I go out the the lease I have been on for ten years and run my typical program . As I drive in and do it sneaky with just my parking lights on I come around a tight bend in the road by the large agricultural pond that holds crappie in excess of 3 lbs for sure and some I think top 4 ......
And I almost Kaboom a metal bright orange steel stake in the middle of the road ! I am like what the heck and it wasn’t here last visit for sure on Sunday , on my way I go and sit in a herd of cows and only see three pretty nervous deer .
I can see another marker with streamers on it after sunrise about where I missed the coyote a few weeks ago . Curiosity gets the best of me and I text the manager who is the cousin of the owner and ask him what’s up with the markers everywhere.
Now mind I know it’s not gunna be good news and I have seen plenty of surveymarkers before and sure enough he says , they sold the half of the place that has the best crappie holes I have ever dropped a jig in bar none !
And it gets worse ,the side I run the camera on stays with the house they live in and it’s no longer for lease as a grandson from Austin wants to bow hunt it next year and he is gunna run some kinds eco tourism kinda thing in the valley with all the caves in the side of the rock cliffs that surround it .
I do get to finish the season there though and as it so often happens I suppose all good things come to an end ....even the REALLY really good things .
I did take a large doe that evening and I am sure glad I get to finish the season and thank you god so much for the little place we bought . A bit sad for sure and will post photos of this last episode when I come out of the cloud of sadness