The highlight (above) of my season last year. I apologize in advance if you are sick of hearing about it. Carol and I went to the NYS Big Buck Club dinner banquet Saturday. I was very pleased to find out that my buck was the eighth largest "Gun -Typical" in the State for 2006! It also is the third biggest taken in Saratoga county of all time since the NYSBBC started keeping records in 1972. It brought a tear to my eye. It will likely be very hard(near impossible) for me to top. I will likely hunt just as hard though and am looking forward to the upcoming seasons. Hey you never know and I am a deer magnet...

Regards Shaun

Hey all! I know it has been awhile, but I continue to be busy with the new baby around. Anyway, I didn't get out fishing much in August. Pretty much just did a little bay fishing when we were on our family vacation in Ocean City, Maryland. We caught a bunch of small sea bass, but that was it (dad did catch one small flounder). This week I fished Lake Ontario three times with Scott and his wife Caroline (who knows more about downrigging than I ever will). The first day we fished an evening and only hooked up once. It was a big salmon and I fought it for about 10 minutes before losing it. Then we went out fishing Friday Morning and had a decent Morning. I started with a 10lb brown and I later caught a 25lb King Salmon (see pictures). We caught two more small salmon before calling it a day. This morning we got on the Lake early and the waves were already 2-3 feet. By the time we left they were 5 ft or so. Anway we were only able to fish from 6:00-8:00, but man did we kill them. We landed six salmon, including two doubles. What an awesome morning. My arms are killing me (really). Catching salmon out on the lake is a totally new ball game. We had a ton of fun. We never went more than 10 minutes without hooking up. Hope the fishing continues like this. With the salmon comes fall... goose season...duck season...deer season...I can't wait. Tight lines and shoot straight my friends (and post once in a while)!

Joe

Hey boys and girls, Are you ready for hunting season? Cause it's here!! I went goose hunting with a friend of mine to the Hudson River. We got seven total (I got two) and we probably should have had 14 all within sight of the twin bridges in Halfmoon. It was good there and we were the only ones hunting on that mile or two stretch of river. It got me thinking of all things hunting and I am looking forward to the upcoming season's. My good friend Dave Crandall moved back up to Wascilla, Alaska this April and he has been pushing me hard to go up there for a hunt this year. Our original plan was to go on a moose hunt next year after he got settled. He found out he will have to go to Iraq or Afganistan next year though for an end of his career tour(which kind of sucks) but it was a known possibility of taking the Alaska job and move package etc. Dave has been in the Army for 21 years. I can t swing it right now finacially as I am waist deep into fixing up the old family farm. He keeps calling me with stories of his exploits this summer and fall and sending pictures. He and his family went to Resurrection River (I think it was ), he said they kept 21 King Salmon over 30 pounds, 8 Red Salmon and threw back around 200 other salmon. I'm jealous. He also sent me some pictures of a grizzly bear and tracks that he saw along the way into Petersville. One of the pictures shows them saddling up on the four wheelers in front of The Forks Roadhouse, which is in the middle of nowhere. I was right there with em a few years ago and it is quite an area. Many, many, many miles to roam and mountains to walk over only to find more mountains. Wish I was there right now as moose season just opened and no doubt Dave is out there looking for Bowinkle.
Hope all are happy and healthy
Shaun