Now that we are in what is termed by fly-fishers as “The Middle Season” on the trout stream, long gone are those easy and timely hatches of waterborne bugs. As the trout season progresses through spring into summer, insect life (trout food) becomes ever more complex and complicated and challenging. They’re finicky eaters.
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Springtime during New York’s trout season this year was unlike any year I can remember. The fishing has been great…and not so great. That is not unusual.
The winter of 2023 promised us in early March we were going to have an early and longed-for meteorological warm-up, and the famous woodchuck concurred. Snowpack, (what snowpack?) vanished early.
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At my age, you sure don’t want to wish your life away. Every day is precious and a gift, especially in the springtime during trout season.
But I can’t help but to look forward to fishing the upper Genesee River at the end of May and early June this year. I like the river best where it spills out of Pennsylvania, pretty clean for these days. And there, last year I had my best day ever fly-fishing.
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Sometimes it is a long time between gobbles for a turkey hunter, kind of like a long time between bites for a fisherman. Our confidence wanes, especially poignant when on an out-of-state hunt.
I barely heard that West Virginia bird gobble. Just this side of the imagination. Any fainter and it’d be a daydream. But this gobble was real. The faint gobble resonated the eardrum.
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We call it the rut.
Many of us deer hunters wait, plan, dream, and pine for this time. It seems simple and is when we see the most bucks, not only hunting but on trail cams too. Bucks chase does for the most obvious of reasons, right? But as in many things in nature, once we peel back the layers of the onion, things are a bit more complex out there than first imagined.
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Last season, 2023, the whitetail rut unfolded early, exactly as predicted, beginning in mid-October and peaking a bit after Halloween. And then it dribbled, grinding its gears as the clutch went out, jerking us around in November.
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I was fortunate to enjoy two successful deer hunts during the 2023 season in New York. The first was during the archery season, and the second at the tail end of the regular firearms season in the Southern Zone.
Here are some notes to share on two very different hunts.
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Gone are the early archery days… falling leaves, mild times, along with opening day of gun season and all its camaraderie logged now in the Book of Past Memories.
Now the page is turned. The tail end of this deer season waves an unfilled tag like a flag. Is it time to throw in the towel… clean the muzzleloader for the final time?
Oak Duke: Some advice for filling a late-season deer tag in New York Read More »
No. 4 – Early December Waypoint: Look for a second rut and lockdown. This 2023 rut waypoint is multi-layered and hits the full moon phase as New York State’s Southern and Northern Zone regular gun seasons wrap up.
New York Outdoor News Rut Report: Rut Déjà vu Read More »
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