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Maybe so, if you spend or pay for the time that it takes to trim out all of the fat, otherwise not so much. I wish NY state would let us use our dmp's on bucks, like we could in the old days. At the very least, they should provide a third antlered tag, for those of us who buy gun, bow and ML licences. I will shoot does, but I give them away, unless I dont have enough buck meat. I dont think they taste better than bucks, but they do take a whole lot more time and effort from me (trimming fat), to make them taste as good. I located a processor, up in the northern zone (Nolts in Loweville), that does a great job of trimming out the doe fat for a very reasonable price. Because of that and the ticks up there, the first deer that I will be trying for this fall will be a doe, during the early ML season.

Hopefully, the Buffalo city leaders learned thier lesson and won't pull that stunt again (closing SBH to boat launching on opening day). I wonder how much cash they pissed away on those $8 each vehicle/trailer parking spots with thier visions of $40 each for air show viewers. Greed is seldom rewarded by He who has the final say on ALL things. Fortunately, the action was still pretty good downstream:

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I hit the local stream (Upper Niagara river) and caught a 11-3/4", (2) 14", (2) 16", and this 19", between 7:00 and 9:30 am. The little one is still swimming, and the rest are in fish heaven now (our food supply). I forgot the landing net, but they were a bit lethargic in the 63 degree water, and I didn't loose any trying to land. I also didn't loose any jigs, or pay for a boat launch, so it was cheaper than buying fish at the grocery store. Not a bad opening day

That bottom perch looks like the catch of the day, but those walleyes are perfect eating size. The big ones I get by accident while bass fishing on Erie, are no good for eating even if vacuum sealed, after they have been frozen.

I dont expect to see you give any credit to operation warpspeed and the prior administration for that vaccine.

I have seen a lot of that action. The best was when we rented a house, right next to the Bemus point boat launch on Chatauqua lake, for a week in mid summer. We did that for 3 or 4 consecutive years. Lots of free entertainment for sure. I remember the boat launch action from those years more than the fishing. One day, a guy trailed in a big sailboat, that really pushed the limit of that little ramp, along with the patience of many of those lined up to get thier power boats in. It took him quite a while to get the mast up, and lower some type of keel weight. We could hear the yelling and swearing from inside the house, as we sat at the dinner table ("Fn stinkboater", "Fn blowboater", etc.).

I saw on the news yesterday, that they are closing it down on opening weekend of bass / fathers day this year to make more parking available for the Air Show. Many fishermen are pretty upset about that. 2 cars at $ 40 each for a parking space trumps the $ 8 they get for a truck and boat trailer.

I will be thankful if I see some deer of any size, in the later part of the season. I am really looking forward to the Holiday ML season this year. I have yet to take an antlered buck during the late ML season. I did manage to bless my wife with one of her favorites (a fat button buck) from my bedroom window, around 15 years ago. That was one of my most memorable hunts of all time. I rushed home from work, just in time to catch the last 5 minutes of legal daylight, on the last day. There was a little turnip plot, next to some standing corn, 100 yards out back. Still in my work clothes, I glassed the corn and watched the dark form of the young buck stand up in the corn and move towards the turnips. He cleared the edge of the corn, with 2 minutes to go. I pushed up the window, capped my scoped inline ML, and dropped him there in his tracks. His second helping of turnip greens was still in his lips when I drove that John Deere loader tractor out there to fetch him. The crop rotation has worked out such that my corn and turnip plots are in almost the same spot this year. I would be very thankful for another button buck, and my wife even more so. Those are the "real" trophies for her and I. Their eating quality is in a whole other league than those trophy antlered bucks.

I left a little spot for a purple top turnip / radish mix, between that sweetcorn and the RR corn. I also left a little spot for that mix behind my other 2 acres of RR corn plot, that I planted the week before Memorial day. There is just something about a mix of standing corn and frozen brassicas that is irresistible to deer in mid to late December. I used up almost all of my fertilizer (triple 15) on today's planting, so I will need to pick up another 50 pound bag or two, prior to those August plantings. I hsvr my best luck with brassicss when I seef light and fertilize heavy. I will also need a bushel of wheat and about 10 pounds of white clover for September plantings on the 4 acres that I had in corn and turnips last year. Rihnharts in Middleport has all that stuff dirt cheap.

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I only have one of those (concrete)and he stays outside. The shoe hanging from the collar had to be from before 1950 when grandpa got his JD model m and sold his last team. I found it while I was planting corn last spring.

I finished my last 2 acres of RR corn today, along with a little more 80 day sweetcorn (bodacious), and some 90 day (silver queen). No trouble with the planter today. Good thing my other old tractor is down with a flat rear tire, because the canopy on this one was nice in the full sun today. The loader bucket is also handy for carrying extra seed and fertilizer. I am hoping today's batches of sweetcorn gives us some for the freezer. It all depends on whether or not I can take out enough coons when the 70 and 80 day stuff I planted 2 weeks ago gets ripe. As long as the weather cooperates with enough rain this summer, the RR corn ought to pay off in venison, during the Holiday ML season this year.

Got any bucktail jigs ? The 1/8 oz versions were working very well on smallmouths where we were over Memorial day weekend (NW corner of ADK park). The water was crystal clear. I suppose that flourocarbon line was a big help (same refractive index as water and therefore invisible to fish). Our daughters were catching them from the end of the dock, until they lost their first jigs and fluorocarbon leaders on snags. No more action for them when they tied new jigs directly to the monofilament line on their push button reels. Our youngest paddled out on a kayak and got back into them when I handed her my ultralight spinning rod, loaded with 6 pound flourocarbon:

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The last 3 times I drove a tractor back to work on my foodplot, I have seen a deer. The two before today looked like a 2 year old buck in velvet. He was kind of skittish, and didn't let me get close enough for a good camera shot. This big doe let me get to within 15 yards of her today. I am guessing that she has a fawn or two bedded in the high grass. I am definitely going to wait until after mid-July before I mow those fields.

I went 40" on the barn that I put up in 2018. My buddy dug all but three of the holes with the hydraulic auger on his backhoe. The three that I did by hand were not too bad, but I dont have many rocks. I did run into a slab of broken concrete, about a foot down, on one. That took me about twice as long as the other 2. We have not had more than 6" of frost in the ground in WNY in the three winters since then. I only went so deep to meet code and because we have a tough building inspector in town. I think it is time they updated that code. The ice age is long gone.

This Or, now that global warming has kicked in full tilt, you can dig down just 20 inches with your holes. The days of 40 inch deep frosts are long gone.

What you talkin bout BilliS ? My newest tractor is 16 years old and my other 70 year old one is laid up now with a flat rear tire and rusted out rim. I prefer to "live off the land" over store bought food, but I work hard to keep costs down. This "deer clubhouse" has been my most productive and cost me about zero dollars in materials:

Correct, NY is stingy with those antlered tags, allowing just 2 per person, even if you buy gun, bow, and ML licences. As a pure "meat hunter", when it comes to adult deer (1.5 yr plus), I much prefer bucks. I can process them a lot faster, not needing to trim out all that doe fat. That stuff sticks to the roof of my mouth, taking away much of the eating pleasure, if I leave it in. I would like it if NY would allow that third antlered tag, for those who buy bow, gun, and ML licences. That would be especially nice, now that the holiday ML season is a go. At least I can tag button bucks with dmp tags. There was a few years when I needed 3 or 4 average size deer to feed my family. Now that both daughters got jobs at the local pizza joint, 1 is probably enough. That's all I got last year , and about half is still in the freezer.

Many years ago, when we had beef cattle, they loved clover hay. Hopefully your guy grows some of that, because deer love it to. The horse folks usually go with Timothy hay, which deer dont particularly care for.

Perch and walleye are a lot better than bass fried, because their flesh does not have much oil in it. Bass have more oil in them, which makes them too greasy if fried. That fish oil is good for you, and it keeps them moist during bake, grill, or broiling cooking process. I prefer those process, mostly because they are healthier. Perch and walleye dry out too much when cooked that way. I very rarely target walleye, but usually end up with a few accidental catches each year, in lake Erie and the St Lawrence river. They are almost always over 5 pounds , and well beyond good eating size. They taste ok if eaten fresh, but not so hot if they have been frozen, even if vacuum sealed. By contrast, vacuum sealed 12-15" bass, that was twitching when filleted, tastes just as fresh a year later as it does the day it was caught. A 6 pound vacuum sealed lake Erie walleye tastes just like zoo plankton smells, after a month in the freezer.

Walleyes dont live long in a live well unless the water is cold or you run the aerator a lot. Northern pike do a little better, largemouth bass quite a bit better. Smallmouth bass seem to live the longest in there, as the water gets warm, and the oxygen gets depleted. I usually toss a bag or two of ice in the livewell, if I have a long drive home. As soon as I get home, I put a garden hose in there. The cool water usually revives them, if they are starting to belly up. Bass are my favorite fish to catch and eat. They taste much better if the fillets are still twitching when you remove them. That don't happen if you put them in a cooler. That is why most folks dont care for eating bass.

I gave the turkeys 5 minutes this morning. I walked 100 yards behind the house and blew a crow call a few times. I didn't hear a gobble, so I went out on the lake. No perch bite again this morning and not as many bass, maybe 7 so far. The last one was my longest of the holiday weekend (18"). I pinched the barb on the 1/8 oz jig to make it easier to release them unharmed. None have thrown the hook since I did that.