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nope i live on smith rd it tees into maple the only road in between your club and luce rd . but i have been running around the river i heard some dogs and thought the same thing maybe larry is out my dogs got in behind the coon club a few times this year 1 coon 2 possum gotto get them pups broke of that lol

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Smith Rd, yes know it well. We end up over there every now and then when hunting the pipe line.

Geeze, unless ya live more north, you must hear hound music all the time.

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larry, I was out that way last Friday.

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iam north of rosevelt last block before m57 but yes i still hear hounds alot . friday i hunted on smith and maple got down in by the river pretty deep and sunday i started in the same spot and ended up 300 yrds before the bridge in maple with two big coons( i was happy my dogs and i are still in training )walk the mile or so back to the truck and found mr green jeans waiting for me but he was nice checked me and told me to have a good night

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Right there along Maple Rd and in Gratiot SGA are the only spots that I have run into our guys in green on multiple occasions.

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who is going out tonight ? i'm taking my 9yr old boy out i think ill stay up around the house on private land tonight easy going lol, and hit it hard tomorrow night on state land!good luck to anyone going out


larry the c.o. i talked to said that was all part of his loop he makes in a night and he stops and gets out and listens for dogs i just wish he would have stoped when i was walking and gave me ride back to my truck

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You must be the gentleman down the road from my in-laws farm, I remember seeing some red dogs at a place on Smith rd this fall while we were out chopping corn. We will probably run into each other somewhere in the area at some point this hunting season. Good Hunting to ya!!

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yup thats me i see your husband drive by every morning i beleave after milking been waiting to bump into you guys my hunting partner and the guy that got me started marlin martin knows you as well

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1st drop, another coon hunters was there.
2nd drop, dog caught a coon in a corn field, but is not a kill dog. Coon ended up in a hole in the center of the field.
3rd drop, a den tree.
4th drop a 30 second coon.
5th drop a 40 foot cedar tree in the middle of a tangled mess.
6th drop, a den tree.
7th drop, didn't happen bow hunters were camped in the next 4 spots that I wanted to drop.

Oh ya got stopped by a CO after stopping to taking the garmin collar off the dog and watering her.

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dang larry sounds like a crappy night I treed 7 in an hour and 45 min tonight rig huntin

how much they payin down there ?

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sounds like my friday night i had to go looking for spots on saturday managed to find few good drops on the east side of us 27 1st drop two trees with the meat fast no track running? after that den trees and hole in the ground and still no tracks just locate and tree is this normal for young dogs or was it the coon laying up ?not sure. my pup swam the river didnt want to swim back. did i tell you i love coon huntin

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dang larry sounds like a crappy night I treed 7 in an hour and 45 min tonight rig huntin

how much they payin down there ?

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I saw mgeorge not to long ago still looked good . Glad the ole boy is still trying to stay with coonin' Good man that George !

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I saw mgeorge not to long ago still looked good . Glad the ole boy is still trying to stay with coonin' Good man that George !

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rig or road huntin is the easiest way to hunt up here too much ground to cover and not many coon I free cast at least once a night but it is not unusual for them to go a mile before hiting a track pups gotta learn to go deep to find em

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A crappy night? Naw, I'll admit it wasn't a good night, but I can have much worse. lol

I was surprised by the hole and two dens in one night. On the bright side, I had no crazy bowhunter yelling at me, or better yet I didn't get shot at again.

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I have seen coon walking around long into the morning. In my experiences that usually means you won't get much for tracks til later in the night after 11 or 12 . At least that has been my observations.

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A crappy night? Naw, I'll admit it wasn't a good night, but I can have much worse. lol

I was surprised by the hole and two dens in one night. On the bright side, I had no crazy bowhunter yelling at me, or better yet I didn't get shot at again.

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Had a nice little hunt last night. Deer hunter camps were pretty much everywhere, but I managed to find a couple of spots to cut a dog.

Rain pretty much pounded out a couple of cold tracks with the meat. I even managed to get home by 11:00 pm.

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i didnt do to bad got 1 coon 2 den s and 1 possum working young dogs

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Only one word for last night WET!




PS Yep, I meant caps.lol

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i didn't get to go wife had other plans got to no when to hold and when to fold i herd coon move good in the rain so i was wanting to go is there any truth to this?

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You didn't miss a thing. First track was decent, but the coon put it on Rain. I figured she was in trouble when the coon tapped 3 times in 100 yards. Rain picked the track right up, but I knew the coon was either trying to reach a den or a tree like she treed on. She treed on an apple tree with a dead tree that fell from about 15 yards away and was laying through the top of the apple tree. The dead tree was long enough that it extended 20 yards away from the apple tree going through the middle of about 6 more trees. No coon in any of them. This was right down near the end of Smith Rd.

The tracks got worse from there. In fact, there weren't any more tracks. She just felled tree in an old beaver swamp in the middle of a 5 year old cut-over. By that time I had enough, and I am getting really sick of wild roses!

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wild rose, got to love hunting state land in michigan its always coverd in it that and hawthorn took one to the eye once deer hunting 1/2 mile in had to be walked out couldnt open my other eye from the pain good thing i was hunting with someone that day larry were are all the michigan coon hunters at ? maybe to busy killin coon to let us know how there do in lol wellgood luck stay safe to everyone

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