Kevin has spent his entire life in the outdoors. He has hunted and trapped throughout the United States and Canada. He has a love for deer hunting, turkey hunting, trapping, predator calling and along with all of these activities he manufacturers Kishel's Scents & Lures. And if you don't find him doing all of the above he conducts numerous seminars on hunting, trapping and predator calling.
Picture taken
in the hills of New York
2004
Kishel's Scents
& Lures Welcomes Team Harvest Moon to Our Pro Staff
Ken White: Elma, NY - 2005
This Iowa giant was arrowed using ProShield and Goldenrod Cover
Scent. With over half a dozen Pope & Young bucks to his credit, Ken has
been hunting for over 30 years. As CEO of Team Harvest Moon, he takes
any opportunity he can to enter the field chasing monster
whitetails.
Nicholas DeSocio: Auburn, NY - 2005
•
As the youngest member of our
pro-staff, Nicholas is a welcomed addition. As our poster child this
year for the ATA show in Indianapolis, Nicholas is shown here with a
great New York State buck. The buck scored 143” P&Y, with it’s massive
body and main beams, this buck would have made any of us smile. This
buck circled the tree three times before falling to DeSocio’s arrow.
Mike Oropallo: Auburn, NY - 2005
•
More commonly know as "Orp", Michael poses
here with his first B & C buck which scored 178". With a little
help from his hunting partners, Orp was able to position himself
perfectly for this monster. Kishel's Pro-Shield along with
Kishel's Golden Rod Cover Scent helped him stay tight to this buck for a
22 yard shot.
Mike Oropallo took this nice Ocellated Turkeywith a bow
Mexico - 2006.
Rick Willower:
Geneva, NY - 2005
•Rick is
another great addition to our team. His tenacity and love of hunting
have kept him in the field for years. Showing off this P&Y buck he shot
at 18 yards, Rick has the most accurate arrow of all the members.
Scott Willower: St. Augustine, FL - 2005
•
Scott is the first pro-staff member to
arrow a B&C buck. He was able to creep into this buck’s key travel
corridor and set up. This mid-west giant scored 184” on the Boone
& Crocket charts. Nick named the “sniper brothers”, Scott
and Rick are two more great additions to our team.
Tom Willower: Geneva, NY - 2005
• Tom is the only taxidermist on the staff and he does an excellent job with
all our whitetails. Tom arrowed this B&C monster while hunting with Kishel's
Doe-Estrus Urine in New York. The buck had 20 scorable points. This was Tom’s
first B&C buck.
Dean Broeker: Detroit,
MI - 2005
•
Dean is the “master” of monster buck hunting. Seen here with his
170” Boone & Crockett buck. Dean spends more time afield each season
searching and locating his monster buck for fall than any other hunter I
know. With countless monster bucks to his credit, arming him with
Kishel’s products each year just isn’t fair.......
Jim DeSocio: Auburn,
NY - 2005
• As a
seasoned veteran of the team, Jim has brought much experience to his
“quick learning” younger members. Jim has more P&Y bucks than any
other team member. Jim arrowed this monster buck while following a
doe with the “Texas heart shot”. His outdoors experience and
knowledge is priceless.
B Faynor:
NY - 2006
P DiLallo: NY - 2006
Johnny Kennedy took this
Axis buck at 48 yards
in Texas using Golden Rod Cover Scent.
Johnny Kennedy
- 2005 - Louisiana
Kevin ... I used a bottle of Golden Rod
Cover Scent and had as many as 8 deer under my stand with
north wind dead in their face and never smelled me. That made it too
bad for the one in the picture.
Johnny Kennedy
Nikon
Sport Optics - Archery Prostaff Manager
-
Louisiana --
Johnny is from Louisiana and is involved in many archery related activities.
He is the ProStaff Manager for Nikon Sport Optics, a staff writer for Women
Bowhunters, a Professional Archery Range Designer, A.S.A. Lifetime Member,
Senior Pro A.S.A. / IDO Circuits for 7 years and a Level 2 AA Instructor.
When he is not busy with all of this Johnny is a Elk and Mule Deer Guide and has
instructed over 7500 kids in schools on hunting over the last 2 years.
Johnny won 4th
place overall in the IBO Southern Triple Crown and
with that came a New 4 Wheeler - 2006.
2007 Season for Greg
Yarbrough
Buck
was taken during the rut in Southeastern Pa. He was lured in with
Buckthrasher I. A 20 yard shot took him down. He's a nine point
roughly 150" and weighed in over 200 lbs. The Golden Rod cover scent
kept him from detecting my scent.
2007 Trapping Season
Kevin .... I gotta tell you,
your products are just
down right amazing. What an awesome day on the trap line today. With
just a small line out right now, I took 7-red fox, I opossum and a
big boar raccoon. The Triple Dig-it and Crossbreed Call are just
kicking some royal butt. My catch percentage is running about 30%.
As one of your pro staffers I couldn't be happier that I made the
switch to Kishel's products.The
success truly is in the bottle and I'm looking forward to many more
successful days on the line. Thanks for offering such outstanding
products. I'll have some pictures on the way.
Kevin, today
is probably the most awesome day of my trapping career. I caught my first
coyote today. This is significant not only because it is my first, but
because they are rare in the area where I live. It is a big beautiful
female. I caught her on
Triple-Dig-It.
Thanks for the awesome products. Like I said ....
Kishel's Rules!! - Greg Yarbrough
- November 2005
Greg
Yarbrough
--
Pennsylvania --
Greg Yarbrough is the executive producer for Brandywine River Productions. Brandywine is a Pennsylvania based video production company and is a leader in the industry of outdoor video productions. Greg has produced 10 top selling video productions over the last 10 years featuring archery hunting for white-tailed deer in several states in the north and south east.
Greg has accomplished sponsorships with a number of companies such as Golden Eagle Archery, Browning Archery, Easton Aluminum, Lacrosse Footwear, Rocky Mountain Broad heads, ASAT Camo,Wildlife Research Center, Thunderwood Game Calls, and more. Greg also served on the advisory staff for Arrow Adventure Magazine and is an accomplished outdoor writer and photographer. Greg has been featured in numerous newspaper and magazine articles and has made several television appearances on outdoor programs. As a trapper, Greg has been putting fur on the stretcher for over 25 years taking Raccoon, Fox, Mink and Muskrats. Greg brings 24 years of deer hunting and trapping experience to the Kishel's Pro Staff.
Personal comments: "When I head out on the trap line or climb into my favorite deer stand, I like to have a number of options to put fur on the stretcher and horns on the wall. When it comes to bait and lure products, I want the best I can get my hands on. I look foreword to a successful upcoming year using Kishel's complete line of products for all of my hunting, trapping and photography needs".
“Did somebody say Kishel’s”
Well this big boy must have heard it because he came right in on
Doe Passion.
With Kishel’s deer lure it just doesn’t get any better!
Greg Yarbrough - 8 Point
2006 - Taken in PA
NewYork -
2003
Montana -
2005
Jeff Rettig
--
Pennsylvania --
Jeff is a Hunter, Trapper and Fly Fisherman.
Jeff
operates the website
for Kishel's Scent & Lures, Inc.
Levi
Mason from Avon, Illinois is 17 years old and has harvested 27 deer and 17
turkeys.
I
am a very experienced hunter and I take
hunting very seriously.
Myfavorite passion is bowhunting for which
I have taken several nice buckswith a bow.
I strive for
perfection in the outdoors and put my time in scouting,shed hunting hanging stands, and putting in foodplots. I am also the President of the local
FFA chapter and captain of the 3-D
archeryand trap shooting team.
2005 - New York
Owen Haers
I have been in
the outdoor industry since 1995 working as a videographer for Kishel's Scents &
Lures, KITS Turkey Calls, Skyline Hunting the Horizon and Ron Tussels' True
Woods Outdoors. I am presently on Pro Staff for Kishel’s Scents & Lures, KITS
turkey calls and Skyline Camouflage.
Working
for these great companies has opened many
opportunities for me. I have traveled throughout the majority of the U.S. and
Canada - hunting, trapping and videoing many species of game animals. I have
been from Maine hunting sea ducks to Colorado hunting elk, from Manitoba on
black bear hunts to Oklahoma turkey hunting, mostly as self guided hunts. Most
of my younger years was spent hunting in the state of Wyoming, where I harvested
many trophy antelope, mule deer and a few nice whitetails. Still, one of my
favorite seasons to remember is the
muzzleloader season in New York,
when I harvested one of the state’s biggest muzzleloader bucks on record: gross
scoring just over 170.
In 2003 I
became a Licensed Guide in North Dakota, working for Harvey Biber of North
Dakota Outfitters, spending most of October out of state. With very little time
for scouting I always manage to get out long enough to fill my freezer thanks to
Kishel's products.
Since the
passing of my father in 2002 the fear of losing my knowledge and skill of
trapping has pushed me back into the fields and water where I followed my dad as
child. It was hard to get back in the groove after not running a trap line for
at least 11 years, but with the guidance and encouragement of Kevin and a few
bottles of Kishel's scent products I got the job done.
Todd took this bear using
Kishel's Bear Scent with a
bow.
This 375 - 400 pound bear in Ontario, Canada was 6' 4" from nose to tail.
Todd brings in a wealth of experience and knowledge of the outdoors. Having spent the better part of his young life in the woods, Todd knows first hand that a quality scent can make the difference between success and failure. He has hunted numerous states around the country with bow in hand with success.
Todd also serves as pro staff for Primos Hunting Calls, PMI Cover Systems, scores for The Northeast Big Buck Club, is a staff writer for The New York sporting Journal and writes numerous other hunting articles, conducts various seminars and in store events. In addition he has 9 Pope and Young Bucks and 1 Boone and Crockett under his belt thus far.
In Memory of Eric York - May 2, 1970 - November
2, 2007 Wildlife biologist Eric York
died on Friday November 2nd, 2007 at his residence in the Grand Canyon.
From Erick York - I started hunting and trapping while growing up on a small farm in western Massachusetts. I received a B.S. in Wildlife Management from the University of Maine and a M.S. in Wildlife Conservation from the University of Massachusetts. While at college I began trapping for research studies and since then I have captured and studied a wide variety of species from around the world. Most of my work involves capture of small carnivores for radio-telemetry studies. Here in the States I have studied fishers, martens, coyotes, and lynx in the Northeast and coyotes, bobcats, gray foxes and badgers in the Southwest, where I am currently working. Recently I have been fortunate enough to travel to different countries to capture different carnivores for biological studies. I have been to Nepal to catch fishing cats and civets and to 3 regions of Chile to catch South American foxes and small wildcats. Overall my work has allowed me to capture 20 species of carnivores on 3 continents. Though I do not get a chance to trap recreationally much, I still enjoy trapping to harvest fur when I can. When I'm not working and traveling I enjoy hunting in whatever areas I'm working in or back on the farm in Massachusetts.
This message was received from Eric York on 6/15/03: ..........
Hi Kevin ..... Just thought I would drop you a line to say hi and give you an update. I'm still in southern California looking for mountain lions. Unfortunately, I spend a lot more time looking than catching. We still have only two lions collared in the Santa Monica Mountains, and after covering the area pretty well over the last year, I think these may be the only 2 left in the mountains. I have just moved my trap line north of the 101 freeway for the first time and have found sign of a female lion there. I'm putting all my effort into catching her now. But with the large area she covers it may be a while before she gets back to my traps. This July / August I will be heading to the Grand Canyon to catch mountain lions on the South Rim. Hopefully there will be more cats to be had there than here. After that I will head back to California hopefully find more cats somewhere. There is a short article on our project at:
2004 -
Kevin ..
I'm still busy out west working with mountain lion,both in Arizona and in southern California. I'm slowlygetting sample sizes up to where we are finding outsome interesting things. In southern California we are learning how the largecats are surviving in and amongst all the people thatlive and recreate there. All with rarely be seen ordetected. They really can be elusive even in a verydeveloped landscape. I'm sure they see and hear peopleand pets every day and the still just eat deer. Thelions in our study don't bother the people at all,unlike some other cats not to far from ourstudy area.
In Arizona we are learning how
they use the rim of theGrand Canyon and surrounding
areas. We seeing a lot ofmovement of young cats (as
expected). One younger maletraveled about 70 miles
south to the Flagstaff areaandtook up residency
there. There are plenty of deerand elk to prey on
throughout the area.These two studies keep me
pretty busy but I had sometime to hunt a bit this
year and made it back toAlaska to get a caribou and
got some time to shoot anice 2 x 3 blacktail in
southern California. I haveattached some photos of them.
Hope you are well, and trapping and hunting seasons
have been good to you. ..... Eric
2005 California
Blacktail This
Blacktail was shot at about8000 feet in the southern Sierras. Not a bad deer forthat area. After packing him out 2 miles and down 2000feet I was glad he was not any bigger.
Hope your fall is going well also .... Eric
2006 -
I did shoot a small fork-horn in
California
Chile: Culpeo fox, South American gray fox, Darwin's fox, guigna, hognosed skunk.
Nepal: Fishing cat, small Indian civet, palm civet, Indian mongoose.
Pakistan: Snow Leopards
2002 -
I'm still in Southern California. I have started working on catching
mountain lions in the Santa Monica Mountains. The big cats are in
the same areas as the coyote/bobcat work I have done here. As with
the smaller species they are having to adapt to the freeways, houses
and people here. It is really interesting seeing where they go. The few we have radio-collared travel in and around the houses and roads without a problem, often hanging around unseen right outside of the estates in Malibu. It exciting to catch a lion, we are using foot snares, its a little trickier drugging a 140 pound (and very angry) cat than it is a 30 pound bobcat or lynx.
2003 -
Hi Kevin ..... Just wanted to send a few photos of our latest California lion. Caught him last week just in time to head to the Grand Canyon this week to start work. He's a small (85 pounds), young male, that already has traveled a long way from where we caught him. It will be interesting to track his movements in and around the urban areas where he lives. Will send more photos from the grand canyon. ...
2006 -
Well this has
been a busy year. Lots of mountain lion work both in California and
in Arizona. I moved to Arizona and now am based at the Grand Canyon
to head the mountain lion study there. I'm also involved in a
bighorn sheep study along the Colorado River in the Canyon.
This
fall I also got to do some coyote trapping for research in southern
California. As with some other states footholds have been banned
there but I was able to use snares for capture work. I still used
my favorite Kishel's lures to draw the
coyotes through fence lines, and down trails where I had snares
hung. Coy
Dog II and Triple Dig-it
were very effective at bring coyotes off of roads and into the
snares.
My biggest
adventure this year came with a trip to Pakistan to catch and
collar snow leopards
for the International Snow Leopard Trust. I spent 6 weeks in
Northwest Pakistan (Chitral Gol National Park) setting snares to
radio-collar snow leopards to learn movements and biology of these
big cats. The work was at the western end of the Himalayas, just
south of the Hindu Kush Range, we worked at 6500-10,000 feet but the
mountains ranged up to 21,000 feet there. Very steep country. Lots
of snow this time of year. It was a great place to work.
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