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I don’t want to know how much trout and salmon ends up freezer burned and tossed in the garbage after a year. This will ruffle some feathers but I do NOT think that a Captain’s or Mate’s limit should be taken on a charter.

In my very limited experience it takes some serious cold for that part of the lake to freeze up. Many nights below zero.

Nice job. The lake was a zoo yesterday. That’s good for the local businesses at least.

Looks like a nice bunch of eaters.

The DEC does still manage cormorants. They shoot quite a few of them and destroy their nets. The number of birds that they are allowed to kill is slowly increasing each year as well. This has the report for 2023 and the plan for 2024. The audio is not great. The report starts at around the 1:30:00 mark. In 2023 they killed 2500 birds and I think he said they destroyed 600 - 700 nests.

The last few birds I have been making a smoked turkey chili with the legs, wings, neck, and thighs. I put them in the instant pot for an hour, then shred it and add the meat to the pot of chili and smoke it.

I use the same spit patch procedure and it works great for me. If I shoot my CVA on a clean barrel the first shot is always quite a ways off. Not sure it was ever a foot off though. I run BH209 and Barnes or THOR (for out west, made by Barnes) bullets.

I gotta be honest, that deer creeps me out a little!

Gambler Looks like you need to get the doe to drop in a shooting lane next time. I had a small buck keep stepping on a dead doe several years ago. He didn’t really beat on her. He was more like “wake up, I’m ready!”

I love it. The walleye bite was the best I have ever seen Friday morning. I should have brought my shotgun too. I passed 3 flocks of geese on the way back in.

Anybody seeing poults? It looks like the chances of rain is going to increase. Hopefully they are big enough that it won’t bother the hatch.

The river is loaded with em. I would not feel bad! Nice catch!