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Well, it is a pretty wild night here. We had some venison sausages for supper, and my wife is doing dishes while I fart around on the computer. I might stay awake until 9 pm!!!😲 HNY folks! Doug

Well for me anyways. I have been tying the Ice Grub the past few years, keeping it my own way, and improving on it each year. This year I thought I came up with some cool ones . I guess they were good enough to get asked to sell on a web site. Meegs lures asked if I was interested, and after a talk,I was game to see how they would do. Reaching out to more customers. This is a one time batch of my ties to see what interest there was out there. Day after they were posted on the site,there was an order going out to Lithuania . This was crazy news first time. Pretty cool to see my name on a web page. https://meegslures.com/?fbclid=IwAR1bFeJW3Tiy1pWObZ-tL4FpWE2iqgDK4kzypJhLAJZaU4eNYAKnIo8OFGc

This is a long story as I am sure some you know I am not very good at making them short, LOL. I hope I do not bore to death those who chose to read it. This is a mule deer I had been taking pics of off and on from September to November. The third Saturday of the following January I was to enter a wildlife photo contest that I had won several years in a row. I was not really happy with my pics so at first light, the very day of the contest I headed back out to see if I could get some better ones. I was walking to the area where I figured he would be and there he was and a bunch of does. The other times I had photographed him, I had to go very slow but he would let me get close to him (I did not have a zoom lens just a 2x adapter) He would give me the most evil look, I could see it in his eyes and facial expression so I called him Malsum, the devil deer. Any way he was just about to have his breakfast of poplar leaves and twigs and then he spotted me. stopped browsing and stepped forward and just glared at me with that devilish look. After a few seconds he charged. I had no where to go as I was out in the open so I started taking pictures which was not easy with a 35mm manual focus camera in mere seconds. Every step he took he was purposefully throwing up dirt into the air with his hooves, head down and I am thinking this guy is serious and this is it. It still boggles my mind the things that went through it in such a short time. The main one being well when they find me and develop the film they will know what happened to me. Even though I was in good shape there would be no way of holding him back, it would have taken a half dozen Hulk Hogans to do that. I did not move, I held my ground and just kept shooting, there was nothing else I could do. When he got just a few feet away he stopped, thank god, looked at me, and then to the east as much to say good morning, I am just lookin to see what is over there. We stood there like that for a few seconds and I slowly started backing away, tripped over a rock and fell flat on my back so I was expecting another charge as he would see me in a vulnerable position but he never moved. I turned around watching him over my shoulder. After about half a km I reached the bush and he was still standing there watching me. Went to the photo shop to develop my film. Any way I entered the complete series and won the contest LOL. I went back in the spring to look for his antlers and not a sign of him or the does, they had obviously moved on to a better food source which I never did find. Any way I walked away with a story that few will ever get to tell and the pics to prove it, and the pics suck as I had to take a picture of the picture from the 35mm. Whew, this is a long one. A few more pics of him at the end.

It was the tail that sent me down that train of thought.....I agree it is a porcine shape but that looks like a bushy tail. Maybe it will appear in daylight one of these days! Doug