Going in again/Canada video

[Robin]

Gettin' ready for my trip up to Lows Lake for opening week of deer season. I figure I'll paddle in on Thursday, the 19th but that all depends on the weather/wind, I can afford to be flexible. I'll bring my wall tent/wood stove again and maybe even some store bought wood for security.  I'm pumped like most of us are this time of year, can't wait.

I recently did a small canoe trip to Quebec with an old French Canadian(78 yo) friend, he calls me sonny even though I'm 69. HaHa

Here's a video of the trip

 

[grampy]

As always, Thanks for taking us along Robin! This is one of my favorite posts each year! The musical score you use is excellent too (I'm somewhat, of an acoustic guitar player)!  Watching your video, always leaves me with a feeling of peace. Thank you for sharing with us! Good luck and keep safe up at Low's.

[Fletch]

Thanks for sharing Robin!! Looks like a nice trip.

[genesee_mohican]

Nice job on the video and thanks for sharing! It's almost like being there. How much does the canoe weigh and what kind is it. I want one!

[turkeyfeathers]

Loved this thread last year . Thank you for posting some more of your adventures   Look forward to more   Good luck and be safe

[Robin]

2 hours ago, genesee_mohican said:

Nice job on the video and thanks for sharing! It's almost like being there. How much does the canoe weigh and what kind is it. I want one!

The canoe weighs about 63 lbs, it's a wood canvas Chestnut Chum. Chestnut went out of business in the late 70's iirc but they made a lot of Chums 15' by 32" at the gunnels. I went to Nova Scotia to buy this one, but they do come up on Craigslist now and then. 

[Otto]

I really enjoyed this video and am looking forward to seeing and hearing about your Lows Lake trip.  Good luck and be safe!

[sodfather]

That was awesome thanks for rubbing it in or I mean sharing. 

[wolc123]

I hope the weather is a lot better for you up there this year.  I was up at our in-laws camp, a little ways north-west of Lows (in WMU 6C/6F) for the early ML week last year.  There was so much rain at the end of that week, right up to opening Saturday of rifle season, that the lake water level rose from the lowest I ever saw, to the highest, in a span of 3 days.  I skipped the opening day of rifle season hunt and left early for home.   I had a basement bedroom in a big frame house to stay in, but I was not well-equipped for rifle hunting in the driving rain with my scoped rifle.  I don't know how you did it, staying in a tent. This year, I think I could hunt those conditions a little better with my new open-sighted Marlin 30/30.

As far as the deer population in the region, it should be near an all-time high this year, after two consecutive extremely mild winters.  Last season, I was able to kill a 1.5 year old doe early in the ML week (in WMU 6C), and a 6-point buck on Thanksgiving weekend, near the edge of WMU 6F.   Last year and this year, the DEC continues to make ML season "antlered only" in the central Adirondacks, so I guess they want to see the population there higher yet. That causes me to stay in WMU 6C, if I want to fill my antlerless ML/bow tag.   

I am planning on being up there this year at least three times, starting with the third day of crossbow season thru opening weekend of ML season.  I will probably skip opening weekend of rifle season, but head back up for the second weekend, and again for Thanksgiving weekend.   I love your videos and they are the next best thing to being up there.   The only thing that would make them a little better would be seeing some fresh tenderloins in the frying pan along with your eggs on Sunday morning.  I think your chances of that this year will be very good, especially if you get some dry, calm weather.  I will say a prayer, that you do.   Best of luck to you, and really looking forward to the show.           

Edited September 26, 2017 by wolc123

[Steve D]

AWESOME video as usual...Keep them coming

[left field]

"What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature."

~ Pierre Elliott Trudeau

[Doc]

You truly know how to live!

[hunter49]

  Very nice, Thanks!

[Robin]

Thanks for the kind words. 

[NFA-ADK]

Great video again, good luck this year!  

[bluecamp]

Great video, love watching them

[greybeard]

That was excellent. What a great adventure. Thanks for sharing.

[wolc123]

The weather is looking a lot more comfortable for your trip this year.  There is no rain at all in the long range forecast.  The average temperatures look to be about 10 degrees cooler up there on opening weekend than they were last weekend when I was up for ML. The high is supposed to reach 71 this Sunday (It got up to 81 last Sunday). 

The deer were not moving much last weekend with the high temperatures.  The only ones I saw were in the first half hour of daylight on Friday morning when I went out with my crossbow.   There was lots of signs though, and I heard several snorting and crashing thru heavy cover that I tried still-hunting thru with my ML on Saturday and Sunday morning.  Hopefully, the slightly cooler weather will increase the activity a bit.   The leaves were about half down on Sunday, so I don't think there will be many left by this Saturday.   Unless the wind picks up a bunch, still-hunting in those dry leaves will be tough.   

It looks like it will be "sit and ambush" for me with my old, scoped bolt-action rifle this weekend.  Still-hunting in the snow with my new, open-sight Marlin lever will have to wait for our Thanksgiving weekend trip.   I don't think I will be able to make it up for the second weekend of gun season as I had planned due to our girl's sports schedules.  Enjoy your trip, looking forward to the video.      

[Robin]

I'm getting my gear ready and packed, nothing new, same old stuff. I had planned on going in this Thursday but the weather calls for 15-16 mph winds which will really kick up old Lows Lake, coming right out of the west. So it's Friday I'm going in, less wind they say. I'm ok with the mild temps, I really enjoy sitting in the woods if I'm not cold. I have an area I'm going to hunt that is new to me this year, a small stream with beaver dams. I'll keep in sight of the water and move in without a worry of getting turned around and being late for dinner. Well heck, I'm the cook so what ever time I show up back at camp is ok I guess.I keep telling myself to hunt a little harder than I have in years past, but just being back in the big woods is so good I just kinda soak it all in and enjoy myself and don't put pressure on myself. (it's also good to have a couple of sons who always manage to provide me with a fat doe here at home every year)

[grampy]

Have a great and safe trip!  Best of luck to you hunting!  Looking forward to  seeing the pic's and video of your trip! Take care sir.

[wolc123]

I think you are on the right track hunting that creek bottom / beaver dam area.   I walked thru an area like that, about 30 mi to the NW, on Sunday and there were deer trails in there so beat down that they looked like cow-paths.  That scoped Marlin 336 looks like just the right gun for that kind of work, in warm and dry weather.   Setting your own schedule for the meals sounds cool.  I sometimes cut my morning hunts a little short just to get back to the lake-house and enjoy the fancy brunch that my mother-in-law always has ready.   She usually goes a little overboard when I am up there,  but my father-in-law appreciates it. 

I think I will take them into town for dinner on Sunday evening.  I am planning on hunting Saturday morning, all day Sunday, and a little bit Monday morning.   Once again, I will probably skip the Saturday afternoon hunt and fish instead because it will be too warm for me to handle the venison and the butcher-shop is closed on Sundays.   If I kill a buck on Sunday, it should be ok because it is supposed to be cooler Sunday night, and I can drop it off at the butcher shop on the way home Monday morning.        

[Robin]

I'm back from 6 days into Lows Lake. I had a great time, the weather was very warm and I had a big wind storm for 24 hrs at least (50mph gusts) but all in all a good trip. I did hunt a little, but the temps really where too warm imo to harvest a deer and save the meat considering how long it would have taken to get it to a locker or iced down. Temps went up into the 70's with bright sun shine.

I left Connecticut very early on Friday, drove to Tupper Lk and picked up my license, then had my canoe and gear ready by 11 am. I made the portage in an hour but it was a 12 miles paddle in a head wind. I was setting up just at dusk, dead tired. It took me a couple of days to recover, my legs where shot from pushing all the gear uphill at the upper dam. But sitting around camp up there is not a bad thing. I ate well and just kicked back till I regained my strength. 

I actually sat in the woods in a tee shirt it was so warm. No worry, the whole experience was great, lots of fond memories again.

There's a canoe in there

lots of gear, I use it all.

Coffee's on,

Brats, the plan was to eat some then and save some for a cold lunch up on Tomar Mt. Oh well, I ate the rest the next day in camp while looking at Tomar Mt off in the distance.

sorry, a blurry selfie sitting out in the woods

moose rub, again lots of moose sigh, 6' high

listening to an early morning moose grunting off in the area of Tomar Mt

 

drying out my canoe,

slab bacon and coffee looking at Tomar

Lows Lake

[ncountry]

Looks like a great time.. it has been years since I've made it to Lows lake.

We camped on or near the grass pond area? 

[Robin]

Again, not much of a hunt what with the temps in the 70's but here's a video of my 6 days in camp

 

[Steve D]

AHHH The good life Great Video as always.