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This is absolutely crazy weather we are having. its the end of December and I have worms crawling across my asphalt driveway this morning!

Merry Christmas to all, and good luck with your hunting and fishing in the new year!

There should be a fair number of crown land areas in that region that you can hunt as well. Kayak hunting?? That might be iffy, as you may not be able to transport the game back in it.

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There is no way I will ever buy an EV. I wouldn't even take one if it was given to me for free! Our 2-day drive to visit our daughter in NB would take 3 days with stops for recharging, and I’m too old to have the patience to sit twiddling my thumbs for ages waiting for a stupid battery to recharge. 5 minutes at the gas pump suits my temprament just fine. Plus the prices I’ve been hearing for battery replacement are atrocious! Many years ago when our Corolla was wearing out I asked my mechanic about a Sunbird as a possible more economical replacement. His answer “They are disposable cars! If you buy one, sell it after3 years before it starts to fall apart on you!” With the exorbitant prices I’m hearing for EV battery replacement, they will become the disposable cars of the future. And yes, the technology will improve, but I’ll be dead long before then!

I only hunt does, but have used a grunt call to stop them for a shot.

I use Tender Cuts in Pt. Colborne

Not seeing many deer in 90A either this year. MNR claimed I didn't apply for gun hunt, so I’m crossbow only. I have a doe tag, and saw 3 the first day out in the main bush, but brush too thick for a shot in their direction, but have been hunting the Grand River areas and seen no deer whatsoever for the last 4 times out, and no tracks either, which is totally unusual. After this week’s gun hunt ends I’ll be back in the main bush again.

So true…the only thing “pro” about them is the name on the outside wall!

TWO boats!!…….oh now I’m jealous!

I used to have 2 in my boat till I sold it - one with Chirp set to down imaging, and the other running the GPS mapping screen. If I was buying a new one now I personally would look at a unit that combined both of the above, so you get the good down imaging plus the mapping, preferably that could be set up with split screen display to show both on screen at the same time. Side imaging is an expensive upgrade, but would help spotting schooling fish like pickerel on L Erie…depends on what you can afford. I was always a Lowrance user, right from the old paper graph unit. I still have an old battery powered Eagle Strata 128 that I use for ice fishing, and used to use in my kayak till I upgraded to a Lowrance Hook 7 in it.

Do you guys eat them, or is it just catch and release?

Went deer hunting with my crossbow to my cousin’s farm this morning. Set up in an old brush turkey blind along the river tree line of a bean field. After harvesting the beans it was planted with winter wheat that was now 3-4 inches high. Didn’t see any deer, but omg the birds! they started coming just after first light, so I started counting. By 8:00 there were 109 geese and 27 turkeys (7 gobblers, 20 hens) within 200 yards of my blind. 4 different times I had turkeys walk by me less than 10 feet away. It certainly was a memorable morning bird watching!!

In regards to cleaning moose, the speaker said they cut the windpipe on a moose at the throat, then grab it from the top of the body cavity, tie a rope around it, then one guy pulls downward on the rope while the people work top to butt on the internal organs, and the rope pull helps get out all the internal organs easier than doing it by hand.

I have seen several photos on websites lately of deer that successful hunters have bagged, and every photo shows a gutted deer with the biggest source of bacterial contamination left in the deer after gutting…the windpipe. Many years ago at one of our annual Hunter Education Instructor conferences we had a speaker who was from northern Ontario, and an expert butcher and moose hunter. He told us that the single biggest source of bacterial contamination in a shot big game animal was the windpipe, and if you didn’t remove it when gutting the animal it continued to degrade the quality of your meat as long as it was left in the animal. He said if you left it in there until you skinned and prepared the carcass for butchering you lowered your meat quality. Ever since that conference, as soon as I get to a shot deer, the first knife cut I make is right under the chin to cut the windpipe as high as possible. Then, when I open up the rib cage, I can pull the entire windpipe down and pull it out along with all the internal organs. just curious if other hunters remove it at the kill site.

Well done!

Bill, I hope the rad treatments help your daughter, and she can make a full recovery. I know what you are going thru, as my daughter in N.B. Went thru chemo, a mastectomy, and rad treatments last year. Its tough on everyone in the family, as well as the patient. Glad to hear ur updated on the computer system.

Way to go ! Nice buck.

I haven't been to a tackle shop in months…have FAR more tackle now than I will ever use. And, as a retired computer teacher, I absolutely refuse to ever use Facebook…I don't think its secure, and don't trust it!

I wish events like this would get posted on this site ahead of time so we could participate

Good luck! !

Probably the only fish you can catch without a rod & reel!

Contacted the NMNRF - they have no record of my application! Oh well, I can still crossbow hunt for 2 1/2 months.

Was on the OFAH forum site, and two other guys reported that they had the same problem as I did - no report at all on their application! i’m wondering if it is a website problem at the MNRF.

I just checked my account, and nothing is there about my controlled hunt application!! i’m worried now that they lost it - I applied for it in mid-July!