Took my little lady (Brilyn, not Jocelyn) serious fishing today for the first time. She rode on my back in our super-duper baby backpack thingy. We went creek walking in Spring Creek (a tributary to Oatka Creek). Brilyn was my navigator and fish locator. Check out those nice fish locator glasses Brilyn is wearing in the pictures. Unfortunately, she fell asleep about half way through our trip and, being unable to spot the trout myself, I stopped catching fish. Overall it was a very successful day. I caught six beautiful brown trout, Brilyn caught a nice nap, and Jocelyn caught a break from me and baby. All the trout came on small worm pieces. I wish I had waxworms with me today. There were a ton of trout around, but they were very spooky. Light line and small offerings my friend. Fished about one and a half hours. Tons of fun. Come join me anytime!

Larry, that picture is terrible. You've got to fire your photographer. Or at least get a nice digital camera like mine (haha). Anyway, nice buck. I really like that non-typical buck picture you posted. Pretty ridiculous. I haven't been fishing for awhile. Last time I went was with Larry. We went down to Silver Lake two Sundays ago. I caught some foolish sized bluegills (which I didn't keep, like an idiot), but that was about it. Bass were doing nothing. I hear they have been getting a few walleye, but we didn't get any. Larry, as usual, threw everything in his box to no avail. Let's hope they start biting soon. I heard Silver is turning over this week. That could really improve the fishing (it often does) after everything settles down. Here are a couple of pictures of bass I caught last spring. Thought they might get us pumped up for summer bassin'. Larry seems to already be on a deer hunting kick. I try to stay away from that until at least August. Larry, make sure you email this site to your dad and brothers and have them register to post. The more, the merrier. And yes, this site will definitely lead to fishing and hunting competitions. I'm looking forward to it already.

Potential Contest Winner

This is not the greatest picture in the world, but it still shows this years buck. This is a 9 point that scored 105. Pretty buck. I shot him the 3rd week in archery season in the evening. I was hunting the east side of letchworth near the beaver dam. I had picked out a tree late in the summer, but once I got to the stand, i found that the tree was definitely not going to work. Shortly after, i found another tree, smaller, with no necessary trim work needed. I got into my tree, about an hour later than i would have liked. I was sweaty from the work and felt completely out of any chance of seeing a deer. It was about 55, windy, and i had been making enough rukess to scare anything close by away. I got into my tree, started chewing on a stick, and playing around with my range finder and binoculars - again, completely believing that i had wasted my time that evening. Minutes later, i saw a big deer about 80 yards away across the ditch. I spied his antlers through my binoculars and blew a couple of grunts to him. He stopped dead in his tracks. I gave him a few seconds and gave him another grunt series angling the tube away from him to throw the side a little. He came barreling towards me. I stood up, grabbed my bow, put on my release, and he was literally 10 yards under my tree looking up at me while i was in half draw. I froze mid draw for 15 seconds until he knodded to the ground. It was enough for me to get my bow back. He looked back at me as the arrow sizzled by his left eye and down into his vitals - perfect shot. I watched him crumble about 60 yards away, right where he came from. One of my best bucks to date and definitely my best bow buck.

I know this blog will be a lot of fun, as long as we all keep faithful to it!!

I look forward to this summer's bassin.

Im sure there is an unspoken contest for the biggest fish of every species that will be between us now. Photo required!

Good luck! After all, thats all fishing and hunting are!!!

What's up boys. Joe thanks for setting this up. It will be a lot of fun. I will be spending as much time as possible fishing the lake this summer and trying my best to catch some quality trout, salmon, and bass. The kings and the steelhead are starting to turn on and they are bigger than recent years so watch out for thirty pound plus kings this fall. Here is a picture of a beautiful atlantic salmon that my wife Carolynne recently caught out on lake ontario.