I got to my buddies house at 6:30, he had breakfast(and it was good) waiting for me. We had a plan to go to a new area. I have spent alot of time in this area, just not for coyotes.
I'm driving down the road, the same road I have driven down 500 times before. I have been going to this spot for at least 20 years to hunt or fish. There was a little water and snow in the way, nothing new. Most of the time this road is just a gravel road, sometimes there is a little water over it, no big deal. The water when it is flooded is only about 6 inches deep. So naturally I just proceed to drive right through it.
Well this time it is a bit deeper than normal and I fell through the ice and got instantly stuck! An hour later we got pulled out by a friend and decided it best to drive in from the other way.
After we drove around and came in from the other way we found a good spot, got set up on some good sign, started to call. Not 2 minutes into it two snowmobiles come through and proceed to race around us. I don't think they saw us.
Well needless to say that was the end of that stand. Walked about 1/2 mile found a new spot just getting ready to start calling and guess what ? The same 2 snowmobiles come through and stop not 50 yards from us! As soon as we let them know we were there they left in a hurry because they are not supposed to be in this area. Non the less they screwed our hunt twice.
I will be going back to this area when there is less snow, hopefully there is no snowmobiles! There was alot of good sign!!
Over all not a good day hunting but it was an adventure!
Here's a few pics of my Jeep stuck. This is only the second time that I needed to be pulled out in the 6 years that I have owned it.
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Yeah boyyyyyy, that looks like fun!
We used to head north to the pipe line for a weekend of nothing but that stuff :eyebrow:
Beer, mud, water, and trucks from around the country.
I wish you could have gotten us a couple roost shots :yoyo:
Ok, I'll agree, it sucks though when you arent planning it :wink:
Those pics remind me of hammeryotes and his LBL adventure. :eyebrownod: Sometimes a winch comes in handy. :biggrin:
Glad it turned out to be just an inconvenience and not a disaster. :wink:
Semp
You need to drive on the roads and not try to drive in the river. :innocentwhistle: Under "normal" years that is what the rivers around here look like in the spring. It doesn't look like fun.
Jerry
:yoyo: Been there and done that, not alot of fun wading through icy water :holdon: Or being stuck in the river and they deceide to turn on the turbines and the water is rising :madd:
That SUX better luck next time