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can it be to cold to hunt yotes. its like 2 degrees outside right now and i dont know if i will do more harm than good hunting in the cold.

Yes, and no. If it starts out just below 0 or above, and is going to warm up I will hunt. If it is subzero, and going to stay that way or close I will stay at home. Perhaps more for me than the dogs. No real proof that it will hurt the dogs, but I feel better about it. A friend told me yesterday. You go try to run a 1/4 mile in these temps.(subzero) See how long you last. Made some sense.

What can make it tough on the dogs. Is that the cold will freeze the scent into the snow. Making it hard to smell the track. Many times you will see a track the dogs can't seem to smell. Let it warm up a bit, and they will run it like the critter just crossed in front of you. Then the opposite seems to be true as well. Wet melting snow seems to make it tough as well. Would not think so, but seems to be the case most of the time.

Turned some pups loose yesterday when it got up to -8, some wanted to run some wanted back in the truck. I guess it is one way to help sort a few out. I didnt let them run long and warmed them back up. Dont think it hurt them a bit
Rick

There calling for -18 tomorrow, guess I'll stay home and make sure I don't miss any of the Packer game....

Just why I stayed in today, and will again tomorrow. Not worth freezing my butt of for a darn yote. I can hunt any day of the week I want. Can wait for it to be above 0!!!

Was -36 here this morning, we waited for it to warm up to -14 at noon to start hunting, we ended up with 6 yotes for the day, got lucky and found a honey hole, it was -22 when we shut it down for the day.

Confessions of a WUSSIE : Too OLD to go out when it gets to O degrees . Makes me appreciate that wood stove all that much more Anything BELOW O is a young mans game

Yep, Bob, I will be that wussie!!!! The same wussie though that will be in the woods when it is a little warmer, and not having to punch a time clock for the man. Now if a cat was involved myself and the dogs would be more than happy to brave a little cold. Lord knows I got the gear for it. To go out and run some trash for the fun of it. Well, I would rather stay home where it is warm and chase the wife around. Anymore these days that game can be more elusive than the smartest of the bobbers out there

Only going to be -20 tonight so maybe I should suck it up. Yet rather than do that I will go pick up some meat, and hay for the dogs. Then be home with a nice cocktail for the start of the PACKER GAME.


Only going to be -5 sunday night with a high of 20 for monday. So while most are working we will be in the woods. Besides that around here the woods can be real dangerous with all the snowmobiles on the weekends. Safer for the dogs to cross state highways then to play with yotes that want to run down the trails in between packs of sleds.

Started out at -26 this morning. Could not help but think of Larry E out there freezing his tuckus off. I'm sure it was a notch or 2 colder by him!!

Steve : " I would rather stay home where it is warm and chase the wife " I agree but sometimes after I bay her up I can't remember what to do next She don't cotton much to climbing up a tree

Probably one of the STUPIDEST things I ever did was was 3-4 years ago it was close to - 25 below O I decided to take 4 bales of hay down to a known deer wintering yard . about 7 miles down some commercial woods roads . I took the old spare pick-up out of the shop as it had 4 wheel drive and the tires were already chained up. I told the wife I would be back in 2 hours if not call me . Well I get down there haul each bale about 75 yards into a big patch of fir . Finish the last bale ,get in the truck and the Damm thing won't start . Tried the cell phone Dead ,Tried the two way radio dead. tried using cables from battery to starter Nothing . It then hit me that I was in a world of SHIT No choice but to start hoofing it back . I made it about 4.5 miles hard walking thru foot of snow trying to stay in the tire tracks . I was actually wondering if I was going to make it or not . low and behold here comes a snow mobile . Turns out to be the wife First thing out of her mouth is you were 2 hours late so I figured I had to bail your stupid ass out again How RIGHT she was . Not on just her say so but you can pretty much bet money that you won't see me in the woods when it gets below O any more . Physically it turned out OK , But I am sure she will never let me forget it . With-in 2-3 days I had heard from all my so called hound Friends that they had heard from their wives that my wife had to bail my " Sorry ASS " out again Something about women once they have the GOODS on you they just won't let it go

The wind is what gives us trouble, the tracks get blown in and all we can do then is free cast into some sections and hope for the best.