Growing up walking through the neighbors corn, stalking deer with my 0.410 pistol (it was legal back then) while carrying my 12-guage long-barrel to knock down the geese. Then, mid-morning, hitting the lake to catch a limit of blue-gills for dinner.
What greater “outdoor” opportunity exists?
(Thanks for the video-link, Cripp. I sent it to the family.)
yep... not a hunter myself, but I have nothing against it.. deer starve in the winter so the heard needs to be a reasonable levels... hunting is good conservation.
love to small lake fish Michigan, (not so much the Great Lakes). I’ve done many many years of that... Bass are the most fun to catch, IMO, due to the jumping out of the water thing they do to throw off the hook...
Blue Gill , Perch and panfish however are a far better eating fish... and panfish won’t jump, but their strength surprises you... did not catch too many Perch in Michigan in the past 20 years.. maybe that is more of an Ohio lake fish... but Perch taste great and so do Blue Gill !
and speaking of corn fields.. one of my fondest memories is just driving in upper Michigan past fields and fields of corn.. I love farms, and spending the 1st 15 years of my life in Ohio, we saw a lot of them. My sister has a hunting reserve up near the town of Hillman.. and it’s just wonderful to drive and hike up there.
but the corn fields in upper Michigan, are amongst rolling fields, and not as flat as Ohio... so it’s just an amazingly beautiful site... at least to these old eyes.