Charlie, latest I've seen them in Altmar was labor day weekend around 4/5 years ago. Right now has been prime time some years for me. The high water for months on end I think has definitely messed with them. Have fun painting Charlie :D and happy 100th page everyone:)

Another scorcher today. Got burnt by pool, mowing , yard. Work and smoking some fresh salmon .
Report to follow , long relaxing day today and hope to fill up on fresh RI clams this week. Hope this great weather holds for another month

Great  time for clamming- saw folks this week in some of the Westerly area ponds on the off tides.
 
Hope those Kings on the East end are a precursor of good news.
 
Might be around early this week- Perhaps a chance at the smallies for an hour or so if chores get done and the weather allows..

Tuna there is a slow but steady bite of decent sized kings the past few days for the persistent captains... Hopefully its all on The up from here

I'm glad it didn't rain in my piece of the world. I woke up yesterday with a  horrible stomach ache, a pounding head and an extremely sore neck and shoulders. Work was awful. When I got home I screamed at Nancy that i wanted to do Something , Anything other than more f'in work. We went to some ledges on the upper Hudson and I got a bunch of willing smallies on a deehair popper. I woke up this morning feeling pretty normal and did the estimates and drawings I needed to do, made a few phone calls ,  put on a coat of spackle on a home project, mowed the lawn, and now I'll go do something else. I have to laugh in amazement how a bit of decent fishing erased all the horrible  side effects of obviously stress related pains. I made a point to make a campground reservation on the coast for the middle of next week. I have a feeling this week will go much better, attitude- wise. Have fun out there- it makes it all worth it.

HHH today, but did not make it pat 90 so not hotter than a cob. Rained just enough to ruin our hay production for the day. 
On a side note I killed 46 deer flies today while mowing the lawn.  Literally I kept track...........

I got to the point, I hang an I-V bag over my mowing machine.
 
 
 
 
 
 
With straws.....................

You have to assault yourself to kill them too. Think my arms are redder from the slap marks than the bites.
I picked nearly a bushel of beans this morning. I am canning some and freezing the rest

Had a hum dinger here last night, lot's of booms and a heavy deluge. I have not had to water once this year. The grass has just started to slow down a bit and we have finally got the majority of our hay.
My Corn started to tassel last week and the first ears of local corn are showing up.  Frogs and slugs are abundant this year too.

Been very dry here... Corn is loving it clint! And that was quite a light show last night!

Yes we are in a more typical pattern now. Boomers and an occasional sprinkle. The corn is loving it. I canned 10 # of beans last week and should pick more fish week, my squash and cukes are behind schedule but I have some every day. Last yer at this time I was making pickles. This year only one or 2 cukes a day are ready, but slot are on the way.

Btdt.. Vim right with ya!!! We finally killed a good portion of our front porch spiders... Monsters!!! Yes been seeing decent sized crickets... Thick fog and a still, stale cool night... Its salmon season :)

Taking the family tot he Fulton Chain for the annual 2 weeker starting Saturday, so the way my luck with weather goes, you can figure it will either be too hot to hike or pouring.  I don't care, if it is too hot to hike, I'll fish early and snorkel in the PM, if it is pouring, I'm going to try parking the canoe over 80 feet of water in Seventh Lake, and drop shotting with some 3 inch plastics.  What Lake Trout eat in the Finger Lakes should work in the 'daks as well, and Seventh is not on any advisory lists and has an 18" size limit because the NYSDEC surveys say there are too many Lake Trout.  Just gonna do my part to thin the herd, like Burger King and McDonalds are doing for us!  The last few early runs have been happening when I returned, so as Dime says, it is Salmon Season.  This is the rough time for those of us who don't care much for the kings, we still have some waiting before the rustheads make up a good proportion of the run.
 
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Yea it is getting dry, grass has really slowed. Just put up 8 more pints of beans and a few cans of peas. It is ridiculous the amount of work for a few cans of peas. Should have corn in week or two. Time to make some pickles this weekend too

My grass is growing like crazy, no summer burnout yet. 
The garden is a different story.  I never planted a lot of things after the resident woodchuck pillaged my pepper and tomato plants.  I haven't had the time or heart to put a .22 up his sorry behind.  He watched me the other day as I was weeding. 
I had a baby woodchuck wander into my garage the other day looking for a free meal from the bags of wild bird seed.  Time to start plinking the little buggers before they get out of hand.