A Lake Ontario Rainbow trout was hooked and reeled in near Point Breeze, N.Y.
Big deal? Lots of Great Lake Rainbows are caught each year. Thousands. But this steelhead’s downstream journey logged 140 miles starting near the Pennsylvania line. This itinerant trout’s trip had its genesis at the Randolph Fish hatchery.
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Good news for archers and for those of us who carry firearms into the deer woods too, here in the northeast and the Midwest. Not only will the 2026 whitetail rut unfold earlier than last season but it will feature a second high point, thus two high activity periods.
Oak Duke: Looking ahead to New York’s 2026 whitetail rut Read More »
Annually, like clockwork, in a small woodlot at the end of a steep ridge here in Western New York, a doe bedding phenomenon occurs ever since the lower spruce and ash began to die off where they had once choked a low flat.
Does, so harassed by bucks, dive under fallen trees, branches, and crisscrossed logs there, those impenetrable wooded messes so difficult to walk through… anywhere they can get away. Call it the Honeymoon Flats.
Oak Duke: When to target the ‘honeymoon flats’ for whitetails Read More »
On the final day of the 2024 firearms deer season I cleanly blew a shot at a dandy buck at about 100 yards through big oaks. Upon examination, not a speck of blood, not a hair on the snow. Of course, there had been the obligatory wait until the buck stepped into a clear shooting lane.
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It’s bound to happen. Viewed from a big pine tree. Wind and thermal perfect, in my face, overlooking an active licking branch scrape in a funnel above an impenetrable bedding area.
Halloween, was a few days earlier. It was dead quiet. After an hour of nothing… a doe flew past. Flat out. A marvel to watch something that large speed through trees.
Oak Duke: A great hunt during the heart of the whitetail rut Read More »
Putting a late season buck on the ground is a challenging task. But when I do, it’s usually been in snow. And over the years, I have found that usually, the same old…same old… has rarely gotten it done as the season draws to a close.
Just hiking back to that same old stand just one more time, with a pocket full of hope and old intel is pretty much a waste of time.
Oak Duke: Tips for hunting the tail end of the deer season Read More »
There are unbred does (or those that didn’t take. Deer farmers report that upwards of 50% of natural (vs. artificial insemination) conceptions fail. Does that had late, nursing fawns, and 3.20%+ doe fawns, depending upon the quality of the habitat according to research where in the Midwest, 50% of doe fawns cycle a month after their mothers and aunts.
New York’s rut tracker: A second chance in late November, early December Read More »
The third of a four-part series in New York Outdoor News chronicling the whitetail rut.
New York’s Rut Tracker: Souther Zone opener Read More »
Rutting bucks are serious and on their feet during the daytime; hitting scrapes and signpost rubs, chasing does, and each other. This is the time we’ve been waiting for. Best time to waylay a big buck, when they let down their guard a bit, sacrificing safety to carve their initials in the herd’s DNA.
New York’s rut tracker: Halloween to Veteran’s Day Read More »
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