A Thank You to Lynch Truck Center, Going Home Again, and Lethal Golfing
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My brother, Jim Ellis, bow hunts bluff country in eastern Minnesota when he’s not at our Boulder Junction cabin in Vilas County. He uses a portable climbing tree stand to rise above the extreme tangled and thorny undergrowth that rips him up on the way in and out.
After opening weekend, he emerged as expected from the woods with thorn wounds on face and arms. His neighbor took a look at Jim’s battle badges and had the obvious question.
“Oh, were you golfing?”
It seems as if the Mike Foss Bear camp will end 2014 with 18 tags filled. Two hunters of the original 20 scheduled to return to hunt in Washburn had to cancel, but a local Bayfield County friend of Foss’s had entered this second week of the hunt with a number of bears seen, but none large enough to make him want to pull the trigger.
“Two hunters are not able to make it back up to Washburn so we are winding down,” Foss said. “A local friend that had 45 hours logged on stand so far said he wasn’t seeing anything but small bears. I told him I would set him up on the ground on what we call the beaver pond bait. I told him I was good luck and he would shoot a bear as long as I got to sit with him. What a fun hunt it was on the ground. He shot this beautiful 180 pound sow with a white blaze on its chest.”
This 180 pound sow makes 18 bears down in the 2014
Mike Foss bear camp. Only one bear was unrecovered.
OWO Fly fishing expert Jerry Kiesow has been watching the Sheboygan River for signs of the fall salmon run, but reports a few fish in but nothing to be too excited about. “Headed to the Sheboygan to see if any more salmon were in, and they are not,” he wrote Tuesday evening. “I saw three, if you include a dead one, which must have been hit by a golf ball. I have no other explanation for its demise. I did get to cast to one fish.”
Editor note: Jim Ellis was golfing nowhere near the Sheboygan. He is a long but rarely a straight driver, but should not be considered a suspect in the salmon death.
A friend of mine sent some head-turning trail camera shots of a big buck or two that he caught nocturnally in Waukesha County. Now let’s hope he catches this big boy in October or November when the rut kicks in and he is not so shy.
When the hunter saw this and other trail cam photos he set from Waukesha County, he said maybe he won’t be spending all that much time in a tree in northern Wisconsin after all this fall.
Please connect with Outdoors News and Inland Fishing on this website to read most of the DNR and guide reports that we received this week. With the start of the hunting seasons, there was a significant increase in news and other items sent in to OWO for posting. It makes for good reading and I’m betting you will learn a thing or two about what is happening in Wisconsin’s big outside. Don’t forget to pick up your issues of On Wisconsin Outdoors in any Kwik Trip or Menards in Wisconsin. And don’t forget too to connect with Kwik Trip Outdoors. You never know what they are offering, and they certainly want to see what you are doing in the woods and on the water.
We all have to lose those closest to us. It’s life. Life is good but that hurts. OWO super writer John Luthens lost his dad several years ago. Mr. Luthens had introduced his son to the great outdoors, mostly to the trout streams of Wisconsin. When John remembers his dad in his writing, I recommend going on the journey with him.
This, week, Johnny Boy shows us that we can go home again. His great mother makes sure that is so. Here’s to you John. Here’s to your dad. And here’s to that great mom.
Thanks for connecting with On Wisconsin Outdoors. Shoot straight.
Dick Ellis