If 1 steelhead tasted as good as 50 perch, I'd be flogging water. I've btdt but now it's about food on the table. We try and include fresh seafood in our diet almost weekly

It was brutal with winds today.
All good. We eat fresh fish tomorrow.

Spring Steel looks to be outa the picture.
Been in and outa the ER- Hosp and Dr offices for several weeks now - there is a light at the end of the tunnel that I had believed would be impossible.
Coulda gone either way for a while there.
GOOD -nothing like a long time in doubt then a great potential outcome.
 
Soo today is the 1st day 65 and older can  register for the 19 vaccine here in Ct.
I called early in the Am to register.
They took my name and said they will get back with my vaccination date appointment.
- it will be TWO to THREE MONTHS  out.
 
Well after the past few weeks I took it in stride and am Ok with being on the list for anytime.
Wont go to SR without the first and second needle though soo not this year.
 
 
A small price to pay for health.

On my week long adventure of ice fishing, some of the time got short due to a contractor project I took on. It's all in the best interest of making things handicap accessible for my sister. We have to do all hygiene for her.
I've got a great friend that loves working for me and we have been doing vast improvements on our place.
Sis had a hard time getting into the tub / shower so we made her bathroom accessible.
It was fun stuff and now I'm free to fish again.

The last farmer in the family is having HUGE deer problems in the Spring Summer and early fall on his crops so he has applied for deer management tags from the State- pretty much a done deal considering his large plots of  veggies and corn have been decimated  in the last couple of years.
He is allowed 3 hunters and has chosen me as one of them.
I have never shot a doe on this property and have taken some real shooters over time by being choosey.
He has called a couple times asking If I will really shoot does for him as they need culling- guess my rep for never shooting a doe there had got around  lol.
Not that i dont take some doe- just not there.
Thats over no matter how ya figure it with the crop damage permits intended to take as many deer as possible .
 Since  the place is surrounded by NO properties there will always be deer but it wont be the same in regular  season.
Gonna be different shooting anything that comes along in Spring  Summer and early fall- but its gotta be done by someone, may as well be me  lol.
No waste here on my part as I have found a guy who wants everything I shoot.

Well, I never really understood nuisance permits. I know what they are but not the logic behind them outside of fall winter hunting season.
If you do start popping deer in the warmer temperatures and plan on keeping them for food, the shooter and processor better have a plan in place prior. There are not hrs to spare, its literally an hour or less before bacteria and spoilage sets in after cut open.
My question would be why dosen't the farmer allow more hunters or why aren't nuisance permits mandated to the hunters that are allowed during season mandatory for the hunters to fill those quotas. Typically, there is a quota, not just shot everything in site.
I get what the farmer is trying to accomplish but it seems like backwards conservation.

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Back during my LE days I was in charge of the marksman unit.  Part of my duties were to go to the Westchester County Airport with another unit member to cull the herd at night under a NYSDEC depredation permit.  Deer would get on to the airport grounds and out in the greened areas between the runways causing a safety hazard to planes taking off or landing.  The airport was right on the NY/CT border near Greenwich.  One year the team took 120 deer, the next over 90.  Any animal taken had to be field dressed then hung near the maintenance garage for DEC to pick up to donate to shelters.  Rarely if ever did DEC come to retrieve those animals.  Sadly they would go to waste being buried on the airport grounds as per DEC directive.  Members of the marksman unit/department were precluded from taking the animals for personal consumption or any part of the animal (rack).  To do so would have resulted in a hefty fine for the County of Westchester.  We used Steyr's SSG 69 Pii, .308, sweet shooting rifles.    
For the longest time it took the fun out of hunting.    

Just so you're aware, in spring if you shoot and harvest a pregnant doe, when dressing you may get 2 or 3 for 1. It's actually a mess.

Know a guy with an over 100 lb huge dog that has some kinda issue and needs at least 3 pounds of red meat a day to survive.
He is on a list for roadkill and appreciates deer whenever. He also keeps a freezer for extra- he is more than willing to take whatever I harvest.
Deer from surrounding large No properties that are not farmed gravitate to this farm in the growing season for the crops and many are not seen again till the next growing season so it makes sense to eliminate them in the crop fields when they are there doing such huge damage to my cousins income.
In most drop damage situations they just get thrown in a hedgerow so I'm pleased to have them go to someone who needs them.
In late spring turkey season and in Fall turkey it isnt unusual to see a dozen or more Deer there a day - In fall deer  hunting ya often dont see that many all season long- they are just there for the only crops around  and then gonzo to their home ranges.

Went to a local stream for trout this AM- Used the right fly and caught a real nice brookie and let it go- oops not a good job of that. It went belly up in the pool I was working and I tried to reach in and retrieve it- never let game go to waste.
Then the dying trout and I were both belly up in the pool.
Wet-- and cold too.
Unfortunately the trout slipped away in the rapids below as I crawled to the banks of the pool.
Some days are both a reward and a risk- more so when your old and dopy--------