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Attempted to, usually lands on the opposite side.

Nah, I'd do it the way I did even with the DNR right here. As long as it's in front of the gill plate if you want to keep them. If they're older and I accidentally get one in the tail, I just walk right up the shore and drag them in, when they're fresh, there ain't no chance of that.
No judgment here...as long as they're hooked in the face I don't care. They head up the rivers to die anyway. I've caught plenty of salmon in the rivers on crankbaits. Just have to hang that bait in front of the redd long enough and they'll get territorial and smash it.

It's always a hoot to hook into a pretty fresh 20 lb king in skinny water!
 
Sheesh...could you leave some for us in the states? :innocent: I'm just messing with ya! Nice limit! Lots of good eats.
Thanks man! I think we are about one more good frost away from the small ducks getting the heck out of dodge and then they are all yours!
 
We got a 3rd nice buck on the trail cam yesterday morning. May not be a legal shooter but is obviously a mature buck.

This shows what is wrong with NYS's 3 pt rule ... it lets genetic defects survive!
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Good evening Mike.
How long do you think it takes those pictures to come thru once the camera takes them, a buddy of mine was wondering and I have no idea.

This is for Matt lol.
 
No judgment here...as long as they're hooked in the face I don't care. They head up the rivers to die anyway. I've caught plenty of salmon in the rivers on crankbaits. Just have to hang that bait in front of the redd long enough and they'll get territorial and smash it.

It's always a hoot to hook into a pretty fresh 20 lb king in skinny water!
I couldn't care less, I really get a kick out of the "catch and release" sticker crowd, as if they are so kind to the fish. I've often told people just how stupid it is, and used deer "fishing" as an example. Imagine having a pole with a nice hook(we'll make it barbless for the real critics) on it and some corn, along comes a deer and grabs it, off to the races it goes, and after a nice fight and it hitting a few trees I tackle it and pull the hook out, then after getting my pic with it I let it go. Yeah, it sounds so nice when you say it 🤣.
Yep, they're all gonna die anyway, line them, outright snag them, piss them off with a spoon in the morning, don't matter to me, just don't do any of them right next to me or in the spot I'm fishing, that's just bad edict 😀.
Yeah, I'm gonna try to get out with a buddy and do some steelhead steelheading this fall, always nice having them slam a fly after catching a bunch of big nasty salmon 😅. But, early season silver bullets, ain't much like them here in Michigan.
 
I couldn't care less, I really get a kick out of the "catch and release" sticker crowd, as if they are so kind to the fish. I've often told people just how stupid it is, and used deer "fishing" as an example. Imagine having a pole with a nice hook(we'll make it barbless for the real critics) on it and some corn, along comes a deer and grabs it, off to the races it goes, and after a nice fight and it hitting a few trees I tackle it and pull the hook out, then after getting my pic with it I let it go. Yeah, it sounds so nice when you say it 🤣.
Yep, they're all gonna die anyway, line them, outright snag them, piss them off with a spoon in the morning, don't matter to me, just don't do any of them right next to me or in the spot I'm fishing, that's just bad edict 😀.
Yeah, I'm gonna try to get out with a buddy and do some steelhead steelheading this fall, always nice having them slam a fly after catching a bunch of big nasty salmon 😅. But, early season silver bullets, ain't much like them here in Michigan.
Back when I was obsessed with steelheadin' I released 100 for every 2 I took home. It had NOTHING to do with preserving the resource, I simply wanted to pound fish and very few people wanted them for table fare. Same thing when I went through the walleye phase, it got to the point where I was producing more than I cared to deal with at 3:00 AM on a workday. Bluegills on the other hand, are a different story. Hand sized gills are in short supply around here, and a greedy slob can do severe damage in short order.
 
Attempted to, usually lands on the opposite side.

Nah, I'd do it the way I did even with the DNR right here. As long as it's in front of the gill plate if you want to keep them. If they're older and I accidentally get one in the tail, I just walk right up the shore and drag them in, when they're fresh, there ain't no chance of that.

Some trucks
Should be in the WTF threadView attachment 1212680
Not WTF, it is Dino, The Sinclair Oil dinosaur. Froom the days when we all used dinosaur oil, not synthetic.
 
Back when I was obsessed with steelheadin' I released 100 for every 2 I took home. It had NOTHING to do with preserving the resource, I simply wanted to pound fish and very few people wanted them for table fare. Same thing when I went through the walleye phase, it got to the point where I was producing more than I cared to deal with at 3:00 AM on a workday. Bluegills on the other hand, are a different story. Hand sized gills are in short supply around here, and a greedy slob can do severe damage in short order.
Exactly what I did, except I kept way less. I was just telling a buddy who was over today, if you're in the water at the 6th ST dam in GR at the right time in the spring that you will go thru a hundred hooks in a day, and that you'll "land"(sometimes I never went in depending on the water height) more fish than most people have landed in a whole yr(except panfish).
I had 4 buddies(my roommate was one of them), and we chased the salmon from the Boardman to the St Joe, then hit the steelies until the water froze over, then we'd take every opportunity the weather gave us to hit them again in the winter.
I haven't done much fishing in the last 25yrs, but it's one of the things higher on the list, hence why I made sure to make it out even though I have a ton of other things calling for my attention. I talked to my buddy about getting a guide on the muskegon with a jet boat to take he and I along with our boys. I also talked to him about heading to the little Manistee river for the November 15th opening of steelhead. We'll see how the weather is and how hard core he thinks he is lol.
 
This episode aired this summer
Are you serious, that crazy if it did, just happened to be in my feed today and I thought of you :).
Wife had her sisters over, love seeing them all laughing it up and enjoying each others company View attachment 1212791
Wife did that today with her sister(she also has 5 brothers), but I'm sure they didn't have as nice of a fire :blob2: :numberone:.
Sure been having some great weather for outside gatherings, I really enjoy this time of yr, even though its super busy.
 
Hunting deer when there is a nearly full moon has always been a problem… It seems the deer move around all night and hunker down when the hunters can hunt. Years ago I resorted to still hunting and continuously scanning with good binoculars to find them bedded down. It’s much more intense hunting than sitting. Now… I’m hunting with the flintlock and mix it up… natural ground cover and still hunting. Hopefully I can get out a bit… all depends on mom’s needs.
That's fun! Love tracking a deer in the snow, then chasing it down and catching it just over a knoll without it knowing you're there. Pretty much has to be on private land and just the right conditions.


You're not gonna believe what just happened to me in the barn tonight.
Little clue; happened right after I had finished caulking the windows that didn't have a nailing flange😣.
 
I took in a load of logs to mill for a guy, here's one of them headed for the BSM,

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It made some NICE lumber, until I found this,

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After a little chainsaw work, it was time to change out the band and move on.

SR
 

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