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love2fish93
11-17-2008, 06:31 PM
I have some buddies in the UP and I havent had a chance to talk to them lately. I was wondering what the deer harvest rate is up there. They would be in trout lake. just a rough estimate. How much snow is up there?

thanks,

Pat



MDH
11-17-2008, 07:22 PM
The bridge this morning at around 9 am had a deer count that was down 30 or 40 percent from last year at the same time. It's early, so we'll see in the end.

As for snow, the Eastern U.P., at least in Mackinaw county, only had about 2 inches or so. There were parts up by Lake Superior that I am sure got dumped on.

Deer numbers seemed down for us this year, but that's to be expected with the tough winter last year.

later,

MDH
upmounty
11-18-2008, 07:38 PM
raco/strongs/fibre area got alot of snow. not sure in trout lake but i am sure there is snow.
Luv2hunteup
11-18-2008, 09:00 PM
Opening day I heard maybe a dozen shots, half of that the second day. Monday morning we woke up to 14" of lake snow and deer movement nearly stopped. No shots this morning.

At least in my area we had very poor fawn recruitment last year. That translated to very few 1 1/2 year old bucks running around. Through the fall I've seen twice as many 2 1/2 year olds as yearlings.

Snow as of this morning.

Rudyard 6" Estimate by looking.

Fibre 14" Measured at my camp.

Hulbert 3"-4" Camp visit last night
cabina
11-18-2008, 09:10 PM
anybody hear about snow around newberry - thinking of heading up that way this weekend :confused:
tdejong302
11-19-2008, 08:35 AM
Chatham (alger county) got 18 inches of snow. Which amounted to zero deer at our camp and the half dozen camps I spoke too had no success either. So I would say the u.p. harvest in our area is down over 75%. Hopefully dnr's qdm works for the u.p.
U of M Fan
11-19-2008, 08:53 AM
When I crossed the bridge Monday night they said that the numbers were up.
MDH
11-19-2008, 09:11 AM
That's good! A lot of people must have left for home Monday then. I was across the bridge pretty early when the numbers were down.

Later,

MDH
love2fish93
12-01-2008, 06:03 AM
what about over thanksgiving week?
old graybeard
12-01-2008, 06:44 AM
As usual when we came back over the bridge they didn't even ask if we got a deer or not:confused:And yes we had bucks so I put little faith in there count.
Water_Hazard
12-01-2008, 07:12 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwYLriX45n4

Found this you tube video from the U.P.
frostbite
12-01-2008, 07:33 AM
I have some buddies in the UP and I havent had a chance to talk to them lately. I was wondering what the deer harvest rate is up there. They would be in trout lake. just a rough estimate. How much snow is up there?

thanks,

Pat

I was up the last week of bow season and first week of gun. We had lots and lots of snow 15 miles Noth and East of Trout Lake.
4 hunters 1- 8 point. Had a great time as usual
hunt-n-fool
12-01-2008, 08:16 AM
As usual when we came back over the bridge they didn't even ask if we got a deer or not:confused:And yes we had bucks so I put little faith in there count.


Ditto, plus, there were no signs when we crossed indicating the count.

Oh Around trout lake, we got about 18-20 inches of snow one night, wed, the 20th I think, another 15 inches were predicted.