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The third dog I dropped at a beef farm in Orange county. Dropped the male dog two weeks ago and figured the female would be hanging around looking for a mate or calve. It was howling the whole way to the field so much that I thought it was someone playing a joke on us. She didn't need anymore shots after the first, but being it was the last days of the season we let the bullets fly. SJC https://youtu.be/qW7_nZPdM58

There is the annual bullhead derby April 4-6 in Wilson and I remember eating them when I was kid, catching them at family summer cottage on Lake Ontario.

I started getting ready last weekend. With the help of my brother in law and nephew, we got the docks in and lined up at the in laws place, up in the Dacks. The lake had finally thawed out the previous week. We had 4 hours daylight and just above freezing temperature and no rain on Saturday. I also got thru the break in procedure on the new Mercury 4 stroke 5 hp outboard, that he picked up to replace his old Johnson 2 stroke 5.5 hp, which I had sieved up last October. It took a lot of pulls to get that new Mercury to fire up the first time, but after that, it started with the first pull every time. To kill time breaking it in, under half throttle for the first hour, I trolled a diving crankbait around the lake several times. Lake trout haven’t been stocked there in over 20 years and I haven’t seen any in 10, but you never know if a holdover survived. No hits though. After that, I tried casting a bucktail jig a little for perch, but no hits there either. They’ve always been few and far between on that lake. Most of the hard spring work is done up there now, so I’ll be able to focus more on fishing and turkey hunting, the next run we visit in May. I plan to start working on my bigger boat at home in WNY next weekend, and maybe have it ready for some shoreline trout trolling out on Lake Ontario, the weekend after that.

I am chopping at the bit, going to clean some fish the way I did when I was a kid, no filleting, just gutting and scaling. Picked up an cordless electric scaler, hope it works as well as the old corded job I used many years ago. Al