I too was out and about in the big woods this past weekend doing a little bow hunting on Saturday and some dog running on Sunday. The camera was in hand both days.
I lost my bow release on Saturday, so if anyone finds one anywhere in NJ, it's mine.
The first area is located in an area explored by PBX last year and a place that I love to revisit over and over. I don't know why because I have yet to kill a deer or duck there but it still calls to me.
It's very remote and holds, or did hold, a neat, isolated several acre pond. Last year my son and I built a natural duck blind there in late season but never hunted it. We needed chest waders at the time to negotiate the pond bottom.
Here is what I found. The Pond, minus 3 1/2' of water.
The bottom was baked and the lillies were hanging on for dear life.
I walked a good ways north to a major stream crossing that we negotiated last year and one that Guy had videoed. It was obvious that now is the time to make some reapirs. Only about a foot of water where we had 4 ' of rushing water flowing over the bridge surface last year.
On Sunday we did a 4 mile hike through the first area looking for the ghosts of deer past and then hit the former ACE Campground with the dogs late in the afternoon.
They were itching for a swim and we were lucky to find water in the lake. Ace Was the Place.
Here is the nearly fully grown Murph man scoping things out.
And finally, Murh and Hank sharing a retrieve.
The woods are dry and the groundwater table has dropped to a very low level in the pines. It is amazing to see this, given the wet winter and spring that we had and with all of the flooding throughout the woods that we witnessed earlier this year.
I suppose I owe Mark royalties for using the Bone Dry title.
Scott
I lost my bow release on Saturday, so if anyone finds one anywhere in NJ, it's mine.
The first area is located in an area explored by PBX last year and a place that I love to revisit over and over. I don't know why because I have yet to kill a deer or duck there but it still calls to me.
It's very remote and holds, or did hold, a neat, isolated several acre pond. Last year my son and I built a natural duck blind there in late season but never hunted it. We needed chest waders at the time to negotiate the pond bottom.
Here is what I found. The Pond, minus 3 1/2' of water.
The bottom was baked and the lillies were hanging on for dear life.
I walked a good ways north to a major stream crossing that we negotiated last year and one that Guy had videoed. It was obvious that now is the time to make some reapirs. Only about a foot of water where we had 4 ' of rushing water flowing over the bridge surface last year.
On Sunday we did a 4 mile hike through the first area looking for the ghosts of deer past and then hit the former ACE Campground with the dogs late in the afternoon.
They were itching for a swim and we were lucky to find water in the lake. Ace Was the Place.
Here is the nearly fully grown Murph man scoping things out.
And finally, Murh and Hank sharing a retrieve.
The woods are dry and the groundwater table has dropped to a very low level in the pines. It is amazing to see this, given the wet winter and spring that we had and with all of the flooding throughout the woods that we witnessed earlier this year.
I suppose I owe Mark royalties for using the Bone Dry title.
Scott
