Chas0218

Well guys it looks like I need to shoot a big deer this year. I was told by the wife that if I want to hang another deer on the wall it has to be bigger than my 160" 10 point. I am thinking in NY that will be next to impossible. Good luck everyone, hopefully this season will be record breaking!

If it were me I would be removing the rear cup holders and mounting a 36" track. I would start it about 6" behind the cup holder hole. This would allow you to move them forward if fishing by yourself and be with arms reach or slightly back to clear the fish fighting area with more than 2 guys. I'm not a big fan of boards on smaller boats it hinders the places you can put downriggers. My dad has this setup on a older starcraft and it works great but he does not have a rear fishing platform like you. I would hate to have something that hindered my fishing area like that. I like being able to pull my riggers off and drift a little or completely change up and go fishing for a different species. I am a multi-species fisherman and some days I will start out salmon/trout and end up fishing walleye later on or hit some shoals for bass. That would be hard to do on your boat with a board mounted across the back then trying to store it and tripping over it on the floor of the boat.... I believe they also make track mounted cup holders if you really need them.

Did you make it up this year? Watch out for the DEC guy I guess he is giving everyone a hard time about their stands.

Well yesterday morning I sat on my buddys set and saw 10 deer 1 of which was a nicer buck (I am thinking it was this guy) but couldnt really tell with the thick fog and still being kind of dark. So after sitting there for 4 hours and having all 10 deer walk 70+yards away I was pretty disappointed. I have hunted this property for 7 years only during early season before oct 1. The owners shoot almost everything big or small so I have never seen a deer over 80 inches and bigger than a 14inch spread. Over those past 7 years I have always wanted to hang a stand in this set of willows. I hung one that morning at 11am tucked back into this one willow at the end of a hedgerow. This stand is hardly worthy of the name stand being only 6 feet off the ground but anywayi sat there from 3pm and only saw 2 bucks. After seeing next to nothing and thinking my stand location was lousy started packing up. I was sitting on 5 gallon pail while waiting so as you can imagine when packing up and my buckles bouncing against the side was making a little racket. As I was packing up I heard something coming thru the tall golden rod. I turned to look and here come 3 bucks right to my stand. I slowly grabbed my bow and was just about to pull and one spotted me but took no interest. So just as I was about to shoot the first one walking into my shooting lane I noticed the other one was bigger rack and body wise and decided to take the bigger one instead. Well unfortunately the only shot I had was straight on so I took it and put my broad-head right into his neck and into its spine. No tracking needed. As he was lying there I started to size him up and realized he was a lot bigger than I first thought. Scored 115-7/8" with inside spread of 17 and 19-1/2 outside spread. Sent from my thinking car!

Got a dandy tonight in early season archery, even better as I could us last year's tag. Sent from my thinking chair...

Good looking deer!

Where I was fishing on Lake O last year we were burying our augers up to the gear boxes just to get thru all the ice...I am willing to bet in that area you wouldn't be using an electric auger.

Everyone I know hates wildgame innovations as well as the lower end cuddebacks (less than $200). I have had good luck with the wildgames innovations cameras that everyone doesn't like. My father has actually gone thru a few of the lower end $40 ones but mine have been great for 3 seasons now. I had a friend that has had moultries and seemed to like the older ones but the new ones he said suck. I guess it all depends, I have never heard anything bad about stealth cam and bushnell trophy cams. I have an older stealth cam and other than going thru a set of C batteries every 500-800 pictures it isn't bad.

Did they have the a series raymarine in 9"?

Now that is just crazy, 2 bands out of that whole bunch!?!? Shows you how much over population there is.

What kind of kicker? My tiller handle can lay flat back on itself. My kicker prop just barely sits in the water when not on plane, as soon as I jump her up on plane the lower unit of the kicker is out of the water. Also in a heavy surf with the bow coming up the motors lower unit will "float" on the wake coming off the back of the boat. Try to get her off the back of the boat more so you can prop her up higher. Try one of these maybe? http://www.marinetechproducts.com/pages/550028/

Looks like a whaler. I think he said it had twins! Not sure if he meant women or motors.

Those are some serious hogs.

That's why my buddy brought his propane auger to drill my holes too! haha

I too am looking forward to hitting the woods. I hope I can post up some nicer photos this coming weekend when I pull my cameras for the first time. The area I hunt has tons of acrons on the ground so it should be a great year. On a side note would it be illegal to rake up a pile of acorns in front of my camera to get some still photos? I mean they are from the same forest not being transported or hunted over just simply for photos?

Can't stress this enough. My mast is a good ways forward, I'm probably going to re-mount it even further forwards. See my far left photo in my signature with the mast in front of the windshield. Mine will most likely go further to the bow with pull lines to attach releases.