Coues&Bass

I can't wait until Sept 24th! 3A 3C

Check with the ladies cause they are all over the site! Still better than a day at work with the exception of the rash..........

Another one down for the ladies! Good hunting!

WOW the ladies are gettin it done!

Last year in Unit 27 it was 19 below and everything froze. Our heater went out on the camp trailer, fortuntley it defrosted pretty quickly after the sun came up. Try instead of putting ice use frozen gallon jugs in the ice chest and no ice. The jugs will refreeze at night. 5 years ago we got a foot of snow while hunting.

Wow Crash you do know how to fling a stick! Next time look before you post Redneck! CHOW!!! My with first with a bow

Bring a good pair of boots and look in the Campbell Blue River area or Lower Eagle Creek. Accsses is very limited in sheep country.

A friend shot a ram in 27 that went 189 in. last year and had another one with him that was simillar in size. Goood Luck.

I am looking into reloading rounds for my 7mm mag. I was thinking of going with a Sierra Game King 160gr. The powder and primers I have say it is good for 154gr to 162gr bullet. Kind of new at reloading rifle cartridges looking for some info. I am shooting the rounds from a Ruger m77 mark II.

Thanks will check it out.

I get checked almost every year. Game Warden thought I had shot a doe a few yaers back because he was hunting in the same general area with his daughter and all he seen were does so he showed up at my house to talk shop but never really came out and asked me what I had shot. He recognized my Dad and truck. He wanted to come in the house and talk but I stopped him at the front door. Getting around the search warrant.

Alot of private land in 32 and around the Chiricahua mtns in unit 29. 28 and 31 are open. 29 is the only unit affected by the Horseshoe 2 fire.

Awsome! was there on the 17th. I think there was a night tourney going on too. Met all the boats coming out as I was driving in.

No we were having to much fun catching bass.

I am trying to take a friend down to Apache that has never been. I was there July 4th weekend and caught some good fish. Just wondering if there has been any pattern changes from the last time I was there. Dropshots and jerkbaits. Going to try and get in on some yellows if the boat traffic is not to bad. Added some pics from Apache Lake. We caught a good number of bass, bluegill and one good channel cat. Most fish came on dropshots and texas rig worms. We kept a few bass and most of them had crawfish in there bellies. Last pic is my daughter Emily with the biggest fish she has caught since her young fishing career began.

Unit 31 Nov. 4th, fourth choice on application.

Funny EBB has jokes.

WOW! What a buck.

Pics added.

San Felipe News The search for the missing fishermen from the Eric shipwreck continues, however optimism for a successful conclusion is officially dimmed. A crew of specialist U.S. divers will arrive from Hawaii tomorrow to do a thorough survey of the sunken vessel which is believed to be lying in 70-100 meters of water - too deep for local rescue services to do extensive exploration. I have seen the boat in the harbor in San Felipe. I know it was an old run down boat from talking with other Fisherman that had made trips on the Eric. Pray they still find some more survivors.

San Felipe, News The full magnitude of the sinking of the sport fishing boat Erik, and the presumed loss of life of seven U.S. anglers, is now becoming evident to the San Felipe community. Everyone I meet on the street is devastated by the accident and also concerned as to what this will mean for the future of the port as a sport fishing mecca. Now that the search for survivors has been called off by both the Mexican and U.S. governments, the one thing left to do to solve the question of what happened to the missing fishermen is to locate the wreck. There appears to be no sign of the Erik at the position last identified by the survivors, so the likelihood is that the strong currents to the south that followed the sinking in the early morning hours of Sunday 3rd. July have shifted it a significant distance and possibly caused it to fall into one of the undersea canyons. This is going to take some detailed surveys to determine where it is lying. Oceanographic exploration boats, such as those at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, have gear such as side-scan sonar that gets towed in a pod behind the survey vessel to make a detailed contour map of the sea bottom. However, getting such a survey vessel to come to the Gulf on short notice is a major undertaking. In the meantime, there are many unanswered questions about the licensing and insurance, if any, carried by the boat operators; on whether there was safety gear for every person aboard and whether the required training session and safety drill was held before sailing. Some of the survivors reports indicate that there was a deficiency in this area. The fact that survivors were in the water for some 16 hours before any alarm was raised also makes one wonder if any distress call was received from the Erik before it sank. Down at the San Felipe harbor there is tension in the air. Inspections are apparently being made of every boat going out and I think that we can assume that all the rules, regulations and paperwork will be rigidly enforced from now on. If this boating disaster had occurred to a US vessel, it would result in multi-million dollar liability claims and wrongful death suits being filed, together with years of legal action against every official involved in inspection and sign-off on the permission to sail. How this will be handled in Mexico is now the question on everyone's mind. The outcome could well affect vessel design, modification and certification and may change the whole character of the "mothership plus panga" business model of sport fishing here. There will also clearly be an immediate impact for the many anglers who have booked trips on the Erik for this summer. Will they get a refund of their money or be offered berths on other boats for the same dates? Will fishermen (or more likely their families) be so confident of an uneventful trip in the northern Gulf in the future?

Forest Service caoght the fire about 2am the next day after fire started. Rained it out last night.

July 20th at 0800am

Plenty of houses in Thatcher and Safford with horse property. Welcome to the Gila Valley. Alot of new houses around Ray Lane in Thatcher.

EA COURIER As the major wildfires throughout the state wind down, a new wildfire has erupted closer to the Gila Valley. The Stanley Fire began burning late in the day Sunday in the wilderness east of Stanley Butte on the San Carlos Apache Reservation. Stanley Butte is near Mt. Turnbull and is about 10 miles southeast of Bylas. According to fire information officer Jennifer Costich, hand crews initially tried to put out the blaze on the first day when it was about 10 to 20 acres but were unsuccessful. The following morning, the fire had grown to 377 acres before exploding to about 2,900 acres by the end of the day. Smoke from its plume blocked out the setting sun. A smoke plume from the Stanley Fire obscures the sun Monday. The fire started near Stanley Butte about 10 miles southeast of Bylas on Sunday and has grown to more than 2,900 acres. Photo By Jon Johnson. Firefighters attacked the blaze Monday with two heavy air tankers, two single-engine air tankers and a helicopter, but the fire made significant gains to the southeast toward the Klondyke area. A new acreage report wasn't immediately available Tuesday morning as the smoky haze blanketed the Gila Valley and obscured area mountains. According to Costich, the fire is mostly burning open chaparral and ranch country, but there are at least two ranch houses that are at risk of being destroyed. The fire is burning to the southeast and is nearing Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service lands. Costich said if it continues on its current path, there is a good chance it could cross those boundaries today. "It is a big one," Costich told the Courier on Tuesday. "It has definitely gotten big today." A Type II incident command management team has been assigned to the fire and was scheduled to take command of the firefighting duties Tuesday or Wednesday. The management team is originally from Oregon and was recently assigned to the Wallow Fire in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest.