mooseslayer

Any time now. I've seen them well up grassy brook stream and there was a thin layer of ice that formed overnight. Speared and dip net them lots as a kid. Probably wasn't a good thing to do when they were spawning which is why they shut it down but it was a lot of fun.

If I see one I'll be having bacon. Maybe they would only get one or 2 and spread the rest but I would get them all lol.

The neighbour and I catch at least a dozen or more every year and I even made a box to put the spring trap in so the neighbours dog, squirrels, cats don't get in it. My neighbour just got a new one that can catch multiple rats. You put the bait in the middle, accessible from the top latch and they go in and the ramp tips forward and then tips back. The person that told him said they got a dozen in one night. They run around and squeal in there and attract more. He caught one the first night and 2 more last week. He put it by my composters and the first one was running around squealing when he saw me as I went to dump my compost. A hawk heard/saw it and hit my ear with it's wing and landed on the cage 2 feet away trying to get it. Very cool...and we live right in the middle of Thorold. It looks like this. Probably the same one.

Multi-Rat Trap | Canadian Tire

Here is the link to te article...

Salting Ground Beef | The Burger Lab (seriouseats.com)

Here is what I read on salting burgers before freezing. Apparently it is ok for sausage.

Both of these burgers were made from the same cut of beef (chuck eye) from the same cow (Bessie), cut and trimmed the same way, ground on the same grinder (KitchenAid) with the same die at the same temperature (3/16-inch, well chilled), formed with the same hands (mine) to the same weight and size (5 ounces, 4.5-inches across), cooked in the same skillet (cast iron) at the same temperature (ripping hot) for the same amount of time (4 minutes total), and sliced open with the same knife (very sharp).

So why does option left look and taste like a tender, juicy, well-textured beauty, and option right, like a solid, rubbery object that would look more at home on an alien autopsy table? Salt

Makes my mouth water looking at them. Just don't salt burgers before freezing. Salt when you put on the grill. I have read articles on how it changes the consistency of the meat.

Awesome deer!  Bowhunting is great and even more filfilling when you practice practice practice and make a good shot.

hmmm...put 4 wheels on it and you can pole out to ice fishing spot and use over your ice fishing hole on that early ice that might not be safe lol. If you go through you're in a kayak.

Awesome!!!

The work starts after the moose is down but worth it in the end with lots of meat. We butcher it ourselves which makes for even more work. How many guys in camp?

You are right that much of the experience is camp life regardless of whether you get an animal...but that is a nice bonus.

And what a wife!!!

Awesome! great way to celebrate a birthday.

Yes that is a luminok that lights up when the string pushes against it on a shot. The arrow has a 3 blade extremely sharp broadhead. The best shot is a double lung or heart shot and does devastating damage and they go down in less than a minute. My archery group that didn't get a tag this year has shot over 50 moose and we always heard in the early days how a bow and arrow can't kill a moose but it is sometimes as or more devastating than a gun...your range is just much shorter.

Thanks...it was a lot of work but huge satisfaction when it was done and the meat was in the freezer. Often the hardest things we do are the most satisfying. I usually hunt in a group of 6 with at least 4 atv's and we get the moose out whole. T hat seems easy now lol.

I got lucky again. Got my 10th moose...9 with the bow. Went up with 2 of my brothers and my nephew. My brother and his son had a moose by early in the week as close as 47 yards but nephew couldn't get a shot. Thursday morning my nephew had to go home and of course I got the moose that night. So me 58 and my brothers 65 and 69 had to quarter it and drag it out probably 600 yards on a game carrier and toboggan. Lots of work. My brother was about 130 yards away from me and saw it coming along clearcut on my side and tried some calls but it wouldn't come so when it went into the woods closer to me he told me to call. Nothing for a bit so I got a little more aggressive in my cow calls/pleading and he popped out 25 yards. No grunts just heard a little noise and I tugged back the Bowtech Reign7 and stopped him and made a good shot. He went down the cut and into the edge of the woods and crashed right there. Shot it just before dark and went back to pick up one brother, got it quartered and hung up ands safe by midnight. Back at first light and took it out and back to camp and hung the quarters friday. Skinned and cut up the quarters and deboned it Saturday. Broke camp and drove home 8 hours sunday and butchered and vacuum sealed it last night. Still have to unpack and get ready for deer, put boat and gear away but we have meat for the winter. The rack was 34 inches wide and he had a good sized body.

ok Thanks. I'm a firm believer in additives with the ethanol gas.

I only use high test in all my small engines, outboards and stabil if over winter or chainsaw/atv  that doesn't get used much. Does this work like Stabil or do you use it every time you fuel up?

I will be on archery moose hunt but will be back and out a few days after the opener. I picked up a window air conditioner for my garage for early season kills and it works great. I also shot my biggest buck scored 166 the first week of the season a couple years ago so you never know. I see a lot of deer early season before they are aware of your presence or pressured by other hunters.

Yellow jackets eat meat until about the first week of August and then switch to sucrose. That's why you suddenly see them all over fruit that is fermenting.

Nice! Just put cameras out a week ago. Will check this weekend.

We will have our second to last shoot this Sunday. Very casual and always willing to help newcomers. The last shoot will be September 18 as I will be archery moose hunting after that and then it is deer season...unless I get a lot of peple wanting another and we have some nice weather.

Shoot this Sunday 9-1 and then not until August 28 as I will be up north bear baiting and bear hunting. Come on out for a tuneup. We have practice butts and I am usually there by 8am.

It's a big lake and I have managed to find the more consistent spots around the island with the cottage. I get up every morning 5am as it is breaking light and go. My wife shakes her head but I tell her I can be in the boat and fishing in 3 minutes for this week and not when I am at home. My buddy said...if he's not fishing he's thinking about fishing lol.

My go to is trolling Rapala F11 or crankbaits  with splitshots in 9-14 ft water but there is a lot of deep water. You can troll one side of an island 80 yards out in 8-14 ft and the other side 15ft from shore it is 30ft or more. I need to start doing more jigging in the deeper water as there are usually fish marking. We can't use live bait there so we usually tip jig with a worm. It's fun on a big lake you don't know well to catch a few where you know you can and then go exploring.

I was at a friend's cottage on an island on Lac dassarat in Quebec for a week. Every year 4 couples go and we have built a dock, then stairs up steep hill, ramp to winch up cart for gas cans, motors, 100lb propane tanks.

This year was finishing a small deck at the top so lots of time for fishing which was good. $50 for a one week license but got a stringer full most times out and brought 24 walleye home (6 per person there) and probably 16 good pike. A few perch and bass.

One day of rain and wind but otherwise decent weather.

We tried to get it going but sponsor/donor responses were so poor we couldn't afford it. Everyone (including us) suffering from last couple years of Covid. 

That's why I am trying to get more people to our archery shoots to make the club some money but that has been hard as well.

deleted