Reelfanatic

I know there is a tournament and I am not in it or looking to be spoon fed. Had 3 hook ups this morning and two skippys this evening. Any general advice?

Appreciated as always!

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We fished Sunday and did well persay. Landed five, lost 8. Yes 8.
Gotta say thats the worst I have done percentage wise.
Found them in 50fow and kept working through them. All spoons. Stated with a good bite on green spoons, mostly senior froggy, them they were taking bloody death, and a few shots on dirty white boy. We swung out deep and worked around but could only find them in that pocket.


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I'll be heading out in the morning we'll be fishing both Friday and Saturday, got my fingers crossed that we get to move some rods.

Good luck! I'll be up Sunday.


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Thank you guys! Nice fish too! I'll be up Sunday and report after.


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Jeez. Did you get it mounted?


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Any recent reports? Finally getting boat wet this weekend. Had every intention of being on the water months ago but that's life I guess. Any pointers appreciated as always.

Thanks

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Fish was 33 inches long and weighed 20lbs 11 ounces on a certified scale.


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Thank you!


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Can anyone tell me it a 19' islander will clear the bridge?


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Thank you! Where are they located?


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Looking for info on replacing the canvas top on my islander. Do I have to have it custom made or can I order a bimini with extension online? Trying to save a few bucks but if that means ending up with junk, I will have it done custom. Any advice appreciated!

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Nice work. Tell Scott Rob said hello.


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Excellent! I get a pig butchered and use 20/80 mix of straight pork fat for sausage, kielbasa, snack sticks ect. For burgers I grind bacon and go close to 40/60. Probably not the healthiest but god there good. I'll be grinding mixing stuffing and smoking hundreds of pounds next weekend with the crew I hunt with. The sausage maker website has some awesome seasoning mixes if interested.


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Is this sold?


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25 years ago (ish) i bought a Mossberg combo 12 guage with a junk bushnell scope.  Cheap black synthetic stock with a case.  If memory serves me right it cost about $280.  It is a complete tackdriver.   I have never cleaned it, I have never adjusted the scope and its dead nuts.  For $2500 I might just let it go.  (this price is solely for Rob, sorry Scott, I want it to go to a good home)

Has milliken been any good in the past few years? I make an annual trip out of nostalgia but the flow is cold water and only a trickle. Definitely not what it was when the plant was producing power.


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Great thread! Congrats to everyone who got a good one or put some meat on the table. Merry Christmas and happy new year!


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Well, my addiction to this thread almost got me in trouble tonight! I was not expecting to get out at all today because my wife had two newborns to photograph today. She finished up early around 2:15 and I had a 40 minute drive to get to my hunting land (my step dad, mom, and brother were already up there hunting). When I got there we decided to do a small push through some hemlocks that usually hold deer this time of year. 1 walker and three sitters. I was at the bottom watching the base of the hill. After about 15 minutes of sitting there I decided to check this thread to see if anybody had shot anything today, so I scanned the hillside then grabbed my phone. I might have been looking at my phone 20 seconds when I looked up to scan the hill again and I see a big buck standing 50 yards in front of me broadside. I dropped my phone, pulled my rifle off my shoulder. As I did that, he snorted and took off on a dead run across the field. I got on him with my scope and squeezed the trigger when he was about 70 yards away and I see him stagger a little. Got a second shot off at about 120 yards and dropped him!

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My wife is numb to it at this point. Sainthood is in her future. Lol

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I own 140 acres in the Northern Zone and I do hunt low impact, I have a sanctuary, cover, and food. Once the rut starts they start getting picked off. Throw in a higher winter kill, 7 weeks of gun season, low number of doe permits, and a kill every spike attitude and it can be quite a challenge.

I don’t shoot young bucks on my land and I see results even with those challenges. However when I hunt the finger lakes I see more bucks in 1 day than I see all season on my land...

I actually like the challenge. If it was easy I wouldn’t hunt.





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Only been 5 yrs sonce the 200 acres I hunt has been letting under 3yr old deer pass. Every year there's a noticeable difference. Still have neighbors shooting "big 4 points" which sucks but is what it is. We choose and find no satisfaction in killing young deer, but dont harvest bash either. I agree with others that more regulation only hurt the future of the sport. Old and young hunters, as well as the guys who have only a few days a year to put meat on the table deserve their chance as well. If there were piles of mature buck running around year after year, how much fun would that be? I think the idea of that once in a lifetime buck is what keeps me putting my boots on anyway. Just my 2 cents.


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Reel Chaos,  no I shot it in Owego. 
 

So I have been lurking on this thread all season and felt I should contribute after a successful day yesterday.  
 
I bought a 27 acre parcel behind my house in 7S that I have hunted for 4 seasons.  Its all timber with a thick understory of honey suckle and autumn olive.  There is an old orchard that has been choked off for yrs that I have been trying to open up but no apples this year so had a slow bow season with no good opportunities.  Had numerous bucks on cam and saw a couple during bow so went into the weekend optimistic.  
 
Out early Saturday, heard about 70+ shots (about 20 before sunrise).   Saw 2 does and several fawns early and late (took midday break) but that was all.  

That night I rethought my strategy of hunting in the am then taking a midday break and back out pm.  Cant quite make the all day sits but my hats off to those that do.   I tended to see does/fawns moving during these times but none of the bigger bucks I had on cam.  I had also noticed that several bucks had been moving around midday on cam.  So I slept in Sunday (that part was easy) and headed out at 10am.  Snow was crunchy so made my slowly to my best stand at northern edge of property which sits at the intersection of my main woods road and 2 smaller trails that I had cut over the past couple years. Wind was good.  Felt optimistic.  Sure enough about noon saw movement to my left through some timber and brush.  Made out horns and my heart started pumping as it was a nice 8.  He was angling off a ridge behind me but headed down and away.  Had similar scenario week before but he was tailing a doe and I couldn't turn him with the grunt call.  Today he was alone but I could barely see him anymore and had the grunt tube ready but he made a turn back towards me (later found he had crossed a doe trail).   He got onto the smaller trail that goes out of sight behind thick brush then pops out right in front of the stand so now my heart really starts thumping....  However he crossed trail and worked perpendicular to my stand in deep brush about 75 yards downhill, not presenting a good shot.  He finally came out on main woods road where he made the wrong choice and turned right, headed towards a big 30 yd opening that would bring him broadside at 40 yds.  I tried to slow my breathing and prepared for the shot.  Sure enough he walked right out into the opening and I gave him a quick "meh " which stopped him in his tracks and I put a 30-30 win right behind his right shoulder.  He jumped and kicked hard, made a desperate 100 yd dash and crashed off the woods road into the brush.  Got him through both lungs.   
 
He's not a monster like some I have seen on this site (congrats to all by the way) but one of 2 eight pts I was hoping to get a shot at and only the 5th buck I have ever harvested.    What a great feeling to put in so much time and have it all come together.  I am relatively new to hunting as I didn't grow up in a hunting family but so happy I have found this sport and now have my own property to hunt.  Next up is to get out with the girlfriend and help her her get first deer...  
 
 
 
 

My uncle this morning 8g


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