Flatlander Outdoors

Newsletter # 9

Tweener, is what this is……. The season we are currently in! We are between one deer season and the next. It’s time to look at stand placement, look for shed antlers, scout deer trails and do some low impact scouting while watching them from afar……. kind of reminds me of high school basketball and baseball……. It was just something to get you through until football season again

While not everyone is obsessed with deer like I am, I realize there are other activities,
such as prime ice fishing these big ole’ slab blue gills caught by Matt Dittbenner…………
I don’t remember getting a call for a fish fry? Or where they were caught?

If sitting on the ice doesn’t do it for you there is always the illusive coyote!
This dandy was trapped by master trapper Chad Schieler last month….. they are still
huntable as there is open season to hunt them year ‘round.

While I enjoy all the outdoor sports, nothing captures my thoughts more than whitetails.
Past seasons hunting pictures and prospects for next year on trail cameras help get me through the long cold Illinois winters.

Here is a dandy buck Don Knott took in northern IL. during the 08’ gun season

And here is a deer that will be even bigger next year
Philippe Boland has been passing the little guys for a few years now and is reaping the rewards… he must be hand feeding these big boys …… or hunting near the Illinois River!
Either way he is doing something right