Little Lake Lodge - Annual Meeting donation

[Josh Loewensteiner]

At this past years annual meeting one of our members from FL, Bob Hayes generously donated a 2 day snipe hunt with lodging included. I was the lucky winner of the auction. When I scheduled the hunt for mid-January, I mentioned to Bob that we might like to do some hog hunting and my buddy Kevin wanted to kill a gator while we were there.

Bob has a beautiful 3000 acre cattle ranch about 30 miles north of Lake Okeechobee. The snipe are tough little buggers- easily the hardest birds I have hunted. Central Florida has had a very wet "dry season" and the birds were quite scattered which made for a lot of walking and searching! It was great fun. I was hunting with a VH 410, and my buddy Kevin was using a DHE 20ga repro. The hogs were taken the old fashion way - with knives. There will be a full story in the upcoming Parker Pages.

Bob was a great guide and we very much enjoyed his company. I would encourage anyone who wants to experience real FL hunting to check out his operation. His website is:

www.littlelakelodge.net

[John Havard]

Killing a hog with a knife is really "plumb western". Congrats on the snipe and on the hogs.

[charlie cleveland]

man killing snipes with a 410 parker and killing hogs with a knife gota be some experance...my grandson has killed a few hogs with a knife....how bout the gator....charlie

[KCordell]

This place looks great!

[Josh Loewensteiner]

Charlie- the full story will be in the Spring Parker pages. The gator was shot with a .22mag in the head.

By the way- My .410 Parker has great provenance. Jim Julia shot quail with it back in December when we hunted together, he got a double, and said it was one of the best shooting guns he had ever used. :rotf:

[charlie cleveland]

looking forward to the story...charlie

[Bob Hayes]

Josh and Kevin were a pleasure to hunt with.Birds did not cooperate but we did find a few.Sometimes wonder if being left wanting more is a bad thing.The guys shot well and hope they will come next year.
We have had a wet winter down here.Normally rain fall is minimal but its not this year.We got more earlier this week(3"plus) and more last night.At least its liquid not frozen.

[Larry Frey]

Bob,
Thank you again for that most generous donation to last years PGCA silent auction. I spoke to Josh about it and he said they had a great time. I look forward to his story in the next issue of Parker Pages.

[Dean Romig]

Charlie- the full story will be in the Spring Parker pages.



Correction Josh - make that the Summer Issue. The Spring Issue is being printed as we speak.

[Josh Loewensteiner]

Dean- great news on two fronts:

1. I have more time to write the article!
2. The spring issue is coming!!

I couldnt imagine a better place to escape the cold winter than to head down to Bob's operation and do some hunting. It really was great fun and such a generous thing to donate for the annual meeting.

[Bob Hayes]

No snow here but a little cool this morning(36 degrees).It will warm quick today.But the birds don't seem to mind.We start in a couple weeks,birds are ready.

[charlie cleveland]

nice long beard almost dragging the ground...hope you get a chance to meet up with this bird...hour season is still about a month away...hope you have a good hunt...charlie

[Bob Hayes]

Well we started the season off right today inspite of the cool front coming thru.Birds were silent and not much activity but we managed to knock this 4 yr old down.