2-2-13 Sat

2-2-2013 Tue 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Weather:
W4, overcast, 13 ˚, 29.60 falling, 6” snow cover
Location:
Blair public land
Bagged:
Nothing
Partners:
Roxy
Comments

It is unbelievable that this was my first time out rabbit hunting for the season: where has the winter gone! In the past years my primary winter passion was rabbit hunting, but with the lack of a good rabbit dog, I have concentrated more on ice fishing. I still have a slight glimmer of hope that Roxy will become a proficient rabbit hunter like her other predecessors, but the odds of that happening are looking pretty dismal!
We never jumped or chased a rabbit today. The conditions were not very good, we had just gotten a blanket of snow overnight and the rabbits had not had any time to make new trails and venture out from their lairs. We ran across two small areas that had a few tracks that were made during and after the snowstorm, but we could not find the wily rabbits that had stamped them out in the snow.

Observations:

Roxy is still suffering from separation anxiety: she just has a hard time being out of my sight. The only good thing about that is I don’t have to chase her down when I am done hunting, but on the other hand she is not very good search and destroy type of rabbit dog.