Gill-T

Anyone notice less birds stocked this year? What is usually a war zone, the state park I was at yesterday was unusually quiet. I ate pheasant last night but only two flushes in morning hunt.

What is wrong with Russian salmon snuff videos? That was pure entertainment.

I like your pin set up......20 yards, 30 yards and......oh **** I need to put another arrow in him.

Nice! Great shot placement.

Congrats!

The last man who learned the wearabouts of your secret brown trout spots

The woods have been torn up with scrapes and rubs with the first hint of cooler temps. Get near those lickng branches!

Charter captain's fish diaries show this to be true. The Tule strain evolved in water on Washington coast that does not vary from 48-55 degrees all year. I would surmise that when water temps dip below 40 degrees there is an effect on activity levels. In the spring we don't really see Kings coming into play until the water rises to the magic mark of 40 degrees so I think that probably is the tipping point.

Jimski2, I would direct you to the LOLA report put out by the USGS. The food web is intact. To grow plump alewives it is the zooplankton that is key. When zooplankton drops, alewives feed on phytoplankton and their body weights suffer. Right now there is too much algae in Erie and Ontario thats why they are attempting to reduce phosphorus loading in Ohio. This is NOT a food web issue but as stated by biologists, a back-to-back historically cold winter issue. The food available to alewives is seasonal in its availability. If winter stays too long and delays the spring bloom, alewives starve. They starved and washed up on the beaches in the spring even when the lake was plankton soup in the 70's and 80's. This is a short term hiccup only, not the sky falling.

It could have been only 4" off target. Quartering away with the head down feeding. The shot was yanked or deer moved and the arrow glanced off the ribs and into the neck. My brother had a similar case with an eight pointer but the arrow glanced off the ribs and luckily spined the deer.

I don't think their winter coats are in with the warm weather

Apparently deer don't like new camo blind smell LOL . I noticed the blind smelled like a cross between a child's rubber gorilla toy made in China and an oil refinery. Then I started thinking about it ........of course deer are scared of camo blinds as who else would be hiding in camouflage blind but a hunter! I need a giant Trojan deer blind to hide in.

I will bite Jerry. With the idea of short term preservation of young offshore alewive numbers ..... Keep Steelhead numbers the same as recent die offs have already reduced numbers Cut kings by 150,000 but increase significantly percentage of pen fish Increase brown stocking numbers by 75,000 Cut Lake Trout stocking in half

Seeing the Halon I have to ask when is a bow no longer a bow. Good god that thing looks nothing like a traditional bow with those huge cams.