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    Montana Ducks 2017-18

    My 2017 duck season began exactly as my duck season has begun for 38 years. I’m at the same camp ground, going to the same little cove. This year I have my wife, our daughter, her husband and their son with me in camp. Three generations have hunted this public-land spot. Because my son-in-law...
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    Yellowstone: Our Lake

    It has been over three and a half decades since I started fishing Yellowstone Lake from shore. Once I found Sand Point, I never left for years. I was already a hardware and bait fisherman when I moved to Bozeman. Once I learned about Jakes spin-a-lures from a successful spin fisherman on Sand...
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    PLWA party Monday April 10, MAP Brewing, BZN, 4-8 pm

    The Public Land/Water Access Association (PLWA) is the premier organization for protecting public access to public land and water in Montana. Please attend the Ales for Access get together on Monday, April 10, from 4 - 8 pm @ Map Brewing, 510 Manley Rd, Bozeman. Also note their Annual Meeting...
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    HT Hat in the FL Keys

    At the beginning of March this year, my wife and I once again flew down to Miami to fish for a couple of days in the Everglades, hang out on the beach and swim in the ocean and pools. You know, all those things we can’t do in Montana. We are still going to get 60 days of skiing this season, but...
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    Montana Ducks 2016-17

    The general 2016 duck season started the first Saturday in October, following the youth hunt the week before. I was with my wife and one of my three son-in-laws in our blinds on public land. We have used these blinds for opening day for over 35 years. It was the beginning of a rewarding duck...
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    Yellowstone Lake cuts (fish NOT politics)

    Yellowstone Lake is now opening up with the general season in YNP. The general season begins the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend and extents until the first Sunday of November. Mrs. What Map and I were not able to make the first day of the season, but we have made it down there twice since...
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    Tarpon and Hunt Talk hat success

    Montana has just about everything an outdoor enthusiast could ask for except the ocean. My wife and I have always enjoyed traveling to ocean beaches and starting in 2012 we began to travel to Florida on an a semi-regular basis to hang out on the beaches there and fish for a few days. In 2013...
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    Hunt Talk and Gallatin Sporting Clays hats tip odds in anglers’ favor

    I have lived in Bozeman since 1978. My spring fishing has been almost exclusively floating and wading the Yellowstone River until run off and then waiting out the muddy water until it gets clear enough to fly fish again. By the time the Yellowstone clears, you can fish almost every river and...
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    HSA meeting Tues March 22 Bozeman

    March 17, 2016 Dear HuntTalkers, A week ago “bob-mt” posted a thread asking about Montana based sportsmen groups. Here’s the URL for his thread: http://onyourownadventures.com/hunttalk/showthread.php?t=267646 I am the managing, active officer of the Headwaters Sportsman Association (HSA). I...
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    MT Bighorn Relocation

    On Saturday February 20, 2016, over sixty Montana wildlife enthusiast gathered along the upper Madison River below Quake Lake to capture and move two dozen bighorn sheep. It was my first experience with the process. There are nearly two hundred sheep in a herd that hang out in the foothills of...
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    MT Duck Wrap Up

    It was one of the most rewarding waterfowl seasons I have ever had. My black lab Bart turned six right before the season and he performed flawlessly. Each day on the water with him was a treat and some days were epic. I got a new camera (Nikon Coolpix P600) and had it with on most outings. Here...
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    MT Sand Hill Crane hunt

    This story starts with a huge “Thanks You” to Rat Fink. Through personal communications on HuntTalk, he lined me out about hunting sand hill crane in western Montana. I followed his advice and on my fourth day of hunting knocked down a large crane. The first day I showed up at day light and...
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    My Wife's WY Pronghorn

    A week ago Saturday my wife and I drove our truck camper to my brother’s place south of Cody, Wyoming to join a gathering of family and friends who were celebrating my niece’s birthday. She and her husband live in Wheatland and drove up to help host the event. We had a couple of dozen people...
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    WY Elk & Antelope

    My family’s elk hunting starts September first each year. There are always a few of my relatives that have cow elk permits for the west side of the Big Horn Basin. This past weekend found my son-in-law from Denver driving eight hours to make it for a Saturday morning elk hunt from my brother’s...
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    Yellowstone Lake 2015 cutts & lakers

    We finally made it down to Yellowstone Lake for our first trip of the season. Spring came early but we found too many other fun outings that kept us away from the Park. We had solid action during the two days we fished. We ended up smoking five lake trout and threw back nearly a dozen cutts...
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    Chico Hot Springs and elk

    My wife and I have been going to Chico Hot Springs for over three decades. Our oldest daughter was married there a few years ago. Chico is seen by many in Montana as a fun, quality “get away” resort that isn’t too far away. I live 60 miles away. In our family when you don’t know what to get...
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    Horse Ride in January

    What do Montanans with horses do when the temperature gets "balmy" in the middle of January? We saddle up and head for trails with no snow, like along the Madison River.
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    WY NR elk app deadline Jan 31, 2015

    Don't forget Wyoming elk applications for nonresidents must be in by the end of the day January 31, 2015.
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    Duck season over

    The duck season in western Montana went out this week. Here is a pic of Bart and decoys on the final day. Right before sunset, five swans flew over my hide at 25 yards. I had a very good season, getting out nearly 20 days. Only a few daily limits, but I was skunked only two or three days...
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    Hunt Talk hat & ducks

    This morning I planned on duck hunting. I had set my alarm for 4:00 a.m., but I woke up at 3:00 and decided to check the weather and looked at webcams along my planned route. All I saw was horizontal wet snow on the webcams. I decided I did not want to drive nearly a hundred miles through that...

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