In an hr i will be heading to the land of no internet service.
3 days of peace, love and music on our mountain. You will see our eternal fire from space.
Fun stuff indeed

Tuna and Clint, good times and tight lines during your get aways.

After following the threads from yinz two, this past summer, I need a vacation.

I snuck this in when we made a run to civilization.
They are here

I snuck this in when we made a run to civilization.
They are here

Deer camp. To us this is fun stuff.
It's just under 2hrs from my house atop of a mountain in an unimproved road that dead ends 3/4 mile where our property starts.
We have 1 life long neighbor who's place makes anything in some low places look like a palace compared to his . That aside, those people are clutch and friendly as could be.
We have now over 900 acres, on the very top, there are hundreds of acres around that nobody utilizes. We dont see people or hear gun shots. Not even opening day.
I've been hunting there for 34 years. It's remote with mostly big hardwoods.

Our camp is nothing fancy. I like it that way because it discourages the unwanted.
Next spring I'm making an improvement of a 12X12 shed style sleeping cabin.

Trevor, our cameras had thousands of pictures. We seen many shooters, bald or antlers. I'm not counting my chickens but I'm 100% positive I'll be butchering deer once I start my hunting on November 3rd.

Tuna- some things are precious

Low reports indicate that it has slowed significantly in the past few days and fish are in spawn mode- some very soon after coming in.
Without a big push on its way the annual King run seems to have pretty much slowed- as is pretty normal for mid Oct.
Am coming up Mon through Wed and looking forward to some fish throughout the system.
Although not what had been predicted early on.
Seems not a great year but not a bad one either.
I'll gladly take it.

I know a co worker is heading to the estuary tonight with his boat in hopes of trout. He is not a harpoon whaler .
Something I used to do often in late October many moons ago

They are just looking to avoid people, sit in a boat and maybe catch a fish. Salmon are not the target.
Don't get no better than that imo.

On Tuesday in the afternoon a guy who looked like 'Joe Orvis'- all the fancy new gear and nice fly rig came across the river dragging a King.
As he passed me I looked at the fish and had to turn from the guy to suppress a laugh.
It was a ZOMBIE-about 1/3 white and the belly had big red areas where the skin was completely gone.
Sickening.
This pro was actually taking the fish home with him. 
To mount??
To eat himself ???
To feed his family ???
Have seen partly white fish dragged out before -but NOTHING this far gone.

 
 
Say, I ain't never been likened to "Joe Orvis" before, Thanks!!  Sorry about the fish, I thought that's how they were suppose to look.  Well at least after reading your page, I now know it was a King.  Thanks again.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
... of course yinz know that wasn't me cause I can't catch stupid fish in a bait bucket, even if it is half dead but it sure would have been fun, to be there and see the look on your face r3.
 
Good times and tight lines.

Not so much spawn activity was seen happening in upper river- saw a couple on beds and VERY few deads. With a lot of 'resident' fish hanging around and going up and down kinda think they are just about to get busy.
Males were chasing each other and getting territorial.

I didn't get that high Bear but am really glad to hear they are up there doing their thing. Considering the percentage of natural fish in the system a good spawn is a good thing.
From what I saw , would think they are more active now where I was last week.

BB I met a nice guy who stays ay HC. Can't remember his name but we had a nice talk. Driving the red dodge. 

Raised quality English style Labs for years-Had some crossover dogs too whos parents were Show dogs with their master hunter certs as well. Also used to help a friend train his dogs for field trials-he was good at it and later became a trial judge himself. Did some of my own dogs too.
Soo- when a co worker years back started telling us how he was working with a Duck hunting friend training a Lab for hunting I was interested, we got weekly reports of what sounded like real great progress.
Monday after the start of Duck season was eagerly awaiting a report on their hunt.
My friend came in, and when asked said he had never been so embarrassed while hunting.
Seems they setup in the dark on a marsh and some other folks set up a couple of hundred yards from them-OK that happens.
Story went that the other guys were in the right slot and had all the action.
The embarrassing part was that whenever the other guys shot -the new dog bolted from the blind -swam out into the decoys and did a great decoy return to its master.
Seems this went on for a few hours lol.