Well it's not the thrill of catching a sailfish, but catching this guy on ultralight spinning tackle (6 lb mono) and a 5 inch watermelon senko is a hell of a way to pass the time right before class.
Hey dewercs: I was out muskie fishing on Saturday and my reel started making a bad clicking noise. After taking it apart, I noticed that the very tip (about 1/32nd of an inch worth) of the anti-reverse pawl was bent inward at a 90 degree angle. I got it bent back as best as I could, but it's some pretty microscopic work and it still rubs a little bit. Where is the best/cheapest/fastest place to order Shimano parts? The reel is a Calcutta 400te.
You can call Shimano directly 1-877-577-0600 just tell them you need to order a part, I believe the part number you need is BNT-2404 but check to be sure on the schematic. They usually ship same day from California http://fish.shimano.com/media/fishing/techdocs/en/CTE400_v1_m56577569830575829.pdf
What happens to the yellowfin I catch in Cabo, had a little dinner party yesterday and of course I showed them a pic of the fish they were eating. This fish was unbelievably good and the best way to eat is not cooked at all.
95% of Minnesota will be good for only one deer in this year's hunt, and there's a very slim chance I'll get a doe tag in the lottery. Every zone I hunt in has changed. Unless I get lucky and finally run into a buck for the first time I may have some long weekends ahead of me in November. I realize the DNR has the best intentions for the deer herd in mind after some harsh winters, but I really hope this very conservative season pays off.
Bambi? Is that you? You can come on down to Georgia and kill our deer. http://www.eregulations.com/georgia/hunting/deer-hunting-seasons-regulations/
Re: Bambi? Is that you? You suck. Seriously, if you have the opportunity to pick and choose your deer (or just shoot 'em all)... don't take it for granted. Cherish it. Enjoy it for me. I'm glad there's a wide variety of other critters to chase here. One of these years I'll make a trip down to Illinois and hunt with my family on their farmland, where I could shoot a Boone & Crockett class buck and a herd of does if I wanted to, but the out-of-state buck tags alone cost $300-400 (last time I checked). That's some spendy venison.
Re: Bambi? Is that you? Sucks to be you guys. In BC, you have a 3 deer limit, just go buy your tags, no lottery. On the Queen Charlotte Islands, there is such a deer problem there is no yearly limit, they are smaller then normal deer, but take as much as you want.
I have not got drawn for deer since 2007 and here you get 1 per year if you get drawn and it has to be a buck, so I am having to go to Texas to hunt for whitetail. It is expensive venison but I need to hunt.
Re: Bambi? Is that you? Rush beat me to it. To add insult to injury, archery season starts Sep. 13, firearms start Oct. 18, and the whole thing runs until Jan. 1 or 15 depending on where you live. In addition, metro Atlanta counties have a bonus archery season the entire month of January. We have a lot of deer in Georgia. Great if you want to hunt, but it sucks if you try to have a garden or apple trees, or drive anywhere at night.
Move to Texas. Currently outside my window, maybe 60 yards from the house, are two 8-point bucks. During the rut they destroy my yard, tearing it up as they run around trying to go 50-shades on some doe ass. The turkey have started living here year-round too and there's a few generations' worth now. They piss my cat off. This place is so over-flowing with venison Home Depot devotes an entire section of their pest control aisle to chemicals that keep deer from your yard. (Yes, deer are considered a pest by some people.)
Ohio has a one buck a year limit and I think 8 does, but there are now county to county limits so I think you'd have to hunt different counties to rack up your does. We do finally get to use pistol cartridge rifles this year for the first time. Are deer really that scarce in fucking hardcore farm country? Our population is pert near out of control. I have had at least 5 different fawns living in my yard at any given time this Summer.
We've had a couple of especially harsh winters back-to-back and it took a toll on the population. Last year MN saw the lowest number of deer taken since 1998 and some areas are still crawling with deer but it was especially bad up North, to the point where the DNR started feeding deer. I found two deer carcasses on the 80-acre property I hunted turkeys on this spring, although there were also a couple does with fawns I hadn't seen before. Yes of course I didn't see shit while actually hunting them last fall and 20 minutes into the turkey season lo and behold they trotted out into a field within 50 yards of me. Bastards. On that note they're adding 500 tags to the wolf hunting/trapping season this year, up to 3800 now. The DNR goal is to have 250 taken.
Don't get me started. The DNR is claiming it's due to the back-to-back brutal winters and that may have played a part in a large part of the state, but they are more to blame than they like to admit in the zones where I used to hunt (zone 601--the purple zone on the map). A few years ago, one deer--ONE FUCKING DEER was registered and found to have CWD. They went all Chicken Little and ordered 'sharpshooters' to go out after the season was over and kill every single deer they saw in some of the zones and then just piled up the bodies. Not one single other deer was found to have CWD. For 3 or 4 years after that, it was an unlimited harvest for hunters in some of the zones. Now there's no fucking deer. Herp fucking derp. The kicker: The DNR is 95% sure the guy who registered the lone deer found with CWD shot the fucker in WI, tagged it with his MN tag, and then brought it back here to register it. They couldn't prove it definitively, so they decided to just blast 'em all. Fuckin' A.
This makes a lot of sense. I know the last two winters have been a little colder than normal, but not bad enough to have that much of an impact on the population.
Ihprop1 do you remember what zones in particular those were? 601 has been a kill-'em-all antlerless for a long time, right?
I was mistaken. I didn't used to hunt in 601-that's the metro zone. I used to hunt in the Rochester/Kasson/Mantorville area, but I don't remember the zone number. That is where they had the shoot-em-all approach. Then they switched to the antler point restrictions, requiring 4 points on one side with unlimited does (stupid fucking law that was passed due to the very small lobby group of big buck dumbfucks). Now, there aren't any fucking deer there.
The antler point restrictions never made much sense to me, but then again I'm not a horn hunter. Here's your CWD zones... kinda crazy comparing this to the 2014 map.