The Team Buck

The deer hunt this year turned out to be awesome. The opener, like always, was ridiculous with the mountain covered with with hunters. But the next week we went out with the idea that we were going to get one. We left Wednesday night, and hunted hard Thursday and Friday. We saw a lot of deer, and a lot of small bucks. Then Saturday may dad spotted the monster buck. My cousin Neil and I got into position to move in on the buck. I kicked him out of the trees as I missed a shot as he was running away from me, but the deer didn't know he was running right into Neil. That's when Neil took him with two shots with his 270 short mag. He has 7 points on one side and 9 on the other with a 29 inch spread. He really is a buck of a life time.

2009 Alaska Adventure.

Jessica and I had quite the amazing Homer, Alaska Adventure over the last week. Jessica had been aching to go and visit her sister Britny, her boys Josh and Will, and most of all the two twins Gabe and Gracie. The visit was great. And I got to go fishing.

Halibut Fishing on the Sea Witch with Captain Jared Bradshaw:

This was the big fish of the trip. 234 lbs of halibut. Check out the post under this post to see the video of Jared bringing it into the boat.

Here is Jared on the right with a 130 lb halibut and the deck hand Joe with the 234 lb halibut. Two beautiful fish.
So you can see the size difference. Here is a 50 lb halibut. Still a Big fish.

I thought this was a really cool fish. A lot of people call this a red snapper, but the real name is a Yellow Eye, for the yellow ring around it's eye. Sweet looking fish though.

Here is the usual scene on the back of the Sea Witch after a day of fishing. These are the average size halibut caught. 20 to 30 pounds.

Kayaking in Alaska:

When we went Kayaking there was a seal just chilling on the dock. This is as close as we could get before he would start growling at us.

Here we are at Moose head point. A look out point that we stopped at on our Kayak tour.

Halibut Cove:

This is a beautiful cove with a surrounding community that you have to take a boat to get there. We went there to go to The Saltry Restaurant. Which is in the back ground of the picture here with Jessica, Will and Josh.

Here is the Danny J. People usually take the Danny J. to come over to Halibut Cove to go to the Saltry Restaurant, but since we were with the Bradshaws they let us bring our own boat.
Here are some of the awesome houses in Halibut Cove.

We also saw lots of wild life including a Orcas, Porpoises, Sea otters, Seals, Moose, and a Black Bear.

Thank you very much Bradshaw family for making this a trip of a life time. We will never forget our Alaska Adventure.

240 lb halibut catch on the Sea Witch

We caught the big fish coming in on tape. It is pretty amazing.

Deer Creek

We were at the lake last night and here is Isaac trying a back roll. Looks like more of a back to front roll. Takes a really good crash though. Dillon landed a sweet back roll. Sorry Dillon, I didn't get that one on film.

The Reezen

I had to post a picture of the new bow that I just bought. It is a Mathews Reezen bow. It has a 30" draw and is currently set at 70 lbs. The bow is rated at 340 feet per second. I am way excited to get out and fling some slivers at something.

Zions Trip

We have really good friends who invited us to go to Zions with them. Kyle Kinateder had some work to do on a model for a resort down outside of Zions. They gave us a two story cabin sweet cabin to stay in for the night and free food at the restaurant. It was sweet. The next day we went into Zions and did the 4 mile hike up to the look out point. 4 miles doesn't seem that far till you learn that it is all switch backs up a cliff.

Lake Powell

Jessica and I loved our week at Lake Powell. We even made it up to Rainbow Bridge which I have been too since I was like 12. I really is amazing.



Other then water skiing and wake boarding my dad and I found some time to drown an anchovy or two, and I caught this nice striped bass. They are always fun to reel up.







Here is Jessica on the back of the house boat indulging in the sun, a little water, and a..... science fiction book?


No one could compete with the Bear and I in the pits. We whooped Scotty and all his buddies.