Az hunting/fishing

Mbmack1

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Post pics, share adventures, help eachother out with info on different areas to check out or take your secret honey hole location to the grave with you... but remember- pics or it didn't happen!!!

I'll kick it off with some pics of my 3×3 coues buck taken in 36c last year...
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And a pic of a 22" channel cat I caught in Parker canyon lake last year.
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Post pics, share adventures, help eachother out with info on different areas to check out or take your secret honey hole location to the grave with you... but remember- pics or it didn't happen!!!

I'll kick it off with some pics of my 3×3 coues buck taken in 36c last year...
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And a pic of a 22" channel cat I caught in Parker canyon lake last year.
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Awesome! Definitely gonna be watching for when I make the move to AZ in a couple years. Where are you at in AZ?
 

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Glad to hear it. Looking forward to getting some more traffic, so I figured I'd start this thread right off the bat to get some more threads on here. Im in Tucson.
That’s what we are looking for around here. Thanks for helping out!

I’m actually looking to move to Prescott area. I’d like to have some more moderate weather.

Is there a lot of hunting/fishing in Tucson area?
 

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That’s what we are looking for around here. Thanks for helping out!

I’m actually looking to move to Prescott area. I’d like to have some more moderate weather.

Is there a lot of hunting/fishing in Tucson area?
It's the least I can do. For a degenerate miscreant such as myself, this is a safe space. Those safe spaces all the snowflakes talk about... Well I'd never want to be there in the first place but if I ever tried, I'd last about 10 minutes before I had the whole group triggered and trying to shout me out, then I'd probably try to fight all of them. Lol. A community like this is my kind of place, so I wanted to try to help out.

Never been to Prescott but I'm sure it's quite a bit cooler than tucson. You'll probably appreciate anywhere in AZ over cali just because of our 2A freedoms here. Welcome to the land of high cap mags and constitutional carry.

Hunting and fishing around Tucson...

Tucson is surrounded by mountain ranges they call "sky islands", meaning that they're unique ecosystems that contain multiple biomes, which are separated from eachother by a sea of desert. We've got some urban lakes that get stocked, but I never fish in them. The mountain lakes is where it's at. Going from 110° at around 3500' to 75° at around 7000' (rose canyon lake) is what it's all about in the summer. There's a couple of lakes that are farther south, like 4-5 miles from the border and there's a couple other mountain lakes within a few hours drive but these are all stocked lakes. If you want to fish native species, you've pretty much got to head North.

As far as hunting goes, we have all kinds of small game and predator/furbearer species in the desert valleys, as well as mule deer and javelina. When you hit the mountains you get into coues whitetail deer, mountain lion, turkey and black bear too. There's plenty of big game hunting to keep you busy for 1/2 the year if you rifle and bow hunt and take advantage of every opportunity.
 

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Unlike that Ford lady I remember this large mouth bass and he didn't even sexual assault me. Spring of 1992 fortuna pond Yuma Arizona caught on a purple worm about 930 am. View attachment 447
Wait, wait, wait... you mean to say that you not only remember the location, but the year, approximate time AND what you baited him in with?... Crazy. You would think more people could remember shit like that when something traumatic or exhilarating happens to them
 

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Good to see that the AZ Hunting club knows whats up with Ford...

Anyways, back to shooting at shit. When is quail season? I used to go quail hunting as a kid and want to get back into it.
 

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Good to see that the AZ Hunting club knows whats up with Ford...

Anyways, back to shooting at shit. When is quail season? I used to go quail hunting as a kid and want to get back into it.
For gambels and scaled I believe opening day is Oct 19 and mearns in December .I'll get back to you after work with dates
 

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Thanks @Mbmack1 I used to go to Williams River every Thanksgiving and go quail hunting.
 

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Thanks @Mbmack1 I used to go to Williams River every Thanksgiving and go quail hunting.
Nice! Last year was my first year quail hunting but I really enjoyed it and I'm looking forward to the season opening. There's so much action when you find a covey, the adrenaline of running and shooting and reloading as fast as you can was pretty addictive for me. Plus, they're just like mini chickens. Tasty and easy to cook. How can you beat that?
 

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I went out quail hunting this morning and bagged two within the first 10 minutes. About a mile and a half later I came across these two Diamondbacks (hanging from my hip belt). I'm still having trouble uploading pics but I was able to get this one to go, so it's the best I got. We bacon wrapped and smoked them for dinner. Pretty damn tasty!
 

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I went out quail hunting this morning and bagged two within the first 10 minutes. About a mile and a half later I came across these two Diamondbacks (hanging from my hip belt). I'm still having trouble uploading pics but I was able to get this one to go, so it's the best I got. We bacon wrapped and smoked them for dinner. Pretty damn tasty!
Thanks for the invite.....
 

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Thanks for the invite.....
It was a last minute thing brother. Me and my dad were supposed to be sighting our rifles for deer hunting today but delayed it until tomorrow due to the wind. I wasn't sure if I was gonna go or if I was just going to sleep in until I woke up at 4 am and couldn't get back to sleep. I'll let both you and @Brindybot know the next time I plan on going out.
 

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I went out quail hunting this morning and bagged two within the first 10 minutes. About a mile and a half later I came across these two Diamondbacks (hanging from my hip belt). I'm still having trouble uploading pics but I was able to get this one to go, so it's the best I got. We bacon wrapped and smoked them for dinner. Pretty damn tasty!

I've only had rattlesnake once but it was really fucking good. I typically leave them alone as long as they aren't near camp and I wouldn't know how to prepare it anyway.
 
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