Rebecca, from Bass Pro’s Next Generation, and I went to Winchester, Virginia last Saturday morning for a turkey hunt. Our host was Mr. Jim Clay, the founder of Perfection Turkey Calls.  Rebecca and I went hunting with Mr. Clay last year, but we didn’t have any luck. We saw some birds,  but we just couldn’t get them close enough for a shot.This year Jim wanted to take Rebecca to his “Honey Hole”! He set up a ground blind 3 weeks prior to our arrival and had been keeping an eye on their movement. He had been seeing and hearing plenty of Gobblers and had high hopes of Rebecca being able to get her first turkey.We met him before light last Saturday and headed to the blind. He said he had seen 4 different gobblers around the blind the afternoon before.  We snuck up the mountain in the dark and settled into our blind. Jim put some decoys out and Rebecca and I got settled into the blind. Once Jim finished setting up the decoys he joined us in the blind. We started hearing some gobbles at 5:50. In all we counted 7 different birds that we heard. As the sun started to rise we could see the birds flying off the roost down below us. We had a gobbler close in on the blind, but we never could see him because of the thick brush.We had 3 hens come into the blind, but we never  could get a gobbler to come check out the decoys. Due to Virginia law we had to quit hunting at 12:00. We are planning to get her back in the woods and try to get her a bird this spring! Rebecca and I have had some terrible luck the past 3 years. Hopefully we can get rid of our curse and have some luck in the field thisspring!   This picture below is about the only luck Rebecca and I have had together!  This fish was caught in the Albemarle Sound in Eastern North Carolina.  

For the past two years I’ve been deer hunting with Rebecca from the Bass Pro Next Generation Team and we seem to have a problem. We have yet to put a deer on the ground! We are not trophy hunting either. We are going into the field with the “If it’s brown, it’s down” theory.

If we are bow hunting we can’t get a deer within 50 yards of us and if we are rifle hunting we can’t seem to get a deer within 600 yards! The bad thing about it is I’ve been on a roll this year. It seems that everywhere I’ve been, we’ve been having good luck with harvesting an animal.

Well this past week I went to Roanoke, VA to do a deer hunt with Rebecca. They were calling for rain, but I didn’t know we were going to need an Ark to hunt out of. The first morning we sat in a double ladder stand and did not see any deer. We got out of the stand about 10:30 a.m. and shortly afterwards it began to rain. I don’t mean a drizzle. It poured. It rained 15″ the first 2 days. We didn’t let the rain slow us down, we hunted out of ground blinds, but we just didn’t see any deer.

Rebecca and I joked that we have a black cloud hanging over our heads and need to get rid of it. We both have success when we are not with each other, but you put both of us together with a video  camera and you can forget getting any deer close.

Maybe we need to try our luck in Texas!

Now if you put a rod in her hands, we have no problem getting the fish on tape!!!!!

I don’t usually film a lot of fishing trips, but this past spring I did a few for Bass Pro’s Next Generation.

The first one was done right here in Eastern North Carolina. A good friend of mine, Scooter, took Rebecca out for Striper and Speckled Trout. Boy was that a cold trip. While we were fishing it was pouring down raining and the temps were in the mid 30s. We left after 4 hours of fishing. When we got 10 miles up the road they actually had a couple of inches of snow on the ground!

The pictures below are special to me! They were taken on my birthday, March 18. I went down to Louisiana to do some turkey hunting and red fishing with Kelsey of Bass Pro’s Next Generation. This was probably one of the best birthday presents I have ever gotten. We had a couple of professional outdoor photographers ask if they could follow us on the fishing trip. They took some phenominal photos and made copies for us.