The light show just started.........

That was quite a light show last night! North branch is spiking vertically from last nights downpour... If there was any snow left up on the hill we could see another bump in water

10-4 on WTF, Tuna.  
 
Five will get ya ten most of the weather dudes don't even leave their homes; unless they have to be on TV to give their might, could be, maybe, we think BS forecast!
 
Must be nice to get payed doing a job you need not be competent at.(lol)
 
Go get them stripers..............

Congratulations on the Glock 19 Generation 4 Clint.  There is suppose to be a significant difference in recoil between the Gen 3s and 4s with the 4s being the better of the two.  Much less jump and more of a push allowing quicker recovery back to the target for multi shots.  I also understand the magazines for the 4s are more friendly to left hand shooters.  9 x 19s serve well for personal protection and, recreational shooting, as the ammo won't break the bank.
 
Have fun with the gun.

Thats another reason i opted for the 4 being left handed, you can switch the clip release. Gerry other calibers crissed my mind but 9 is cheap and easiest to get and being new to the game wanted something to learn with too

Yup, the outdoor work continues for me too clint. Building a slew of 10'*2'raised beds with concrete blocks while multi tasking a hand full of other tasks. Its like working in circles I tell ya!!! Right now we have over 50 meat chickens, 4 turkeys, 6 ducks and 3 pigs on the way. 15 of the meat chickens are slow growing road island red roosters. I plan on skinning their necks and saddles for hackle feathers at slaughter time. The garden will be expanded for us as well. Have about 5 -7 cord of fire wood left over. No complaints thus far. The weather was pretty blustery today. Gonna start changing soon though. I would love to see it stay below 75 for most of the summer

Nice job on the 20 cord. I have some trees to gather and am looking to have some logs dropped off myself. We get our pigs from the Amish. We kept ours in a 20*20 pen last year. This year we are expanding. We will train the piglets to a hot wire and give them an additional area to pasture in. The guy on 28 went out of business so we have to buy our feed by the 1000 to get a good price. Those pigs are brutes! They will scratch themselves on your fence posts so make sure they are solid and atleast 20" down with concrete. I rented a post hole auger from deatons and filled each hole solid with concrete around a 4" landscapers tie. I used 1*6 pressured treated for my horizontal fencing with with wire fencing as well. Didn't have one get out. Make sure you have a row of fence down low for them when theyre little buggers as they can slip through just about anything.

You should be good to go clint. When I first got mine last year I kept them in my wood porch for a couple days before I was done with the pen and they got out. They are quick when they're young and very smart. One word of advice if they get out is leave them be as much as you can. They will want to go back to their food and shelter. I'd talk to the Amish sooner than later also. If you can't find any I do know of someone who will have a litter ready in june

Dad is going up tomorrow so we will see. Neighbor used to get bags and bags of doughnuts to feed to his. We used to pick through the bags and eat the ''good'' ones. It will be table scraps, corn meal and jog mash for these. Keep them
well fed and they sleep alot.

Had an arrangement with some Doughnut shops long ago- used to take them North for Bear bait.
Then they started  mixing all their trash, from old paper to coffee grounds, with the excess doughnuts.

The only bear baiting we can do in NYS is to cook bacon upwind of the stand!
I was told the trick by the Ranger in the Moose River Plains many years ago, works great in years when there are no nuts or berries, fair when there are natural foods.  Spoke once with a Westchester police officer who told me he had tried frozen menhaden blocks, but nothing came in during the day and all that was left in the AM were the shredded garbage bags the blocks were frozen in, so he quit cheating.

That's a waste of good striper chum.   I took advantage of a stomach virus to stay home today, but started to feel a little better. On a side note, menhaden schools are making a little bit of a comeback.  I've been waiting for time and warm weather to put a new headlight assembly in my Tacoma. All you need is a flat screwdriver and various 10mm wrenches... and patience an a degree in automotive engineering. After removing the  battery ,grill and inner fender well  it comes out and goes in exactly one twisting and rocking motion.  Easy to break something. Amazingly, I didn't break any of the plastic clips, pins, and connectors (it's why I waited for warm weather). Use to be so much easier.... Toyota wanted over 500 for the OEM assembly and install. I bought an exact aftermarket for 180.  Guess it was worth the hour and a half battle. Oh, yeah, no  YouTube or an instruction on the net. Toyota guys probably do it in 45 min. I'll take some of the money I saved and hand it over to HT for some fuel for the Daisy Mae. I'm gonna be sick a day next week, too. (Or at least feeding the striper addiction) Trout and smallmouth season is in full bloom. Lots of nice bows from my float tube and some ridiculous smallie action in the Big H. Happy Spring, guys.
 

Worked the river hard today . Lost one at net . Cats played with dead bait , small stripers on live.
Was a great day to be on the water
One more work day and I will be living on the Mae for the month of May :)

Here's a update on my April in Ohio.Fished several times while there on various streams and played with a bunch of Steel.Best was at the end of month on the Grand River as I had a couple double digit days.I'm home now and have all kinds of things to take care of so it'll be awhile 'till I wet aline locally.I'm already looking forward to Sept.!

Nice to hear jack!

Yup clint I didn't get one chance to deslime my hands..lol ... Alex ended up taking first place and got a new rod and reel and a hand carved wooden trout trophy. Clint you're right, that is a great little thing they have going on but a little more room would be nice. It was nice to see Altmar lots full of cars with no one catching anything on the river. Even up until a few years ago there'd be no one on this river in the month of may. Hopefully most start realizing it is very hit or miss this time of year and give it a rest in may for the years to come :)