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had the wildchild crew for another 3 day trip and a double on saturday (morning and afternoon trips) good fishing with good customers made for a very enjoyable week of fishing. http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a367/reeltime/Facebook/Mobile%20Uploads/10600496_535141449946764_2615574361096585580_n.jpg http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a367/reeltime/Facebook/Mobile%20Uploads/10410221_535375093256733_4473548572502342512_n.jpg

yes i did the roofing. I did all the metal roofing, ridge cap, fiber vent seal, eave gaskets,corners, and gutter guard for less than 600. screws can be done either on the ridges or on the flat beside the ridges, back when we used gasketed nails to install roofing they went in the ridges and holes had to be predrilled. if you put the screws in the ridges you have to be extra careful not to tighten them too tight or you can dimple the ridge and have a much greater chance of a leak. putting the screws in the ridges also makes it a nightmare to use a roof rake to clean the roof. you also have to use 2" screws which are harder to start without predrilling the holes. as I said either way is acceptable, and the thing to remember is no matter where the screws are put the rubber gaskets will never last a lifetime so eventually they will leak no matter where they are. cost and speed of putting the roof on were 2 of the biggest determining factors in doing metal, we use the roofing money we saved and put that towards more attic insulation. good insulation values in the ceiling and lots of ventilation = little to no sweating of the metal roofing.

have ran back and forth a couple days over the last few weeks as time allowed. got just about all the siding done except for over the original camp roof since I changed my mind on the master bath window and ordered a replacement for what I originally installed. on the inside all the wiring is roughed in except for the basement circuits. all light circuits are run. upstairs is completely insulated and all the walls are sheeted with osb, its now ready to start putting up the knotty pine but that certainly wont all be done in one shot, way too much money to do it all at once, so the important parts get done first and the rest can be done as we can buy it. next step is doing the gas furnace install. already cut in cold air returns and laid out the floor boot locations, just run the pipe and floor boots and cold air ducts so the living room can be closed up. decided to make our entrance stairs and patio from reclaimed barn stones from when we repaired our barn wall..

saturday mornings catch, we had quite a few chances but the fish were not hitting real aggressive and the ones we did get were hooked right out on the snout. saturday afternoons trip was in the same area but the fish were much more aggressive being hooked deeper in the corner of the jaw. very interesting bait school on the fish finder. about the time I took the picture of the bait we doubled up on kings. after resetting lines and swinging back through our waypoints the action was on again. monday morning we didn't have all the rods down before we had a triple on kings, I reached for the last diver rod and that one got hit also, 2 customers 4 kings on is not fun. we ended up getting 3 of the 4 with breaking off the biggest one at the back of the boat. then we had back to back doubles. a half hour break and then a steady pick the rest of the day, lots of fish released and a few lost during the battle. we ended the day with a double while I was cleaning fish, notice the downrigger rod in the left side background, also the customers had reaching for it. I saw the rod pop in the camera just as I was about to take the picture good fishing with good customers.

insulation, drywall, 47000 lineal feet of knotty pine, 1000sq ft. of hickory hardwood flooring ... licenses in pa and ny, for what little i will get to hunt probably. I do have to pick up a few cases of steel shot for duck season though.

we have a LEM grinder and a .75 hp ancient one from an old deli. I think the LEM is a full horse. both work well as long as the blade is tight. I have had several of the smaller grinders and they either didn't work or were painfully slow and aggravating. I will say the LEM grinder we have grinds much faster than the one we have here at our NY house but its a lot bigger and newer. I would certainly recommend the LEM grinders.

law, yup same siding, for some reason royal crest 9 which is carried at the local lumber yard down there) decided to cease production on that color.... luckily I had purchased 2 extra square when I did the original camp (mom on a tractor is a dangerous combination to siding) the lumber yard had 15 square still in stock and a few corners, J, and undersill so I bought all they had, but they didn't have inside corners and I cant stand doing back to back J's for inside corners. I went to Erie materials and found a very close match so I got the 3 inside corners from there. all the windows except the master bath window are new construction pella's with built in J so with what the lumber yard had and what extra I have we should be good. Grow, we are on the family farm, we only have 130 acres, the abutting farms are all 250 + acres except for the southwest neighbor is a little over 900 acres. Its nice that our closest full time neighbor is almost a mile away. its a nice area with great neighbors, if we are out working the fields the neighbors stop in to help and we do the same for them. The only problem with where we are its 9 miles to the closest town ( fire dept.) and its all lane and a half roads ( if they have recently cut back the brush) so when you build something you have to accep the fact that if you ever have a fire it will be a total loss because by the time the fire is spotted by someone and by the time the fire dept. gets there they will simply be there to wet down the embers in the basement. Mom's house is about 100 yards away so her and dad can keep an eye on it, we only have about a dozen vehicles a day drive by and even fewer on the weekends unless its hunting season. so itd kinda nice, quiet and peacefull.

next trip I hope to have a couple days so I can get the siding and soffits and fascias done, also have to build the basement stairs. not sure how this is going to all work out time wise since I am trying to work around 4 schedules,,,, fishing, carpentry here, hay baling here and the weather in pa.... the weather there being about the least important at this stage though, I have no problem working in the rain but wind and tornado warnings thats a bit much.

last week the forecast called for rain tues. and wed. so I loaded up and headed to pa early tues. morning. my goal was to get all the windows and doors installed and get the dormer closed up , if time allowed maybe even get the staircase installed. was done and back to NY by wed, evening so I could mow hay. by tues. night dad and I had the windows in and the dormer roof on, we woulda had more done but lost an hour plus on tornado watch, had one about 9 miles from us and another defined hook on the radar about a mile from us. other than a lot of rain and wind we came through unscathed. master bedroom with 2 side slide windows above the bed. master bath window just to the left of the 2 side slide windows. the large window faces the pasture to the north. the upper window to the far right is the front bedroom facing the pasture, and the large window on the first floor is the 5x6 window facing the pasture. from left to right, second front bedroom facing the south valley, stairway window for ambiant light , hallway window at the top of the stairs. upstairs bedrooms facing the road. living room entrance door dormer just about closed up, basement door. staircase and staircase wall framed and installed.

I had to go back and look at the pics again to see if you really were standing Dan all ribbin aside, some nice fish there guys, and some nice pics of the ships.

sorry for the title typo, tried to fix it but wont let me edit it now, maybe a mod can fix it. Lawdwaz, I fish out of Sodus point. fathers day trip with a fun group of ladies. a double from last sunday's trip

some pics from recent trips. a nice view from my office. pic taken before cleaning the fish. had 4 fish cleaned when 2 divers smoked off with kings, the results

yup lead core is a viable option. I have never fished onieda so I will leave those set ups for those that have experience fishing there. I use the smaller dipsy's when the fish are high in the water column or I run them as a down and out off a corner rigger when the fish are spooky. I have run the old big jon mini divers off the planer boards also.

law, some good stuff already posted. one thing I would add is that if you are fishing waters that have the pesky water fleas I would suggest you stick with the 7 strand wire over braids or mono. I have replaced all my diawa 47 line counters with shimano tekota line counters. the shimano's are pricey but they are a great reel. I don't want to take anything away from the diawa 47's since they served me well over the last 20 years but I did rebuild the drags a few times,,,,, in their defence king salmon are tough on gear! i would stick with a line counter reel, it gives you much more precise setups. counting passes on a reel is a pita, with the line counter you let it out at 200 get a bite and you can reset it to 200 and be right there at the same setting. if you go with a wire set up get the mason 30lb 7 strand trolling wire, a twilly tip for the pole, some good ball bearing snap swivels ( cross lock style) and some line crimps for attaching the swivels. for a pole I run 2 9' medium action diver rods, and 2 9'6" medium action diver rods. the 2 9' rods get set just forward of the corner downriggers with mag divers attached and set on a 1 setting. the 9'6" rods get set just ahead of the other 2 and they are set with the standard large size (1) luhr jensen divers set on a 3 setting. running 4 divers takes some getting used to both in letting them out and how you troll with 4 divers out. but once you get the hang of doing it without tangles its very productive.

I loaded up the truck tueday morning and headed to camp, had to watch the radar to time the trip so I would miss as much rain as I could since I had our new staircase in the truck. they missed the first days forcast by a mile! from tuesday afternoon to wednesday afternoon we got almost 5 inches of rain at camp! I could not afford to loose time so we started working in the rain. by dark I had the rest of the decking down to the transition point where we were going to tie into the existing building with the addition. Wed. morning I was at the metal shop picking up all the metal, when I got back I started framing half of the 2nd floor. by the time dad got there I had the walls all framed and staged on the floor to set up. we got the walls set, plumbed, squared and the tie in plates on. we got half the trusses up to the second floor and by dark had them set and the perlins on by dark, thankfully it had finally stopped raining. 4am thursday I started taking off the roof, by 10 am the new floor joists were in place and we started decking the second half of the 2nd floor. by 10pm the remainder of the 2nd floor was framed, side walls above the existing roof were sheeted and flashed in, trusses up, and perlins on. by 11 pm the overhangs were done with gable fascia boards cut and installed.....19 hrs I was beyond exhausted! 4 am friday I was cutting out windows and doors, got some more sheeting on the exterior walls just to help tighten things up and trying to be productive before help arrived to put the roof on. dad and a buddy of mine were taking the sheets of steel off my truck, handed them up to another buddy on the existing camp roof and then he pushed them up to me on the new roof and I put them down.. I got up on the roof at 10:45 am and I climbed down off the finished roof at 1pm. the rest of the day was spent sheeting the remainder of the exterior walls, laying out interior walls, and cutting out more windows. by 10 pm it was time to call it a night. 3am sat. I was up and trying to get house wrap on alone, I had to be outa there by 9 to get back to NY to bale hay. I was hoping to get it wrapped and the windows in before I had to leave but doing the wrap alone the first 3 hours didn't go as fast as I wanted. we finally got it water tight and I threw stuff in the truck and was gone by 9:45 so I had to make up some time on the trip back... got back here had Judy meet me at the farm to grab the dog and by 6pm had 400 bales done and put in the barn.. I guess I went to bed last night cause thats where I woke up at 4 am this morning... I wanted to run back to pa today to put the windows in but had some work to do here today and the next few days are busy, then I have to fish 3 days this weekend. some pics.. the new staircase

Law, I spend way more time scouting than hunting, I start locating birds in late feb. early march. I use field glasses and a spotting scope and keep detailed records of particular birds. I start with long range scouting and once they are patterned to roosting spots I move in to get a closer look at them. if its a bird that doesn't have a distinquishing marking on it I wait till I can confirm before shooting. My turkey rig is topped with a scope to aid in verification. my camp is in western pa on my family farm, I have a decent population of birds and access to several thousand acres of land. Merlot, I was at camp for a week to get the basement poured and block started, Judy came down late that week to help, she is limited on time off from work especially on holiday weekends. then I stayed a few more days toget more done, hopefully the weather breaks so I can get back down there to get the second floor done and back under roof.

was at camp the last couple weeks of may to turkey hunt and start the addition on the camp. got a fair amount done on the addition and saw some gobblers,passed up a few 2 year olds, came close to killing one of my target birds, got my hay cut and baled while I was there so all in all a good couple weeks. all set for the basement pour. basements poured and block work started french drains going in had an evening visitor on several occasions first floor framed, second floor started, dormer started for basement. next step is 3 days with no rain so we can take off half the existing camp roof, frame the remaining floor and get the second floor framed and under roof.

law, while true the climbing sticks can also fail they are a lot less likely to fail than the screw in steps, you also gain a lot more surface area for your foot with the sticks. as far as leaving them in a tree, I have seen them left in a tree without a stand present, I would guess they were left because the person couldn't get them out. I had one of the foldup style steps shear the pin when I tried taking itout of a maple tree once. it left the lag bolt in the tree, I came back with a small pipe wrench the next trip and removed the lag bolt, I am sure not everyone would do that. Just a friendly reminder on steps, they are OK if your on private land, they are illegal on public lands. as with anything ymmv:-)

your right wooly on the best use for those steps. everyone has their favorites, I used to use steps and still have a couple hundred of them someplace. I have gone to all climbing sticks, yes they are more visible to the undesirables but imho they are far safer than steps. one thing I will speak from experience on,, do not use the one piece screw in steps, the ones that have 2 90* bends in them with the auger bit machined onto the end. Back when I was using steps I had several of them snap off right where the machining ended. they were screwed in tight to the tree so it wasnt a flexing issue. no matter what you decide to use just be safe. as far as spacing, we always went with from your foot to your knee.

been a crazy first week, congrats to all that have connected so far. I think I posted a pic of my first day gobbler in NY. I passed up a 2 year old the second day, and again on saturday. sunday didn't hear a bird n the roost and left a gobbling bird at another location since I had to load up the truck and head to Pa. got to Pa mid afternoon and started working on the new addition foundation till we had a breakdown. the breakdown allowed me to go try to put a gobbler to bed. found a good one with a couple hens, I knew what tree he was going to. Monday morning at 0 dark 30 I was setting against a big poplar tree and 2 hours later when the sky started to lighten up I could see the 2 hens about 70 yards above me. had 7 gobblers around me within 200 yards, the target bird didn't gobble till just about 6 am and only once at that. 5 gobblers and 2 hens flew out to the far end of the cut corn field, the 2 hens above me pitched out and landed along the edge about 10 yards from me and worked the edge. the target gobbler was roosted right below the hens and only about 10 feet off the ground in the tangle of grapevines. a few clucks and soft yelps brought him right to the gun barrel drumming and strutting hard. at 20 yards and 6:15 am it was over. at the shot he hit the forest floor and started wing flapping and I hear birds agressively purring, I look towards the corn field and 2 jakes are running at full speed towards me. I get the bright idea to try and video what I suspect is them beating up the dead bird. I got a new dumb phone a couple weeks ago and when I turned on the video and those jakes hit the woods they keyed right on me.... I guess the camera light (flash) was on.. so they piddled around there looking at the bird laying there and then walked off. 21 lbs, 10 1/2" beard, 1 inch needle sharp spurs. monday late morning friends if mine from louisiana showed up for a few days of turkey hunting,,, Tuesday Dave missed a big longbeard that somehow got around him and Marjie came up to me and then got spooky and walked back by them and he missed it. Wed. morning we had a bunch of gobblers below us and the boss hen to my left. after I did a limb crashing flydown the gobblers went ballistic and the boss hen came unglued!! The fight of who was gonna have the last word ensued.. the gobblers were just blasting gobbles non stop! I see 2 white heads in front of the shooters.... 3 shots later and no bird....... not a clue what happened! I went back to digging my foundation. wed evening Marjie said she would like to see a bear before going back south,,, second field we checked in the evening for gobblers had 2 long beards going into the woods.... 300 yards below them is a sow with 3 cubs! they got some pics and off to the next field. thursday am found us standing along the field where we watched the 2 gobblers but not a peep from them where we saw them the evening before but they were hammering a couple hundred yards north of there. so we were off, I mentally marked the other 8 gobblers locations. once they started coming in they wouldn't shut up my fears of them gobbling too much were realized when they were just about to exit the pasture and enter the woods right in front of the shooters.... someone drove right up into the field where the birds were, I saw the truck slowly coming sown the other road about 5 minutes prior and just had that gut feeling he was gonna pull a bonehead move! we let things settle and heard the vehicle leaving the field, I waited about 5 minutes and started up calling again and was immediatly met with 2 more gobblers advancing with a loud mouth hen. ended up having 2 jakes get within 10 feet of me and the hen skirted us. I got back last night and my buddy called me to hunt this morning south of here, got there at 4:30 am. first spot had some person setting way back in the field in a vehicle with all the lights on????? off to the next farm, heard 6 birds, go set up on the hottest one and he was on the ground and coming.. I hear a hen 100 yards to my left, again, and again,,, I told my buddy thats a person, nope I have exclusive rights here and its heavily posted... I said theres birds gobbling those posters do not mean a thing to some people... sure enough soon after that conversation the gobbling ceased from all the birds! while we were trying to slip back to the truck we ran across the tresspassers boot tracks.. we get to another spot mid morning, trolling along and we strike a bird, set up and work on him.. after a while he finally sneaks in but he knows something isn't right and we really were not in a great set up spot. he did get clear enough to see a longbeard on him but his head was on the small side so I surmized him to be a 2 year old and let him sneak away.... we moved a couple more times trying to get onto the other bird that had gobbled a couple times during the calling session from the previous bird. finally the3rd set up felt right and the bird was responsive. he certainly didn't run in but e was steadily walking in and finally stepped out gobbled a couple times and finally started getting spooky as there was no hen where he heard it before. I settled the crosshairs on the side of his head and he crumbled to the ground at the shot. 22lb 10 3/8" beard 1 1/4" spurs..... a decent bird to end my NY season.

if you do the garbage can turkey make sure you burn the galvinization from the INSIDE of the garbage can. you have to make sure all the galvinize is off the metal on the inside as its toxic. what we have done iin the past is roll up a bunch of newspapers and put them in the garbage can and lite them up, while its burning we toss in cardboard tomake the fire hotter. This is done until the can is really hot then we wash it out and check to see if its clean, if not repeat step one. used to pluck them and cook like a conventional bird except we covered the bird with bacon. now I breast them out, wash them off good and then put each half in a 1 gallon ziplick bag and put a full bottle of wishbone italian dressing in each bag. that goes in the freezer, when I take them out I put the bag in the fridge and thaw it. once thawed I put the entire bag contents in the crock pot and add about 1/2 a drinking glass of water, turn on low and cook for 8-9 hours.. there is rarely anything left for leftovers! we have done them the same way using sugar cure instead of italian dressing.

a bittersweet day, last night I got word that one of the true patriarchs of the turkey hunting world had passed away Mr. Lovett Williams. his writings and recordings of turkey sounds and hunting information has no doubt helped many turkey hunters become successful in their endeavors of harvesting one of the most prized trophy's in the spring woods. as I sat against my tree this morning remembering back to when I had first heard of mr. Williams and the first time I heard his recordings of wild turkey calls I realized that the turkey hunting world has lost a wealth of knowledge BUT mr. Williams was a generous man while with us and he shared alot of that knowledge with all of us. He will be missed but will not be forgotten! I slipped into my spot this morning and set up on my favorite field edge tree, thankfully the deluge of rain had stopped. The first crow called out at 5:55am, GOBBBBLLLLEEE close about 70 yards out in a hemlock. I let him gobble a couple more times and then gave him a few soft cluck and tree yelps on the bomber. He responded with a thundering gobble right at me and pitched out and landed 50 yards from me. gobbled once and strutted right through the open woods to 25 yards before I putted to make him break strut and my hunt was over. 19lbs. 1 1/8" spurs, 10 1/2" beard. that burrville bomber from Tim Fralick is absolutely DEADLY on gobblers!

john, if you find a boat that really interests you and if everything was checked out and came back good you would buy it the best thing to do is have it inspected. I would recommend that you have a marine survey done on it. for a smaller boat you are probably looking at around 500 or a little under. they go over the boat from bow to stern. they do moisture readings on all accessable areas, floors, stringers, transom, gunnels etc.they also do a general electrical wiring inspection. they also do the standard USCG safety inspection of wiring safety, onboard fire supression systems, blowers etc. you should receive a complete survey report that will list any issues to be adressed. Some marine insurance companies require a survey and even some banks require them with a boat loan. any of your local marina's should be able to give you a name and number of a local surveyor. I have a few contacts for surveyors if you need them. I would also recommend having a marine mechanic do a check on the engine, outdrive etc. make sure its a tech that is familiar with the brand power units you have. some of the things to make sure are done are, compression tests on all cylinders, check oils for moistures, universal joints, bellows, shift boots, skeg and prop inpection for damage etc. whatever you decide, do not make a final decision with out a sea trial. after the sea trial check the oil to make sure its not milky, also check the oil fill cap on the valve cover as thats another spot the moisture will show up. good luck, if you need any help let me know.

as with any turkey hunting tool, in the right circumstances those decoys will work. sometimes you can see a gobbler zero in on the decoy and strut right in, sometimes you will see them look at the decoy and vanish. Depending on pressure some gobblers will become very decoy shy especially when they look at a decoy that is not moving around naturally. Rarely will you see a live wild turkey stand in one spot essetially motionless for an extended period of time and generally speaking if a wild turkey stands upright without moving for an extended period of time t means they are looking at potential danger. I used decoys up till about 10-15 years ago until the turkey hunting crazy started and there were more decoys in the woods than live birds. i had several gobblers coming in hot but when they saw the decoys ( I only used a pair or single hens) they spooked. I started leaving the decoys in the vest and concentrated more on my set up locations and still killed birds. Today I don't even carry a decoy anymore and have no problem killing birds every year. As far as a jake or gobbler decoy I will never hunt with one, doesn't matter if its public or private land, with what I have witnessed first hand from people stalking in on my location even having people stalk in on hen decoys! I would never put a legal target in front of me in turkey season.. If someone else wishes to thats their choice but I am not going to be anywhere near it. With spring gobbler season being such an audible style of hunting people just can not stand hearing a bird gobbling on private posted land and a lot of times they will jsut walk past posted signs. I never think I am the only one hunting a gobbling bird, the more they gobble the more attention they draw to themselves. which ever way you choose to go either using them or not good luck, if you use that gobbler decoy be very carefull of your set up, both location and surrounding. hunt smart, hunt defensively, and most of all hunt safe and good luck

I buy the happy jack kennel dip at tractor supply. Doc, supposedly the deer tick is the one that carries the lyme virus, unlike the common wood tick (dog tick) which is quite large and easy to spot the deer tick is very small and hard to see or feel crawling on you.