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This year was a spoon year. I took very few fish off flashers. Why??.....the water was very cool this year IMO with all the wind changing direction every other day. I could count on one hand the times I had to fish below 80’. Spoons tend to shine in the top 60’. Lots of guys run sticks for kings in the spring. If I had a choice between spoons or sticks I would chose spoons every time due to better flash attraction, array of glow colors and better hook up and land ratio due to hook configuration. Flashers shine 70’ and deeper.

So he became less horney. I get it!

Nice buck!

Well earned Roman nose.

What’s a safety harness? I just use a roach clip attached to my G-string.

I think the wind switch-movement theory rings true because wind change/barometric change often go hand in hand. Also, deer like to travel-feed into the wind, so if wind direction changes so does their movement direction.

While pouring over everyone’s deer reports, I can’t help but think you guys would see more bucks if you took more does off your properties. The ratios seem out of wack.

What area do you live in?

Go shallow to eat gobies and perch.

Move into a treehouse

Nice work Brian.

Had a fat opossum clear the field of my live doe decoys tonight. Funny how they know a warming trend is coming. Anyone notice the amount of black ducks and geese lately? I might have to get my migratory stamp this year.

We have to be careful with QDM. I believe in the QDM concepts and have seen it work with multiple deer hunting areas here in NY, however, shortening limits and reducing the length of the season is exactly what anti-hunting groups want.

Send a tooth in to have it aged. We are finding out deer are living longer than we thought. The Drury boys showed a buck they took on their show that was 14 years old. GREAT DEER! I love mass.

Anyone find Neotropical Deer Keds on their deer? My brother’s deer from Allegheny County was loaded with the creepy crawlers (yes another invasive).

Agree, cold end of October- November. There is food for the alewives now, the critical time is Feb-March. We need an early spring.

The part of natural reproduction of salmon that the lake managers don’t like is the lack of control. Lack of consistency in the salmon hatch make it more of a challenge to plan predator v alewife numbers.

If you google underwater footage of the lower Niagara on YouTube, you will see an amazing array of fish species-all qualified to eat eggs. Add Lake Trout, Browns, smallmouth, walleyes, muskies etc etc that will eat the parr that survive the egg eaters. Add toxic warm temps in the fall and sewage discharges all winter long.....the chances of natural repro of any relevance is small.

I think someone should start a venison dish thread. Tonight’s dinner was a venison roast cooked for 6 hours in a crock pot with two cans of Progresso beef barley cans of soup. Outstanding!

Wow! Deer looks almost 150”?? Good genetics in those northern counties.

Dead doe on death run.

Welcome to the “if it’s brown it’s down hour”.