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They were biting good there over the weekend. everyone was catching them. Worm or chicken livers. People were running out of bait 

Same thing happened to my Dad with his valve replacement.  He used a pistol and had us boys to help him if he got anything.  He had to hunt out of a blind instead of a stand and he ended up missing a deer but that was it.  Contender is an awesome weapon.  As I remember, the recoil was pretty significant.  I guess I understand where you are coming from, but nobody is going to tell you to go against your doctor's recommendation.  I'd take it  easy but that's more because my wife would pressure me cuz she wants me to (grow old with her) die of nothing all by myself in hospital when I am 90 something.

 

I started believing the Dr's had some idea of what they were talking about when they said "no fun loving with your wife for 1 month, no fun loving with anyone else for two months."  Must be some data there somewhere.

 

Good luck with your decision...

Joe

Joe

LOL at the last paragraph of your post.  Does anyone here remember how Nelson Rockefeller died?

Looks like that bear is being fed. Isn't it dangerous to do that? They may start expecting food and attack if they don't get it.

Not trying 2 start a he said he said or call anyone out here...but i have bin hunting ohio, illinois& iowa since 1997 & working as a guide in iowa since 2000 & u cant hunt in illinois with a rifle....it is shotgun or muzzleloader only!!!....so dont no where that 300 killd a big buck & a 190 lb dressed doe????!!!!!. By the way imo buck is not a 160 but for the north east it is a true stud of a deer!...i hope you put him down and he is bigger than we all think and you prove us wrong! Go get him and post a picture 4 us all to see. Gud luck.

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your are right about shotguns only per this link http://www.dnr.illinois.gov/hunting/Pages/HuntingDevicesandAmmunition.aspx

maybe he was hunting in a preserve where any weapon is legal?

Nice one there!

Beauty. If that a mark from another fish hitting at it on its belly?

This young 8 point walked by the gun stand that I set up on Sunday. Sure hope I see him or his daddy on opening day.

Woods are really all tore up now. also putting in picture of rub that a friend sent me.

Bet that got your heart pumping when you saw him coming your way! Congrats

Real nice buck!

WTG man!   Real Nice One!

Thats interesting a few weeks ago I spent a week on the Saint Lawrence near Cedar Point. Every day a good size northern would swim in front of our cabin with his head out of the water.. One day he was bobbing up and down exposing half of his body.. Strangest thing I ever seen. I've  seen Muskies swim on the surface, but they were more horizontal this Pike was almost vertical. I think he was there to taunt me, because every day I failed to catch a Musky. 

I saw a tiger doing the same thing about 5-6 weeks ago on Conesus. Have seen plenty of fish swimming with head out of the water but this one was bobbing up and down for the longest time. A boat would pass by and he would disappear and then a few minutes later he was back bobbing again really high. It was a waste of time casting to him.

I loved checking those pictures out!

Congratulations on your muskie! Must have been super exhilarating to bring it to the net!

Now that will be one great memory. (Y)

That is a dandy catch and you wont wear yourself out filetting them. (Y)

There is a great App for Iphone that fishman930 (Dean) told me about. You can monitor your speed with it.

The free one is buggy. So I paid the 1.99 and love it.

Isn't there a point where you are going to fast that the crank will lose it's action and start to just roll over?

I thought this was around 4.5 mph?

Sounds like your buck is killable but you better do it before rut starts because once rut starts they

find the hot does and forget about scrapes.

I was hunting down near Scio on Saturday. I did not get a chance to do extensive scouting as I had to do some

farm chores to get hunting privileges but in the small walk I took while he was cutting corn on the tractor, I did find

two scrapes back in the woods. they were fresh but did not have a ton of activity. Did not find any smoking hot rubs, did find

some tine tickles on trees near the scrapes. Did not see any of the scrapes around field that you usually see either.

Helped put up a new ladder stand and hunted in it from 5-7. Deer came in to the corn at 6:45. Two does and two fawns.

Did not see any bucks.  Deer were very skittish but did walk directly past my stand at 18 yards. Does are off limits

on his farm though. He has  a ton of pictures of bears in and around the woods and eating his corn. He was hoping

I could get one of those out of there but all the bear pictures were well after dark and none of the bears came my way.

That buck is a keeper and so is your girl!. Congrats to you both.

Tomorrow is going to be my first chance to get out in the woods. Just wondering if anyone is seeing any scrapes yet?

Upstate NY by the way.

Thanks

Frank

What a beautiful fish!  I noticed the inverted rod holders. That is the first time I have seen a picture of them. Don't mean to sound dumb but can you tell when you get a strike as readily as with conventional holders?

Very nice!

No eyes yet. Caught my best bass same day tho. Maybe there is a night bite.

Nice of some walleye. My concern is that there will be 1 million less eggs next spring amongst those fish on your table.

Evidently you do not practice conservation. Even in Lake Erie, I will not keep fish over 21 inches for that reason. Second those big fish do not taste as good as the small ones do.

Everyone who cant catch them and they are probably the majority are practicing conservation.

It is not like you have hundreds of fisherman keeping three large fish apiece. I am sure there

are lots of fisherman who don't catch any walleyes. Justin is just taking a small portion of the

share that they don't/cant catch. I am sure the fish he kept wont affect the fishery one teentsy iota.