Note: If you are looking for your run number, A few of the runs may be out of order starting around 80-106. So you may have to look through a few photos to find your run. Sorry for the inconvenience
This weekend, we shot the third annual friends of the MAC Barrel Run in Bastrop, LA. Even in the face of hurricane Barry, who isn’t winning any races as he moves through the area, we had a pretty good turnout.
I’ve been helping film the T.P. Outdoors Adventures TV show for several years now with Bill Petrus and each show really is an adventure. On one of the first shows I filmed, I thought I was filming Bill get eaten by an alligator. True story! Thought I was going die myself a time or two but we’ve all survived so far.
Our most recent adventure was typical. We tried to cram a nutria shoot, bow fishing, Frog Giggin, and Red Fishing into two days. Why? Because sleep is over rated.
Turns out, its harder to find the nutria during the summer when the grasses in the marsh get thick so we focused our attention on frogging instead. Our friend Rafe Antill in Houma put us on the frogs after showing us around the marsh and showing us some on going alligator farming operations. That part was pretty interesting.
We caught a lot of frogs
The rest of the adventure was not nearly as productive as the frogging. from Houma, we set off for the Leeville/Golden Meadow area for some bow fishing and red fishing. We had an overloaded air boat and not so ideal wind and water conditions which made it very tough (i.e. we almost sunk the boat) bow fishing.
It became clear that it just wasn’t safe to proceed with bow fishing so we called it a short night and hoped for better luck the next morning where Brock Miller had some Hobie Kayaks lined up for us from The Back Packer out of Baton Rouge. Brock may be young but he is already an accomplished tournament angler having won multiple tournaments including Ride The bull at the age of 16. Now in college Brock is even more experienced and was a great guide for this crew of novice kayak fishermen.
Unfortunately, the wind and water conditions persisted into the next day making for tough fishing, but I was pretty impressed with the way the Hobie Kayaks handled the water. They provided a very stable platform for such a little boat and the Hobie Mirage ST pedal Fins made them a lot of fun to scoot around the marsh in as we fished. All in All, our group caught three or four keeper fish and we had a great time. Would love to do it it a gain but for the rest of the story, you’ll have to stay tuned for an upcoming episode of T.P. Outdoors Adventures.
While the fishing and what not may not have been as productive as we’d like, I did end up with quite a few great images of south Louisiana. For more of these, view my gallery below.
Hunting season is almost over so now is the time to book your spring fishing trips.
I just wrapped up a new website for Johnny Whatley’s Guide Services. Mr Whatley is currently guiding on DeGray Lake near Arkadelphia, Arkansas where he’s had a lot of success with hybrid and striper fishing.
On my end, this project involved creating a website, creating content for the site, as well as designing a new logo and graphics for Johnny Whatley’s Guide Service. More content will be added in the future so check back often.
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In the south, winter takes different forms. Sometimes its bitterly cold and wet. Other times its pretty mild and wet. Wet seems to be the norm though and by January, it’s supposed to be cold.
This weekend started out in the upper 50s – low 60s. Quiet warm for January. That was before the front moved through. With in a few hours, an over night storm system would bring High winds and a deep chill. The temps dropped in to the 20s and deer season is almost over. Bill Petrus with T.P. Outdoors called and we setup another hunt. Surely this would get the deer up on their feet.
Bill Petrus hauling a deer blind we primarily use for special needs hunters.
Bill is a good friend and client. We work on a lot of stuff together but our favorite is the T.P. Outdoors Adventures show. We both love getting to take military veterans and special needs kids outdoors. Bill does a lot to help other people and has a lot of fun doing it along the way. He had a couple of kids lined up and one more hunt this year.
Bryce Buchanan has hunted with us many times. He’s taken a few deer on our show and even gone catfish noodling with us in the past. He’s a really cool kid and always fun to hunt with.
We also had Tylar and his dad Kevin Kelly with us. Now Kevin was on our show earlier this year but this time it was Tylar’s turn.
I hunted with Tylar and Kevin. Tylar got to harvest a doe earlier this year with bill but this time we were after his first buck.
Right at daylight, we had a nice mainframe 8pt and it was tough getting Tylar to wait till there was enough camera light available to shoot his deer but as soon as I gave him the go ahead, he let it rip. Made a great, ethical shot with his dad’s Ruger 270. His deer didn’t run far. As we soon discovered, it actually had a split brow tine and another kicker making it 10 scoreable points.
Although I didn’t get to watch Bryce harvest his deer, he was also successful. It came down to the last few minutes of available shooting light but they made it happen so both kids were able to harvest deer.
This was a great hunt to end deer season with. I’m sure we’ll be filming lots of other turkey hunts, frogging alligators and all kinds of other crazy antics for the next season of T.P. Outdoors Adventures. You can watch for the full story behind this hunt around July when our new season of the show kicks off.
