grampy

The fishing has been a bit slow in my area lately as well. But even a slow family fishing day beats sitting around watching TV! Nice picture!

What a coincidence!

Some very nice pic's there Elmo!

We just "knew" that we better not act up while out and about! Or else!......

I have been fortunate enough to hunt the same area for decades. I've kept logs during the hunting season and learned deer activity by boots on the ground scouting. Last year a member here sent my grandsons a couple of trail cams. I let them pick the spots to place them. My youngest grandson age 12 placed the cam that got the pic of the mature buck on my avitar. It was taken just a short time and distance away from where he and I got into the ground blind we made together, on opening morning of firearms season! We didn't kill this buck that morning but could have later in the season had we not been tagged out for bucks. He was about 30 yards from where this picture was taken. This year I've purchased four more cams and we will be putting them out in the next few weeks, together. We won't put them in the middle of known bedding areas. Just the areas between bed and feed. And use common sense placing and checking the cams.The boys just love seeing what critters show up on the cams they place! Also this same buck we have named Split-Ear, has been spotted a couple times this year. We hope to get a pic of him in velvet. And he's #1 on our hit list so far. So my main point is that trail cams can be useful and fun when used with a bit of common sense.

Fish-N-Chips..........oh yeah!

What a great picture! A family having fun fishing together is what this world needs more of! So cool on so many levels.

If you do all you can to keep the wind in your face and your scent downwind of where you expect deer. You could kill a deer soaked in a bottle of Tommy Bahama's! Rain or anything else will not "wash" the human scent so that a deer cannot smell you downwind! Sure there are things you can do to reduce the amount of scent that comes off of you. But there is nothing that you can buy or do that will keep a deer from smelling you.

I'll bet he has a green thumb!

That is a BIG NY bear! Very nice!

I'm sure your Grandfather is smiling and nodding approvingly. Beautiful rifle. Best of luck in the deer woods this fall!

Welcome home rob !

Great way to spend the 4th! A little fishing with Dad, some pool time and crank up the grill. You got it going on Biz!

It's a proven scientific fact that the earh cools, and ice packs will extend from the poles. The the earth will warm and the ice packs will recede. Been happening for millions and millions of years here on planet earth. Nothing new to worry about!

Happy Birthday! On your Birthday, wishing you the 4 Fs. Family. Friends. Good Food. And Fireworks!!

Looks great! I'm sure Dad will love it! Nice job.

Nice crossbow for sure!

Welcome! Just pull up a seat and join right in any time!

The Crowne Plaza in Lake Placid is top notch. A bit pricey but well worth it! And you can see Whiteface from your room.

Stand up! Hook up! Check the man to your front! Shuffle to the door!

My fishing boat. I've had a lot of fun and spent many good fishing days on her.

Nice boat !! And one heck of a nice stringer of smallies !!! This was supposed to be in the post above.

Nice rig Dan! Got plans for tomorrow so can't fish that one. But will make one or two Mohawk Masters before the end of the summer. I'll surely stop and say hi. My BIL is second in points after the last event so perhaps I can swing by at weigh in time. Fished six plus hours between locks 9 and 10 yesterday, and fishing was VERY slow. Caught a few dinks with a three eights oz. white willow leaf spinner bait. That was it! Best of luck to you tomorrow!!!!

My rig is an 18 foot, fiberglass pro-style bass boat. Very stable running in rough water and while fishing. No rocking or tipping. And gets me to where I'm going quickly. But there are drawbacks to this set up too. I have seating for only three, but more comfortable fishing with two. So taking out the whole family together, is not going to work out too well. My rig holds 18 gallons of gas and I have to run run the high test 93 octain in my motor. I can and at times do run through a tank of fuel in a days fishing.