2012/11/22 12:35:52
fichy
Oh God, I hooked a gull in the middle of a blitz on a beach in Maine in front of a group  from the  Audobon Society!  They went nuts,  trying to call the cops and screaming  at me. I ripped the thing into the water twice, and thankfully it pulled loose. I quickly moved up the beach. 
2012/11/22 12:52:40
Lucky13
Nothing beats some muskrat in the dark during a spinnerfall!
Think you got a granddaddy brown for a little while!
 
L13
2012/11/22 18:21:48
retired guy
Charlie- would love to have been there ----Probably woulda asked somebody in the crowd what the limit on Gulls was.
  Was deer huntin and some busybody dog walker lady came up and told me she was dog walking and not  to shoot her  dog. (dripping with sarcasm I might add)  -- Told her that I was after  Deer that day but dogs are a good eat- maybee tomorrow. 
    Made my day - not hers. 
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 Kinda figure if they are nuts enough to come up and say that stuff--why not?
    And before anyone thinks thats rude- lemme ask -do you strut right up to others in the woods and insinuate they have no idea what the heck they are doing ?? Here in Urbania folks commonly walk up to hunters and insinuate they are idiots by means of dumb statements and often nasty accusatory language.
 More often than not it is THEY who have no permission to be on the property and are thus in the wrong- but alas they feel they have the RIGHT to walk up and be rude. Being NICE doesnt work- tried it farrrr tooo long -- so -have fun and move on.
2012/11/22 18:47:21
Clint S
Ht, shoot for 9 feet with my leaders.  Can get a ticks   on the wall.   I'm talking in the really fast water  near the hemlocks especially if I am making longish casts.   Maybe I will try some that are10 or a bit longer for the faster water.  I made some new ones up today while the wife was driving and these will be closer to 10.   When they get longer than that I sometimes have trouble casting, but with that I think it was because I had too much weight on.  
2012/11/23 03:56:40
fishink
Over the years I've hooked gulls, ducks, geese, bats, hellbenders, turtles and snakes, but the worst had to be the time I caught a bullfrog. I had a terrible time trying to unhook it. It latched onto a Rapala with its (sticky) tongue and was all tangled up in the treble hooks.
2012/11/23 06:21:59
fishink
BTW, unlike pacific salmon, steelhead are pretty difficult to tail. Why not carry a landing net?
2012/11/23 07:16:13
Lucky13
RG, that walking up in the woods stuff in NY is called hunter harrassment, and you can actually have the %$&^#@% morons arrested for it.
 
L13
2012/11/23 08:00:47
retired guy
Ya can here too Lucky but it frankly isnt worth the effort- they say their snotty piece and move on- its become part of the Urban Hunting condition all too often.  The big issue however is that the Landowner suddenly is involved in a criminal proceeding not of his liking- would be the END of the permit.
  Always wondered why they do that though- if they REALLY thought ya might shoot- why walk up to you when they see Orange -ANTIS.
  Been told to be careul cause bullets are ALWAYS hittin their house a half mile away and how many wounded and dead Deer they commonly see when out walking-- Bovine field Splatter-- all the Chick Anti propaganda.
 Woman on a Horse rode right up to us one day while putting in a bow stand where the landowner suggested. She TOLD us not to shoot her off the Horse.
   Our tradition is in dire straits in Urban areas-if it ever came to a Vote we would be finished. Remember the Canadian Bear Hunting- the City votes killed it Nationwide a few years back- it returned a year or two later - but not by any vote.
 We would then be faced with a choice- sit Fall out at home hearing the distant shots from those that never followed the rules anyhow and presently sneak around our hunting areas  - Or----
  Like my hard  Huntin retired Game Warden Cousin says-- "we are likely the last generation to be able to do what we do the way we do it-if at all".
  Guys in rural areas dont see it yet and dont want to believe it but those of us in Urbania do.
  HECK- I took another bow course a few years back and one of the things they felt necessary to teach was NOT to wear your hunting clothing when driving to and from your area - change when ya get there when ya cant be seen was the lesson.
2012/11/23 16:19:08
Clint S
Yep, hunter harrassment.   Does not really happen alot around here.   
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