Yankee Troller

I might have to just do it this winter! I want to get into shooting that kinda stuff.

Yeah, but i bet you wish you could dock there! Your gas bill would be cheap!

As long as you don't have a 31' boat I would check out Braddocks bay. It gets tough to get out of there late summer towards fall, but fishin is pretty good out there for most of the year.

Yeah, I seen your ugly mug in some pics at his shop! Do you shoot in a league there? I want to shoot, but no one wants to or lives to far from him.

I had the Guardian up for sale to buy the General, but I never sold it and I'm glad. I take Phil Race's (Indian Mountain Archery) opinion very strongly only becasue he does this for enjoyment. Hes already a millionaire and doesn't need to sell bows to survive. He goes to all the big archery shows and talks to a lot of "pros". Not to mention he spends a lot of money each year on hunts, so he needs equipment that is durable and works. He spends more time tinkering with the small stuff becasue he is anal about making sure that bow cant shoot any better when it leaves his shop. So, back to the General. After he played with the General he seemed to think it was a touch louder than the Guardian and not as smooth. I really didn't shoot it set up. The only **** about that bow would be the fact you need a special bow press for it.

Hey Gene.....thats a great deer! Any deer with a bow is a great kill. I'm not to the trophy stage yet, and maybe someday I will be. At this point though.....they cant give me enough tags!

I was a Mathews guy (SQ2)....but when that guardian hit my hand the Mathews couldn't compete with the quietness and lack of hand shock compared to the Bowtech Guardian. I shot the Drenny and the DXT and neither felt as good. They are still great bows, but even in independent testing the Guardian consistently came out on top. Only cripe about the Guardian, and this is only for the smaller guys, the draw cycle is a tad bit rougher than the Mathews due to the binary cams. Although, a correct draw length will keep this to almost a non existent state. So, to hit ya back: Refuse to FOLLOW, and Refuse to FAIL!

You didnt tell me I was gonna have to see your ugly mug on his website!

OK, I guess I wont be using the mineral block that much longer then. Thanks for the heads up on the lease's.

I just bought the Moultrie 4.0 digital camera from Cabelas. It was $100. It came highly recommended on Archery Talk for the value.

Well, a buddy and I hung our first game cams last night. We are going to give them a two week soak and see what we get. Just to get some cool shots, and to see whats it he area, we set them up on trails with a mineral block to get them to stop for the camera. Wasn't sure the regs. on this, but it isn't something we are going to hunt over. I'm ready to get in a tree! Broke out the Bowtech a week ago and she was grouping arrows like a champ! I'm thinkin after I get staging kings off the brain I'm gonna be fixin for some antlers! We might be loosing our lease due to the farm being sold. Right now its up in the air. How do you guys go about getting permission to hunt other peoples property? Some close friends and I are looking to lease some acreage. I am also looking for some small spots in the Monroe county area to hit after work. If anyone has land they would be willing to let em hunt please toss me a PM.

Get a hold of Hank or at L&M and pick his brain. Hes got a chit load of experience fixin boats.

Happy Birthday bud!

You three are hilarious!

Good job Tom! Maybe some of them Oak fish have slid down.

Mikey.....is thata copper reel down the chute?

I have a pair of the 13lb'ers and love them. I dont think anyone will ever prove that a cerain weight brings in the fish, but if you have confidence thats all that matters. If I am fishing higher than 100' in the water column I will run them.

There are some real nice fish on that shoal, but they are few and far between it seems. I was there fourth of July weekend and hooked into 3 bruisers on a drop-shot. Marked some good fish, but they were tough. It has potential though.

Where ever the fish are is where I'll be!

Yeah, he was going to fish with me but I canceled at 4:30 when I woke up and the wind was howling. He had 17 bites on Saturday. No monsters, but a solid day.

Yeah, the few captains that went out that I talked to had a tough day. I'm glad we stayed dockside and had that good 4c's breakfast! Enough guys around to shoot the bull with too. You guys over at the Oak have a great group of fisherman.

Ditto what Gambler said

Oak Orchard

Well, we left the dock around 5:30am and were setting lines around 6am. We stopped at the 26.5 line and didnt turn until the 30 line as we picked fish all the way out. Spent the day doing N-S trolls between the 27 and 30 lines. 22 shots mostly riggers. Dreamweaver glow froggy SS was the hot spoon parked at 50. Dreamweaver area 51 SS was our second best parked at 55. 42nd's, and sea sick waddlers took shots too. First fish in the box was a monster king measuring 42" long. He took a glow froggy on the cheater parked at 40 in 60 degree water......wtf???? Many steelies in the 6-10lb range. 300 copper went twice with a Green double crush glow SmartFish pulling an A-TOM-MIK green krinkle. 10 color went once with a NK Hawg Wild. Wires parked at 100-175 took a couple of fish with a dreamweaver green sparkle SS and a white/green edged spiny pulling an A-TOM-MIK glow pro-am fly. Pics to come as I forgot my camera and I am awaiting an e-mail with pics from the crew.

I spent a few hours drop-shotting on Watoma and Light House point 4th of July weekend. The 3 fish i caught were nice, but wasnt nearly enough action for a 3 hours I put in. I was marking fish on the bottom, but they weren't active. Your best way to find these fish is by trolling hands down. Once you find a school then you can slow down and hit them with lighter techniques.