When many people think of the South and the outdoors, different things pop in their heads. You think of whitetail deer, wild turkey, maybe even a lake, pond, or even a beach or two. When I think of the South, the first things that come to mind are giant, open pine trees filled with wire grass and other thick cover that has always been native to the Georgia. The next thing that I think of are coveys of quail, top notch bird dogs on point, and the fellowship involved in a good ol’ southern style quail hunt. This past Friday, my fellow show hosts, Kevin, Trey, and I had the privileged of traveling to Shadow Oak Plantation and spending the day in the woods with our friends from Johnson Distributing, Mr. Joe and Lynn Johnson.

We arrived a bit before 9AM where we were greeted by our guide, Caleb. The morning was cool and crisp as the sun began to rise over the pines and warm the 30 degree temperatures. It was a perfect day to be in the woods.

We were glad to be able to document the hunt with some great photos from our Nikon cameras throughout the day, one that will for sure be in our memories for a long time to come.

Yep, we're still hitting the woods! I know the season is out in most of the country, but Alabama and Mississippi, among a few others, are still going strong with the rut even wide open!

We're still filling tags too! Michael Lee arrowed a nice Alabama buck at Rockbridge Lodge with his dad, Mike Lee, behind the camera and junior Bohnhead, Treb Wetherington, tagged a southern Alabama stud with his dad and show host, Trey Wetherington, running the camera for him!

Talk about more great father and son moments while living the Backwoods Life!

Only a few weeks left, and we're still in the woods!

God bless and good hunting,

The Backwoods Bohnheads!

Michael Lee and Kevin Knighton joined crew members Scott Cooper and Jimbo Yance for a great hunt in south Alabama. Michael started things off with a nice eight point the second afternoon of hunting and then filled another tag the next morning with a jacked up cull buck he was able to get an arrow through.

The afternoon hunted capped off a great trip of hunting when Kevin was able to fill one of his tags with a nice eight point as well.







The guys are off to Kentucky next with CCW Outfitters and then more from the great state of Alabama coming up to close the season off!

Happy Holidays from the Backwoods Life crew as well and we'll check in with you in 2010!

Up a tree,

The Backwoods Life Crew

We've been on the road for weeks now covering as many states as we can in search of the whitetail rut. So far we've had some close encounters with some giant whitetails and even filled a few tags along the way. We've covered Georgia, Illinois, Alabama, Missouri, and Ohio so far filling several tags along the way. With a lot of hunting left to come, here are some pics from the past few weeks.










Sorry I can't write more but the rut is wide open! Gotta go!

Sitting in a Family Traditon lock on,

Michael

We've been wide open traveling and hunting all over for far this Fall. We covered the swamps of Florida all the way to the corn fields of Illinois so far and aren't slowing down at all!

We hunted swamp lizards with Mark Land from Muzzy and Bryan Hughes from Backwater Outdoors then with Switchgrass Outfitters and put nine nice gators in the boat!

Then to Illinois with Midwest Whitetail Adventures where we had some great close encounters with some GIANT Midwest bucks.

Most recently we spent some time here on our home turf and tagged a nice Georgia whitetail on video while some other members of the Backwoods crew tagged a stud in Alabama!

Wow, talk about covering some miles and having a great time living the Backwoods Life! More to come!

This week we are heading down to Titusville, Florida to hunt with our good friends of Switchgrass Outfitters. Nothing like bowhunting alligators at night from an air boat! Talk about an adrenaline rush! Kevin and I were lucky enough to fill our tags last year while hunting with Seth and Mike. This year Kevin took his brother Brent down already and he tagged his first gator. Now time to get after the big boys. We’ll be joined by Merrill Sport from the Pursuit Channel as we chase these big swamp lizards and hopefully bring home some fresh gator tail!

Check them out at www.SwitchgrassOutfitters.com

God bless and good hunting,

Michael Lee

It's been a while since we've posted a blog and we apologize for that. Call us lazy, crazy, or both :) Either way we're back in the saddle after a long summer of hitting trade shows and all kinds of other things for the show.

Finally we were able to hunt something! Well, sort of. Kevin Knighton and I hit the waters of Lake Eufaula with Mark Land of Muzzy, Bryan Hughes of Backwater Bowfishing, and our own Backwoods crew member Jeremy Johnson.

Anyone that hasn't been gator hunting before, be ready for an adrenaline rushing experience. Legal hours for Alabama were 8pm until 6am, so you're on the water pretty much all night (since we had 3 tags to fill). As darkness sets in, so do the gators. They hunt mostly as night for an easy meal. We loaded up in Mark's awesome bowfishing boat and headed out.

About midnight, we filled the first tag as Bryan arrowed a 12+ foot monster gator! It took 5 of us doing all we could to get the giant lizard in the boat. With two more tags to fill we had plenty of time to get it done and just before daylight we capped off a great night with two more 8+ foot gators in the boat.

Here's a few pics from the past month of trade shows and the gator hunting!













Now off to catch up on sleep!

Michael Lee
www.BackwoodsLife.com