Hokieman
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quote: Originally posted by Rick Ennen
Last night it snowed, then rained, then sleeted, then snowed again. A cold front was due to roll in about 11PM and things were perfect for coons to run on the snow. I sent Frito into Island Lake area and he struck almost immediately. It sounded cold and he spent a minute or two straightening it out, and then he moved it off into the timber a 1/4 mile where he jumped the coon.
A few minutes of watching the Garmin showed me he was behind some big boar coon we'd probably chased some other nights. The old ones in this country hate to get caught in a tree and will run the beaver dams and flooded, fallen timber for all they are worth and for as long as they can endure. It was raining and I decided to drive down the road 1.5 miles and cast Tucker (Frito x Sloopy) while Frito tired this big coon. The beaver ponds were frozen over and I felt there was little risk to leaving him alone with this coon.
I cast Tucker on the opposite end of Island Lake and got back in the vehicle to avoid the cold driving rain. I hunt with two Garmins and the one attached to the truck antenna was set for the map to show me Frito working his track over a mile away in the timber, and the other unit was set to watch Tucker. After about 10 minutes of this interesting experience, I heard Tucker's locate cut through the wind, where it reached me inside the closed cab of my Jeep.
I rolled out of the vehicle and walked over to Tucker where he had a double in a big oak. Aftering telling Tucker he had his coon, I noticed before getting back to my vehicle that I could now hear Frito over the wind. A quick check of the Garmin showed he had pushed the old coon out of the thick stuff, and had him running along the south bank of the lake, headed my way.
About the time I got back to my vehicle, I could hear Frito plainly and his voice had turned over to a long chop (sounds like whop-umph, whop-umph) which told me he caught the sucker. It took me a good 20 minutes to pick my way around the soft spots in the ice to reach Frito with his coon. I was real uneasy standing out on the ice after a few days of thawing temperatures had turned the top to slush. Neither dog nor coon was winning. Everytime Frito would get him by the neck the big coon would twist his way out of the dog's jaws. So as soon as Frito backed up to ready for his next charge I fired a hollowpoint into the coon, ending the struggle.
Talk about a wet, cold, tired dog. Frito carried the coon all the way back across the ice and deposited him on shore. I could tell by the hunched back he was hurting. So I loaded him and took him home. Frito's got this look he'll give you on the ride home after a really challenging hunt where he gave you his best. He doesn't curl up and go to sleep. He sits and looks at you. Maybe he appreciates me for my part as much as I appreciate him for his part in this challenging hunt? Glancing at him over my shoulder while driving home, and seeing him sitting there and looking at me, it makes you wonder if there's more to all this than I realize.
We're living and making memories... one coon hunting adventure at a time.
The way you write it out makes me feel like I'm right there watching it all happen. You need to write a book, Hell with Wick your Good!!!
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