‘25 Iowa whitetail

Gellar · 2025-12-31T15:48:09-0700

No hunting today. the kids wanted to go ice fishing so we went. 0 fish and 2 soaking wet kids later we are home. To make matters worse, I bought two new tungsten jigs this morning. Going down the bank to get on the ice my jig bucket dumped and I lost a good number of jigs. I should go for a drive i bet there is a monster buck peeing on my blind right now.

SD_Prairie_Goat · 2025-12-31T16:02:53-0700

Gellar said:
No hunting today. the kids wanted to go ice fishing so we went. 0 fish and 2 soaking wet kids later we are home. To make matters worse, I bought two new tungsten jigs this morning. Going down the bank to get on the ice my jig bucket dumped and I lost a good number of jigs. I should go for a drive i bet there is a monster buck peeing on my blind right now.

Love a tungsten jig but hate the tungsten price! Ouch

Nick87 · 2025-12-31T16:03:15-0700

Gellar said:
No hunting today. the kids wanted to go ice fishing so we went. 0 fish and 2 soaking wet kids later we are home. To make matters worse, I bought two new tungsten jigs this morning. Going down the bank to get on the ice my jig bucket dumped and I lost a good number of jigs. I should go for a drive i bet there is a monster buck peeing on my blind right now.

Sounds like a normal day with kids.

Gellar · 2025-12-31T16:07:06-0700

SD_Prairie_Goat said:
Love a tungsten jig but hate the tungsten price! Ouch

Especially for the little panfish jigs tungsten can’t be beat. It seems every year there is more and more guys making them. These were from a local company and they were $2.50 each.

Gellar · 2025-12-31T16:08:41-0700

Nick87 said:
Sounds like a normal day with kids.

The whole way there, before we got out of the truck and while we were walking out on the ice I was preaching for them to stay on their feet, stay dry. It lasted a good 30 seconds before they were splashing in the slush.

Nick87 · 2025-12-31T16:29:56-0700

Gellar said:
The whole way there, before we got out of the truck and while we were walking out on the ice I was preaching for them to stay on their feet, stay dry. It lasted a good 30 seconds before they were splashing in the slush.

You should've known better. (I wouldn't have known better either).

Hem · 2025-12-31T16:31:59-0700

Good Dad day, you tried.
Now get back to that blind!!

Gellar · 2026-01-01T07:57:24-0700

I made it to 9:30 last night. At 12:02 am my 10 year old woke me up to say it was midnight and she had stayed up. The only way I was making it to midnight is if she’d woke up me up a few minutes before.

This morning I left the house with a red sunrise in the east. I headed north across our property, then the neighbors, now onto public land. It’s woods as far as one can see, making the deer density low this time of year. The snow is very crunchy. I’ve only cut one buck track but I think this is a hike for exercise verse hunting at this point.

I visited one of my favorite places within walking distance of my house. An old school bus that was to be a part of a ski area. The plan was to use the old busses as warming sheds. This is the only one left, it used to have a Woodstove in it but it looks like someone decided they needed it pretty badly. The bus sits on a ridge that is only as wide as the bus, it is surrounded by a wooded bowl on 90% of it, making it a good vantage point. There are lots of turkeys back here and every year I do battle with a Wiley old tom in this area.