This show is sponsored by Honey Road, my favorite restaurant in Vermont, serving eastern Mediterranean small plates at the corner of church and main streets in downtown Burlington.

Not only is it award-winning food, it is run by two excellent people who are excellent to their staff,

so you can feel kind of smug about eating really good food.

Make a reservation, go eat, and say hello for me.

On to the show.

This is Rumbel Strip, I'm Erica Heilman.

People are looking at Bobcats differently today than what they were even 20 years ago.

They represent something now that's kind of wild.

Things are good if there's a bobcat there that the woods must be alive, you know.

That's Patrick Sinera. He's been hunting and tracking bobcats here in Vermont for 50 years, since he was 12 years old.

And for every single day he's gone hunting, he has a diary entry about that hunt.

The weather, the birds, the bears, the behavior of the cat tracks he followed,

and for the majority of those days Patrick never even saw a bobcat,

because you almost never see them, which is why Patrick follows them.

Last year Patrick went out tracking cats with his hounds 150 times and he shot one bobcat.

He says it isn't about the killing and that's actually what all

good hunters say. Then when you ask them then why not just take a camera? Pretty much

the answer is because I'm a hunter and I can see the logic in this. Part of

Patrick's love for Bobcats is the fact of the hunt and part of why he's able to share

years worth of knowledge with Vermont Fish and Wildlife is because now and then he kills one.

Here's Patrick Sanera.

I've been hunting bobcats pretty much all my life. I'm 62 years old and I've been hunting them for 50 years now.

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