Gator
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I think that this rain is going to put a damper on things, but once it passes mid-day tomorrow, watch out!! This could be the best weekend of the year to be a hunter...and I'm off work next week. Truly, it does not suck to be me. At least, for now. -
Another one bites the dust! Excellent! -
J.D., thanks for the article. It looks like it's still concept and comment. Time will tell whether it happens or not, I guess.
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Buggy this morning!! No deer, but I'm still digging gnats out of my nose.
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Hey Rob...your thread has become a tell-all for the LOU bow hunting community. Hope you don't mind! LOTS of movement last night. I had four different bucks working a branch overhanging a scrape 40 yards from the stand. The biggest one, an eight, stood on his hind legs and danced with the branch a couple times. That was too cool to see. The bucks all quartered toward the stand at various angles and presented shots, but none of them were what I was looking for...passed on some does, too. Just a great night to be out!
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Tonight was my first sit this season where I didn't see a deer. Windy. Still good to be out though.
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I've heard conflicting reports. Planning phase, construction phase, anticipated dates, who the heck knows? It is election year... I'd love an update from somebody in the know.
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That's a shooter for sure! Nicely played.
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Squirrel!! Love hunting those buggers out the second story window. Don't poke them with a field tip though. They'll crawl up to the top of a tree, arrow and all, and advertise to the world what you're doing. Not that I'd know Every four point within fifty miles has lined up and taken a number to walk under my stand. Another one last night in Ogden. I'm taking pics of them and I'd post, but they're crap. I'm not sure why the iPhone is giving me such poor results; it's zoomed in, and the deer are within twenty yards. Could be the low light conditions? 80F today sucks.
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I've switched blades a bunch of times looking for the "best", but I think that it's just confidence and, as everybody says, placement. After using them in previous years and looking for something else, I've come back to the Slick Tricks and thus far couldn't be happier. Not sure why I ever left them. I agree with Vince that it's the exit hole that matters...if you can't track your deer, it doesn't matter if it's dead somewhere...and in that regard, Slick takes the cake. I've had a couple of times where expandables didn't pass through and I was lucky to stumble on the deer. Or not, and it sucked. Stick with what you're using, punch one through the heart and watch it drop. Game on! -
Deer Hunting...How much has changed for you?
Gator replied to justtracytrolling's topic in Big / Small Game
My Dad used to run a fly shop from our house in Bath, and my buddies and I would tease him about how he liked to talk hunting and fishing more than actually get out and do it. Some years it seemed like the closest he'd get to field or stream would be posing for Charlie Alsheimer with his bow or running stream restoration projects for Trout Unlimited. I didn't understand that once you've gotten to a certain place in life, you quit taking and begin giving back. Some people do it by bringing a kid into the fold, others by volunteering time or teaching. Either way, it's a realization that once you've done something innumerable times, that driving force you felt when you were younger to JUST GET OUT THERE, well...it's not what it was. But the satisfaction of helping somebody else to do it, or to contribute to future generation's success, that satisfies every time. My Dad was awarded Conservationist of the Year once. I don't think I'm ever going to measure up to the old man, and I sure don't do half the things that he used to, but I think maybe I'm starting to understand him (GRHS) as little bit better now. -
I feel your pain. I lost one at the water's edge last year and it sucks. Bunch of deer munching acorns on their way to beans last night. No big boys.
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If anybody's looking...
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Same thing last night...a small doe wandered by, then within a couple minutes a forkhorn came screaming through not paying attention to anything at all. I'd hoped that maybe a mature had come into estrus a month early, but I didn't see another deer all evening and this makes me think it was just a young one looking to sow his first oats.
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My first boat was called "Wandering Seamen" because I worked at a fertility clinic as a graduate student. We don't have nearly as good of a reason this time; I think it was around when Michael Jordan's commercial came out twenty years ago that we hit on it. Basketball officials, though: you guys own it. BTW, the "g" is silent, too
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I guess this is the first that I've noticed, but it looks like your boat name is the same as ours. You're out of the Oak? We dock at Sandy. Who'd have thought?
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I would love to have a fisheries biologist, preferably someone with authoritative power, weigh in on this discussion. Vince's arguments make perfect sense to me. What I don't know are whether there are "other" factors that influence some of these decisions, such as maintaining biodiversity and having a fallback position. I also hope that the powers-that-be at the DEC are wise enough that management practices with suspect returns such as described are being replaced...pen rearing is a step in the right direction. However, I wonder if it's success has masked other potential concerns?
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With respect to fraying: check the ceramic inserts on your guides using a magnifying glass. You may have a crack. This happens with mono all the time and guys don't realize it because the crack is hairline and can't be seen by eye. I don't know whether the same may be true for wire, but it's worth a look. The only fraying I've ever found in ten years using Malin is self-inflicted.
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I took Ray's advice once...two months of not being able to sit down taught me better...gotta remember to put suntan lotion your nethers when you're buffy fishing
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I purchased a Thompson 21' Fisherman for $5000 when I started graduate school...one of the top reasons that I studied at UofR was that I was close to Lake O...but I only used it for two years. A lawyer who lived down the street loaned me the $$$ for a healthy return on his investment . I couldn't afford the upkeep on my $13K graduate student stipend (in the early 90s) and when the canvas went, the boat ended up sitting for years in somebodies yard until I let it go for the back payments I owed them on what it cost me to store it there . Lesson learned. I have lots of good memories of those two years. And I ate way too much mac and cheese the following three years until it was paid off. I honestly can't tell you whether I'd do it again or not, but f I did, at least I'd know to plan on unplanned expenses...and there's no way that I would swallow stupid high interest rates just to get a loan. That's how you really get in trouble.
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We also found temperature high on Saturday night out of Sandy in 550'. Work it long enough and I'm sure you could find fish, but it's tough running out blind. We fished for two hours and didn't move a rod. If we'd marked a single fish among the bait pods or popped just one release, we'd have probably worked it until dark, especially with the good offshore reports coming from the West end.
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It's tough out there. Just in case anybody wants a report before making the run out to 550 fow...we tried it last night with zilch to show for the effort. We went > halfway to the fence. There were scattered pods of bait and temp was down 55-60. Zero marks, zero hits. Finally, we pulled and cruised back into 350 fow, where we hit a really nice steelie on a 60 foot rigger, running a KOS. Two other identified misses around the same area on a wonderbread stinger, wire 130' out and a 90' mag diver running a NK Mag Kevorkian. I really thought we'd find something in the abyss, given the lack of kings inside. Maybe somebody else will get lucky. We're off to bass fish Canadice from the canoe this morning.
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This is what I choose to believe... I get where you're coming from. I'm handsome, well-adjusted and women love me Hey, it works!!! Seriously though, it's crap out there. I'm losing the faith. Sandy usually only gets about six weeks of prime king fishing every summer before the bottom falls out in August, and our backs are against the wall now. I'm not sure we'll ever know for sure why, but at least the runs this year in the Salmon River should answer whether the big dogs were playing hide-and-seek this summer. -
Out of Braddocks 8/5 pm
Gator replied to bondouley's topic in New York Fishing Reports - Lake Ontario (South Shore)
No. Definitely not. I'll call you, I promise