coyotehunter

From one chat room. It depends on what kind of ice you fish Why.do.I.use.Jiffy.chippers? 1-Easily.maintained. (Most.users.can.easily.sharpen.their.own.cutting.surfaces.quickly.. blades.often.last.years.&.years) 2-Far.less.icing.issues.with.chippers. (Less.blade.surface.area..less.area.to.ice-up) 3-Works.well.in.soft.ice(old.Ice),or.hard.ice(new.ice). (Chippers.chew.through.anything.if.well.maintained.) 4-Chippers.open.old.holes.better.the.shavers. (The.Jiffy.Stealth.is.the.best.there.is.at.reopening.old.holes.. almost.any.chipper.will.do.this.better.then.a.shaver.system.)

I use a 20V dewalt to power my ice auger but I found you have to have at least a 4 ah battery and preferably two of them to be able to drill more than a few holes. The size of the auger affects the number of holes you can drill and it is recommended that you should use a "chipper" blade on the auger as well.

Not to blow my own horn, but I have always felt that the dominant doe is the smartest and wariest of the deer, especially when the rut is on. I've lost count of the number of does that have busted me compared to bucks. However, the does do have their "senior moments" (don't we both Smerch?). At 8am with a stiff west wind all I saw was two white tails when they approached from the east.the wind had shifted to Fast forward to 4pm after a long windfilled day where the only breaks in the boredom was the occasional squirrel and seven turkey hens that fed thru, the wind shifted to the northwest. Better, I thought, only a short stretch of bush to the field edge downwind of me. I spent most of my time looking anywhere but downwind. At 5pm I took a look downwind. Lo and behold there was the doe and a yearling at 50 yards and she was having her senior moment. And the rest is history (and hanging in my garage for me to butcher).

The doe follows up on the bear I got with the bow in August. Would have liked a chance at a moose but had to back out when a good money job came up at the same time as the hunt. No problem though as Mooseslayer came thru again.

Got a huge doe last night on shotgun hunt. Had to get Mooselayer and another brother to help get it out. One slug behind the shoulder at 50 yds did the trick. Best thing about having my brothers to help out is that they brought beverages (I must have set a good example as the oldest brother).

Use an old bolt and a practice broadhead....will still put a big hole in it. Or use the 6mm.

over one hundred years of trapping, poisoning, shooting from planes and we still have lots of coyotes. If there are lots of food sources they will have lots of pups. Less food less pups. Add in the urbanization of this area and they have lots of sanctuaries for breeding. If there are too many...disease like the mange helps thin out the population. The group I used to hunt with shot over 80 in one year. Other than generating some fear of humans we didn't see much change in the numbers. We set a trail camera by a coyote den one summer and counted 28 deer fawns brought in for the pups. One set of parents. Might be a reason for less deer permits in certain areas.

When I was in Louisiana they called crayfish "mud bugs" or "crawdads" and liked to put them in a "boil" with corn on the cob and taters. We caught blues off Lowbanks until the seventies. "Pickerel" were caught trolling by rowing.....no outboards in those days and men were men. And it was a June Bug spinner with a Yellow Sally and a worm. Smallmouths were brown bass in New Brunswick.

I can remember catching a few off Lowbanks in the 70's. But none after 1980. My father had stories about catching some in Lake Erie in the 50's along with the yellows. They would row out in Lake Erie trolling Yellow Sally's on a June bug spinner and a piece of worm.

diaper pin for old guys?

Semenuks at Turners Corners (Hwy 20 and Merrittville highway) open 7 days a week