The year 2012 was a blessed one, both in the woods and on the water. There were many highlights, not the least of which was meeting many great people in hunting camps throughout the West, reuniting with old friends and experiencing trips we’d never before taken part in.
The winter season was short due to sportshows, but found the family getting into some great steelheading action in Washington and Oregon. The highlight was a family trip to the famed Quinault River, where everyone caught steelhead..even grandpa Jerry joined us! The family also experienced some awesome sockeye fishing in central Washington, on the Columbia River, during the summer.
The spring hunting season was wonderful, with turkeys and 
bears being taken in ID and OR. The high point of spring was the tagging of my biggest OR bear, ever. He tipped the scales just shy of 400 pounds, and had a skull that measured just over 21”. The fact I was able to do this with longtime friend and noted guide, Jody Smith, made the experience that much more special.
The fall hunting action kicked-off in August, with a bowhunt for Columbia blacktail deer in northern CA. We were with good friend and guide, Parrey Cremeans, and he was dialed-in to these deer on the west side of I-5, making them pure blacktails. We arrowed a dandy 
velvet buck, which proved to be a very important one in heading toward my tri-state, single-season Columbia blacktail slam with a bow.
Sept. 1 found us in Washington’s San Juan Islands, where I arrowed a whopper buck near Friday Harbor. The blacktail slam would be completed in early December, with my taking a nice 4×4 near my Oregon home. It was one of the most fulfilling blacktail seasons of my life…and got the wheels turning about things I could add to my book, Trophy Blacktails: The Science Of The Hunt! Rounding out this trip we got into the best clamming we’d ever had. Also picked oysters and mussels off the beach..and crabbed! What a amazingly fertile land!
We had excellent hunts for elk, muleys and whitetail in ID, too. But two of the greatest hunts of the fall found my dad, myself and our oldest son, Braxton, at Summer Lake, going after ducks. My dad first hunted ducks here in 1952, at age 12. I first hunted ducks here in 1976, at age 12. And Braxton, at age 12, was now joining us on his first waterfowl hunt. We were with Russ Scott, of Lake In The Dun
es, and in 1 1/2 hours we had our limits. Finishing off the hunt with some trap and pheasant shooting, along with flyfishing for trout, was a weekend we’ll never forget!
But the highlight of the season-and perhaps my entire hunting career–came when I wasn’t even carrying a tag. For over a year Tiffany and Braxton had prepared for this hunt, religiously shooting their Diamond bows. When it came crunch time, Tiffany arrowed a dandy 4 pt. mule deer in north-central Washington, right before Thanksgiving. Braxton hunted the same area, with Jerrod Gibbons of Okanogan Valley Guide Service. Braxton sat for five days, 43 hours total, before getting a shot at a buck we’d been watching. Thanksgiving day was spent in the blind, eating PB&J sandwiches…He never complained once!
What made me most proud of Braxton was not simply filling a tag…the intensity and reward of the hunt ran much deeper than that. What pleased me most as a hunter and father was to see the level of dedication and determination Braxton employed. Not many adults are willing to sit, daylight to dark in a blind, especially when temperatures are in the teens.
Braxton learned invaluable life skills on this hunt that will help him as he matures. When he enters the working world, becomes a husband and father, this hunt is an experience he’ll reflect upon. It’s about setting goals and doing all within your power to achieve them. That’s what hunting teaches youth. That’s what made it one of the best hunts I’ve ever been blessed to be a part of.
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