Maine’s traditional fall hunting seasons are in full swing, but hunters are being asked to avoid eating their game in parts of the state because of the possibility of harmful chemicals in animal meat.
The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife said it has issued a “do not eat wildlife consumption advisory” in several communities in the central part of the state.
Despite this fall being incredibly warm and overall deer activity being mostly sluggish as a result, the heart of the whitetail rut is staring down the barrel at us. No matter how insistently the weather clings to balmy temperatures, whitetails are going to start breeding, and soon.
Along with that will come all the classic rutting behaviors that we dream about – a parade of bucks dogging a single, harried doe; a pair of brutes locking antlers in a battle for breeding rights; and, above all, that buck we’ve spent months obsessing about doing something he absolutely shouldn’t do and heading right for our stand in broad daylight.
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The whitetail rut is the time when the shelves of sporting goods stores start to empty. Calls, scents, and decoys all start to have their moments this time of year, and all of them can work.
But the most useful tool in a rut hunter’s arsenal isn’t something that might bring a buck in close. It’s something that allows the hunter to see them better.
Good binoculars are a staple out West, but they’re often more of an afterthought in the whitetail woods. This is a mistake.
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Ken and I were of a similar vintage, so I knew he was past old enough. In the beginning, he would talk about how they needed him at his place of employment. Sometimes he mentioned projects on his farm that he planned to cover with the extra cash. In the end, he would smile his captivating smile and shake his head.
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Finding fall walleyes can be a study in extremes.
At one end of the spectrum, big is better as migrating fish are drawn to macro structure. Think big, main-lake points, neck-downs, and pinch points that form major features in a lake’s overall topography – the kinds of things you can see even with mapping software zoomed way out.
Within those large areas, though, small – sometimes very small – features can concentrate numbers of fish.
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I had to laugh when, just a few days ago, I received a press release from the Illinois Department of Agriculture with the headline “Cooler Temperatures Drive Stink Bugs Indoors.” I don’t know about your neighborhood, but here in southern Illinois, we’ve been under siege by the dreaded stink bugs.
While Illinois is home to multiple varieties of stink bugs, which I think we are familiar with from our gardens and ag fields, these particular stink bugs are relatively new invaders.
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