Stizostedion vitreum Photos and Images

I hunted all over the countryside for the first 12 hours of the hunting season, and then decided to hunt the field just west of where I was staying. I took this buck about 1000 yards west of my camper

This is the first buck I ever harvested. We knew a guy who said he would mount it for cost, so I took him up on the offer. It is on the wall in my 4th grade classroom along with the antelope mount.

This is an antelope mount that has been in my house for the past 32 years. My father shot it in 1971, and he died in the Spring of 1974. I never did get to ask him about the hunt because I was only

Here is my deer for this year. He was running away from me, down the outside edge of a shelterbelt, with 12 does behind him. All I could see in my scope was doe tails and antlers. I whistled really

Ever fished with a tree branch? That is what my kids did on our trip to Detroit Lakes, MN this past summer. A ll they had was a hook, a split shot, a bobber, part of a nightcrawler, some monofilament,

Here is a way to save yourself some sweat and tears on those cold days on the lake. Right when you pull up to your ice fishing location of choice, place your ice auger in front of the exhaust pipe

My 2 1/2 year old son Sam bringing up a Lake Audubon walleye. Just does not get any better than this. Stizo : )

Here are the sheds I found from April 2003 to September 2003. I have been riding my 4 wheeler through shelterbelts and wooded hillsides. I see lots of deer in the summer this way, and my reward

Here is a fish I dragged up from the west side of the river near Reunion Bay, Lake Sakakawea. A few minutes later had another bite that fought, ran and jerked about the same as this fish, but busted

Here is a photo of my buddy with his 7.1 lb Ling Cod. I like to call them Burbots. Anyway, they sure are fun to catch. He cleaned about four out of the five burbot we caught that afternoon, and

Other than Mallard Island in the distance, all of the land you see beyond the riprap in this photograph, was under water just three short years ago. With the projected drop in water level, the blue

These geese are safe and protected here on the Mouse River in Minot. This location is just two blocks from my house on one of the oxbows or dead loops of the river in Minot. They fly over my house

We are hunting good stuff, but bird numbers are down. Lots of young males this year. We did not have very many birds with significant tails this weekend. The wind was clipping along pretty good

This is my limit for Saturday Oct 9th, 2004. As you can see, the photo has one mature bird on the left and two immature cocks on the right. Not much meat on those small ones, and if you don''''''''t

I don''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''t know if this photo is going to be large enough, but it looks good here on my screen. : ) This is one of a pair of Bald Eagles just upriver from Bear Den on

For all of you who love to hunt snow geese, the season has been late in coming. I was in the Upham and Bantry area on Saturday, and saw many flocks of snows filing in and out of the refuge. My Uncle

Here is the only nice buck we saw all weekend. One of the old geesers shot him on the first drive through an enormous CRP field. I hunted in a group of fifteen on Friday. And lucky I did. That

It is always sad to see this happen. Poor thing. The crops can't be harvested fast enough in my opinion. : )

This is my buck I shot on Friday, Nov. 12th. On Sunday afternoon I defleshed him, boiled, scraped and brushed the skull until it was clean. It was placed above the fireplace by 7 PM Sunday evening.

I shot this 4X5 about an hour after Big Burt gave me the slip. I watched Big Burt lay down, and walked the cover. Lots of does got up from the place I watched him bed down in. Doe after doe got

I have one more photo for the gallery since nilsmaster wants to send in his whole album. I figured I could send in one more of my deer. : ) Come on old man winter! Freeze the crap out of us

Many places look like this. I would imagine that the ice has melted an refrozen in many areas. Be careful if you try it. I hope the bays solidify by Friday. Looks like a jigsaw puzzle right now.

I drove down to see how much ice we have on Lake Audubon. Not the safest conditions, but there is ice. Thickness varies from 0 to 4 inches depending where you look. There were two fishermen on

This pistol has been in my family for generations. I know nothing about it except for what is stamped on the frame. It reads as follows: Top: VEST POCKET SAFETY HAMMER Side: Made in USA Bottom

Saturday's keepers. Stizo : )

A 22 incher with a tag in it, and a 17 incher caught by my daughter. Stizo : )

Me age 14. These pike were caught near the highway bridge just North of Upham. I was a big pike lover back then. I was pretty much a self taught fisherman, but had not learned about limits as of

I thought some of you would get a kick out of this one. I caught this mallard near the water tower on the NW side of Minot when I was about 13 or so. I had to chase him around the stubble field

This might not look like much to some of you, but I am going to cherish this picture. The little turd wasn't ever taught. I just turned around, and here he was trying to bait a hook. Took him a

Pat shot this during the muzzleloader season in the Tioga area. It was his second buck of the season. Sorry it took so long to get it on the gallery Pat.

I like how Tim Sandstrom poses with his fish in the photos he sends in to a photo gallery, so I had Sam pose like "Nilsmaster."

This is what my son Sam looks like when he is reeling in a 17 inch walleye. Little nutball. Stizo :)

This what we brought home Monday evening. A 16 1/2 inch walleye, two 17's and an 18 1/2 inch fish.

My childhood buddy just returned from taxidermy school in Wisconsin, and he asked me over to see his work this evening. I helped him put his airbrushing booth (in the background)together while I

Here are just a few more of the fish he did in school this past month. The walleye is absolutely astounding. I can't wait to catch a big one to bring in to him. Stizo :)

This was a pleasant surprise. Stizo : )

I caught another one! They sure are purdy! Took his picture, and sent him on his way. Stizo :)

Boyd and his dad Jerry with their pike from Steinke Bay on Lake Sakakawea April 2004.

Tanner, an 8 year old bow hunter from Minot took his first buck in 2003. Nice job buddy! Stizo : )

My buddy's brother Scott R. taught Tanner how to bow hunt. Stizo : )

Quinn H. got himself a real nice buck from the Badlands this past Fall. Very nice. Stizo : )

This is a walleye mount which is near the finished product. The next step is airbrushing/painting. It is interesting to see the different stages of these works of art. Stizo :)

This walleye came in for processing. The best way to package a walleye from the lake is to wrap it in a WET towel, with all of the fins collapsed, and then laid on a perfectly flat surface for transport.

25 March 05: Not the whopper 20 pounder we were looking for, but had fun anyhow. We caught and released two about this size. Stizo :)

Grandma Laura Summer 2004 holding two Coho Salmon weighing 10lbs and 15lbs. This may look like I made this up, but I promise you that the photo is for real. She was simply trying to dress warmly

Look what my son and I ran into while shed hunting today! He was chewing on a buck which had already shed its antlers. He ambled off, we continued our shed hunt, and wouldn't you know it, he was

He got to pick up the sheds today. I would find them, and let him go and get them. Lots and lots of snow geese between Maxbass and Westhope. I have pictures, but someone beat me to it I see. Stizo

This is an old skull from last fall or possibly last year. It has larvae casing in it, so it had to have died in the Fall. Probably a bow kill that was never found. No velvet hanging on either. Stizo

This goose decided to fly right through my shot, so I waited a few extra seconds to see if I could catch him at the right time. Worked out great. I think I have more fun hunting birds with a camera

I wanted the boat in the foreground to give it a "fishing feel". I call this "Prime Walleye Time." The shot was taken just about 4-5 minutes after I had caught and released an 18 inch walleye. Stizo

I've got them "Spring Fishin' Blues." I liked this shot. Two guys enjoying the afternoon with the geese honking happily all around us. Stizo :)

I still can't find my striper bass photo from a couple years ago. The photo cost me $300.00 too! (guided trip) I am trying to track down a copy of it so I can finaly get it posted after several

Bipedal Deer: Here is pbear's "Bipedal Deer" trailcamera shot from this past week. She walked over to the camera and took pictures of all of her girlfriends. Then they discussed their pregnancies,

Another nice deer in 2004.

The weather was beautiful, t-shirt fishing. We casted cranks in the trees on a shallow spot we had found earlier in the day. Three of us returned for some C&R action in the evening. A great day!

I found a picture my buddy had displayed in his taxidermy shop. I had never seen this photo before. I took it home and scanned it to share it with you. 67 lb paddlefish. three pounds shy of the

She wanted to have her picture taken without us in the photo, so then we all took turns posing with the fish. It was a good evening. Stizo :)

He had to take his turn posing with the fish too.

I too took my turn posing with the fish. Stizo :)

My four year old son was banking snow around the icehouse while my daughter came running in to tell me to take pictures of the rainbow. It had been drizzling in late afternoon. Stizo :)

My boy Sam catching summer perch on the river behind our house in Minot.

Another look at the walleyes and my whitetail deer (among others too).

I got my fish back from my buddy's shop last month. The 27 inch fish (top) was caught from my boat in May 05' along the West shoreline just East of Shell Village on Van Hook. The bottom fish was

Here is a photo of one of the many Brown Trout we saw on our way back from New Mexico last week. This one is a little harder to see, but if you know what to look for, they can be detected and caught.

Here is a nice clear photo of another Brown Trout. I had to creep up on him really slow, otherwise they are gone with a flash of their tail. Stizo :)

I hauled a new riding mower out to the farm for my 86 year old grandparents out on the family farm. I had about 45 minutes to walk the homestead for sheds. On my way back to the house, there they

I had a little time to shed hunt the family farmstead yesterday. Stizo :)

Sage loved the view, so we took some photos. She was imagining that she was seeing drawings or pictographs on the slides. Nice day to be out with the daughter.

This is my cousin Dennis from Oregon. He sent me this photo this week in order to show me where we are headed to for camping on the 4th of July. A rainbow trout stream runs through the background.

This is my cousin Dennis from Oregon. He sent me this photo this week in order to show me where we are headed to for camping on the 4th of July. A rainbow trout stream runs through the background.

And the trip wouldn't be a Stizo trip if he didn't catch on FIRE!

It wouldn't be a good camping trip if we didn't get to do some fishing.

Had to give it a try using a long pine bow, a little monofilament, a hook and two Berkly eggs.

Lewis and Clark style: no sidedishes. Just a few drams of beer to wash it down.

It was a little cool at first, but it sure felt like heaven in the heat.

Don't need to explain this one.

All of the trout were 8 inches and smaller.

I took these photos on my way back from Oregon in July. This is said to be the only visible mark left in existence on the entire route of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Stizo :)

They had to put bullet proof glass over the signature because people were using high powered rifles to shoot at it from a high bluff on the North side of the Yellowstone River. If you look closely,

It wasn't at all what I thought it would look like. None the less impressive. In the upper right hand corner you can see the decking built to view Clark's signature. Stizo :)

"Place Where the Mountain Lion Dwells" Originally, Clark named it Pompey's Tower as documented in his journal entry. I think this is interesting, so I thought I would share it with all of you.

My kids and I see this bunch almost every day either going to or from school.

21 Oct 06 Tim Sandstrom and I hunting the Sakakawea shoreline for some pheasants. Lots of thick cover to highstep over. It really gives you a workout. I had to go to the chiropractor Tuesday to get

I took my 5 year old son Sam on his first pheasant hunt. He did pretty good. He even walked some of the heavy brush down on the shoreline with me. We had to pick our way around most of it, but he

My son Sam on his first pheasant hunt.

This woman survived a collision with a young bull moose with only a broken wrist and a need for a hot bath.

These photos came from Ontario, Canada.

A proud hunter with her quarry!

Natalie shot this nice brute out of a treeless riverbottom in our area on Saturday. It was a tough 2 mile walk for me, but she was lucky enough to have chosen to post right on top of this guy. He

Measures out to be in the low 140's. Nice buck Chad!

19 inches wide. Beautiful buck Chad! My turn! Stizo :)

Worked my hiny off for this one this morning. After 2 miles, three hours of following a blood trail, and talking to landowners for permission to trail him across their land...there he was. I am so

No ice fishing here, but other places have over 7 inches of ice as of 29 NOV 06

No ice fishing here for a few weeks yet. Other places have 7 or more inches of good ice as of 29 Nov 06.

This saddle is usually under water every year.

You can see how the water level has dropped. The ice is draped up onto the shoreline. We see this alot on Sakakawea.

I took this photo while standing in my livingroom. We have a birdfeeder in that location. The neighbor's dogs chased them off just seconds after I took these photos.

My kids ran into the room at 4:45 PM today and said there were turkeys in the backyard, so I snapped a few pictures.

It doesn't take much to make your deer look bigger than it really is.

I had to use some modeling glue to piece it back together after boiling it and drying it. It went back together just fine.

Sam's first walleye of the ice fishing season. My kids caught the walleyes, and I caught the snot rocket. I let my daughter take a picture of the snot rocket and released it. A litle blurry, but

Sage caught the very first walleye on our very first trip on the ice.

My son and I were out shed hunting Tuesday, and we came across some mountain lion tracks in the snow. We discovered the tracks 10 miles west of Bantry, ND within 100 yards of the Granville Highway.

About the size of the palm of your hand.

My shoe as a reference.

Here I tried to show the pattern and the gait.

Found these on the south end of the shelterbelt at the family farm.

Sage and her brother Sam found the matching shed for this set.

Sage and her brother Sam found the matching shed for this set.

Tim snapping pictures and Chris posing with the fish. Beautiful warm March day.

Tim and Chris removing hooks from a pike.

Tim and Chris were the only ones getting flags that day.

Both kids wanted their pictures holding the head.

Both kids wanted to hold the head for the photo.

Sam was tired when he was finished though.

I rigged it up so that it was easy to load. Pretty simple setup. My six year old boy loaded it.

Feels nice to be fishing again. Caught these Saturday evening.

25 inch walleye...Second fish of the day.

I think this is the largest walleye I have ever taken out of Audubon. 25 inches. Beautiful day on the ice.

Thanks for taking the photo Tanner! Nice limit of Audubon Eyes.

Sunset photo taken right before the bite started. Seems like as soon as that sun hits the dirt those walleye start chompin!

My kids and I caught these Thursday evening December 27th. A total of twelve walleye in the sink.

No limit this evening, but we had a great time once again! Stizo :)

Not a monster, but my daughter will remember this hunt for years to come. She watched the buck through the spotting scope while I got set up to send the 165 grain 30.06 shot 370 yards down range.

My daughter Sage with our reward. She was SOOOOO excited. Fun to listen to her tell the story about how we got him. Stizo :)

Next year she is going to train me in on the refuge! Stizo :)

I was running around snapping photos during the last hour of fishing and got some pretty good shots.

I was running around snapping photos during the last hour of fishing and got some pretty good shots.

These sillouette shots turned out pretty good.  The wind calmed, and the water was like glass Saturday evening at the Confluence.

My kids came along on the trip for the first time this year.  The fish weighed 44#. Caught around 1 PM Saturday. We got home today at 12 noon.  Kids had a blast.  We were prepared

Saturday evening paddlefishing was a bust. It was very slow this year with only 6 out of the 30+ fishermen in our group able to tag fish.  As of Sunday morning at 8 AM the largest fish was 115

Our boats with the ramp and campgrounds in the background.

Boats were running up and downriver all day.

These are just a few of the people in our camp. There were 30+ people in camp this year.

Another record of a fantastic evening.  We all enjoyed the scenery even though nobody got a hookset all evening.  Stizo :)

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I didn't draw a tag for the rifle season, so I thought I would give bowhunting a try.  I think I am addicted!!!! I was planning on going to the tree stand ealrlier that morning, but that diesel

My daughter and our first fish of the 2009-2010 ice fishing season.

We found this set next to the fence in the corral behind the barn.  One on each side of the fence where the deer were ducking under the barbed wire.  My daughter noticed the other while

My daughter Sage found this shed along the edge of a sunflower field.  It is the biggest shed we have ever found.  It has a broken G2, a broken brow tine and a bullet hole throught the base

Here is the bullet hole.

The floor covering is fake tile linoleum.  The tile pattern is 12 inch tile.  You can get an idea of how big this shed is in this photo.  Biggest one we have found yet.

Found this set on the family farm.  They look to be 2009 sheds.

I put another photo of it lined up with the 12 inch floor tile pattern.  How many inches total on this shed? This buck is still walking around in 3A4!  Stizo :)

Taking the 4 Wheeler next time.

I was driving by Farmer's Union Elevator this morning about 8:30 AM and look what I saw!  They said it happened overnight and was reported about 6:30 AM. Would have been incredible to have

I estimate about 2 million dollars of grain on the ground.  Ooops!

My son Sam was having a good time on Lake Darling this winter.

My new camera is terrific! I need a manual to operate it, but I am learning quick! Never before have my digital photos shown such detail! Lake Darling has been producing lots of perch just not lots

One of the many snow sculptures my daughter created over the winter.  It is a snowman holding an antlered deer in a harvest pose.  Stick lying on the deer is the rifle.  :)

Front view.

I want to get $2500 for it.  Any takers? Click on my profile and you can see many other photos of it in "Stizostedion vitreum Photos and Images." It has: one cupboard 2 large

Call Stizo at 833-3595 or contact me on here. It can hold lots of goose decoys, tree stands, and my Honda Foreman ES 4 wheeler fits inside.

I painted it last summer.  Windows all have screens mosquitoes can't get in.  It has a vented propane furnace, a cook stove, a small 110 volt refridgerator, a sink, silverware drawer, cupboards

I walked up to the fence and made sure no man-made structures were in the photo so it looked like it was from a natural setting aside from the numerous droppings. ;)  These are fenced in

Very windy on Devils Lake on Sunday as the low pressure system moved through. Photo was taken on the South side of Graham's Island. Took a while to find the walleye.  I had to

Very windy on Devils Lake on Sunday as the low pressure system moved through. Photo was taken on the South side of Graham's Island. Took a while to find the walleye.  I had to

Was driving in Western North Dakota this morning (Monday).  Roads were going bad fast.  Heavy snowfall.  I thought I was seeing things in the blizard conditions...This deer was standing

13.5 inch perch caught by my buddy's son on Saturday.  This little guy was standing up with a jigging pole in his hand most of the day in his dad's Ice Castle fishhouse.

I casted and casted, but no fish for me.  My main goal for the trip was to see Kraig catch one.  Now hopefully my cousins from out West will want to give it a try next year.

Caught it in his first four hours of casting.

I caught these walleye just prior to finding out that Minot was a "sure thing" to get swamped.  I got the phone call just before the photo.  I still look pretty happy though! 

My friend Carr shot this monster bull at about 12:30 - 1:00 PM on the very last day of the 6 day hunt.  They had him running his cows, bedding them down and bulging well over 30 times. 

I got a chance to pose with Carr's big bull elk horns on the tarmac at the airport after we flew out of the mountains.  Huge Bull Elk!  4th largest elk taken by Quarter Circle A Outfitters

Pictured are Jason Hussey (owner outfitter/guide), Jeremy (guide foreground), and Alan (guide on the otherside of the horse).  A great team.  They are unloading the horns at the mountain

I love this photo.  My favorite one of the entire trip.  Pictured is "Lemhi".  She is loaded with 73 year old Paul's bull elk meat and horns on a ridge about 2 miles from

Jason Hussey: owner/operator of Quarter Circle A Outfitters (my 3rd cousin from Idaho)

Paul works out at the local university so he can continue to go elk hunting every year.  He can out walk/climb any 60 year old I have ever seen.  Congradulations Paul!

I was just amazed at everything involved when it comes to getting an animal of that size out of the mountains!  We estimated that without pack horses and other people to help, it would have taken

This hunt was so amazing and rewarding!  I want to go back every year!  Thanks to my cousin Jason Hussey (owner/operator/guide of Quarter Circle A Outfitters), Alan (guide) and Jeremy

Picky fish.  Ripped off many minnows until I threw the single hook and splitshot weapon at her!

One of my daughter's fish from last week.

Sam out-fished us all last week!

They had a great time last week!

About 4.5 miles produced 8 sheds with 4 sets of eyes.

My daughter's friend found her first shed ever, and it was this non-typical.  Looked high and low but couldn't find the other side.  Talk about shed crazy...  These two girls would

A successful four days of camping across the river from the Confluence boat ramp. Check out the drumsticks on that thing!

Biggest yet!

Try curling that 5 times!

My son Sam and the other kids were fishing fools during the four day trip to the Confluence.  They caught sturgeon, freshwater drum/sheep'shead, goldeyes, channel cats, buffalo carp,

They caught lots of these during the four days at the Confluence.  This was Gunner's largest cat.

We ate very well during our trip.  Elk steaks on Friday night.

Pasta dishes during the day.

Fried up more walleye than we could all eat but we managed to get it down the hatch!  Boyd fed about 12+ people  Mmmmmm good!  His batter is the best!

We had this campfire crankin' every night!

Fun day.

Casting cranks at sunset...doesn't get much better than that.