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Now is the time of year when you can catch as many bluegills/sunfish as you want to clean..As long as you don't exceed the 50 fish per day limit.. They are spawning now and fishing should be good for at least 2-3 more weeks. Four of us fished last Friday at the Penn Yan end of Keuka Lake.. We fished 3 hours and ended up filleting 80 fish, which resulted in 8 pounds of succulent panfish filets. Look for the fish concentrated on spawning beds in shallow areas of you favorite lake, in 2 to 15 feet of water.. We use small jigheads tipped with wax worms, redworms, mealworms or most any other type of grub, but small plastics or flies are effective also.. It's fun, easy fishing...A great time to take the kids along..

Just couldn't pass up a good deal. I now am the proud owner of a Mission Sniper Lite Crossbow. Very nice shooter. Can't wait to put some venison down with it.

Haha yeah that's my biggest one he didn't have the best mass and that's a really good picture but he scored 156 and some change. I actually shot him from the ground at about 15 yds as he was following the trail of a hot doe that went by earlier that day and he ended up tipping over on a dead end road about 150yds away so that was really convenient! These are my other 2 bow bucks. The one with my buddy was same night but other side of the farm.

I just got the buckwheat plot seeded yesterday morning, and last night we got a good rain ..PERFECT !! As fast as that stuff germinates, it should be popping up by next weekend..

Isn't it amazing. The DEC has this huge army of "eyes and ears" out there and still has not figured out a way to properly use them other than as a financial source. It really does seem wrong that this free resource continues to go to waste at the same time the DEC cries poverty and watches their funding dwindling more and more every year. Free manpower! Nobody can figure out a way to capitalize on that???

Should have waited . Pretty soon you'll be able to shoot a muzzle loader during bow season .

So much for the hating on the Chevys ,, I don't what you guys are talking about... They run and run ... Oh yea !!! you have to change the oil or they go to shit like any other motor ...

illegal in NY

I wish I could say that I didn't miss out this morning... Yesterday evening I roosted the longbeard that my wife and I have been after for the entire second half of the season. He was strutting out in a planted cornfield with two hens all afternoon, even in the pouring rain. Boy, did he get fired up with the thunder!!! They finally left the field at 7:30. The plan was to set the blind up where they went in in hopes that the rain would push them out into the open in the morning. Well, our power was out all night and the it was cold, windy and raining when I checked at 4:15. Since my wife is just getting over being sick for the past two weeks, I thought that sitting out in a cold, muddy field wasn't the best idea and I didn't press the issue with her getting out of bed. I couldn't get back to sleep so I drove by the farm at 6:30 just to take a look and lo and behold...the birds were right where we were going to set up!!! Not exactly how I planned on ending the season. Oh well, his hooks will be longer next year. Only 11 months to go...

The pups have been born all 6 of them pics will follow!!!

I have gone from single bead, to double bead, to adjustable fiber optic sights, to holosight, and to 1x4 Leupold... I did well with the adjustable open fiber optics until I had problems focusing on them with my old eyes.. I tried the holosights and the scope, but didn't care for the bulk and the difficulty in getting a good sight pictures in some of the odd positions I may have shoot from while set up on a bird. I have finally gone back to what I was using in 1977...A simple front bead with a mid bead to remind me to keep my silly melon head down when I shoot... One added advantage of this sighting system is that if I SHOULD miss or wound with my first shot, I can shoot instinctively and stand a good chance of killing a running or flying bird with a backup shot..That is more difficult to do with an optical type sight like a red dot or a scope.. I know that we're always supposed to kill 'em with the first shot, but in the real world, there have been a number of times when I have been very happy to have a quick second shot available.. Over the last 40 years I've killed a few with my second shot and even a couple with my third..

Ants you didn't miss a thing. I got soaked until about 1045, didn't see or hear a turkey, although I did call in a coyote looking for a turkey dinner. He came in quick and about turned inside out when I tried to get a pic of him. He caught me trying to get the camera out of my coat pocket.

I'll be our tommorw trying to get some!

Such a large human population living next to the water. So much goes into our perfect lawns here on Long Island. Half of it gets washed down the storm drain and out to Long Island Sound. Nitrogen causes these algal blooms. Hell half the time the sewage treatment plant in Northport breaks a pipe and it all goes out into the bay. It all needs to be updated…..

a little beer batter and 8 lbs aren't going to last very long.

Got some much needed good soaking rain last night and this morning. The farmers are doing the happy dance today!

Paranoid. Don't sweat it.............IMO

I don't know how much we have received since last night but it has to help! Yesterday we traveled up to Waterport and I couldn't believe the brown lawns and parched fields. Gotta be some happy farmers today! On the other hand............cold and rain doesn't bode well for poults and fawns. Hard to please everyone.

HOLY HANNA!...We got rain late yesterday and all night long...rained so hard we couldn't see the corn feild 50 ft away. The temps took a refreshing g dive as well...low 40's when we woke and high will be low 50's...more rain on the way...garden will love it...though I can see the weed seeds will too...lots of weeding in my future...

My guys will bring down a case at beginning of bow and we still have a 6 pack at end of gun, one or two with or after dinner, is all that is drunk if at all, my guys come to hunt not drink, in bed by 9 or 10 and up at 5... If they wanted to party they wouldn't be welcome..

I live in one of those areas that is overrun with deer. The problem here is that the deer are natural born "survivors" and have adapted such that even the folks hunting them at night with nuisance permits have a tough time killing them. The real key in getting the population down to a proper level is killing mature does and they are definitely the most elusive targets around. Trying to take them out with a vertical bow in the daylight is about the least effective method imaginable. They always travel in groups, so the only way to draw a bow with all those eyes in close is to get dangerously high in a tree. Shots from such an angle are often non-lethal. As soon as any significant hunting pressure is detected, these deer go nocturnal, completely so after the first few daytime gun-shots are heard. I see the crossbow, used early, as the real key to taking out more of these wise, older does. Getting in early and without noise, before hunting pressure gets intense would help a ton. Just like a ML, a crossbow does not require that draw movement in close like a regular bow, so it can slowly be moved into position for a shot without spooking a group of deer. It also has the huge advantage over a ML of a silent report. To only allow crossbows at the end of the bow season defeats the advantage, when many of the does are already nocturnal due to pressure. In areas that need a reduction in population, they should open crossbow, for antlerless deer only, at least two weeks ahead of the current regular bow season. They also should allow folks to use a regular bow during that special pre-season if they wish. I don't like the idea of easing restrictions on the nuisance permits. The biggest problem with those is all the wasted venison. It would be a lot better to give sportsman who use the meat better tools (crossbow) and more time to get the job done.

A few years ago in NYC a fire captain brought a pipe bomb back to the firehouse and called the bomb squad too pick it up . Um I'm thinking evacuate the area keep folks away , not put in on the fire truck and bring it to quarters , but I'm just a Lt.

Not to be off topic, your shed hunting and come across stands with beer cans under them, stands left up o n state.land is illegal, so assume private property,now having to assume you have permission to be there, if you do why would you not confront the hunters responsible? I can't see being around any person that drinks while hunting,don't mind back at camp.end of the day...

Hope it stays running good….Sometimes when you think you're in for a big repair bill, it turns out to be something cheap and simple. A few weeks ago my trick (100k+ miles on it) was making an annoying squeaking sound when I turned the wheel left. Thought I needed ball joints. I greased the hell out of the front end, and now its as quiet as new. Good luck

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Congrats First Light, you may be one on the first Chevy owners to ever break the 150,000 mile marker

MAN!!! That is the most angry, pissed off at the world, ball crushing, man hating, gun hating, hunting hating, man hating, contact sports hating, man hating, gun hating, men have greater upper body strength hating, squirt gun hating, men can pee standing up hating, second amendment hating, gun hating, all I need is my cats looking woman that I have ever seen……!!!!!! But notice I said "LOOKING" So …..Its just my impression from what Im sure is just a bad photo….. Im sure she's a joy..

yep, my Dodge has 205,000 on it and running strong and I've put about $3000.00 into it the past 2 years....but still better than a monthly payment........

"We’re just missing pieces of the puzzle, every little piece just adds more information for our understanding,” Thompson said" if they were playing around with that thing in the museum and it went off, "little pieces" would have been about right.

trained biologists aren't really required unless you do a little book work on your own. not all state biologists for our regions have whitetail deer in there wheel house of knowledge. that's when you hear about some aging deer at 15+ years old just from visual observation or aging a jaw bone solely based on sharpness of teeth. we go for hikes to look for winter kill but how many go for hikes well before that to do browse surveys? not really anything fancy but you look at browse in your woods. know what species to look for and the order in which the general deer population prefer them. you'll then start to have a better idea if there's too many deer for where you are. if deer are hitting less preferred browse harder then that means there's too competition for it. that's where the whole older timer woodsmenship stuff comes into play. some of them already knew this stuff but we didn't have internet and such readily available info as we do today. getting "trained" or a degree was the only meanings to learn enough of it.

We got some rain the other night. Im gonna run down and check the plots tonight probably, just see if anythig is sprouting yet. Id like to see a bit more rain though. I have to start getting the sugar beets in before long.

Ha- What do you get after a long night with a squaw on an indian carpet.......? ......... a papoose,lol!

Supposed to get some this Saturday and it should be widespread over the WNY area into Sun morning. Keep your fingers crossed.

we have been getting rain for the past couple of days . Had a real thunder storm last night .

I have probably donated a three dozen deer anyway and have never had to pay a cent. Where are you guys taking them that you are paying?

I've heard it said that "The road to hell is paved with good intentions". Sometimes those old sayings have a lot of truth to them.