Kevin J Legg

Plenty of ice on Bays in the Thousand Island region. 10-12". Some trucks on the ice at LOTI and Goose Bay. Had a decent morning fishing. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Late season duck hunts before ice up. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Hunted a pond that was loaded up this morning. Put up birds in the dark and picked them off as they returned. Huge number of birds and we were done by 8:30. Sent from my iPad using Lake Ontario United mobile app

prof T and I got into some with a good buddy this morning. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

In the early season with 15 bird limits we stack up a pile of geese ( several days with 60 birds or more) which takes a great deal of time to process. If we took 45 minutes a bird it would be ridiculous) We do the best we can but latter season I'm more meticulous. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

Just canned 7 quarts of goose. It took the breasts meat of 9 geese and leg meat of 7 geese for the seven quarts. Pretty simple process with a pressure canner, doesn't take up freezer space, and tastes great. Sent from my iPad using Lake Ontario United

Yep. My daughter is a doctor and watches carefully over me. Pork adds some fat and flavor same as with ground venison. She's all for wild game and fish. In fact I supply her family and my son's with lots of fish and game. Sent from my iPad using Lake Ontario United

I use to grind the gizzard and heart in with meat making sausage and save the livers but my daughter doesn't think I should eat much organ meat. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

I make breakfast and Italian sausage myself and I have many great ways to use their meat. I generally will use leg meat as well. Biggest Issue is the havoc that steel shot can play on your teeth. I have 3 crowns to attest to that damage and you need to be careful as steel is unforgiving. Sent from my iPad using Lake Ontario United

Another good hunt with great friends. We were able to bag a fast limit and get out of the field before big flocks arrived. Should be good for another hunt. Birds cupped up and came right to the landing zone. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Had a chance to spend the morning in layout blinds with my son. Birds didn't work very well but we still had a great time. Sent from my iPad using Lake Ontario United mobile app

I had the pleasure of hunting on the Hunter farm with three generations of Alan's family. I can remember hunting with Michael when he was Brock's age. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

DtD, I have corned venison and also goose breast. It comes out great. I've even made it into pastrami. Also both venison and goose is very good canned. Finished grinding the venison and mixed it with pork butt. Ended up with 13 # burger, 10# breakfast sausage, and 10# Italian sausage. I have 4# frozen and sliced for jerky. Finally done with the deer processing. I may be slow but I'm thorough and really like the results. Sent from my iPad using Lake Ontario United

After roasting and simmering bones, remove them from the broth and pick the meat. Cool the broth and a layer of tallow will solidify on the top and is easily picked off. Roasting the bones makes for better stock. Sent from my iPad using Lake Ontario United

Interesting recipe reeleyz. I've braised the shank before and this is similar. I just took bones out of the stock pot and picked the meat and I got 3 lbs. that nearly everyone throws away. I also have about 3 gallons of great stock. I only occasionally have a deer commercially cut as I prefer to do it myself. I know I use every bit of meat and it's always very good quality. Sent from my iPad using Lake Ontario United

Decided this rainy Sunday afternoon was a good time to get some chores done. After church I finished boning and packaging the deer I got last week. It should be properly aged as it spent 9 days in my extra refrigerator and looks great. Now I need to get a couple pork buts and grind all the trimmed venison and mix some into burger, breakfast sausage, and Italian sausage. I will also save a bag of the better pieces from the trimmings to make a batch of jerky. The loins, steaks, tenderloins, sirloins, and sirloin tips are vacuum sealed and in the freezer. I saved all the bones and roasted them on my grill and they are now simmering on the stove with garlic, onion, celery, dried tomatoes and carrot. I'll pick all the meat, cool it and remove any tallow and freeze it with broth in gallon ziplock bags for easy delicious soups and stew. It's amazing how much meat is on those bones even with careful trimming. Not a scrap wasted. I also had 2 gallons of raspberries frozen on trays that I put in gallon ziplock bags and returned to the freezer. They are for pies, jam or smoothies. Now I'm going to relax for the rest of the afternoon. Sent from my iPad using Lake Ontario United mobile app

For the second year in a row we got these two on a goose hunt. The 4 year old shared a layout blind with his dad or me and we alternated gunning and videoing. The 6 year old had her own layout blind. Got to start them in young. It was a blast. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Took Gabe and Henry Ward for jumbo perch. Caught 30 up to 13" this morning. Caught them in 12 fow on minnows. We did have to pick through shorts but the ones we kept were nice. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Fished Saturday afternoon with my buddy and his 4 year old son. Had a blast catching bluegills. Must have kept 75-100 and also some crappies. Fun low tech bobber fishing. Lots of fishermen but they all seemed polite and happy. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

After a disappointing opener that had few birds working our set up and not firing a shot, day two made up for it. We had large flocks of mallards hovering our decoys and shot a three man limit of mallards and a black in short order. Spend a fair amount of time bird watching as many flocks lit in the decoys but we saw very few woodies and no teal to finish off our limit. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

I tend to agree with bosco. There is a healthy population in the eastern end of the lake. They also are caught in Niagara River and around many tributaries and bays throughout the lake. Since they are known to migrates over large areas I believe they are likely occupying most suitable habitat. Perhaps measures could be taken to improve spawning areas to help increase their numbers. Sent from my iPad using Lake Ontario United