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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!

That is awesome! This part of the season can be great. If you can find a Tom there is a better chance that they are alone and callable.

Beautiful bird. Congrats!

Congrats! Jakes taste better anyway! Thanks to you I now skin out the entire bird and keep every bit of meat. Lately I have been cooking down the legs/wings/neck and then making a smoked Turkey chili. It is awesome.

Awfully quiet here? Is nobody turkey hunting? I tagged my second bird on Sunday in the finger lakes. This one was silent with a hen and I happened to walk up on them and see them before they saw me. I was able to crawl to a tree and she brought him right by me at 20 yards about 30 minutes later.

Jakes are more tender anyway! Hopefully we will have another dry late May and June so we have another good hatch.

Those are some nice hooks!

This bird walked the same stretch 3 days in a row. He would sort of shadow the flock 100 yards away. Finally I got set up in the right spot this morning. I never made a call.

There definitely seem to be more birds around. I’ve seen Toms both mornings but they have been locked on hens.