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Carter Trophy Whitetails Honeoye NY
Traveling Circus replied to fishhook's topic in Big / Small Game
on one end of the spectrum is a public land hunt....... If you can kill a trophy buck on public land you have earned it, or have been extremely lucky..... in any event, it is the most respected trophy as most of them are earned... someplace in the middle is the private land..... food plot.....lease the land.....limited access "type" hunt..... you're still paying for the animal in some ways..... and probably more than $50, as Momay4000 has mentioned On the other extreme is the pay to hunt "fenced" type hunts...... If you've got the cash and want the horns..... it's the quickest way to your objective. SF, I'm guessing you're a public land man....... -
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Blue tongue....???
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Salmon River Egg Collection
Traveling Circus replied to RUNNIN REBEL's topic in Open Lake Discussion
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2 weeks ago, I watched a redtail whack a crow on the ground. He sunk talons into the crows' head and chest, and while the crow was thrashing around, 4 geese which were feeding in the same field came walking over to the attack (for whatever reason)....... The hawk got nervous and then carried the flapping crow by the head about 30 yards away, and landed there to finish the job....... pretty cool.... In the attack, the hawk dropped out of the air, carrying lots of speed about 2 feet over the field, and he never stopped until plowing into the crow (still on the ground), hooks extended......
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In Lake Ontario and the tribs, we have the finest salmonid fishery in the country, but for whatever reason, we (New York State) do not treat it that way. If this kind of BS took place in Montana / Wyoming / Idaho / Alaska..... someplace with a REAL enforcement and punishment system...... these violations would be minimized. I've stood on the Driving Park bridge next to a Conservation Officer with binoculars watching salmon snaggers at work. He would not go down into the gorge. Out of fear, or frustration, or whatever.... he would not go enforce the laws he was watching being broken. When I pressed him for a response, he mentioned that he was responsible for patrolling from Niagara County to Monroe county, and more or less used "coverage" as an excuse..... but in my mind, on that day, he stood there, watching criminal activities and choose to do nothing. If Team Green could care less, do you really expect the guy in the video to have any respect for the law? That event was years ago. In todays' digital world, I'm sure the CO wouldn't even go stand on the bridge to look....too many cell phones watching.
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http://www.peer.org/news/news-releases/court-finds-cormorant-mass-killing-policy-illegal.html PEER is at the root of the change to stop controlling cormorants. They appear to be a Washington based Environmental Activist group that uses a "whistleblower" spin on their efforts to "protect" the environment. The quickest way to jam things up is to threaten/apply litigation. Of course, the situation on the Toronto Islands, Galloo, etc..... is crystal clear from Washington.
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You may be better off looking for several charter boats on the Niagara River........ No shortage of mature kings there in mid-October.
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http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/glcfs/glcfs.php?lake=o&ext=wv&type=F&hr=01 This is a decent forecasting site, and it's updated pretty often..... it will give you an idea of what to expect.
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Oak/sandy
Traveling Circus replied to Pa223's topic in New York Fishing Reports - Lake Ontario (South Shore)
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LOC Summer Derby!
Traveling Circus replied to Sarah Chilson's topic in Tournament Talk, Shows, Events & Seminars
Well put Bill....... Without a weigh station close to the creek, Fishing out of Sandy in the weekday evening requires a trailering fisherman to quit fishing by 6:30 so he can safely run in, load the boat on the trailer(hoping there is no line at the dock), then drive 20 miles to the Oak (on the back roads, because the Parkway is the road equivalent of 4 footers), in time to make the 8:00 PM deadline...... It makes the decision to not fish the LOC derby a little easier to arrive at..... here's to hoping that one rule change would be considered -
LOC Summer Derby!
Traveling Circus replied to Sarah Chilson's topic in Tournament Talk, Shows, Events & Seminars
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Oak/sandy
Traveling Circus replied to Pa223's topic in New York Fishing Reports - Lake Ontario (South Shore)
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Some years ago, we snagged via cannonball, an old piece of submerged gill net on Lake Erie. The net was full of rotting fish and was a tangled mess of mono netting. We were happy to cut our way out of it and watch it sink back into the depths.......... but the stink remained on us, and I think it does to this very day........
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Wanted WTB Starcraft Fishmaster 196
Traveling Circus replied to rusty1034's topic in Classifieds - Buy, Sell, Trade or Rent
You look like one happy dude................. congrats on the new boat, good luck with it and be safe. -
Dylan..... an early morning trip is pretty safe....... sunrise to 10 AM......but please be careful...... maybe go with a friend.....too bad it's gotta be that way....... such a nice place to fish.
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Fished from about 5 til 6:30, and landed a couple browns and a shaker........ not a monster, but we weighed in a 10 lb 7 oz fish in the Orleans...... East wind was blowing pretty hard........ it was not easy fishing. The screen was pretty much barren..... a little bait here and there, and the fish were on the bait. We spent most of the night in 80 - 90 FOW...... If it blows like this for very long, temps will be coming way up.
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Sandy 8/8
Traveling Circus replied to whaler1's topic in New York Fishing Reports - Lake Ontario (South Shore)