mile of the marina. I will go back many more times in my life!

Cabo San Lucas

2009-07-03T20:34:00.001-07:00

Julie and I went to Cabo for a week in July to celebrate our 10th anniversary. She was nice enough to let me go fishing one day with my cousin Scott. We had a great trip and both put a marlin in the boat. We also caught yellow fin tuna and dorado. Here are pics of the fishing trip.

Turkey hunt with Tate

2009-07-03T15:05:00.000-07:00

Tate and I called turkeys in late April together. We listended to two gobblers for about an hour in the morning. We never got them to come close to us. We did catch a couple of fish, but, the big one got off before we got it out of the water. Here are a few pictures of the trip.

late spring fishing

2009-07-03T14:42:00.000-07:00

I took my parents to fish the Colorado river for an afternoon in early April. Here's the result-Mom's 10lb flat head catfish on spinning rod. Nice fish.

a few of the blogs that I read are:

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http://wymanmeinzer.wordpress.com/

http://byhenrychappell.blogspot.com/

http://www.russellgraves.com/

enjoy,

David

Spring Turkey Hunt

2009-04-10T14:32:00.001-07:00

Tate held this turkey for me to get a picture. Called this one and another gobbler in on the first evening of the 2009 Spring Turkey season.

warm weather fun!

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Tate washing the car.

Carefully planting onions and tomatoes.

Good helpers!

Grant and Carson on the four wheeler.

Look at all those fish!!!

Spring Break has been alot of fun! Last weekend we took the boys to Weatherford to hang out with Mimi and Dado for a few days. They always have a blast there. Aunt Carol, Jimmy, and Chloe came over for a few days to play with them. They are loving my parents new house with a playscape that is much bigger and better than ours, a sand box, and a pool that was a little too cold to swim in, but that somehow didn't stop my kids from putting their feet in and walking around the giant steps. Thanks mom, dad, and Carol for babysitting! While they were gone David and I went to Fredericksburg to a beautiful bed and breakfast and had alot of fun. We came home and began painting our living room and kitchen. We are very slow painters but I am really pleased with the outcome.

On Thursday we decided to take advantage of the beautiful weather. We washed my car and planted a garden. I have been wanting to wash my car for some time because it seems our neighbors do it every weekend and it is a great way to get a little sun and save money not going to the car wash. Tate was a great helper, for about three minutes. He got bored and tired very quickly so I did most of it by myself. That evening we planted a very small garden. David has been wanting to plant a garden for as long as I have known him. Since we have a pretty large backyard he thought this year would be a good time to start a small vegetable garden. I am starting to get excited about it. We planted onions, tomatoes, okra, squash, and bell peppers. We'll see how it goes! On Friday David took both boys to the hunting lease to camp with some of the other families on the lease. The boys had a great time and want to go back soon and take mom....we'll see. I hope you all had a great spring break, too!

Spring Fishing in the Colorado River

2009-03-21T15:52:00.000-07:00

Fish fry anyone?

I took Tate and Grant to camp and fish at our lease this weekend. The kids had a blast playing with all the other kids that were there. Brad's family, his parents and his brother's family were all there staying in there campers.

We caught about 50 pounds of fish from the river all on a rod and reel. We used worms, shad and cut bait for the big fish. Tate helped me reel in the 12lb yellow catfish. Brad's yellow catfish was just under 20lbs.

Tate and Grant helped me "plant" sunflowers in the big field where the hogs had dug up the ground. -for the doves

Camping w/ Tate and Grant

2009-02-28T05:31:00.000-08:00

I took both boys camping at our lease last weekend. Most people thought that I was crazy to take Grant at age 2. Both boys actually did great. We had a blast driving around the lease, fishing in the Colorado river and cooking out. You can see a couple of the fish that "we" caught. We all made some great memories.

Spring Time is getting near.....

2009-01-21T14:59:00.000-08:00

These pics are from last April's spring turkey hunt. As you can see, my dad, Jacob and I all connected on our spring birds. Tate was with us for all three birds, two of which were called into about 15 yards away. I am ready for Spring!

January Deer hunt

2009-01-21T14:54:00.000-08:00

I ended the hunting season with a bang, literally. In 24 hours, I traved 2.5 hours to our hunting lease in San Saba county, killed a hog and a doe and found many new spots to fish and camp this spring. What a great time. Derek and Jim joined me and Derek connected with an older spike with his bow and arrow. A great time was had by all!

December Duck Hunt

2009-01-21T14:49:00.000-08:00

I always enjoy a duck hunt. I was lucky enough to be invited on a good hunt this year. Getting up early, watching the sun rise, seeing the fast flying birds zip over the pond. Robert Ruark says "a duck looks like a duck to another duck". He was right, our decoys did not fool the ducks as much as I thought they would.

Finally got it done......

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Tate helped me get this buck on November 8th. What a great time getting to share this with my son. I was very proud of how Tate was able to sit still and watch for deer to come out of the woods.

Deer Hunting with Tate

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Here's a pic of Tate trying to stay warm. Tate did a great job of sitting still and watching for animals.

Redfish!!!

2008-10-11T13:02:00.000-07:00

Capt. Ranier has been trying to get my dad to go fishing with him again for a long time. Dad was going every month before cancer 4 years ago. Well, we finally made it down and had a great time. We only fished about 4 hours and I caught a limit of reds plus an oversized red that I had to put my tag on. My mother and dad caught at least 2 nice reds each. Tate helped me reel all of mine to the boat. Tate had a great time as this was his first time in a fishing boat. It is so cool to be fishing and look down and the water is only about 2 feet deep!!!

Texas Parks and Wildlife Expo

2008-10-11T12:48:00.000-07:00

I really enjoy the TPWD expo in Austin. I makes me glad to see TPWD being proactive about getting kids into the outdoors. This yearly event is free to attend and gives kids a chance to see and touch all kinds of animals. I went with Tate and Grant and Brad and Ella. The kids got to fish as you can see in the picture. Ella caught a trout! They also saw salt water fish, hawks, owls, and many others.

View from a Tree

2008-10-03T14:52:00.000-07:00

Here's what the view looks like from 20 feet up in an elm tree. Hunted from this tree last weekend but did not shoot anything. I saw a large group of wild hogs and two small 8 point bucks. I did get a shot at one of the pigs at about 30 yards but shot under him.

Great Dove Shooting

2008-09-27T06:35:00.000-07:00

Dan, Jim, Zach, Derek, Brad, Scott and Dan found their doves!

South Texas Doves

2008-09-27T06:24:00.000-07:00

Last weekend, I met several friends in South Texas. We started this trip with a group of 10 guys and every year the group changes some but the fun never does. We enjoyed nice weather and lots of doves!

Summer time on the river

2008-07-27T19:50:00.000-07:00

I was glad to get a chance to take Tate to the hunting lease on Friday night. I don't really like to tent camp (too hot, can't take my 3 showers, dirt in the tent, etc), but, I want Tate to get to do it as we've always stayed in our "cabin" before. -Not that that's exactly upscale but at least you have a bed and a window unit a/c, right?

So, we arrived at the lease around 6 pm after eating a subway sandwich in the car and telling every story I could think of to Tate who loves to hear a story. I sighted in my new Zeis scope on "Tate's" rifle (which he still thinks is too loud to shoot) and was happy w/ the result. Saw a fair amount of doves in the BIG field. Saw a very large buck who was still in velvet near my hunting area. Caught about 15 perch w/ Tate to use as bait in the river. Put the john boat in the river (forgot the plug and had to use a stick) and paddled to the trot lines. Bait the hooks and went to set up the tent by the river. Did this (easier than I thought) and then fished w/ Tate in the river. Put out 3 rods but did not get a bite. Had lunchables for dinner and put Tate to bed at 10pm. I think the river needs some rain to get the fishing back to being good again. I could not sleep with all the river noise (frogs, racoons, coyotes, cows, etc, etc). Slept a couple of hours and got up at sunrise.

Had a great drive of the lease at sunrise (68 degrees) and saw many deer, about 12 turkeys, a group of hogs w/ babies, 2 blue herons, and a fair amount of doves. Checked trot lines and only had 1 gar fish. Fished from boat for about 1/2 hour w/ no luck. Tate's patience w/ fishing is great!

Had a terrible time getting the boat up the bank by myself (won't do that again). Packed up tent and went to fish beaver lake. Was glad to see Tate shooting his BB gun very well (left handed). He was almost hitting the carp and gar fish. We did well on the catfish here. I think the baby fish I put in here grew up!

Found a huge 8 pt buck and a large cow dead in Pocdock creek (stuck in the mud). Left around noon (93 degrees).