G-Man

Well I guess I need to move some cameras to catch what the neighbor saw on a piece of my property. A white deer speckled with,brown and black . .I don't like to run cams where he saw it as it's far from my house, has virtually no privacy from the road either as well as being almost all swamp. Have to come up with some mount and be able to conceal it pretty well. Stay tuned..

The key to walleye is not to fish them out to early.. females grow faster and can breed I 3 years about 18in long and in a pond will be caught out years before the males are ready to spawn at 18 and 5 years old. No you don't need gravel or running water for them they spawn in mud lakes all over north America. Biggest issue is time to reach age.

Well my.pond is full acre. Walleye.keep perch and crappie under control. It's pretty much weed free after 19 years so far. Did a lot of research and was lucky to find one hatchery that I talked to for hours on how to build, shape, and stock my pond .was very helpful and I bought all my stock from him when I did stock it. You will get lots of advice.anyone that wants to sell you a grasscarp walk away from. You can also buy your fathead thru your local county co OP.. as well as panfish trout and bass.. again I stayed far away from pan fish and bass It's so important you stock and build it properly or you will have a mess on your hand in few years.

I did perch and crappie and walleye in my pond. I honestly would stay away from panfish and bass( so cliche ) I would get some pond crayfish as well as Chinese trapdoor snail. Both are very good at keeping plants in check. And both provide food source and they can become established as fat heads being slow swimmers will need nests and periodic restocking Make sure you have ledge rocks for the fathead to spawn . Inset up bricks with flat rocks over them .others use PVC pipe cut offs. .

You must be in a limestone area..here 5ft and rock = no pond.. it's all shale and water drains.. You need 7 to 8 ft to over winter fish unless you have flow of water.. a half acre pond ( average depth of 4 ft. can only support 120 to 160 lbs of fish. Which will let you take about 60 lbs of fish out a year example: 40-50 lbs of panfish, and 10 to 15lbs of bass. Do not over stock the pond !! Be smart a d start with crabs and minnows and snails you will never have a weed problem if you do. (And will never need a grass carp) stocking rates for predator prey should be close to harvest per year .. so 40 to 50 feeder fish ( panfish,perch) to 10 to 15 predator(bass,walleye) trout should be exclusive and only if the pond stays cold enough for them.

Now if you brought some heady topper beer with you on your wny excursions there are many here who would barganing beer for a hunting (check the beer thread)

Any local ag shop would have it( feed store)

Not true. Many still use bow in states that allow it all season. And because bait is legal doesn't mean people all bait. My friend took a 140 class 10 pr with very now in ohio last year. And he owns a crossbow. When going for a all day sit he uses bow. A quick hunt after work crossbow. He also shoots competitive vert bow. Just taking a course will deter many from picking it up. And most as stated here are now hunters already.. I know I went thru a stage where I made it harder and harder on my self and used the most primitive weapon available for each season.. even using a flintlock pistol in muzzleloader..same will hold true if xbows are legal.. there are separate recordbooks for each and people will try..heck I'm dying to try spear....

My neighbor has coffee cans of beards and buckets of feet.. crazy the size of some of those beards

Guess it's that time of year..

Fence is about the only guaranteed way. Can string fish line with noisemakers ( cans,metal plates on it ..)

Learned most of mine through boy scouts back when you truly camped. Learned to make moccasins, clothes, bow drill as well as flint and steel for firestarting,flintknapping,how to make a bow,and make snowshoes, Gorgetts for fishing , lashing, sewing, chinking, window glazing ,use of axe, basic survival plants and foods.. cooking .. I don't think they teach any of that anymore....I always look a a new eagle.scout as a bit less than when I was a Scout 30 + years ago

I've hunted near every day of my life, the rest have been wasted.....

Bow hunting : It's better to be in a the right tree to get a deer that you might see ; than be in a tree to see deer that you only might get

Way to small for black walnut (and lack of wrinkles in hull) that pit is sitting on a granite counter top.. it is cherry pit.. most likely black cherry but can be choke cherry as well .. a simple look at bark of trees in area it was collected would tell for sure.

You should be able to track where he was and his record fairly easy from his discharge papers Photos make it look as if he was in Asian theatre

I had a family make a den in the old house foundation and found out only because I had raccoons raiding my bird feeders and I would remove them and would wait to pick them up next day after they fell off porch only to go out and not find the seed thief the next morning.. eventually I saw eyes waiting at the edge of the lawn every time it heard a pop it would come for it's free meal.. I eventually saw the pups tearing one apart just off edge of lawn in foundation.. there were 12 in that litter all well fed!!

We have a log book in which guys write their story of the days hunt. Main heading is Whistler in camp, weather, temp. Been keeping it since 93.. going back and reading some of the stories are hysterical. Even days when all one person saw was a black squirrel who by the end of the season named it . And documented its adventures while he hunted that spot every time he saw it. Makes me smile and laugh of all the crazy things we've done over the years.

Pit from black cherry trees. Peterson makes a good tree guide for eastern forests.. learn your trees and your hunting become much easier.. black cherry are big draw for Turkey and Bear.

Throw and grow still needs prep. You need soil to seed contact. A hand rake can clear it but it takes work. If it's a logging road down to hardpan you may need to bring some soil back on it. You can get oats,rye,clover, turnip, and.lime and fert.all at your local ag store much cheaper than a prebagged mix.

Dive it along top of ridge on logging road , it quiet stop every few hundred yards and blow horn. You can cover lot of ground fast and be surprised how many birds let you go by only to answer when your a few hundred yards the other side of them. . I cover about 1.5 miles in 10 min.

Yes and then they try it and deflect and miss and God this thing is heavy and next you know there are great high end crossbows available used at low prices. That is main reason I and everyone else should demand that xbox is included in archery course and be archery equipment. Getting close to game is key in all archery hunting . Keeping it as a muzzleloader is ridiculous. It kills by hemorrhaging, aiming points are different. Plus making people take another course is a detriment to many. Where here sign your name that you read instructions is easy and let all them nasty lazy gun hunters pick one up Bowhunters should want a course for x now as taking the course alone and having to buy a bow tag would keep the lazy gun hunters out..

I'd go out. You may find they are still flocked up. But youth is next weekend and may is right around corner. Owl hooter is a good call, but iv'ed used elk bugles, dog whistles and the horn on my Honda 50 moped to locate birds.. if they don't answer one they usually.will answer another. The key is being able to hear as many times the birds will sound off as you are blowing a locator.

I saw what I thought was a white great blue heron on way back along the tracks in ohio. Looked it up as a great egret.. haven't seen one in NY at all wish the train was going slower ..

I believe that is from running thru fire /coals if I remember correctly.