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Good showing Doug, does the house come with the old car???

Like Tim said, wait until close to when you need your registration updated, go online and it will be cheaper than the original price on the renewal invoice. Takes about a week and a half to receive the new sticker and card in the mail.

Yankee, is your transducer on the inside of your hull, epoxied to it? Just curious.

There wasn't any interferance last time I ran the river on my GPS. We also use GPS while in the river to duplicate successful drifts, especially when walleye fishing in the fall.

Great pics Bill, looking at those, its almost like you were there

Thats the ice bridge below the falls. That will be there until it warms up, then it will all come down river or just melt off. Yankee, I forgot your boat is fiberglass, I would be very careful with a glass boat on the river during the winter as I wouldn't want to scratch or mess up the fiberglass. Typically, everyone runs aluminum boats in the winter because of the ice. Like Doug said, there is usually ice you don't even see, but rather you hear it when you hit it while running. I think that would be hard on a glass boat.

No, thats not the norm for the river. The third and bottom picture represent the river better as far as ice levels throughout. The first picture is at the bottom of the Artpark drift, which is a curve in the river, thus making the ice pile up. At the Lewiston docks, the river is pretty straight and the ice should be more thinned out.

Sweet pics Doug, how was the lewiston boat launch? Last time I was there back in November, the water level was really low. Gonna hit the river soon as I can't ice fish anymore.

Yes it was, good to meet ya in person

Can't wait

You can always just walk past the boat and toss the new stuff into it, she'll never know

If only 2, then they would be: NK28 Glow Frog NK28 Gold Watermelon

Same here Tim, gotta start saving some coin

Rich, do you use your kicker with the main motor off, and thus, no power steering? How hard is it to turn the outdrive and connected kicker without the power steering, assuming that you have no power steering at that point?

Fished Virginia Beach 12/27 in 8 - 12 FOW and caughts tons of perch, had to sort through the dinks for any keepers. Ice was between 8" - 10" thick, people were even driving cars to and from the main land to the island. Fished Sibblad Point 12/28 in 6 - 10 FOW and found bigger fish, still lots of dinks to sort through. Ice was 6" - 8" thick. Open water is right next to Sibbald Point going west :shock:

Go for the downspeed & temp, my choice would be either a Moor or Depth Raider. If I could only use one electronic tool on my boat, it would be my Moor.

Nice Buck Ray

Yankee, Tim summarized it really well. Your boat will be fine right now as there isn't much ice, if any at this point. The river generally is not rough, except for Devils Hole which I would advise against in a Bass Boat. Your trolling motor will work just fine for the rest of the river. There aren't any shoals / reefs etc that you need to avoid. The river is deep and consistent, meaning the farther from shore, the deeper it gets. This time of year, there will be fish throughout the river, so you just have to hunt them down.

Nice fish Doug. What was the water clarity like? Its been over a month since I've been on the river :shock:

Another thumbs way up for a Vex They are definately worth the investment.

I didn't confuse nuisance tags with the party tags. My point was, why do i get denied a tag, if the farmer down the road is gonna get 25 nuisance tags, that isn't right, considering the trend of the population decrease that I have seen over the past 10 years. Like mrhappy said about over in catt county where the farmer depleated his entire herd, thats bad news. I hope that is not happening near my camp, as there are a number of cattle farms.

Where are all these nuisance permits being issued, and to whom? In my area, which is 9P in Alleghany county, only 2 out of the 6 of us at my camp got doe tags this year. The other 4 were denied. Mrhappy, you make some very good points about killing does, but thats only part of the situation.

Hey Rich, good idea on the videos, that would be a good way to hear the calls too, plus one more thing to buy Thanks for the other ideas guys, especially that "Bark at the moon" site, that'll kill some time and help the learning curve.

Guys, it seems that the coyote population is getting rather large at my deer camp in the southern tier of western NY. You can hear them howl both day and night, and it seems as though the deer population is beginning to shrink. As such, we are going to start hunting them, but need to do some homework on tactics first. Any suggestions on how to or good sources for info?

Oh yes, there are a bunch of coyotes by my deer camp in west almond. Every time the neighbor's dog barks, the coyotes go nuts. The deer population also seems to be affected by it, as I am seeing less deer each year, and I cover a lot of ground. I was just down at my camp for 10 days the week of the gun opener, and only saw 4 deer, and that is hunting a number of different spots on both provate and state lands. We are gonna start hunting them as soon as deer season is over as their populations seems to be getting out of control :shock: