Gurra Ranch - 2011

This is our second trip out for 2011 since the end of the late deer season (I struck out during the 2010/11 deer season) and it's now the Texas Spring Turkey season. I saw a few hens and jakes, heard some but didn't see a gobbler. Hadn't checked the game cameras since they were set back in January, nothing really surprising, but captured this big hog with what looks like a snare around his neck that he managed to break free of; that’s one tough hog.  To be perfectly clear, even though we want them gone, we do not trap or snare or leave them to die; this was somebody else’s handy work.  

This hog must go if he hasn't already.

April Striper Fishing - Lake Ouachita Arkansas

I said we would make it back and we did, we thought the kids would just love it so we took the whole family.  Again I landed the biggest striper, but Markell and my daughter Lauren both caught respectable fish.
We went out with Terry again with ArkansasStriperFishing.com and he put us on to the fish, no trophy sized fish this trip, but we will be making this an annual family vacation. 

While out on the boat, we received a call from our pet sitter that my dog of 14 years, JoJo, had died in the night of the very day we left for Arkansas, this was the last photo of us taken the day we left. 

I will miss you every day, and no other animal could ever take your place.