Sunday, February 26, 2012

What I've been up to lately (Jared)

I've been quite busy with school lately, which I guess anyone can expect.  I sadly don't have the funds to the Grand Forks Men's Show, so I don't have a fun blog post full of pictures involving that sadly.  I apologize, but there is not much I can do about it.  There is something I have taken to lately involving the outdoors that is free for me.  The Wellness Center at the university here is letting students get free cross country ski rental.  I haven't cross country skied since before I drove, so it has been a while.  I gave it a shot earlier this week and have really enjoyed it.  You can only rent the ski's for one hour so it limits you to using the ski trail behind the Wellness Center.  I don't mind that, it saves me from driving anywhere.

Skiing in Grand Forks is way easier than what I remember from cross country skiing at home.  That is probably because there are no hills.  They used to have cross country ski trials behind my house at home and they were difficult compared to anything Grand Forks can offer.  What do you expect though flat boring Grand Forks, vs beautiful hilly wooded Wisconsin.  The skis they gave me were simple cheap beginner skis, but I don't have enough skill to notice the difference and they work fine.  The skis have not been abused much yet and are in good shape.  The trail is about 1 mile total length each way and I have worked myself up to being able to go through the trail almost 5 times in 45 minutes which I have no idea if it is a good pace or not, but it sure is a workout.  Maybe if I keep enjoying this I can ask for skis for Easter haha.

I am slowly working on planning with the boys our survival contest we are planning on having this summer.  Hopefully the funding somehow will be there for us to get some actual cameras and other things to keep the cameras running so every one of us has a camera to use for the contest.  I doubt that would happen, but it's a good dream.  Also Eric and I have been talking a little about taking a canoe trip as well this summer.  If I only do two things this summer besides fishing when I'm not working a canoe trip and survival contest would be fun, so I hope those don't fall though.  By the way I would like to thank all the people viewing our videos on YouTube and looking at our blog.  If you guys have any requests of what you would like us to do feel free to write it on the comments section of anything.  Now go have a good rest of the weekend everyone.

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

2011-2012 Ice Fishing YouTube Video

I finally got to putting our ice fishing video on YouTube.  It's a compilation of what we recorded while I (Jared) was home during my Christmas break.  Jim, Andy, and I had no job to speak of at the time (my job is in North Dakota), so we spent most of it fishing.  That is because we didn't have much money to do many other activities.  I had a ball, and we fished hard.  11 days straight hard.  Fishing was really bad, but we were not alone.  Everyone we talked to supposedly did way worse than us.  The funny thing is as soon as I left to go back to school all the guys started catching fish like crazy.  Go figure.  We fished so hard on this trip that we sometimes fished more than one lake a day, but what do you expect with so many lakes nearby and nothing else to do.

Here is a list of lakes we fished in order:
Little Ripley
Round
Little Long
Gordon Flowage (I forgot the technical name, but this is what we call it)
Tozer
Shell Lake
Spooner Flowage (in the city of Spooner)
Spooner Flowage
Tozer
Cable
Bashaw
Shell Lake
Pavlas
Pavlas
Spooner Flowage
Tozer

So as you see we did a pretty good amount of fishing.  This video is the first video that we got all four original members of Quad Survival.  It was Paul's first time ice fishing and of course we did a horrible job of taking him out ice fishing.  We didn't have a shack, lacked a lot of equipment, and didn't catch any fish.  It seemed like Paul had an O.K. time though.  Next time Paul I swear we will give you a proper ice fishing experience.  The first few days we went ice fishing there was ice and no snow which made running to flags comical.  I really wish I wasn't still stuck in school I really want to go ice fishing more.  I've never had more fun for that long of a period of time.  We really did not have that good or expensive of equipment.  In fact we trapped minnows for most of the time out fishing.  This goes to show ya that you don't need all that expensive stuff to catch fish and you especially don't need it to have a good time.  We tried to make it so we could survive just from ice fishing, but that did not work well and thanks to Andy and Jim's suggestion we had some squirrel to eat.  More on that later probably.  Well I am starting to ramble so here is the video.
Also I have a Twitter now by the way.  My Twitter is @JaredofQS.  In case you want to follow my daily routines.

What I did over the weekend (Jared)

Well on Saturday over the weekend I decided to take the little lady out predator hunting.  I have a cheap predator call and the free Android app.  The hunt went as about as well as I expected.  We didn't see nor hear anything except shooting way off in the distance.  The main reason for me going out though was an attempting to find some public lands I could trap on that would seem fruitfull.  I did find what looked like two different fox tracks on the land we hunted, but not many other signs.  Now I have to somehow get some more cash and go out trapping.  By the way the lady thinks I need to get a ground blind and a heater or she's never going out hunting with me again.  Go figure haha.  Anyway here are some pics of us hunting.




Saturday, February 4, 2012

Grand Forks Men's Show Is Coming Up

There are few things that excite me involving the outdoors in Grand Forks North Dakota, but this is one of them.  The Grand Forks Men's Show is going to be going on February 25 and 26th which is a Saturday and Sunday.  It is at the Alerus Center  I forgot the exact cost, but if I remember it was somewhere around $5.  Anyway the man show is basically an everything outdoor show for Grand Forks.  Examples are campers, 4wheelers, motorcycles, and petting zoo.  The big ticket items for the show are a free beer tasting (my favorite), trophy live whitetails, and a world champion goose caller Sean Hammock.  Basically this is all I have to be excited about this month so I figured I better tell everyone else about it.  If your in the area go at least for the beer tasting haha.