Rodhouse Rut N Strut
Rodhouse Rut-N-Strut
Rated 0 out of 5.0 based on 7 Outfitter reviews.
Contact: Matt Rodhouse
Location: Pleasant Hill, Illinois
Species Hunted: Whitetail Deer
State(s) Hunted: IL
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note: The following reviews predate the numeric rating system and are not included in this outfitter's overall rating.
outfitter review submitted by: Joseph Batel on Dec 16 2007
Species Hunted: white Tail
Game Quality: Good
Accommodation Quality: Good
Camp Condition: Good
Food Quality: Good
Guide Experience: Poor
Other Personal Experience: Good
Overall Impression: Not Good
Recommend: No
Reviewer Comments: I guess they were under staffed. Our guide told us that he was only there a few weeks, because they were short handed. Tiny little tree stands. No comfort. They call a buck sighting at 60 yards a "shot on a buck"
outfitter review submitted by: Brian Pangburn on Dec 27 2005
Species Hunted: Whitetail
Game Quality: Good
Accommodation Quality: Great
Camp Condition: great
Food Quality: great
Guide Experience: great
Other Personal Experience: great
Overall Impression: Good
Recommend: yes
Reviewer Comments: I liked everything except for the weather which noone could control. We had high 70's and low 80's all week but we still saw some great deer. We also had a full moon which also did not help our success. There lodge is great, the food was awesome and the guides worked there tails off tring to put in posistion for a shot.
outfitter review submitted by: Jeffrey Scott on Jan 30 2001
Species Hunted: Whitetail
Game Quality: Excellant
Accommodation Quality: Excellant
Camp Condition: Excellant
Food Quality: Excellant
Guide Experience: Good
Other Personal Experience: Good
Overall Impression: Good
Recommend: Yes
Reviewer Comments: I went to Rodhouse with 4 people other than myself we all had a great time. Three of the five had shots on Pope & Young class animals, two wanted something bigger and the other missed. They have the animals that most serious deer hunter are looking for. They have a great lodge, with good food. We will be going back to hunt with them, if you have any question about my hunt, feel free to contact me.
outfitter review submitted by: Jeffrey Scott on Jan 5 2001
Species Hunted: Whitetail
Game Quality: Great
Accommodation Quality: Great
Camp Condition: Great
Food Quality: Great
Guide Experience: ok
Other Personal Experience: ok
Overall Impression: Great
Recommend: Yes
Reviewer Comments: I went with four people other than myself and we all saw Pope and Young class animals. The weather was warm for hunting, believe if the weather was colder we would even seen more quality animal. One member of the hunting party saw a big 11 point right at day light an could not get a shoot, another person missed a 12 point that he said "was a book deer." Three of all five are going back and the other two would go back if they could. It is good hunt for the money. The lodge is very comfortable, and the food is good.
outfitter review submitted by: Tim Hovas on Aug 3 2000
Species Hunted: Whitetail
Game Quality: Nice Cows
Accommodation Quality: His girlfriend\'s Nasty Traile
Camp Condition: What Equipment???
Food Quality: Cows Liked It..
Guide Experience: Poor Minus
Other Personal Experience: No Other Personnel
Overall Impression: RIP-OFF BIG TIME
Recommend: NEVER
Reviewer Comments: Not enough space or time to tell it all. Nothing he said was true. Stayed at his honey's trailer. No clean linen, no washer, had to turn the sheets over, pubic hair is ok if it is attached to something besides my sheets. Stands put up the morning of our hunt, by his teenage son, nice short walk from the road, only obstacles were giant piles of cow manure. Told 6 people would be in camp, over 25 showed up. Greedy Guy. Never saw the fellow after the first day. Camp was a 25 mile ride the other way for supper, wasn't worth a 25 foot walk. Put over 500 miles on my truck back and forth during the hunt. Ate two meals a day in cafes because it was a 60 mile round trip back to the camp. Never been taken to the cleaners so bad over anything. The guide service is in his son's name now probably because he got caught in a sting operation two years ago by the Feds in a turkey hunting scam. Bad Apple! DO NOT spend your money with this poot-sniffer.
outfitter review submitted by: Dave Dykstra on Nov 24 1999
Species Hunted: Trophy Whitetail
Game Quality: Poor
Accommodation Quality: Poor
Camp Condition: Poor
Food Quality: Terrible
Guide Experience: Minimal
Other Personal Experience: None
Overall Impression: Very disappointing
Recommend: No
Reviewer Comments: On arrival no one was there to meet us at the owners residence. We noticed a strong oder and found a dead doe rotting in a cardboard box behind the house. The first day of the hunt our \\\"guides\\\" arrived after sun-up. They then couldn\\\'t find our stands. We didn\\\'t get on stand until after 8:30 am. I didn\\\'t see deer for 2 days. I then discovered cigarette butts tucked under the bark of the tree I was hunting out of. So much for scent control on this bow hunt. We were put up in a drafty old farmhouse with no water pressure in the shower. Meals consisted of no breakfast. Chili for lunch everyday. Whatever was on special at the local diner for a box lunch supper. The guides were all under 25 yrs. old and did little, other than pick us up and drop us off. And needless to say, nobody connected on a deer, not even a doe. This area obviously has some huge bucks. Find another guide in the area to put you on them though. These fellas are amateurs to say the least.
outfitter review submitted by: Dave Dykstra on Nov 23 1999
Species Hunted: Trophy Whitetail
Game Quality: Average
Accommodation Quality: Poor
Camp Condition: Poor
Food Quality: Terrible
Guide Experience: Minimal
Other Personal Experience: none
Overall Impression: Very disappointing
Recommend: no
Reviewer Comments: For $1700.00 It was a very low budget outfit. We stayed in a ramshackle farmhouse with no water pressure, which made showering tough. Important since this was an archery hunt. Meals consisted of no breakfast. Chili for lunch everyday. Whatever the local diner had on special for a box supper. The guides dropped us off and picked us up ...sometimes. Saw no deer for the first 2 days. I then discovered old cigarette butts under the bark of the tree I was in. The stands we hunted out of had already been hunted hard in the weeks prior to my hunt. The guides are inexperienced and lazy. The farmers whos land I hunted told us he would never lease to these guys again. He caught one of the guides stealing gas from his pump. The first day of the hunt we didn\'t get out until after light because the guides were late and nobody knew where their stands were. There was also a dead doe carcass rotting in a cardboard box behind the owners house. Don\\\'t waste your hard earned dollars on these guys. Feel free to contact me with any questions you may have concerning Rodhouse Rut-n-Strut.
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Contact: Matt Brewster
Location: Latham, Ohio
Species Hunted: Whitetail Deer, Turkey
State(s) Hunted: OH
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Alberta Hunting Information
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Oregon Hunting Information
Oregon is not known to be a trophy big game producing state. That said they do have good quantities of animals such as Elk.
