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A friend and I had a trip planned to go up north turkey hunting last season, but my wife and I had a baby come earlier than expected, so the trip got pushed back another year. This year however we made it happen! Three days of camping on state forest land and we got to hunt some of the most beautiful turkey land you have ever seen. Rolling hills, grass and chiseled fields, finger ridges, a river running through the property. Like something from a movie. It all came together and ended in a double on Saturday. One just before 6 and one just after 7 sitting in the same setup. We got to hear and see it all, spitting, drumming, gobbling, yelps, cuts, full strut toms, hens, jakes, a tom beat up the decoy, double beard. The full turkey hunting experience. Great times with great friends. A trip I won’t soon forget.

Beautiful bird Tom!

A nice quick hunt this morning! I’m pretty sure I pulled the trigger just before 6AM as the Tom “dominated” my full strut tom decoy. I actually shot him while he was standing on top of the decoy! My son was loving it. He kept laughing and I had to tell him to be quiet lol. Really cool hunt and more memories made!

Looks like potentially renosky

My little guy really wanted to get out for a coyote this year. I figured we would do one set on the last night of the season, and it all came together!

Had a quad come in last night and dumped two. Trying to make the most of this last week.

3 sets last night. Nothing but foxes wanted to play until the last set of the night. Big male came in upwind of the call and caught us off guard. Was only about 30 yards from the call when we saw him. Dumped him like 6ft from the call.

Down there they actually wanted almond butter

My family and I went south for the last 3 weeks. It was a nice getaway from this brutal winter we have had. Many fish came to hand!

Finally able to get out. This weather has been complete garbage

How did it go

I ran into the same situation with my little guy. He fell in love with fishing when he was 2 years old. We would go bass fishing a lot and even the better push button rods and reels just weren’t great and didn’t have great backbone for hooksets on larger fish. When he was 3 I bought him a st croix bassx M bait casting rod and paired it with a push button pflueger president reel. The reel has a nice drag for fighting bigger fish and casts well. I spooled it with 10lb braid and will just run a section or 6-10lb fluro leader depending on what we are fishing for. The idea behind this is that he can put a baitcaster on the rod when he is ready. It’s worked for what we do though. He can both bobber fish and cast lures with it.

Quick set before work this morning

Nice one Bill

Crazy first outing of the year. I had a friend and his dad out. Trying to get his dad on his first coyote. We called in 16 coyotes and 2 fox. Unfortunately he had some shooting woes and missed 5 coyotes 😭lol. It was still a fun night though with some awesome action. I ended up shooting that yote at just under 250 yards after I called him back in for the 4th time lol. Then hit the fox solo on the way home. Let it begin!

This is unreal! So Tuesday night my brother asked me if he could come over and borrow my muzzleloader because him as his brother in law wanted to go hunt yesterday morning. His brother in law didn’t have a muzzleloader, so I told him he could use mine. He grabbed it and they proceeded to go to family friends land down down in hemlock. I get a text of a picture from his brother in law at 7:20AM yesterday, and it’s a giant laying on the ground. I called him immediately. He was walking up to it and says “I think it’s a huge buck”. I tell him “It is a HUGE BUCK”! You could hear the excitement in his voice. Then he thanked me for sighting my muzzleloader in so perfect 😂 He just started to get into hunting 2 years ago. He was able to harvest his first deer this year with a bow (a yearling). This is his second deer ever and his first buck. Just unbelievable lol. The family friend who owns the land said he had never had the buck on camera. It ended up scoring 164” and change. Buck of a lifetime. Also, the pictures don’t even do it justice. He swung the deer by my office on the way back home. It’s just a massive giant.

It’s that time of year again. Another year come and gone, but the memories made will remain forever! 2025 again had a lot of great outdoor memories. My son continues to just love everything outdoors. I made it a point to get him out with me as much as possible. It’s been awesome. With a new baby in the home, I didn’t get out on the lake as much as usual. Did very little trolling. I probably trolled less than 5 times. The times I did get out I was mostly jigging. Got a couple awesome Atlantics and browns on the jig this year. We even started the day out tying to jig the sandy creek shootout, which didn’t work out well only hooking one small king. We switched gears and finished the day trolling which resulted in a 6 place finish. That was pretty cool. It was another year filled with fish and game. My son accompanied me on many deer hunts this year, in which we got to harvest 3 deer together! He was supposed to be with me the evening I harvested my big buck, but unfortunately got in trouble in school, so had to stay home. Very unfortunate, but a good teaching lesson. Gotta love it lol. All in all it was a great year! Some of the highlights include: -Many predators taken -Birthday outing with the boys(spring trolling browns and smallmouth bass. Finished with a 50 fish day) -Tagging a turkey with my son on his first turkey hunt. -Tagging a specific tom I was after (cool barring on its fan). -Getting to take out former MLB World Series Campion Jonny Gomes for some trout through the ice. I’m a Boston Red Sox fan, so that was pretty awesome. - Having my 4yo son out gosh me on honeoye 😂 -Jigging Lake Ontario -An epic opening day -My biggest buck -Awesome times with my kids in the woods and on the water. -Tank St Lawrence Bass -An epic Erie walleye outing -Annual fall musky trip -Pier casting for kings (and making it to 51 this season casting) -25 pound king off the pier (haven’t gotten one that big in years). As always….Enjoy the pictures!

It’s a shad rap

Another nice doe for the freezer

I got pictures of this guy a couple years ago. He carried the arrow for two weeks like that before it finally fell out. Just sad to see

Sometimes it’s not the size of the antlers, but the memories made. I thoroughly enjoy watching my little guy enjoying being out in the woods with me.

Of course Tommy comes home and just smokes another giant lol. I love it