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Young does that are coming into their first estrus.

Ugly Stick lite action one-piece rods. They double as my rigger and/or leadcore rods for salmon. They are cheap, they torque way down on riggers to get out of the way, and they are almost indestructible. Cabelas sells them so you can use your cabelas points to buy them.

You send the blanks to Dave at R&R Tackle (mytacklebox.com)

Diawa sealine linecounters would be ideal, but I have a hoot with spinning gear and bass baitcaster sized reels.

Been slowly switching out my leadcore to Tuf-line Micro Core. You want the 27lb variety. One thing I have done for years is to color in the sheath of leadcore black with a fat permanent marker. You can now get dark colored "stealth core" at Great Lakes Tackle online store. Copper you want 45 lb for most applications

Then both. Early season browns along the shore a one or two color core is deadly out the back. Later into spring 5-7 colors will shine and double for June Steelhead. June.....shorter segments of copper in 150-250' sections come into their own. Come July and the fleas of Oswego you will find the 400-600 coppers useful.

What are you fishing for?

Cabelas is selling the Vari X I in 2X7 for $200.00.

Great buck! Very unusual rack.

It would be interesting to hear from the river drift-charters and guides on the Salmon River.

The run up Burt Dam on Eighteen Mile was poor to horrible from people I talked to. The Canadians I have talked to said there were strong runs on their tribs but dominated by naturals. Best non-scientific guess is something may have happened to much of the American year- 3 stockers. Combine that with the changes in the lake from the cold previous winter and abnormal amount of East winds or daily changing winds and I think you have the recipe for a tough year. I would like to know the final count at the Salmon River. Yes there was supposedly a good late run, but there was poor fishing most of the early season.

Ugly Stick downrigger rods and the Shimano Taloras are really good options.

The crew that was in our campsite showed up opening weekend with a 400 lb bear with and ear tag shot in Filmore. Eight guys took the entire opening day to drag the bear out. Filled the entire back of the truck with the head sticking out. Shoot a small one.

Been hunting the ski country of Western NY for thirty years. I can tell you when the food runs out, the deer leave. Deep hardwoods teaming with deer when the mast crops are dropping are devoid of deer in the middle of the winter. It is not unusual for Adirondak deer to travel 20-30 miles to yarding areas to winter. With the snow bands heavy in a narrow 12 mile swath, deer don't have to go too far to get relief. The hard thing is for the small plot hunter who has been seeing a good buck on trail camera may find his deer gone for good as the deer may find greener pastures in the move and stay.

Urine odor is extremely persistant. I watched my neighbor's male dog 6 months ago. My daughter let the dog lift it's leg on one of my bushes.......my shepard sniffed the exact spot this morning. When working out in my buddies barn we piss out the back door. This spring doing leaf clean up, the urine odor present when we started raking was horrible even after winter snows.