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Welcome to our world, I wear brush pants and heavy gloves. Lots of times I was crawling to get thru the thick stuff... lol Sent from my C771 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

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The only truly good way to train a tracking dog is to work the dog on an easy blood trail to a dead deer. Watch the dog carefully seeing what it does. The dog may stay down wind of the blood trail and may even cut corners. If it lifts its head it is checking air currents and potentially a deer, dead or alive. Go slow, confirm blood, and praise the dog for sticking to and following the blood. You can save blood from a road kill or your own and use a spray bottle but I truly think that is only about a third of what a dog smells during a real track. (tracks, disturbed dirt, deer brushing against stuff, ect. Reward the dog however it makes the dog happy. My dog always gets a cut of the heart. The problem arises for the dog when the deer is still alive and they have to stop tracking. You pull them off a hot track and they look at you like you are an idiot, my girl pouts all the way home. NY is a leashed tracking state so train with a certain collar or harness. There are different opinions on how to teach your dog. Research how dogs are trained to track people, talk to other trackers and most importantly have fun with your dog and make it exciting for both of you. As I look back in what I wrote this is just touching the tip of an iceberg. This subject can have volumes written about it and the next debate is what breed dog is best suited for tracking. Good luck and pm me with any questions, always willing to talk tracking. Sent from my C771 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

One happy island, jealous!!! Sent from my C771 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Yes, Ithaca area Matt Sacco 607-280-6240. Owego area Neil Lewis 607-343-6479 Sent from my C771 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

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My dog and I are Dec licensed deer trackers. We averaged about 30 tracks per year. Couple of things, guys that bow hunt are typically very good blood trailers. They use our service only at the last means possible. Statistically we find very few dead deer, it gets very disappointing for the dog and everyone involved. Triaging the calls saves a usual four hour or more track for a deer that is most likely still alive. If a hunter thinks the deer is dead we do everything we can to prove it one way or another. The dog is a great tool to find deer, mine is now past her her ability to track ( bad hips) but it took years to learn what she was doing. She air checks and smells deer at a distance, she ground checks and follows blood well, but if a fresher deer track crosses our path it's off on that one. The only true way to trust the dog is to know how she acts and to confirm blood. One if her best tracks ever was a 6 day old blood trail. The blood was still visable she took us through some serious multifloral rose (where most bucks die) lol, she found the buck and it jumped up a couple of feet in front of us and bounded away. I will never forget that massive 8 pt that had stickers around the coke bottle sized bases and a chocolate colored rack. Turning to the guy behind me I said looks like our job is done here, he said " that was un.......believable". That is also the reason no one carries a gun behind us, too tempting. The reason we do it is because the dog loves it and so do I. We get to see lots of cool properties, meet nice guys and gals, great exercise, and finding those few that don't go to the coyotes is priceless. Next year there will be a new puppy, if mama says it's ok... Sent from my C771 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Beauty buck, just curious are you in tioga county? My buddy has sheds that match that deer. Sent from my C771 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Thanks for the report how were the waves? I'm thinking of going in the am. Sent from my C771 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Nicely done dad n daughter! Memory that will never be forgotten! Sent from my C771 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Awesome quality and finish, thanks B. Fuller! This lure was my Brown killer this year. Sent from my C771 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Great story! A real tall tail from tall tails, Seriously though these yotes need to be thinned out. Nice job on the kills, gets expensive shooting multiple rages, no? Sent from my C771 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Happy birthday Joe! Nice report! Sent from my C771 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Fished out of Severene today very slow, no one is catching that I talked to, bait was there with loons, cormorants, gulls. They should turn on soon, water 60 on top. Tried shallow and down the chute. One salmon. Sent from my C771 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

That's a really cool catch! I bet he would have been tasty coming out of that clear cold water. Sent from my C771 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

X2 on that statement. Sent from my C771 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

I hear ya but I disagree a little. Its a huge lake that can have a hot spot here or there or the whole lake can seem void of fish. I always get excited to fish there because of the potential for big, big fish. It can be finicky but overall its an awesome fishery that consistently produces big fish. It's a challenging lake but it doesn't suck. I should be out there tomorrow I may change my mind on that previous statement, Sent from my C771 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Good luck this weekend Les! Sure you don't need it! Sent from my C771 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Very cool! Did you take them up the lake and distribute them, or do they all go on one spot? Sent from my C771 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Any one interested? Been fishing? Sent from my C771 using Lake Ontario United mobile app