Reel Doc

My favorite fishing/hunting magazine is this website!!!!! [ Post made via Android ]

Thanks Nick for the report & info about Deans. You cannot do any better than a beautiful day and pounding the fish. Greg [ Post made via Android ]

This morning I was enjoying breakfast and looking down our hill and a white buck with little nubs for horns makes his way through the hayfield. We are about 8 miles nortwest of the depot in Romulus so I guess some fence holes exist. I'm hoping for snow the next couple hunting seasons so maybe this guy can grow a little older. Greg [ Post made via Android ]

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Bill Thamk you for the in depth report. I learn more about what I'm not doing properly just reading your reports. I for one am glad to have you back on Cayuga this year. Greg [ Post made via Android ]

Maiden voyage for 2012 took my 2 boys out of Deans getting boat wet a little after 7. We worked West side around Sheldrake. Marked plenty of fish in the upper 30 feet but no takers. We tried to work over 100-150 FOW. Went across to East side and picked up a couple lakers on flasher flies. 60 & 80 down but no luck with silver fish.Hightailed it in just after 10 when a pretty good Tstorm cell came through. The fish made for a nice dinner to start the season. Will try & add a pic later. It is our earliest start since getting the boat as baseball/softball season consumes most of April and May. I'm guessing the inline boards or planer set up is critical to early season silvers, but I'm all ears if anyone has thoughts. Thanks Greg [ Post made via Android ]

Good job. Is the water level coming up? [ Post made via Android ]

Nice fish!! [ Post made via Android ]

Anyone check Deans cove? [ Post made via Android ]

You boys with toy guns are pretty serious! I think you hit her on the head with the pistol handle. If you shot her it would have been a Dirty Harry "blow your head clean off" Greg [ Post made via Android ]

Wow, quite a piece! Makes the Dirty Harry hardware look like a pea shooter. How do you hold it steady? Greg [ Post made via Android ]

Many lasting memories there! Congratulations on the hunt and a really nice looking buck. Greg [ Post made via Android ]

Any time in the woods is a great time and you two put it together. Congratulations on getting it done with a nice animal. Something tells me you have a pretty good idea how the deer flow on that property. Greg [ Post made via Android ]

Patience is virtue. You put In the time and get great rewards. Love the story on a nice buck. Greg [ Post made via Android ]

Did you happen to look at her teeth? Curious to know how old she was. Greg [ Post made via Android ]

One wild hunt. You will always remember how you got him. Congratulations! Greg [ Post made via Android ]

Let me know when your uncle gets him back from the taxidermist. Legend has it touching horns of a trophy local buck gives you good luck the following year!! Greg [ Post made via Android ]

The closest farmed ruminants to whitetails are sheep and goats as they typically start to cycle with decreasing daylight in the Fall. The first 15-19 day cycle 70-85% come into heat and 60-75% actually conceive. That leaves 25 to at most 40% to cycle during the second 15-19 day period. For whitetails that second cycle is now. A mature buck who took care of most of his does the first time around is more inclined to expand his territory now in search of does, provided hunting pressure has not turned him nocturnal. Even so he'll wander but only in view of a trail cam. One of my wall hangers I took a few years back in late November. He walked through with a doe. I had hunted hard that year all bow season and never saw him or sign of a buck like him on our property. Last year during late bow season saw 2 different beauties come through, one from the kitchen window, and one who bedded down 60 yards from my stand then got up and headed around me. With him, the doe in heat can and the buck grunt did not spur his interest. I'm hoping he comes around again this year. So I for one believe the next 3 weeks offer some good opportunities to see a good one. I will add that a large portion of farmland around me sees heavy gun hunting pressure which definitely adds to the late season opportunities including does who tend to bed in some of the really thick areas on our land. I would do the same thing if I were getting constantly pushed and shot at on the neighboring land. Greg [ Post made via Android ]

Definitely a buck of a lifetime! Congratulations. Since I live in Seneca county I'm glad he came from Ontario. Hoping his brother is still hanging around here! Let us know what he scores. Greg [ Post made via Android ]

Found a beautiful skull of a 3 year old basket 8 when scouting in early October. Mother nature does the best work so long as the coyotes don't crunch it up! Greg [ Post made via Android ]

Congratulations on the double!! Our prayers go out that no one was seriously hurt. Where were you hunting? Greg [ Post made via Android ]

The smiles tell the whole story. WTG! Greg [ Post made via Android ]

Congrats Tristan. Looks like you have set the bar high for Dad to try and match you. Get to work Andy, you represent all of us in the Dad group! Greg [ Post made via Android ]

Nice to see they are still active. Greg

Glad to know the downhill horn is not unique to our area. We are about 8 miles from the old Seneca Army Depot site in Seneca county and I would hate to think some radioactive fallout might be altering horn growth. Also glad to know he is out of the gene pool now just in case it is a heritable trait. Greg