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| This Month's Feature Article
Beasts of the Storm |
| | Given the time of the year when many of us turn to the woods I would like to pass this information along to our readers! |
| While we have the weather channel to assure that perfect day in the woods or on the water a truly amazing phenomenom occurs in nature on a daily basis. Creatures of the wild have built in mechanisms that allow them to detect weather changes before they actually happen!
The following information shows how weather and the animal's senses dramatically change their activity and feeding habits. Although the research I studied dealt with whitetail deer, I am suspect to beleive you can relate this information to anything from big animals to fishing. It will be my intentions to do research with the same information directly related to fishing in the next year. One key issue that I can establish as concrete evidence is the fact that I've experienced personally the pre-frontal feeding frenzy of fish more than once, but for now lets concentrate on the information on hand and its relationship to the whitetail deer.
Before the facts are presented we must add a unique instrument to our bag of many tricks! The portable, hand-held barometer. Once you understand and study the facts presented in this article, you will realize this simple unit can become your most valuable peice of equipment in your key to a successful hunting or fishing trip! What you will become is your own personal weatherman. Couple this with the up to the minute weather information at our disposal and this new found information will gvie you a distinct advantage over your fellow hunting or fishing partner!
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| | For all practical purposes, lets set a standard of numbers. Research has shown that deer activity and feeding peaks between 29.80 and 30.29 inches of barometric pressure. However these numbers alone are not the magic bullet. While staying in the zone, the barometric pressure must be on the move, either going up or down. On the other hand when the barometric pressure is low and steady, which is usually associated with high humidity, dense fog, haze, rain or wet snow. Hunting in those conditions are not impossible, but your stratagies of stand hunting will have to be abandoned. This would be where your skill as a still hunter will be tested in the thickest cover or hunting the bedding ares. If your going to stand hunt, the conditions must be in your favor meaning, hit the numbers with the pressure on the move. Keep these two basic principles in mind and your success ratio will noticably shift in your favor! |
| | Approaching Weather Fronts |
| | Deer activity and feeding are often confused with temperature change, when in actuallity they are relating to the falling barometric pressure that preceeds an approaching weather front with falling temperatures. Have a strong front moving in which creates this rapid barometric drop and peak activity and feeding will be at its best. This can be as exact as to say, if you can be in the woods a few hours before a front arrives, you will be hunting the highest percentage time zone there is! Miss those few precious hours and head into the woods after the front arrives, and, well I hope you brought some good reading material to your stand? Remember, after trhe front arrives is when the pressure will be low and steady. You will then be forced to be on the move because the deer will surely not! The second choice time of stand hunting is when a system start to move out. What happens, the barometric pressure begins to rise and deer activity begins to pick up! In summary to this section: Hunt feeding areas, scrapes & funnels when an approaching front creates a rapid barometric drop. Once the system moves in, its best to still hunt the thickets and bedding areas until the front moves out and the barometric pressure is on the move again! |
| With our new found knowledge and confidence we will be hunting prime times with proper techniques. Can we ask ourselves, "Can we increase our odds even more?" The answer is a resounding yes! Facts will remain constant. Approaching frontal system, rapid decrease in pressure, does activelly feeding and a amorous trophy buck with one thing on his mind! Now you can say you are holding all the right cards! But Wait.... I have one more trick up my sleeve? Add to all the other factors and be hunting a full moon phase in late October through Mid-November and now your hunting knowledge has come full circle!!! This would be the time to spend the entire day on stand heavily hunting scrapes and funnels. Guess what: Prime time could be mid-day? Thats right, with peak activity already in full swing, you will also have the advantage of other hunters moving the deer as they head off for lunch! At this point tune in all your senses to the fact your chances of a trophy is at its best!
At this point, I must warn you there would be one factor that would abolish all your right moves. Unseasonably warm tempuratures can shut the rut off like a light switch. So warm balmy days may make for a comfoartable nap in the woods, but what you'll need is a button your coat typical northern November day to spell success! So if your hunting time is limited and although opening day is tradition, plan your next hunt as a weatherman and see if this new found information will make you the talk of deer camp! |
| | In Summary: Your Trophy Weather Check-List |
| 1. Ideal baronetric Pressure: 29.80 to 30.29 and moving.
2. Approaching fronts with rapidly falling pressure creates high activity & feeding. Hunt: scrapes, feeding areas and funnels on stand.
3. When the front arrives and pressurte is low & steady, still hunt thickets and bedding areas.
Helsingborg cheap hotels 4. As the front passes, be on stand within the hour, deer activity will resume.
5. As barometric pressure rises in post-frontal conditions, activity will remain high for two to four days with seasonal tempuratures a factor. |
| | *Ultimate Trophy Formula* |
| | Frontal Apprroach+Rapid Barometric Drop+The Rut+Full Moon Phase+Seasonal Tempuratures=Trophy Buck Hunting!!! |
| | Found the ultimate barometer online: The Motorola Talkabout T6000 Series Two-way Radio! Features include: Digital Comapass, Thermometer, Altimeter, Barometer, FM STereo Radio, and Two-Way Communication with 14-channels and 38 codes! The 6320 Series even has 8 weather channels! Its advertised online for $129.00 As you can see, it has all the features any outdoor adventurer would ever need! Visit: Home Page and type "talkabout two-way radios" into the search box! |
| A Footnote frome the author: As mention my studies of these facts will cross-over to apply to fishing. As my data is collected, I will pass this information on to my newsletter subscribers! My first information should be available when the ice-fishing season is in full swing! See you in the great outdoors!
Joseph W. Biel, President, Pro Image Dist., Co. |
| 4 slices bacon, 1/2 cup chopped onion, 1/2 cup chopped carrot, 1/4 cup chopped celery
1 lb. yellow perch or substitute, fillet, skin removed & cut into 1-inch peices
1can (16oz.) whole Irish potatoes, rinsed, drained and cut into 1/2-inch cubes, 1 cup water, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon pepper, 1 cup milk, 1 can (16oz) cream-style corn
In 6-qt. Dutch oven or stockpot, cook bacon over medium hear until brown and crisp. Drain, reserving 2 tablespoons of dripping in Dutch oven. Crumble bacon. Set aside.
Add onion, carrot and celery to bacon dripings in Dutch oven. Cook over medium-high heat for 3-5 minutes, or until vegetables and tender-crisp, stirring constantly. Stirin perch pieces, potatoes, water, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce heat to low. Simmer, covered, for 8-10 minutes, or until fish is firm and opaque and just begins to flake.
Blend in milk and corn.Cook over medium heat (do not boil) for 5-7 minutes, or until mixture is hot, stirring occasionally. Sprinkle each serving evenly with crumbled bacon.
Serves Four |
| | The next time your fishing your favorite artifical body bait, try something inovative! Remove the back treble hook and replace it with a single hook of equal size. After you have exchanged hooks, add a twister-tail or other soft bait to the single hook. Often times a fish will short strike at what he believes is the tail of the body-bait, give the fish something that looks more like the real tail! I bet you will be surprised at how many fish you will actually hook with that doctored-up single rear hook! If fishing is real tough, add a peice of live bait such as a peice of nightcrawler to the single hook to add a living scent to your presentation! |
| Final Note In Our First Newletter:
Hopefully you found our first official newletter interesting as well as helpful! We will continue to improve and add helpful information as we further develope this section of our webpage. Thanks for your time and until we meet on the water: "Think Big Fish!"
Joseph W. Biel, President, Pro Image Dist., Co.
Latest update of this newletter: November 19, 2001
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