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had on more evening sit left when we put out that message.\u00a0 And man did it pay off.<\/p>\nDecember 8, 2016<\/p>\n
The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report<\/p>\n
Good news and happy day.\u00a0 I guess my last report was just a bit premature.\u00a0 I talked, last week, about how I\u2019d passed on a good number of one and a half year old bucks and was leaving the 2016 white-tailed deer season okay with my decisions but empty handed.\u00a0 Well, I had on more evening sit left when we put out that message.\u00a0 And man did it pay off.<\/p>\n
I trudged to the blind late on the last day of season and swung the blind door closed about three o\u2019clock with the thought of punching my doe tag and filling a couple of shelves on the freezer.\u00a0 Time ticked and the sun sunk into the trees and it was starting to look like maybe even that fairly simple achievement wasn\u2019t going to happen.\u00a0 Truthfully, it was a little relieving not having a doe step from the trees and into the open for the first couple of hours.\u00a0 My grandpa once told me to, \u201cbe sure you want to pull that trigger, because everything after finding the deer is work\u201d.<\/p>\n
He was a working class guy with seven kids and knew exactly what he was talking about.\u00a0 He knew better than most.\u00a0 The food mattered and there was no taking it to a deer processor.\u00a0 So, while I was eager The first deer showed up just before five.\u00a0 A fawn and a small spike horn came out boldly.\u00a0 And the first does crept out on their heels. \u00a0\u00a0I waited a bit but watched the deer through the scope with my finger near the trigger.\u00a0 I was simply trying to find one good doe without a fawn in tow.\u00a0 I was ready.<\/p>\n Then, just like that, the deer all turned and looked into the thick, dark woods.\u00a0 A young, lone doe darted into the picture and the spike put his head down and chased her around the opening.\u00a0 In the back, black end of my firing lane a racked buck materialized as if from the ether and stood stiff legged.\u00a0 I just had to wait for him to turn.\u00a0 After long, long seconds, he did.<\/p>\n A top five buck for me.\u00a0\u00a0 A perfect eight point.<\/p>\n It will be happy work for me.\u00a0 I\u2019ll do it with care.<\/p>\n It\u2019s shifting to winter now and scene is set for the next games to play.<\/p>\n Enjoy the beginning of winter,<\/p>\n Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December 8, 2016 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report Good news and happy day.\u00a0 I guess my last report was just a bit premature.\u00a0 I talked, last week, about how I\u2019d passed on a good number of one and a half year old bucks and was leaving the 2016 white-tailed deer season okay … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,151,148,152,84,7,149,5,150,68,158],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1980,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions\/1980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bigstock-Winter-Whitetail-Deer-606583641.jpg\")
<\/a> too for the meat, I was no longer sitting for sport on that last day of deer season.\u00a0 I was harvesting.<\/p>\n