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Saw one buck today. The good news is I saw a 25 bird flock of turkeys that lived under my stand for 15 minutes. I have awesome footage on my phone to relive the sounds of turkeys. I haven’t hunted turkeys in ten years due to low numbers so good to see them in that capacity

Derby fished today out of Marblehead. I booked with Ross Robertson’s outfit after my crew all backed out to deer hunt. I didn’t think we could make it happen due to 30 mph winds last night and 15-25 mph winds today but I learned how the bass islands really block waves from building and allow for fishing on the lee side on normal blow days. The water color was bad but the fishfinder was packed with hooks. First fish was 6.75 lbs which we released. The rest of the limit were 4 lb males which will find a grease bath one day. Nice change of pace from deer hunting. Going to try to make one more trip down before the derbies end.

I am sorry to say I witnessed a buck and doe in lockdown breeding in a nearby thicket. I have seen movement slow considerably from Saturday to today. I have been out for all day sits. Going fishing tomorrow. I am going to need a vacation from my week off.

That had to be the coldest 50 degree sit I can remember.

The woods were devoid of deer movement today. El sucko! On drive out some deer are already out in fields at noon. Weather pinch coming.

Spent a nice morning on the water off Buffalo today. One walleye, two smallmouth, and a handful of large perch was all. We never turned on fish. Mostly, exploring and enjoying the nice weather for November.

Buck number 4 came under stand. It is on!

Nice one!

Deep woods scrub buck came cruising at 9:30 and decided to hang out under tree for 45 minutes

Does anyone have any squirrel nuisance tags they want to part with? I can’t hear myself think.

Giant!

All day sit in store for tomorrow. DEC contact says bucks chasing does everywhere in Allegany County.

Great photo

I made the drive today from Maryland back to Buffalo. I saw probably 50 dead deer along the road. Does and small bucks. I made good time and was able get two hours in this evening. I had three does under my stand for an hour until two small bucks chased them off. All indications are that it is on.

Gobies can carry botulism.

I think salmon do better when they can feed up. From chinook stomach content checks during the March-May period, I always find empty stomachs despite hoards of alewives pinned on the bottom during the winter into spring transition. I also think the demise of emerald shiner stocks puts year 1 kings behind in development. Selective forces during the egg and sperm take at Altmar and low tributary water levels favor smaller body sized individuals getting to pass on their genes.

You got fat.

Thank you for doing your part HB2 to contribute to a thread titled “This should make everybody angry”.

I don’t think we need a study to tell us how evolution works. We know how fitness drives the selection process on passing on genes. I think we just need a directive or policy passed down from fishery leadership to Altmar that states only the biggest and healthiest specimens are selected for egg take and milting. Simple.

Does in hiding. Warm weather

Roll call. Who got tickets for the fall brawl and walleye slam derbies in Ohio?

Salmon and trout are good indicator species as they tend to do better in cleaner water. If there is some environmental reason for the smaller salmon, it would prove to be a worthwhile study. It might be something super small and unforeseen such as what happened to some Pacific salmon stocks that started to flounder because of some chemical used in the tire industry to reduce wear was found to enter streams as runoff and cause salmon infertility in tiny concentrations.

Nice

Huge body !