Hunting and Fishing ***Picture Warning***

[zippy1]

Couple random pictures behind the house back in the woods.
One of those kitty cats again.
Then a picture of a good one, and the last two are over a licking branch, a place where we get pictures every year.

[nikster]

Originally Posted by zippy1

Couple random pictures behind the house back in the woods.
One of those kitty cats again.
Then a picture of a good one, and the last two are over a licking branch, a place where we get pictures every year.

Seems his neck is starting to swell a bit? That's a mighty fine good looking buck!

Nik

[zippy1]

Another one of the boys, this one may be a shooter

[Sam Mac]

Originally Posted by zippy1

Another one of the boys, this one may be a shooter

Dinner time!

[EricR]

Well our muzzy doe season is over and I scored (with the help of my Dad) on this fat doe up at the farm.

[zippy1]

Originally Posted by EricR

Well our muzzy doe season is over and I scored (with the help of my Dad) on this fat doe up at the farm.

Congrats on the flathead!
Be some good eats right there!

[nikster]

Originally Posted by zippy1

Congrats on the flathead!
Be some good eats right there!

X2

Nik,

[Shotgun Wedding]

Since this is also a fishing place, and that is my number 1 hobby, I thought I'd post a few successes from this year.

Lake Erie is our playground, Eastern Basin which we will fish anywhere from Erieau to Turkey Point here on the Ontario Side. Main place we fish from is out of Port Bruce Ontario where if we head out about 12 miles we can see the shores of PA on a clear day.

In the middle of the dog days of summer in August we normally head 12-15 miles from shore to hit the colder waters of 65-70 feet depth to downrig for salmon, walleye and steelhead.

Salmon in Lake Erie are getting pretty scarce, we had a good fishery of coho salmon which were all stocked but that stocking program ended years ago. There are a few free-run fish still out there breeding, but they are rare.

Walleye are getting plentiful if you know what you are doing, there are still some 2003 class fish out there which are absolute monsters like my last picture. 2003 being the best recruitment year measured, it has not been as good a recruitment year since.

Steelhead are still stocked, mostly on the US side which make their way to our side in their annual clockwise migration. Years past we slayed the steel but this year we struck out, having one on the line...it jumped clear out of the water, then skittered on the surface for maybe 10 feet, spat the spoon...smiled and headed for the deep. A worthy opponent!

We fish off our boat which my wife and I bought new in 2001, a 23 foot cuddy cabin with 200hp Volvo I/O with SX outdrive. Sleeps 2, has head and a nice electronics package I upgraded 2 years ago with Garmin chartplotter and Depth Sound, Fish Graph and Raymarine VHF. She is a sweet rig called Caseys Dream, named for my father. She is good big water boat with high sides and deep hull...and she skoots nice with the top down and the trim just right, cutting a nice line at 43MPH.

We fish with combinations of 2 Scotty downriggers, 10 lb orange fish-cannonballs, Dipsey divers or Walker Deeper Divers and 27lb Leadcore in either 3, 5, 7 or 10 colours. Rule #2 is...always have a leadcore out the chute!

Rule #1 is always send the temp probe down, learned the hard way that there is a science to this!
Rule #2 is always start with a watermelon spoon...always!
Rule #3 its always time for Lime, BudLight Lime

Wife with a wally, leadcore, 10 colours, orange crush moonshine glow


Caught off dipsey diver, 150 out, setting 3, greasy chicken wing Michigan stinger


Caught this pig also on leadcore, 7 colours on a Nascar Michigan stinger.

[Sam Mac]

Good looking fish.

[nikster]

Mighty fine eatin', dem'dere eyes are the best.

Nik,