Robt Weber

too much time on the compiter and not out in the woods and on the waters is the problem Doc, ever hear of guides being known for having high blood pressure or ulcers or being crabby? other than when they choose to be? nuff said. shut the machine off, get the hell outside. its unnatural being inside on this machine all day....the people that live for that stuff aint the kind you want around the campfire anyway, let them sit in on the machine and get out with the rest of the normal folks. seriously.

we have samsung something or others at the shop, they all say they love it. I am getting rid of my cell phone this month and laptop, so I'm the wrong one to assk I guess, but for what they are, I think they work fine....kinda neat, buck rodgers stuff.

prep for the 2012 season???? what the eff....we are better than HALF WAY THROUGH IT. If you aint ready yet, forget it shoot for 2013.

most CEOs I know well are paid a small base pay and they make their money on bonuses. which almost always are based on a profit sharing type work ups, as well as alot of stock. a $100k CEO may be looking at ulcers and early death, 90-100 hour work weeks and all that goes with that, but they also have maybe 90 million riding on bonuses. everyone gets wound up over who makes what and why, I worry about it as much as I wonder what I can do about the weather. sports, religion, politics, .....who gives a rats butt? start working on the important issues, like; why is gravity getting stronger? cant get out of my sleeping bag as easy as i used to....why are the hills getting steeper? at this rate my favorite grouse covert is going to be like scaling everest in a year or two ( by the way I bet you didnt know you can wake up in your motel and fly to the peak of everest and be back by breakfast, did ya? you can. can't land though because of all the jackwhangs all over the old landing strip..) anyhoo...I 'm in maine and the tide is out, I'm going to bed....wake me when you solve everything....IMPORTANT! lol

centerfires? signalling for help when a horse threw me and broke my knee. comes to mind right off. coyotes, woodchucks, turtles, fish, those all require many boxes of rounds on good days...those MTM 100 round boxes work best for us for those days, anytime its less than a box or two I use those tri fold elastic bandeded jobbers already mentioned, they wear out but are cheap to replace..other times more ammo than 4 rounds carried?..anytime I am in the bush and there are guerillas, gorillas, or anything about that can claw me bite me or eat me in large chunks...I dont mind dying, I do mind dying for lack of shooting back. I mainly hunt with flinters so carry about all I can comfortably carry at one time, maybe 100 rounds worth on round ball, half that in shot., which is about a pound of powder to go with that.

read "river horse" by william least heatmoon, I was piloting boats from great south bay to the great lakes, champlain, et als when he made his cross country trip in his boat, they watched for some time a lion drinking from the mohawk river. we've treed a cat in keene, young males displace by following river courses, this was a lengthy 5 part series in a hound hunting publication a decade or so ago about tracking lions across kansas and iowa to the east as young males disperse following rivers...why woulnt there be one in albany? plenty of deer, plenty of cover, hell they see herds of bigfoot in manhattan and on staten island, lions dont seem much of a stretch after that.

I keep a journal of activity for our company, Guides For Hire, LLC, some of the daily routine here is pretty hum drum, sometimes it is fall down funny. My grandfather began the guiding business in 1898 when he returned from the Spanish American war in cuba with very bad malaria, he was a boat builder and ran a livery in bloomingdale, NY and also on square pond in Santa Clara, NY, on days he was not too sick with malaria bouts he would hang a sign on the boat, "guide for hire" and that's where the company name came from. Most of his enteries deal with weather, temp and wind and cloud cover, water levels, and any odd things that happened, such as a mink getting into the coffee pot, a beaver stealing a line of fish from the dock, Uncle Don shooting a buck at 5 paces with both barrels of the shotgun stuffed with homerolled slugs, a seagull being caught to remove a fish hook from its mouth or wing, adoption of various critters and kids, things of that nature. I normally see some odd things here with 17 full time guides in 5 states and twice that number of assistants and camp helpers there is almost always some kind of nonsense going on that makes me shake my head and make a note. For instance; today's note; 1. Jason has asked for sunday off. busy as we are and asking so close to the day we asked what the story was, Jason replied, "I am getting married Sunday, i guess I could work the morning"...not only did we not know he was getting married but its the first we have heard of a girlfriend. Jason lives nearby, we know his family for three generations and have known Jason since he was born, he went all through school with 3 of our sons and he currently shares an apt with one of them.This ranks right up in the top 5 oddest statements ever made by Jason....sadly it does not rank #1. When asked where and when the wedding was taking place he said,"I got it written down at home". 2. a 60 year old tyro fisherman learning to fish with us caught a 27" pike, he was so excited he wet himself. guided by Bobby II , Bob suggested he go change and they'd resume fishing, the fisherman said, " hell no, I aint losing time from fishing!" and jumped in the lake then climbed back in the boat and demanded he be driven the 6 miles up lake so he could get his fish weighed on certified scales. ...and it ain't even lunch yet. North Country ;91F and dry. Wood duck boxes being checked . dock repair underway Vermont; Woodchuck hunting evening, starling hunting daytime, wife reports a pair of black phase grey squirrels in yard, cross fox after cat again.hen turkey no poults is under hummingbird feeders Mass; bowfishing for carp in Onota Lake all day, fishing also.

oswegatchie is about as far west as we go, cant go wrong with EHC, PMD, white millers, 10-14 range, stimulators always work on the lakes and ponds, much fuss is made about the hex hatch but in truth on waters like the saranac chain lakes the hex come off all year long and attract fish at all times from memorial day through columbus day.

water is far from low around saranac, not as high as ice out pasts, but plenty of water, I hope it drops and drops, the best years fishing have always been the years we have to get out and walk the canoes along in the rivers, its once in a lifetime fishing and the grouse have fantastic success rates nesting as do the bunnies, an all summer long ban on fires means a september for the record books, but I'm sure we will get rain at some point....its once in a lifetime for a reason. lol. im in southern vermont right now and they too are not stocking the creeks, they are too low and many roads and access is still washed out from irene in august 2011.

had a good 4-5" tuesday when I was back home but it was melting down low fast.

welcome , I know your new neighborhood well, many generations of us born and raised right there, those far back kills are best handled with cheesecloth and a packbasket, enjoy your retirement that's the right place to do it.

some people simply cant read sign. pile of deer hides near a spot I trap and hunt and it was called into the warden as a poaching, I looked at the pile and saw the ears had all been split where a tag had hung, the hides had all been rolled up and frozen at one time, most likely it was a fella cleaning out his freezer, who meant to use the hides or was going to sell them, and didnt, now they got dumped . pretty simple, not even remotely a poaching. there are three spots in ny that I find dumped deer all the time and one in vt where I am sure if we took a ride once a month we'd find recent dumped deer, these are spots the rangers or wardens or local town crews dump road kills, some counties pile dirt on them, others dont, a check of the bones around the ribs and legs usually shows you they are badly damaged or there are big patches down tot he leather where fur was sheared off by sliding across pavement. the hulls left behind would have told the OP what the game was, shot size, reloads, factory, skeet loads, crow loads, etc, but as I say, most people cant read sign and some cant read it at all. maybe a predator hunter is piling carcasses for a bait station, maybe a panfisherman is using them to harvest maggots, and maybe someone is shooting deer to add ot their collection of april racks...???...what I dont know is how long the hulls were there, how long were the deer there, were they even connected, how many people were shooting, how many dumped the deer, what vehicles were involved if any? poor sign reading tells a poor story