noodle one

I want everyone to know that I am stricty a trophy hunter and I am proud to tell all and any who will listen.I will not shoot any deer with three (3) ins. or less of ears. That is right , every deer I shoot must have ears that are three ins. or better.

If you can't open the link, go to (salmoncrazy.com) click on forums and you can read all about it.

If you fish the Salmon river you may want to check this out. (http://www.syracuse....d other la. html) The steelhead are dying in the salmon river and other lake Ontario tributaries and the DEC dosn't know why. The dead steelhead started showing up about the third week in Nov., on the banks and bottom of the river.Fisherman have been saying that the fish are loaded with gill lice. The DEC are saying that the gill lice are not killing the fish and it might be that they need vitamin B . They don't know what is killing the fish. Steelhead are the only fish dying off.

It has always been that ten (10) percent of hunters kill ninety (90) percent of the deer year in and year out. I also know from people that I talk to that the Bow hunters are more likely to take more than one buck with the bow than gun hunters because it is so much easier to do and not get caught. I know there is good and bad in all types of hunting , but Bow hunters seem to stand out more than others. If I had any say about the laws I would vote for one deer, buck or doe, per season period. That way everyone would see more deer and more bucks I know the Bow hunters are going to jump on me for saying this , but it a fact of life and I know what I am talking about because I have hunted with a bow for fifty (50) some years and have seen it first hand.

It has always been shotgun.

thunnus, Why do you think that someone who smokes won't take deer. There was a study done a few years back to see if cig. smoke would spook the deer off. Guess what? They found that deer could not tell the difference between cig. and or wood smoke.Deer are not worried or frighten of smoke. It is human scent that spook them. The study was done by DEER and DEER HUNTING mag. I have know this for many years first hand. I have bow hunted for close to 50 years and gun hunted for 54 years . I have taken many buck year in and out and have had to set a lite cig down at times to take a shot with bow and gun. Oh yes ,I hunt on the ground in natural ground blinds and have for many years. To me someone who uses a treestand are not true hunters , only shooters. The number one most people over look for scent control is my number one in scent clover is baking soda. I put it in my hats and all over my body. Try it, it works!

He has to be talking about DSR, Good fishing in the fall. Spring time fish are up and the river.

I was just there a week ago today,The river is loaded with steelhead. The flow was real low and made for tough fishing and the fish were real picky and not very aggressive. We still went 6 for 11. When I go up in spring ,I like to go the last week of March ,I feel that is the best time for steel. You will get some dropbacks and fresh fish then. Last March when I went I was 12 for 18 and three that I lost were because I screwed up. All fish taken with beads on the center pin. I have always fished with (Salmon river Guide) The guides name are Shane and Richard Thomas.. Check them out on (www.SALMONRIVERGUIDE.COM)II have gone with one or the other and have always had a good time and always a lot of fish.This pass week makes it 8 years in a row that I have gone with them. They will work very hard to get you fish and are on the river everyday and know the fish are holding.Also you may want to check out (www.salmoncrazy.com) . Tight lines and good fishing. NOODLE ONE

Go to the last spot of blood that you can find, then turn and back track 20 to 30 yards and keep looking for blood off to the side of trail, you will need to look a good ten yards from the trail because if she did back track and then jumped off to one side or the other. If that is what she did she will be beded 20 to 30 yards off to the side so she can watch her back trail.I have had this happen to me with two deer and found then dead in there bed. If you can not find any blood off to the side ,then go back to the last blood and mark the spot and then walking in circles starting small and with each circle getting bigger . You will need to move slow and if the blood is there you should find it. Good luck and good hunting.

If anyone has a 4/10 single shot shotgun that they want to part with let me know.I am looking to buy one.

Those pigeons know how to disguise themselfs.

I have been gettimg them for many years. I can't remember when I got my first one, but I have been getting one for a long time.. Yes, I do think that it is worth it for them. They must feel that it is a good inventment for them. I know that I more than pay for mine with how much I buy from them.. I spend many dollars with them. I buy everthing for hunting, fishing ,and clothing. I feel that Cabela's is a (5) five star store when it comes to customer service.

I am lucky , I live 30 min away from Deposit and make the trip down a couple times a week. There is some great trout fishing all up and down that river with some big fish if you fish right.

The turkey hunting has been real slow here with little or no gobbling all season. I did call in a lot of hens and a few jakes that I didn't want to shoot so this morning I told myself enough turkey hunting and time to do a little trout fishing. I headed down the East branch Delaware . I center pin for trout and always have good luck and catch some big fish fishing that way. For the people who don't know what center pinning is, it is fishing with a float and a free wheeling reel with no drag and a 13' foot noodle rod. I drifted though the hole I was fishing three times and on the four th. drift my float went down and I set the hook. Nothing happen or moved, so I put more pressure on my line and that is when he took off and there was no turning him. I had him on for a good (5) five min. and only saw the top of his tail across the river and it was big. I am thinking that it had to a big brown. When he wanted to make a run all I could do was hang on because there was no stopping him. After five min he came off. He didn't break my line, he just pulled free from the hook. I did hook and land a 15' or 16' ins rainbow that was all colored up down it sides. I only fished for two or two and a half hours because the wind was blowing (20 mph) and it made it hard to control my line and float and I could not get the drifts I wanted . Tomorrow is suppose to be nice with less wind ,so when I get up I will check the wind and if everything is right I am heading down to see if I can hook up again with the big boy.

You are not alone in not hearing any gobblers. You are about 20 or 25 miles north of me and everyone that I know who hunts turkeys are haviing the same problems. I don't know if it was the winter kill off or the birds are late this year. I know guys who have just given up on hunting this spring because of it. I am surprised that you say that the Afton area is that bad. Afton has always been good for hunting turkey and deer no matter where you hunt up there. I have gone in to places that in the pass were good for birds and there is no gobbling or sign of birds..There are no birds out in the fields and I am not seeing any birds crossing the back roads.If this continues I see the DEC shutting down turkey hunting as we know it.

This story was told to me by an old friend who passed away last fall, so I guess I can tell it on here now. The turkey hunt took place about 15 years ago.. You had to know this man and that he would not say something if it was untrue. I knew him to be one of the better turkey hunters around who always got his birds in the spring season and they were always mature birds.He didn't tell this story to many people because he knew that some people would not believe him. This man would not say sh#% if he had a mouth full or would he willing break any laws. He told me that year that he took a nice gobbler on the first day and then waited for the third week to go after his second. He said the turkeys had shut down and the hunting was slow with no gobbleing. He checked the usual spots with no luck,but this didn't stop him because he always knew of a couple of places were other hunters wouldn't walk in that far back and he aways could find birds there. He told me he had two or three places like that. So one morrning he made the walk in. It took him a good hour to get back in there and set up. He set back about twenty or so yards from the steep ridge that he knew the turkeys would holding out below him. there was a woodes road or fire trial off to his right on the flat that he was on. He said that most years the the turkeys would come straight up the hill when called to. He gave some calls with no answers and this he said, he did for about an hour or so. This didn't stop him because he aways had a bag of tricks when turkey hunting that he knew if they were there would make them gobble. He did this call and got a gobble right back at him. He worked this bird for a good hour without the bird making a move, then the bird shut up and he knew the bird was on it way to him. Not a sound for 15 min. and then a gobble that was off to his right and half way up the hill to him. So he swung to his right to get a shot when the bird came over the ridge. About 10 to 15 yards in front of him was a bush in his line. of sight and about 25 yards the other side of the bush up stepped not one but two mature gobblers side by side. They stepped on to woods road and turned and came straght at him. side by side one on the right side of the bush and the on the left side. He told me that there had to be 2 or 3 feet between them. He aimed for the one on the right and shot and both birds went down. the bird on the left was stone dead still and the one on the right was flopping all over the place, that was the bird he was aiming at.. He checked the birds out and both of them were dead. He had killed two birds with one shot. Two birds that had been side by side with 2 to 3 feet between then, not one in front of the other. He checked the bush and saw that he had hit a couple of branches and a BB must have shot left hitting the other bird that he was not aiming at and dropped him stone dead. He wasn't going to leave a bird lay and took both birds out with him. He also said that he never wanted to have carry two birds out again along with his gun being that far away from his truck. he said he had to stop and rest many times with it being a hot day in May. He told me that he thought about calling a game warden and telling what had happen , but he thought the game warden wouldn't believe him ,so he called another friend who he knew that had not gotten a bird and gave it to him to have and tag.I know where this man was hunting and it is a long walk and I know I wouldn't want to be carry two birds out from there. If you liked this story let me because I have another one about him and not about 2 birds but 4 birds. I know that is true because I was there.

Good for you, It is a great feeling to get that first bird under your belt. i hope you have many more years of success.

Here in 7S I have been out for the last two week hoping to hear or see some birds . I have been out mornings and evening and not a thing. Every year I would see them crossing the roads, not one this year.

Good luck and I hope she gets the biggest bird on the hill.

Some people on here think I got my name from all the fishing I do for steelhead and using a noodle rod. Sorry that is not how I got the name. I got it from playing noodle golf balls for many years when they came out. and also because I would wear a noodles cap all the time. To this day people call me noodle or bottom of the cup. I didn't think bottom of the cup was a good name for a hunting forum.

I said it before and I still agree with stubby68. When someone has learned how to shoot a bow , it is like when you learned how to ride a bike, you never forget. I am 70 years old and have been hunting with a bow for 50 years, so when I say it is far easier to take a deer with todays compound bows and todays arrows and broadheads I know what I am talking about. Yes it is easier take a deer with a bow than it is to take one with a gun.I have taken two bucks for I don't know how many years,one with bow and the other with gun. I know when I go out hunting with my bow I know that I will kill a deer, I can't say that when out gun hunting. What makes bow hunting easier is the time of the season and the deer are in thier natural state and not being pushed. I have to laugh when I hear how hard it is to bow hunt. If todays bowhunters think it is so hard you should have been bowhunting back when I started when you you didn't have all the bells and whistles that you have today. Back then you had to buy three doz, cedar arrows to get (6) six that were staight coming off the bow. and broadheads that you needed to carry a file with you so you could keep then sharp. Most of todays so called bowhunter are not true hunters, all they do is seat in treestands and shoot at deer when they walk by.A true bowhunter hunts on the ground not in a tree . When someone seats in a treestand, then to me all they are then are deer shooters and not deer hunters. when you are on the ground and looking eye balls to eye balls only then are you a true hunter of deer. Todays bow shooters like to tell every one how hard it is when in fact if you know what you are doing it is easier. If you don't believe me , just look at all the pictures of big buck that are taken with bow and compare the big buck numbers that are taken with gun.

I agree with stubby68. Good post for telling it like it is.

While driving down the road today I had a wood chuck cross the road in front of my truck. It came over a two foot snow bank and crossed the road then over the other side into a dip and then up the hill that had a foot of snow on it. If he was looking for something to eat I wish him luck. I have never seen one this early in the year with all the snow we have on the ground.

I register and have insurance my ATV because I transport mine in the back of my truck. If you are going down the road and it come off your truck or trailer and someone is behind you and they hit it you are in for some big problems if it is not ins. Your auto ins will not cover it and also if you are rear ended when you are transporting it your auto ins will cover your ATV.

Anyone know how much snow there is in Pulaski? I thinking about making a run up for steelhead if we can get a break with the cold weather and high winds. I would also like to know if there is much ice flow. Thanks for any and all help.