Hunting Whitetail Deer Using Deer Drives Written by David Selman, Tracker-Outdoors.com
Driving deer can work almost anytime, but it's especially useful when deer won't budge from thick cover. When staging a drive, a group (or a pair) of hunters splits into two groups: drivers and posters. The drivers walk through holding cover, trying to push deer toward posters, who sit still waiting to ambush driven deer.The key lies in choosing right area to drive. First, you need patch of cover that holds deer, such as a daytime bedding area. Second, area must not be too large for your group to effectively push. Third, area should offers some predictability as to where deer will go when driven.
| | Flies For Great Lakes SteelheadWritten by Cameron Larsen
As we stated in our article on Pacific Steelhead flies, steelhead fisheries of Great Lakes region has developed differently. First off Erie steelhead has only been around a little over a hundred years. First planted in 1880’s, steelhead nearly died off in 1950’s due to pollution in Lake Erie. But since 1980’s, intense stocking efforts by Ontario, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania have been reason for this area being nicknamed Steelhead Alley.Erie steelheaders use a wide array flies in their pursuit of this most worthy game fish. One can classify them broadly in same way trout angler’s classify flies. In general Erie steelheader carries a variety of streamers, egg patterns, and nymphs. Steelhead feed heavily on schools of shad, smelt and other fish in summer months. And when they first enter river they have fish on their brains. Streamer patterns are thing to start off with, when steelhead are first stacking up to make their run. Primary patterns used are woolly bugger, Mickey Finn, Muddler Minnows and other streamer patterns. Dead drifted or swung they are deadly in early months.
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