TROPHY HUNTERS

[Don José 2]

my first fishing trip.... first trophy, I am hooked!! LETS GO FISHIN!!!!!FILIPINA POWER

Pretty nice sized bass, Jean. We Texans are proud of you!

Edited May 9, 2009 by Pepe Alvaréz

[Robert E Lee 0]

my first fishing trip.... first trophy, I am hooked!! LETS GO FISHIN!!!!!FILIPINA POWER

Pretty nice sized bass, Jean. We Texans are proud of you!

Hee haw! Somebody just landed her first bass. This calls for some moonshine.

[Don José 2]

[nurse1967 287]

let's include something about the philippines to keep this in this forum.

I DISCOVERED A REAL TROPHY IN THE PHILIPPINES!!!

that's a given. but is there any hunting in pi? wild boar? deer?

American husbands

LOL you are so right. Preferably ones with one foot in the grave an the other on a banana peel

[TripleG 3]

My most prized trophies:

Gold medal Axis (gun harvest) , Bronze medal Axis (bow harvest), and 9 pt. whitetail (bow harvest). Last but not least and most important trophy of all Kugeng, slang for Kugeta (my trophy Octopus). Toughest woman I ever met. She can carry a 25 kilo sack of rice up hill balanced on her head with no hands, wearing sandals and never break stride. She grew up harvesting and growing her own food while living without electricity in a Nipa hut the size of most American walk in closets. She is a stranger in her own country but still she sings as she cooks our food, washes our clothes, and while planting corn. I admire all of the qualities she possesses and they are exactly what a Texas country boy like me needed in a partner. Its a miracle in it self that we ever crossed paths. Praise God. He knew what my heart needed and did not forsake me.

Wyatt

[Don José 2]

My most prized trophies:

Gold medal Axis (gun harvest) , Bronze medal Axis (bow harvest), and 9 pt. whitetail (bow harvest). Last but not least and most important trophy of all Kugeng, slang for Kugeta (my trophy Octopus). Toughest woman I ever met. She can carry a 25 kilo sack of rice up hill balanced on her head with no hands, wearing sandals and never break stride. She grew up harvesting and growing her own food while living without electricity in a Nipa hut the size of most American walk in closets. She is a stranger in her own country but still she sings as she cooks our food, washes our clothes, and while planting corn. I admire all of the qualities she possesses and they are exactly what a Texas country boy like me needed in a partner. Its a miracle in it self that we ever crossed paths. Praise God. He knew what my heart needed and did not forsake me.

Wyatt

Atta boy, Wyatt. I presume you are a good shot, better than the Clantons! By the way, are you deep in the heart of Texas?

[john & jean 37]

WELL IT IS THAT TIME AGAIN, SHARE THE SUCCESS STORIES HERE :dance:

[john & jean 37]

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[tallcoolone 102]

Here are some Nice Power Plant Lake Bass we caught on the Famous Lake Welsh

[SnME 3]

You hunters would have a better challenge in my neck of the woods...

The critters are MEANER and BIGGER...

[rlogan 2,036]

I'm not a trophy hunter, nor a sport fisherman. In interior Alaska it's for food. A big part of our life. I dunno, I have so many pics...

This is not the biggest Salmon I've caught. I commercial fished for a while, and was bringing in nearly 100 salmon at a time into a drift gillnet:

This is called "dipnetting". I am tied off to a cliff with mountain climbing gear. There is a big basket-type net at the end of this 15 foot pole, and the salmon are headed uoriver to spawn. Our limit was 30, which is what we took home.

I swing the fish up to my filipina who is on a landing above with my dog, tied off so she doesn't go in. She's going berzerker on account of the fish action.

Some of the fillets:

This is my filipina with a herd of caribou behind her. This is close enough to our mining claim to where we can just run down and whack one of these guys for food.

Caribou in the Brooks Range. That's a 22-250. Astonishing what that rifle will do at 300-400 yds.

This is a black bear by the salmon smokehouse at about 2 am. It doesn't get dark for three months in the summer here.

This is my honey in a grizzly bear blanket. I had to shoot this one. Well, two at the same time actually. I had a moose down and was going back to the supercub after dark and three grizzlies came bursting out of the woods on a full gallop at me. I took the first two down with a .375 H&H magnum and the third stopped finally. He watched me skin up his buddies all through the night. Watching from a dry bank above me.

I used to do these crazy expeditions in the deep Amazon. Hunting my way from one remote village to the next using locals. Pretty amazing stuff, too much to tell here. But I shot this 15 foot alligator point-blank with a 20-guage in the head from a little 10 ft dug-out canoe at about midnight. It knocked him unconscious, and when he came to I had tied off to the expedition boat. You can see it in the back of this photo. I had it built for me to do this trip. The 'gator nearly sank it. A two hour battle with this thing:

I have survived a lot of hairy stuff, and this one my engine died in a really bad place and I totalled it 60 miles into the wilderness. I was hurt pretty bad, broken ankle and blood spurting out of my head, but I had an inflatable raft in the back. It capsized in white water and I spent the night at ten degrees wet and really, really cold. Limped away from two bad ones now.

This is a moose in the yard at the hot tub deck. My wife is five feet tall, and there is a reference there to five feet. So you can see how big these guys are. I've eaten more moose than anything else over the years here.

Before my wife came I was all about extreme supercub bush flying, and the hunting/fishing is unbeatable if you are a bushpilot with a tricked-out cub. But she's pregnant now and I think this is the end of the clinical madness.

[john & jean 37]

rlogan you have the life that us outdoors type dream of. all I can say is WOW!!!!!!

[TripleG 3]

WOW! Rlogan...There is not much else to say, you Alaskan outdoor guys make everyone else look like pretenders. Here is a pic. of a backyard 8 point on trail cam, and Kugeng standing beside the river after a 8hr. paddle and float. We fished along the way catching Guadalupe bass, and some small large mouth. She woke up the next day and said her shoulders hurt, and she had several bumps and scratches from tipping the canoe. She still had a great time and I think I created a fishing monster. We have enough Axis meat to last 6 months, so the whitetails here at the house get a pass this year.

Wyatt

[john & jean 37]

nice pet you have there in the yard Wyatt! He should be ready in a year or two

[sjr09 155]

let's include something about the philippines to keep this in this forum.

Ok something to include about the Philippines.

I made the trip, all the way from Haiku to Kahului 10 miles to my favorite fishing hole,(filipino store) hooked up on four big #### tilapia. best part they come cleaned, just fry'um up sarap!