Gill-T

lots of perfume has deer musk added. Never understood why as if you go up to a girl in a bar and sniff her you probably are going to get slapped.

I would add that if you use the mag-sized dipsys w/out a ring your divers will stay closer to the boat with a steeper dive curve and therefore stay away from your coppers. Send the coppers out as far as you can also. When you deploy the copper over a diver....let it out SLOWLY out the back and then let it ride awhile before attaching to a board and moving it out ( what Gambler said).

Hell, stay home and commute from Oneida to Mexico Bay for early season shoreline trolling for browns. His 19' boat is perfect size for this type of fishing and you don't need to buy a lot of extra gear.

Wow the coat on that coyote is beautiful...almost like a wolf. How big of a dog? Congrats on the deer too.

I think your dad hit the reset button with his watch and the fish was a 12lb coho ......this fish from this fish story keeps getting bigger and bigger LOL.

Sounds like you need to fix that sausage party ratio.

Agreed....I have seen a ton of small bucks so I decided a cull was in order. 6 point and doe tags filled sat by 9 am. Fourth small buck I had seen that morning. Had to be at kids soccer game by 3. Gut two deer, drag them both out by myself, and hit the road peeling rubber to get to game on time. Sat next to a well made-up soccer mom while I smelled like a gut pile.

I don't know if everyone is noticing the huge crop of button bucks in the woods this year? I would say I am seeing 4 buttons for every female yearling. I have noticed the trend in all areas I have hunted. This may have ramifications on doe harvest and culling inferior bucks in the next few years as the buck to doe ratio may swing hard the other way. I also noticed every doe has two yearlings which has been counter to years past. I used to attribute single fawns to a large degree to coyote predation. I gal I know who runs the western NY wildlife rehabilitation center says fawn mortality is more about the diseases they pick up. Every year is a different bug. This spring it was a coccidiosis outbreak. My dog contracted this as well. Anyway, what is everyone seeing out there?

Ah.......didn't look like that operation was "least complicated" lol.

May explain the "shark-like" teeth marks on fish that started the whole shark/seal/monster swimming around there discussion lol. http://www.esf.edu/communications/view.asp?newsID=2262

Friday night most of the bucks must have been out as soon as the wind died because there were scrapes EVERYWHERE without a leaf on them. Their hangover kept them from moving in the rain until 2 pm. Does moving am/evening. Saturday saw 14 deer with one chase scene with a four point. Shaved the back of a doe at 35 yards. Amazing animals..I shoot one pin which allows my arrow to be 8" low at 30 yards. With the drop of the deer I figure 8" is perfect so I hold dead on out to 30 yards and don't shoot any further. This doe must have dropped two feet! Enjoy the hair cut.....it will grow back. I would add I am seeing Beech and Hickory nuts dropping. In years past if I am not seeing big bucks they usually are hanging way back deep in the woods eating nuts. Been watching deer walk thru food plots only to start eating beech nuts on the other side. This time of year it is all about protein.

Quick connect goes to fly leader so you can change flies quickly.

After the next two heavy blow days I got to believe the weather keeping the bucks hunkered down will have them up and horny as hell come saturday.