Gill-T

You went to the wrong college ! So with my Kansas trip coming in two weeks, the worst enemy to a bow hunter other than the wrong wind is a lack of confidence. So this morning I recreated my shot distance and put all my bulky hunting clothes on because I had noticed the bowstring slap my clothing on my left arm on my miss yesterday. First shot with the same arrow and broadhead and …… dead nuts even with the recreated bow string/clothing slap. I chalked this one up to my neck gator. We had a brief rain event as I was getting into my evening sit so I put on my neck gator to keep rain from going down my neck. When I drew on the deer yesterday, I never got comfortable with my anchor point because of the restricting gator. When I was at full draw I pulled it down as far as I could with my release hand but it never was out of the way. Lesson learned. Going to Cabelas to look for a better idea. Maybe a lighter turtleneck?

Fully mature eight with mass. Awesome specimen. Just had an Eagle land in the tree next to me. Unreal day in the woods.

My neck is getting sore from shaking my head in disgust

I SUCK!! Just sent an arrow over the back of a giant broadside at 25 yards.

Broken right shoulder I would say. Probably got hit by a car.

Looking at the weather forecast and reading the tea leaves, Saturday will be an all day sit.

Good call on the pass.

what part of the water column were the biters coming from? My buddy caught one 120’ down and the 100’ down on riggers. I thought maybe he was fishing below the fish by targeting the deep marks.

Wow, good deal. My buddy was out past 100’ and struggled to catch 2 fish and didn’t mark much.

Fresh scrapes found on my way out today. Looks like things are starting to percolate

Lake Inferior

No. None in southern tier that I have seen. No apples either

Reports I have heard are not good. Sounds like the Ohio fish have exited stage left. Now just have to fill my buck tag so I can chase them in Ohio.

Your memes always make me smile!

Huh? Do tell! Note winning king weights….

Great buck!

Great sit this evening. Deer moving. Bucks not chasing yet. Bucks more concerned about laying down scent than paying any mind to does.

A dead fish in a cooler or on a rope is still a dead fish. Stocking numbers factor both into the equation. Total numbers is not what the spirit of this thread was about. How do we stop the slide into smaller fish that spawn at 2 years? Perhaps a slot for kings on the Salmon River? We want the two year olds yanked out. Catch and release anything over 30” ??

I would point to possible variability in feeding times. Auto feeder vs volunteers. Good bug life vs none in the trib.

Great management tool to have a bean counter https://www.riverwatcherdaily.is/Migration

Maybe electromagnetic genetic alteration would help? Great light show tonight. Cheers!

Yep 👍 I can read.

?? Taking out only the biggest fish would make for smaller fish size. Artificial selection at the hand of man.

Just a snapshot in a three month-long run but look at all of the 12-14 lbers. Perhaps the answer is not the bigs get ripped out (no fishing on the Ganny during most of the run) but maybe only the smalls can jump into the raceway at the Corbett Dam?