Kevin J Legg

Yep you never know from day to day.

Fished near Ogdensburg on Thursday and caught 6 eyes and 2 pike all jigging. Kept limit of eyes, 27, 26,and 18" and released three shorts. Lost another nice one at the hole. returned last night and got skunked athough my friend got 2 shorts and a nice pike.

Had an interesting years with some highs and lows. Great early season geese and decent early ducks. I then didn't get out much till the end of the year and after a unsuccessful trip to the Finger Lakes had a couple great shoots on the Canadian side.

A great way to wrap up the year with a nice mixed limit. 10 mallards, 7 whistlers and a broadbill. Had to break ice today and I believe the cold weather is going to ice in the launch but still hoping for one more day!

Hunted with Matt and Stu this morning on the Canadian side of the river where the season is still open and had a nice morning.

Good to see the officer knew the law .

Hunted today and decided to bag the rest of the trip do to lack of success and wind forecast for Lake Ontario the next couple days.

Hunted a smaller Finger Lake and we shot a pair of mallards and two Ruddy ducks the first I've ever taken. Going to try a different lake tomorrow. We did see some redheads but not a ton of birds .

Headed to Western zone tomorrow to scout and the hunt midweek.

Nice

Great looking birds and beautiful country.

I've heard of the worm trick but seldom tried it. Might work well on the river. I'll have to give it a test.

I actually haven't hunted or fished since I took the deer. The sleepless night, and many early mornings throughout the summer and fall finally caught up with me so other than processing the deer and doing work around the house I've been resting up. I'm also in no real hurry to harvest more game or fish as I currently have a good supply. I may even take a trip with my wife to NJ this weekend to visit my daughter and her family.

After chasing ducks in the morning I decided to try the afternoon opener with the muzzleloader. I took a shot with about 10 minutes of shooting time left and although I had a good rest and the deer acted hit he ran into pretty thick brush. An hour search turned up no blood or hair. After spending a sleepless night I resumed my search this morning and extended my grid. After another hour I actually thought I smelled it before I saw it. Certainly he's not a monster but I earned him and beat the coyotes to the meat. He was quartering to me more than I thought and I took out a lung and the liver resulting in the 200 yard recovery. I never did find any blood or hair. I've learned not to guess where a deer has gone and limit your search to that area when you don't find blood. You need to grid search the entire area as they often change their original direction of travel. This deer had made a right angle change of direction and wasn't where I thought he went.