Trophy Room -- warning -- hunting/fishing photos

[Rodslinger]

I've noticed quite a few of us here are hunting and fishing enthusiasts so I figured I'd start a thread to post our pictures. Lets keep the pictures tasteful please.
My daughter and I just got back from our ranch a couple weeks ago and had a wonderful time and a great hunt. We manage our place to keep a good healthy whitetail population but here lately our Axis deer population has gotten a bit out of hand, so we had to thin it out some.

[Worm Drowner]

Here's a few of me with a few muskie & steelhead.

The muskie at the bottom of the boat is 48.5". I was alone except for the dog and couldn't get a decent photo. She did release just fine and is still swimming around Pymatuning Reservoir. The other muskie photo was a very cold, wet day on Lake Chautauqua in NY. The steelhead photos were on the Grand, Chagrin & Rocky rivers here in NE Ohio.

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Last edited by Worm Drowner : 12-10-2005 at 04:50 AM.

[Rodslinger]

Originally Posted by Worm Drowner

Here's a few of me with a few muskie & steelhead.

The muskie at the bottom of the boat is 48.5".

WOW!
Very nice Drowner! You've got me wanting to hit the water.

[Turbo Rushmmm]

This is the seven pointer i killed this year scored 149 3/8 20 inch spread

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[Andy]

Nice work guys. I shot a rat once.

[Rodslinger]

REALLY nice buck Rush! You take him rifle or bow?

Oh and lem - that's how it starts. A rat one day an Elk the next. Hunting and fishing are VERY addictive pasttimes.....kinda like Powerstrokes!

[Turbo Rushmmm]

Took him the second week of shotgun (no rifle hunting in Indiana) I usually do not gun hunt at all only bow, But had the itch this year and had not filled my buck tag yet.

[Turbo Rushmmm]

I have always wanted to hunt Axis is it the same or close as a Whitetail, are they all over TX, What does a out of state tag cost?

[Rodslinger]

I'm a big bow hunter too - I didn't have the best of luck this year with archery though.
Not all of Texas has axis deer. We have them on our place because apparently years ago another rancher in the area bought a few to have on his high fenced ranch. From what I was told this 'ol boy didn't know axis could swim really well and some of them decided to cross the lake. Now they're all over the area where we're at. So much in fact that one ranch is having a "controlled slaughter". They're shooting 200 by helicopter and donating the meat to charity. Axis are MUCH bigger than whitetail and when you've got too many they screw up the whitetail population. That's what we ran into - we want to keep some on the place, we just had too many, so we've removed what we feel we needed to. Axis are not a protected game in Texas, so you can hunt them all year round and don't have to tag them. As long as you have a hunting license you can hunt them. I'm not sure what an out of state license for Texas runs to be honest.

[2006F350]

Had a good year:

WI Archery


WI Rifle


KS Rifle