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Joe Pio
I grew up
hunting puddle ducks on the salt marshes along south jersey. my
father has hunted ducks every weekend since high school, even on
his wedding day he snuck in a few hours. I think I started
following his foot steps in the marsh around 6 years old. A few
of my life long friends have been hunting and trapping since
they could walk and I was very much the same. Even though we
didn't have many deer back then, at 16 years old I started
bow hunting. On my first trip out, I saw two does and then
hunted 6 days a week for two months straight without seeing
another deer, but I was hooked. There is no feeling in the world
like seeing a deer make it's way closer to you, it never got
old, and I hope it never does.
I have since gone through all the phases of deer hunting, trying
to get as many as I could in a year, trying to get one with
every weapon, putting a kid on his first deer, managing
for quality deer on a large block of woods. Now I seem to have
landed into the phase of teaching my own two daughters the joys
of the outdoors. While doing that, I have gone into filming my
hunts and for me it is just the next step of deer hunting. My
wife is very supportive of my passions. When we were first
married, I was hunting six days a week and fishing on Sundays.
Then came the children and things changed a little, but for the
better. I still get 80-90 days a season chasing deer and alot of
them now spent with my own kids.
Besides hunting deer, I am a avid trapper, I try for a mixed bag
of coyote, fox, raccoon and muskrats. I don't put up real big
numbers, but just enough to fill some boards and enjoy the woods
some more. The family enjoys coming along with me on the trap
line as well, which is great for me as I can still be in the
woods and make up for the time I spent away from them.
I, as well as both of my daughters are life members of the
United Bowhunters of NJ, as well as a member of the NJ Fur
Harvesters. I enjoy every minute I spend in the Outdoors and am
glad to share it now with the DTOR family as well.
Joe Pio
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