Our Year at The Deer Lease 2012-13 Part 1

Hey Guys

Sorry for the Lack of Post - as you will see we have been busy...

My son Zale and I joined our 1st hunting lease in Sept 2011 on a impulse - we were looking for something to do when the offshore fishing turns too rough...

That first few months we hunted out of ground blinds near un-established feeders and never even saw a deer.

We made big plans for 2012 - We would build a platform stand were there were a ton of hogs on camera and create a dedicated Hog hunting spot.

We would also set up dedicated deer hunting spot deep in the woods near a creek with a triple intersecting game trails.

We build the hog hunting platform and put a ground blind on it....
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Set a feeder with solar power garden lights attached
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Put two man tripod stand and a feeder in the deep woods for deer hunting
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View from tripod stand to feeder and view from feeder to stand...

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We put feed plots in - which was hard work for two city guys
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Food plots turned out very well
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Zale was ready for action!
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Our Year at the Deer Lease 2012-13 Part 2

After all the work was done we started hunting...

Zale in the hog stand


Zale gets a 105# Hog
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Pulling up his Hog
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Then Zale got a buck
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Hauling his buck out
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Nice deer for a 11 year old...
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Standing next to that deer he was so excited and proud - he gave me a big hung and said "Thanks Dad" - Well it doesn't get any better than that.....

Hey Guys

Zale and I have not been fishing in a while - but a friend of mine from work son has been busy - check out the Black Drum caught by Landon and the Gar caught by him and his cousin Kadian.

These are some big fish!!

Nice going guys -

Thanks for the pictures - keep them comming!

Fishing with Brian and Jace

Hey Guys

I headed out fishing Sunday 7/3/11 with my brother Brian and nephew Jace.

Our fishing trip got off to a very good start as we caught a lot of live bait quickly in the early morning about 15 miles offshore of surfside, Tx.

Then things slowed down we stopped and fished a few wrecks and rocky areas - but came up empty except for Jace's Kingfish.....

We headed west - over to the sunken Liberty Ships (USS Fogg) and Brian caught some throwback Red Snapper and several nice kingfish.

We headed a little more offshore and tried fishing near a old sunken oil rig - again nothing - we were about 40 miles offshore at this point - it was getting late - so decided to work our way back home to surfside.

On our way back Brian spotted a nice weedline with a lot of small dolphin fish (Mahi-Mahi) and we started catching them one after another.

All the noise in the water lured a ~35# Cobia (Ling) up to the boat and it gave Jace hard fight ....   I gaff him into the fish box and his next swim will be in tarter sauce....

Here are the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTxoaAa-4AQ


And some pics....

Thanks for Checking In with Us

Chris

Going Fishing Sunday - If the weather holds

Hey Guys

Zale and I are going out Sunday with my bother Brian and my nephew Jace...

Please follow our real time progress at:

http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0VhhleY8D1xE7ipvczqilll2o4dp0xyzJ

This is my SPOT Connect Satellite Messenger.....Shared Google Map Page

Thanks

Chris and Zale