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I tried the little Adirondack stream up at my in-laws this afternoon. I caught 6 or 7 chubs on a white nymph, but no trout. The stream is bordered by a thick, brushy swamp, making access tough from the banks. I will have to get a pair of insulated waders, prior to early ML week. Those would provide relatively easy access to the creek, and hopefully let me sneak up on a deer from downstream. My vest worked out ok, but I only had to go into the top pocket fly box once for a nymph. My 10" high rubber boots didn't cut it though. I gave up the chase for a trout, after a good soaker.

Happy birthday.

After I finished plowing, I cleaned all the dirt off the plow and parked the rig in my pole barn. The following morning, the right rear tire was settled down flat. It is up on a jack stand now. My current plan is to try and pick up a non-running Ford 9n, from a nieghbor. He claims it ran 2 years ago, but he can't get it started now. It still has a 6 volt battery in it, and it wont crank over. It has a loaded right rear tire, with some corrosion starting around the stem, and an unloaded left rear with a new rim. He is currently asking $1200, and said he will try to get it started this weekend. I told him I would give him $900, if he cant get it running, which he seemed willing to consider. If I end up with it, I will replace my flat right loaded rear with the rusty rim loaded rear from the "parts" tractor. That will likely get me thru a few more years of plowing. Eventually, some winter when things are slow, I will fork over $120 for a new rim, and $40 for a tube. I will put those in my old right rear tire and try to get that "parts" tractor running. That is plan A. If that dont work out, plan B is to get a new rim and tube now. I will run one loaded and one unloaded tire for a few years like that guy did. Breaking down those 70 year old tires/rims ain't that fun, so I hope plan A works out. I could use that tractor this year for some more corn planting, and I need it for cultivating and spraying. I cant adjust the wheel spacing properly on my larger tractor to fit between the 36 in spaced corn rows.

Maybe before my fall early ML week trip, when I hope to be up there for 9 days. I should have plenty for this weekend. I also got to get a pair of waders before then.

I put in a 1/4 acre pond at the lowest spot at my place. It took me almost a week to dig it with my Ford 8n and a pond scoop. The tractor needed a valve job when I got thru. Deer do seem to like it. I have caught does with fawns back there swimming a few times, on hot summer afternoons. Mortally wounded bucks have ran directly towards it a couple time. One made it to within a yard of the water line, before dropping dead in sight from my stand.

No rust and all still pretty sharp.

I would guess 55 to 60.

I found my old fly box. I hadn't seen it in about 15 years. Everything inside looked ok but I had to repair the cover with electric tape. I see at least 6 nymphs on the left so it is good to go in my vest top pocket: Grampa's old Garcia-matic and 7 ft fiberglass rod are ready to go to:

I am going with a vest with my fly box in the top pocket. I will carry a rusty bucket for fish, and needle nose pliers in my pants pocket. I will treat the top edges of my rubber boots with Sawyers and try to stay out of deep water. That's my plan for this weekend up in the Adirondacks. I found a few weighted nymphs. Hopefully, a Brookie or two will cooperate for campfire snacks.

I would also recommend leaving the soybeans out of your spring corn planting. If you add them to the mix in the spring, deer and other critters will mow everything down, long before hunting season. Many have got decent corn plots by broadcasting and dragging as you mentioned. Save your soybeans for planting until Sept 1 or so, and add to a broadcast mix of wheat and white clover. Since global warming kicked in, we have been getting later frosts, so those sprouting soybeans might add some attraction into early bow season, if you hold off that long to plant them.

I couldn't think of anything prior to starting this thread but Joe scored 2 since then. First, I was able to walk into the local produce market, without wearing a mask, and pick up a 12 of Ruby red. Second, Joe broke from the radical left wing of his party and threw his support behind Isreal and against Hamas in the recent conflict.

And yet there is at least one here (vh) who seems content with the way things are now.

I planted a half dozen each summer squash, zucchini, and cucumber seeds on Saturday, along with 1/4 acre of sweetcorn. In about 2 weeks, I will put in about 6 tomato plants and another 1/4 acre of sweetcorn. I hope to have ripe sweetcorn from August 2 thru October 1. Usually the coons end up getting most of the first batch to ripen.

I once found a big dead one in my barn, that had its head pinned under the loader bucket of my tractor, and a big salmon net tangled around a toe on it's back paw. I wonder how long it dragged the big net around before getting pinned. My cousin tanned the hide for me. He said it also had some birdshot in it. They certainly are not the brightest of furbearers. One night, I took 4 out of my sweetcorn, with a single box trap baited with a peanut butter coated marshmellow. I looked out my bedroom window at daybreak to see the fat momma seated on top of the trap. I stalked in on her and double lunged her with my 10/22. Two half grown ones inside each caught one at the center of an x formed between the ears and eyes. Another young one popped its head up from behind a downed corn stalk and got similar treatment. They picked the wrong corn patch to wipe out that night.

Go with a cocobolo.

Do you remember a time in US history when inflation was higher than it has been since he took office ? How about illegal southern border crossings ? Have you been to NY city lately, or downtown Rochester ?

Not loading the tires will make that old tractor better at a few jobs, including dragging logs out of my wood lot (less rutting), and operation on soft sod, so I won't bother. Plus that stuff is very expensive. I will use my other tractor for plowing. It lacks hydraulic draft control, so it is tougher to maintain uniform plow depth. It does have loaded rear tires, 4wd, and about double the weight and hp, so it does ok on the plow.

If anyone can think of one, please name it. I am still waiting.

Grilled bacon wrapped venison cheeseburger with a choice beverage for lunch:

I am the same way. Fortunately, I have not seen any tics yet this spring, 4 mornings out turkey hunting in wmu 9f in WNY. I did treat my bibs with Sawyers and wore them each time. I am taking those with me up to the Adirondacks next weekend, because there is usually lots of tics up there. Odds are, I will be spending a lot more time on the water than in the woods up there. Fortunately, just like cats, tics can't swim.

That is a beauty. Where did he catch it? I remember catching one that was about that size , 32 years ago in April, on Honeyoye lake while I was fishing for perch and calico's. It was on the south end near the center, just into the swamp. I had to release it, because the season was not yet open. The quantity of fish caught that morning was nothing special, but the sizes of four was very memorable. I also caught and released a big largemouth bass. I got a real big perch that morning, along with a slammer calico. We ate those two, along with a dozen or so other "just barely keepers" of those species. That was one day when I would have liked to have had a camera in the boat. That was decades before smart phones, and I never worried about a camera, while panfishing.

Another surprise today, when I was able to finish my last two acres of spring plowing without blowing out the right rear rim on my 70 year old tractor. Hopefully, it makes it thru a little more planting and some cultivating this year. I will try and find a used tire and rim, in a little better condition, prior to next spring. If I dont find that, then I will probably go with a new set of tires and rims. That will cost about $1200. I won't load them, which means this might be the last time it is used on a plow.

Yes, it's the one. The JB weld repair turned out ok, but I have not fired it since the repair. I would have taken it up next weekend, if a patched round .50 cal ball was legal for turkey, but it is not (illegal in NY for turkey on 2 counts: rifle, and larger than #2 shot size). I will be packing my .410 Winchester model 20 and some high brass # 6's. I only intend to use it if I hear gobbles on the hilltops while I am out on the lake perch fishing at daybreak. I have had the lake to myself at daybreak, thru Memorial weekend, for the last 8 years. I started using the oars rather than the outboard on those outings, out of respect for all the late sleepers. Other benefits of no outboard motor noise are less spooked fish and wildlife. Beavers are common companions at sunrise. 5 years ago, there seemed to be a gobbler going off on every hill around the lake. They were safe, since I had no tags that year. I have not heard any since then. I will be ready for them this year, with 2 tags, 2 calls, a decoy, a popup blind, and this other little peashooter: Ps, I am hoping to not hear any gobbles again this year because i would rather be fishing.

Nice, I am headed up to the NW corner of the Adirondack park over Memorial day weekend. I have never caught a trout on a fly, but I plan on giving it try in the afternoons. Thanks for posting the picture of the fly. I will tie up a few like it prior to departure. Some fresh brookies, wrapped in tinfoil, over the campfire would be pretty tasty. Usually, I target petch in the small lake that my in-laws live on, at that time. Perch are few and far between on that lake, which is dominated and overrun with smallmouth bass. I don't like "senselessly maiming" bass prior to spawn, buy I typically catch dozens of them while trying for perch. Whether I am fishing or hunting, it is mostly about the meat for me. I remember those fresh wild mountain bookies tasting wonderful, 50 years ago when I ate them as a little kid. Did you cook them up and how were they ? My secondary mission, as I fish the little steam that winds around the back of the mountain, is to scout the area for early ML week this fall. I plan on spending the afternoons on that steam with my fly rod and my 50 cal carbine. Hopefully one or both will produce some meat.

They are calling for rain tomorrow, so I got the 2 acre "antler" plot planted with RR corn today. I hoping that pays off during the holiday ML season this year. I left a spot in the back for a little turnup/radish plot. I also got in about 1/2 acre of sweetcorn. I have a nice truck cap blind overlooking that in the gap to the left of the tractor. That will be my North wind hunting spot. I have about 2 acres yet to plow this spring and I hope my right side rear tire makes it thru that. It made it thru today's planting with no trouble. That antique Ford tractor is better than my newer, larger 4wd JD tractor on the plow and way better on that corn planter. It is quieter, lower to the ground, and you can get on or off easy from either side. That helps a ton when you are checking seed and fertilizer, or clearing jams. A chain came off the sprockets on the planter, as I was finishing up the sweetcorn. I put it back on and stretched a spring a little farther on a tensioner pulley. It made it thru the 2 acres of RR corn with no further trouble. I will have to pick up a new tension spring from the hardware store, prior to planting the next batch.