OffShore!

Ok, so living on the coast does have its advantages...like getting a call from your buddy in the middle of the week offering you a seat on a 28 foot Grady White for a day of offshore fishing action this coming weekend...can you go?
Well it just so happened that I could oblige-only 1 small problem-We were leaving the dock at 3:30 am!
All guys know that there are some things worth sacrificing for, and an offshore trip is one of those, so while 3:30am was early(and I mean EARLY), I met the challenge and was actually excited to do so.
We left the the Boathouse on Skull Creek and headed out for our destination, about 70-80 miles off the coast-The water was awesome all day, seas 1-2 but if I saw a 2 all day I don't remember it!
I joined the trip with Capt. Ed Brown, my buddy Evan Jeffords, and his dad who was in town from Florence.
We had a great day of fishing, the seas were good, the company was good, the beer was cold, but the fish were scarce! We all had enough to take home 1 meal each, so while it was an expensive meal, it was a great day and reminded me why living on the SC coast is so awesome!

What a beautiful Morning on the way to the Gulfstream!

Sunrises like this are hard to come by!

Nice "Peanut" Mahi

Turkey Season 2010

Well if anyone is still checking out my blog they either have too much time on their hands or they are just really bored! Either way, I apologize for the lack of posts lately. It's not that nothing interesting in my life has been going on, quite the opposite-however, I just haven't had the time to devote to updating the blog.

So, although delayed, I thought I would post a photo and story of the Wild Turkey I took on Good Friday, April 2 this year. It had been a long time coming, and this hunt was as textbook as you can get.

I hunted this exact spot the week before with my buddy Evan Jeffords and we got right on a bird at sunrise, and he gobbled 20 times or more, but unfortunately he never showed up after he flew off the roost.

So I sneaked back into this area in a hardwood swamp off of a power line, and once I got settled I gave a quick hoot on my owl tube, "who cooks for you, who cooks for you all..." as the woods were waking up and bam-Gobble, not one, not two, but three birds!

I took my time getting set up by a good shooting tree, and lightly let out a few yelps, bam-they all answered. I called about 5 or 6 more times, and shut up. Each time they gobbled back, so I knew I was in business. After about 10 minutes, I saw 2 white hot heads walking through the swamp right in front of me, and at 6:58am, I dropped a nice 18 lb lowcountry gobbler at about 22 yds with my old Benelli!

The entire hunt took less than 30 minutes, and that makes up for the scores of all day hunts with nothing to show for my efforts-But as they say, a bad day in the woods is better than a good day at work!

Lowcountry Gobbler, Richfield Plantation, McPhersonville, SC