Zimmy4209

Getting my homemade boat trailer registered was literally the easiest experience I've ever encountered at the dmv. Walked in and walked out with this piece of paper that had my Vin number for the trailer. Went back the next day with a certified weight slip and walked out with my license plate. Everything since then has been done online considering I don't even live in NY anymore. Only reason you would need receipts is if you bought new stuff for trailer. Other than that tell them stuff was found laying around in your garage. Kinda funny on my trailer registration the color of my trailer is labeled "grey/rust"😁

That is a good one. Congrats.i wish they would open up the season here in florida. Woods are absolutely overrun with them. Saw 4 different bear last week in stand all within 50 yards. They were cool to see first few times in stand but just a pia now. 

On 10/7/2021 at 9:56 AM, 2lbperch said:

The gear reduction motor & the small lexan disc w/ the spring is the drag. Basically when you're hooked up you just keep the gas pedal down and use the machine for drag, bigger fish you pinch the wire in your fingers to help out. Switch the battery terminal clips around, hit the pedal & throw the spoon over the side to let wire out and get back to the bottom. He painted it up JD, they make nice t-shirts & decent lawnmowers. Jokes aside, I'm a farmer & have 5 John Deere tractors, I don't mind those colors at all.

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Nice! I learned all my copper techniques from an old feller named Don Powers(dons marina) back in the early 90's. That guy could get you to any hole or depth you wanted on the east side with his eyes closed. Thanks for sharing 

18 hours ago, Pete Collin said:

I've used a Rattle Snakie!  Had one back when I first learned how to jig lakers in the Fingers.  Must have broken it off at some point, I think I bought it at Gander Mountain and never could find them locally again.

Nice I found my first one in my grandfathers tackle box unopened one day we were jigging on Cayuga lake probably '90 or '91. Was a slow morning gramps told me to put it on and was hooked up before the jig even hit bottom!! The company that makes them is out of Ohio called bassnbait company. They are old school I dont even believe you can order them online I had to print out an order form and mail it in last time I got some. Wish I could get ahold of some of the original mepps jigs, they flutter perfectly on the drop and ive only a few left after losing alot over the years. Anyways thanks for sharing!

Love jigging for them. Only way I've fished them for 25+ years. Ironically though the jig i love using the best is called a rattle snakie. Company in Texas makes them for bass fishing i guess. It has rattles inside the jig and 2 straps of glow in the dark on each side. 1.5 oz so you can use it calm or choppy days. 

On 12/17/2020 at 11:55 AM, UNREEL said:

A nightmare and a hard pass for sure. I assume retrievers are not used to get the birds.  

I didn't see any retrievers. All the birds we took were retrieved from yak we had hooked on side of the boat. Never rode in a boat with a surface drive motor on it before. Real good way to get someone hurt if you dont know how to operate them. They will scoot pretty good across hydrilla thats for sure 

Went out last weekend for my first time ever duck hunting here in Central Florida. Did not disappoint, other than the other 150 boats for opening day. Guy who took me is a regular down here and said in all the years he's hunted only killed 3 drake shovelors. That was my first bird. Others were teal and ringers. Lost 4 birds to tge alligators before we could retrieve them, 1 duck never even hit the water straight into about a 10 footers mouth. Couldnt launch tge boats till 4 am we got there at 1 am and there were already 50 boats in front of us. Like a damn war zone out there i don't know how people don't end up wearing steel shot for jewelry with all the nut cases running around with guns. 

Didn't know that. I've heard water levels are pretty low havent been uo there since July. Salmon creek was loaded all way to falls all of November last year. Alot more browns than landlocked but a buddy even caught few Lakers I guess halfway to falls. I sure do miss it, Florida is a absolute cess pool amd anyone that says otherwise is complete bull__itting you!!!

They do let fish up past the ladder. If no one is going to be running it they just bypass it. Not sure if they do anything in the fall or not but back in high school I worked there a few days through a school program. It was very cool. Any trout that go up the ladder get hung up in a waiting pool. Every day we went in there we would net the trout put em in a tub and sprinkle this powder they called "angel dust" on top of water. Within seconds tge fish was floating belly up. We would measure gurth length and weight and document male/female. Biggest fish in 3 days i was there was a 13lb 4 oz female bow. You don't see too many rainbows that big anymore!  This was '93-'94. 

Salmon creek whenever there's enough water also gets loaded

20 hours ago, Sk8man said:

I'm not sure but in the hatchery they may bathe the eggs in Thiamine which can help ward off the problem.

You are spot on I found this on cornell universities website. 

5 hours ago, Andiamo Outdoors said:

I don't see the idea behind the small shot. Sure you may get a lot of small holes in paper at 50 yards but you aren't going to penetrate the bones of a turkey head and neck with 9 shot at that distance or further. Besides isn't the point of hunting turkey to try and outsmart the bird with the brain the size of a peanut and call them in close. Shooting turkeys at extreme distance is the equivalent of sky busting waterfowl.  Learn to be even a moderately competent caller and get the birds inside 50yd.

I may agree on you with certain aspects of what you said but to each there own if people want to hunt with it it's there call. I will disagree on the small hole idea its well documented that small shot even at extreme distances still Carrie's the kinetic energy down range so will absolutely penetrate more consistently. Stuff is a game changer no doubt either embrace it or stay old school but no one can deny the data. 

4 hours ago, Aspiring_Pollack said:

From my understanding, it's a result of alewifes as prey. It causes a Thiamine deficiency which affects the eggs. I thought it just made them soft so the eggs never hatch, but would not surprise me to see it manifest in several forms. Thats about the extent of my knowledge on it though.

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Ok same as lake trout pretty much. They spawn every year but the thiamine deficiency kills the fry when they're real young. I guess they hatch out of the egg but never make it much past that.  

4 hours ago, wrinklestar said:

Hard to tell what that second pic is, you couldnt get any closer?

Just a pygmy rattlesnake. Kinda all set on getting any closer I'll leave that cool stuff up for those that dig that ****. Not me 

40 minutes ago, Frogger said:

Snakes? Ahh hell no. I’m out! lol. Congrats. Want always try it when we go down to visit family next to Ocala Forest. Thanks for letting know I would of been running through the woods screaming......


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I live in ocala. Shot this bird in ocala national forest. If you can ever get a quota permit for it when you come down it would be worth it. They have 4-4 day turkey hunts and give out 220 permits for each hunt. So 220 people have access to like 300,000 acres. I walked 30 miles during this hunt and never saw another hunter. I probably am more scared of snakes than most people you know. Literally have nightmares before but I wear snake boots and try not to think about them. If its gonna happen itll happen I guess. Love outdoors too much to sit inside 

On 4/15/2020 at 9:09 AM, longspurs said:

O man.... This can go on and on , but for the performance and price per round can't beat LBxr. Best pattern for me and u get 10 in a box. YouTube videos I watch , LBxr is the best with tss being 2nd most of the time. I just don't see spending more money and getting 5 shells less for tss.

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This is interesting I dont have the pics of my targets anymore but tss loads(#7) added about 15 yards and close to 50 bb's in the kill zone of my mossberg 12 gauge compared to the lbxr. Unfortunately that gun and 2 others along with 3 brand new chain saws "fell" out of the back of the moving truck between New York and florida when we moved. Get some seriously shady people when you hire a moving company! Anywho my 4 day season just ended on sunday down here but managed to get my first bird, just a young one but beats last year all 4 days never saw or heard a turkey. Only thing I dont like down here is damn snakes are like IED you literally have to watch every step you take 

On 4/13/2020 at 9:09 PM, Nautitroller said:

Conservatively 6lb, we lost a true monster behind the boat 10+ LL.
Female loaded with dead (loose) eggs, quite skinny really.

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What's the deal with the dead eggs I thought they went in the tribs in the fall to spawn?

On 3/23/2020 at 9:28 AM, gasman2438 said:

BETTER THAN A DAM RAINBOW !!

Your not kidding. 2-4 lb lake trout all day long over any rainbow 

Jimm I just read your other post about serial numbers so disregard the pm I sent you I'm guessing mine wouldnt work for you considering my bird barrel needed to be fit at factory

Ya I hear what your saying but especially in the empire state theres no telling these days what you can and cant do. My guess would probably be any part that involved the firing pin. Not much people can do with just a barrel 

I've seen some of the nastiest entry holes ever on a deer with rage or other mechanical broadhead. When they deploy right they are the real deal. Only issue I've ever had with this stuff is there are so many other variables hunting why would you want to add another one to screw something up. I'm 40 now been using thunderhead 100 since I was 14 and have never not once had any kind of broadhead failure. Couple bad shots on my part but never the broadhead. If it ain't broke dont fix it 

On 10/23/2019 at 11:47 AM, lineman49 said:

  FYI, to you guys using climbing stands after climbing utility poles for 40 yrs. here is a little tip. Every pole or tree has what is called a high side & a low side. The high side is what you want to climb on, look at the tree & most will lean one way or the other the high side is the side that will be leaning away from you,(like a ladder) this is the side you want to climb on it will be the easiest & safest to climb. Also this is the side you want to hang your stand on for the most comfort while sitting.  Good luck & be safe!

Best tip for climbers I've ever read. I must always pick wrong side seems every time I'm at desired height the stand wants to rotate to other side of the tree.  Thanks for sharing. 

Caught my first trout jigging back in '89 with my gramps and his fishing buddy don powers from Don's marina. Those older fellas knew how to get it done. Guess I'm still a little old school cause I still use depth finder my grandpa bought in mid 90's with technology now the new ones are incredible for sure but with jigging if you know depth and can keep it on the bottom(trolling motor or heavier jigs) and enough want to you'll fill ice box up pretty much whenever you go out. I'm never in a big hurry to get out at first light and always start shallow then work out deeper good luck and happy fishing 

2 hours ago, Ray4852 said:

my phone is always in the box. its never turned on. I only use it if I want to make a call. if somebody sends me a message they won't get a reply. I only check my messages once every 3 months. when I read them they all get deleted. my phone is a dumb phone not a smart phone. I have the grandfather one where I buy 10 hours of use every year. my phone is about 15 yrs old. same battery same box it came in. this phone is very basic. its the last cell phone I will ever buy.  lets talk about smart phones. I would never buy or use a smart phone because you have no privacy with it at all. most smartphones are made in china. the commonist party controls how they get built. they put chips in to monitored your phones if you know it or not. be careful what  information you put in your smartphone. they read it. these phones are smarter than the people using it. my phone I have total control. its a dumb phone.

Sounds like something my great great grandfather would say if he was still alive when I was born. The internet or world wide web as he probably would call it was considered the first "smart" phone so anytime you get on the computer I would be just as careful theres tin foil hatter conspiracy people everywhere these days. Just saying 

I spend quite a bit of time on cayuga and never had a problem. At least once a year I'll get checked but it's always been dec and they're always super cool so long as your behaving. Any time someone gets a bs ticket it's worth fighting in court that's what courts are there for that being said the last one I fought and judge threw out go figure they still tried making me pay the mandated surcharge which is almost always as much if not more than the ticket. I laughed and left and never heard another word about it but that part is a total money grab crazy amount of money state and local jurisdictions bring in and always seem to be out of funds

Just picking buddy I'll be up in 3 weeks can't wait to get back on water for few days. Too hot here to do anything outside