Took Ruby up to the vegetable garden around 10:50 and sent her along the ditch. She struck in the first woods and struggled north along the ditch. I finally just caught her. There's a lot of water there, maybe that was just too much for her. Might have been trash there too. I walked her to the north woods and sent her in. She struck and ran a track for a while. She started to bog down & I was getting close to her. She located a little but wasn't treeing. I walked in and she was near the leaner we treed on a few weeks ago. She kept going and I searched the leaner. I thought I saw the coon and called as she came by again. I put her on the tree. Darn, it was a nest! Oh well. Hunting is getting to be rough in there and the bugs are coming out now in force. Maybe I'll just take it easy on the pup til the river is ready. Why screw her up now?
Posted by bruceo at June 8, 2004 11:59 PM