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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
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# posted by Jarrod Erdody @ 10:03 AM
 
Monday, April 26, 2010
Missouri Fly Fishing Trip Show/Hide This Report
I had a blast last week fly fishing with my dad and his good friend,
Jim Lund. Jim lives in Arkansas now since retiring from the police
department in Cadillac, Michigan, 10 years ago. He's a trout fanatic
if there ever was one. Jim was voted Orvis' #2 guide in the country
last year, a testament of his incredible knowledge and experience on
the river. My dad and Jim have fished together since I was a little
kid, and my dad has made an annual trip down to visit Jim and fish
each of the last 6 years. I went in 2005 and was finally able to get
back there this year. We fished a few different places in southern
Missouri, including the Roaring River and the tailwaters of the White
River. I landed a lot of fish over several days, my best being an 18"
4 pound rainbow. Happy spring everyone and thanks for the great trip,
dad!
# posted by Jarrod Erdody @ 9:49 AM
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Spring Is Upon Us Show/Hide This Report
I'm envious of a friend who went steelhead fishing today, while I
work away at the computer. But I guess I'll have my fun in another
month when I head to Arkansas with my dad for a week of flyfishing
with a good friend of ours.
I saw a big tom and three jakes out back yesterday morning, which is
a great sign since it's been a couple years since I've had turkeys
around my place. My four year old son, Jacob, will be tagging along
with me this spring as he hopefully gets to watch "daddy pow a turkey!"
Am heading to the woods this weekend to scout a couple whitetail spots here in
Michigan. One is a private piece that should be pretty good, and
another is a public chunk I've been wanting to get a good look at for
a while. It's nice to have daylight to play around outside now after
a long day at the computer. Hope ya'll can get outdoors and enjoy
what spring provides us!
# posted by Jarrod Erdody @ 11:24 PM
Deer & Turkey Multi-tasking Show/Hide This Report
I've drawn the first week in May for my turkey tag. The landscape is turning green as I look over my choice of camo clothes to select something to match. Rummaging through my "hunting" closet I pull out stuff I'll need while chasing turkeys, and it seems strange to leave my portable treestand behind. The treestand was a fixture of the gear I carried with me from September to January last bow season while deer hunting. It'll feel weird to be wearing the camo and toting a weapon without that stand on my back, I thought.
It's time to get into a turkey hunting mindset of "runnin and gunnin gobblers", at least for the next five days. Bow season for deer is four months away, surely I can put that out of my mind to concentrate on gobblers for now. I finish gathering up the remainder of my turkey hunting gear so I'll be ready to go for opening day. Shortly after sundown I slip out to locate a gobbler on the roost, and get multiple responses to my owl call. Opening morning finds me set up within 125 yards of the gobblers I roosted nine hours ago. I make a little hen talk in the pre-dawn darkness and get gobbled at by three different toms. Oh boy, game on! The toms kept talking without me having to call anymore so I kept quiet and waited for daylight, expecting them to fly down into my lap. About 20 minutes after first light the toms all flew down into my neighbors field and taunted me by gobbling every couple minutes. My calling to them was ignored and after a while they walked further away in the direction of a real hen.
I didn't have permission to hunt there, and by now my neighbor, Ed would be on his way to work. I backed out of my position and drove to where Ed works to ask him if I could go after the toms on his place. After catching up with Ed I tell him the situation and ask if I can go after them on his property, he laughs and says, "sure, go get em, but why come all this way to ask? You don't think I'd ask you permission if I saw a big buck on your place and you weren't around, do you"? I tried not to look shocked by his statement, after all, he did just give me the OK to turkey hunt his land. I bit my tongue, and managed to thank him, while thinking, Ed and I are going to have to have a talk, later.
So it's back to the chase at Eds' place and I'm trying to close the distance on the toms who are now in the woods, gobbling occasionally. Cautiously advancing, I carefully examine the woods ahead of me for a red, white or blue gobbler head. I don't see any gobblers but I do get distracted by a buck rub on a ten inch diameter white pine. A short distance along my path another half dozen rubs appear on similar sized pines and by now I've forgotten about turkeys. Continuing on I discover large buck tracks, scrapes, and more rubs, it was all too much to ignore. Out of habit, I began looking for spots where I would have set up a tree stand but didn't notice any sign of Ed having done so. Since this was hilly country I suspected the buck would be bedding higher in elevation so I started climbing uphill to see if I could locate his bedding area. Half way up the hill a gobble rang out, not far away, it reminded me of why I was in these woods and I quickly sat down at the base of a large ash tree. I made some hen talk on my box call and set it down. Resting my shotgun on my knees, I waited for a tom to show himself. After fifteen minutes I called again but got no gobbler to answer. I remained still and pondered the recent events, big buck sign found and turkeys still active had me thoroughly enjoying my morning hunt. I decided to wait another fifteen minutes before moving on. Sitting there I thought about how turkey hunting and deer scouting is the only multi-tasking I've ever been able to do. The combination has revealed some good deer hunting spots for me in the past, it's no wonder why the more I turkey hunt the more I like it. Suddenly one thing became very clear, Ed and I would definitely have to have a talk. As I pondered how the talk might unfold, a blue head appeared from behind a deadfall, a minute later I was wrapping my tag around that gobblers' leg.
# posted by Lee Gatzke @ 5:45 PM
Monday, January 18, 2010
ATA Show 2010 Show/Hide This Report
I just returned from a week at the ATA show in Columbus, Ohio. I was
there with Mountain Mike's Reproductions, a client of mine with my
business, Erdody Studios. I recently finished some cool new packaging
for Mike's new line of elk skulls. All his products received much
praise and you'll be seeing them in about every major retailer this
coming year.I also walked around the show and met some great new people and saw
some really cool products. I couldn't resist picking up a new bow by
Nxt Generation for my little guy, Jacob as he turns 4 this month!
He'll be tagging along with me on hunts real soon. I shot new bows by Fred Bear, Darton, and Ben Pearson. I was most
impressed with the new Fred Bear model, but they were all good and
I'll admit I didn't have time to check out all the new ones from the
other companies. Some other great products I saw were the new 10-foot Hooyman saw
(love these!), Blind Ambitions Bale Blinds (hi to the Noll's!), a new
camera built into eyeglasses (can't recall the name), and Buck Bomb's
new Scrape Tape (Joe Gizdic helped them with this). Also some great
stuff for the kids from Hunter Dan and also from Nxt Generation
(already mentioned).
# posted by Jarrod Erdody @ 8:31 AM
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