Marianne Porter's Page

    Well, I just finished applying for my Michigan Spring turkey license.  With Ground Hog Day behind us, spring is really just around the corner.  Spring to me means a wonderful opportunity to get out in the woods again and watch and listen for those early spring turkey sights and sounds.  I started turkey hunting about 10 years ago.  I watched a lot of turkey hunting videos in an attempt to try to learn the art of turkey hunting.  I…

 What a great hunt 2012 was!  My husband and I completely tagged our with some great quality bucks.  We hunt in the Michigan's Upper Peninsula.  The area where we hunt is extremely challenging.  There are no farm fields; there are no oak trees; the deer in these parts…

  It was a beautiful Indian summer October afternoon.  After four days of baiting one of my tree stands located on state land, there was absolutely no sign of anything hitting that bait pile.  Too early; too warm I thought to myself.  It was such a beautiful warm Michigan afternoon with a temperature around 75 degrees.  At around 5:00 in the afternoon, I decided to go sit in the stand.  I knew that I probably would not see a deer, but the weather was just so beautiful and the leaves were…

   Twenty-three years ago, I married my best friend.  We had many common goals and interests which made us very compatible, although we did have our differences which made life interesting.  One of the main differences was hunting.  I knew that I was marrying the great white hunter; this fact I had accepted and could deal with.  I was an extreme animal lover and still am.  After a year of marital bliss, that hunter husband of mine began to chip away at my tough anti-hunting outer skin.  The…