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I hit Erie this time so not sure but A-5 would know about recent NY reports. I’m guessing salmon are done. Especially with the early push that seemed to come this year after the rains. I caught them in early Nov ish last year but it was drought like and I hit it during the first good rain...

Santa Rosa was heartbreaking as well. Let’s wipe out unique substrains of elk and Muleys to study lichen. A disease or inbreeding issues can be fixed with isolated populations like that. NZ is going through something similar last I read. Shooting Tahr and Chamois from helicopters to cut...

The eastern grey I mentioned was thought to be a subspecies deal. Now recognized as distinctly different dna or something. Forget details but got sort of into it a few years ago after finding the old article/pic of uncle Calvin. Then found they ruled it a subspecies or folklore really. I was...

If you ever travel to Eastern NC be careful what you say, lol. The 5 year study of extinct red wolves forced on the farmers after breeding Greys with Yotes has turned into a new endangered species. Can’t make that up. They haven’t paid farmers for herd loss to predation. They didn’t wipe them...

Fun fact, I found an article of my great uncle explaining about eastern wolves being different from timber wolves. I then read Biologists discredited multiple overlapping strains. I read last year they discovered a second wolf in the NE aka Eastern Wolf. Sometimes those old farmers knew more...

Bison and Elk, even grizzly and eastern wolf, no Steelhead or Salmon that I know of. Steelhead where introduced to create the fishery on late 1800s I think. PNW Salmon I’m not sure when. Maybe Atlantic’s where there from the beginning. Browns are known European but brookies aka Char are the only...

Oh, honorable mentions, kids and wife apparently saw a Great Lake for the first time And I added an hour to show them the elk, even saw a few monster bucks. Same Gamelands I saw them 4 years ago. We watched a little shoving match but then I noticed the biggest just bedded behind them in the pic...

10+ hrs round trip, brought the carnival with me adding $hundreds and cutting fishing to essentially 1 day. Morning was best I’ve seen for 30 mins. Then shut off and I was the last one turning out the lights at dark and making the long unknown wade out in the dark with a bottle of water as my...

I’d guide you but my honey hole is archery only, houses close close, if you don’t mind a walk, maybe considered a hike, down an old town road 2k’ to gorge we could easily get an inline doe. I have a Mountain Rie in-line with UL 4x28mm Leupold I had them update to new glass back when they...

There’s a reason the big 10 everyone wants is still roaming and the small 8 is in my freezer. Heck I even split all the racks to save space last year, 10-15 mountable racks others say. I would Mount 1, it would need to be a 140” 8pt with mass for days and I’d do a pedestal showing one shoulder...

Then there was 1 tag left, about the hardest shot I’ve pulled off, about killed me dragging her up the ledges. Dropped at shot, flop flop, ok let her kick out, flop flop flop, I go to looking for the buck chasing her then here a loud crash, she flopped over ledges,,,,,, right onto lower game...

Occurs to me A-5 might be a bad influence. I used to be thrilled to catch 14-16” trout in warm weather and hunt when it snows. Now I’m hunting when bugs are biting so I can fish when everything’s 🥶

Unfortunately, now all I’m seeing are bucks bucks and more bucks. Booking hotel up north to force myself away. 3-4 different bears and now zilch. Had a beautiful grey Fox at 10 yards, perfect oppty and even tested an older arrow at 15 yards just for foxes I keep seeing. I couldn’t whack him with...

Bear in pic was in leaves but if you look lower you’ll see I hit him right in shoulder plate. I mountain goated all over the mountain with 0 blood found. Even climbed the death zone near their denning area. Fall or rockslide there and buzzards or bears pick your carcass before anyone finds you...

Caught some beautiful purple cheeks in the Lehigh MC confluence with my brother but no pics. Just a quick trip sun night. Waters really high right now.

Found some hardware loose on XBow that shouldn’t have been. Bummer

This one hurts, worked like a plan til It didn’t. Same one I shot under at 30 yards. This is morning after I spent a day looking for him. Arrow hit center shoulder and broke coming right back out of the skin. Been at my house every morning since and even hit my trash cans.

I saw that rain coming but had to wrap a few things here. I’m going to head up late this week lord willing and hope the salmon aren’t still around as much. Great Coho and those browns are awesome.

Def a beautiful truck, looked at a few old fords and a stude but not recently. I have garages I could maybe create space for a vehicle.

I’d have to keep it flat paint and non glossy tires. I had a black Benz once and nice shiny chrome, nope, never, ever, again. Before moving to the Road Salt Mecca my vehicles got annual baths to wash deer blood out before Christmas luminaries delivery around neighborhood.