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#91
Saltwater / Got blown off the water
Last post by Okanagan - September 25, 2026, 12:55:13 PMGale force winds and rain arrived early and we gave up without even trying to fish for Coho.
Weather report last evening said 15 mph winds at dawn increasing to 40 mph by 3:00 pm. By the time we launched our boat at 6:45 in the extra dark rainy morning, the forecast was for gale force winds by 10:00 AM. No sweat. We will be back before then with a limit of Coho.
Rain and waves increased as we tried to slam and pound our way to where the Coho were reported yesterday. My raincoat zipper failed. I was wearing a long sleeved hooded synthetic T-shirt, warm acrylic wool shirt, and a Columbia rain coat. I needed one more layer of hooded fleece. On the bottom I had synthetic long johns, wool pants, Grunden commercial fisherman high bib rain pants and tall insulated Muck boots.
At 7:20 we gave up on getting out to where we wanted to fish, and NOAH warned of gale force winds by 8:00 AM. Time to head for the barn. We trolled for a few minutes as we neared the safe harbor and got a mackerel. None of us had ever caught a mackerel so I kept it. As the water calmed in the harbor approach a bunch of dolphins or porpoises escorted us in. (They look like all black small killer whales.)
I was cold, wet, bedraggled.
I never took my phone camera out of it's Ziploc.
Weather report last evening said 15 mph winds at dawn increasing to 40 mph by 3:00 pm. By the time we launched our boat at 6:45 in the extra dark rainy morning, the forecast was for gale force winds by 10:00 AM. No sweat. We will be back before then with a limit of Coho.
Rain and waves increased as we tried to slam and pound our way to where the Coho were reported yesterday. My raincoat zipper failed. I was wearing a long sleeved hooded synthetic T-shirt, warm acrylic wool shirt, and a Columbia rain coat. I needed one more layer of hooded fleece. On the bottom I had synthetic long johns, wool pants, Grunden commercial fisherman high bib rain pants and tall insulated Muck boots.
At 7:20 we gave up on getting out to where we wanted to fish, and NOAH warned of gale force winds by 8:00 AM. Time to head for the barn. We trolled for a few minutes as we neared the safe harbor and got a mackerel. None of us had ever caught a mackerel so I kept it. As the water calmed in the harbor approach a bunch of dolphins or porpoises escorted us in. (They look like all black small killer whales.)
I was cold, wet, bedraggled.
I never took my phone camera out of it's Ziploc. #92
Big Game / Re: Archery elk down
Last post by FinsnFur - September 24, 2026, 09:13:41 PMThose are the kind of texts Dad's enjoy receiving 
#93
Hunting Photos / Re: Buckage.
Last post by nastygunz - September 24, 2026, 02:44:00 PMI like the looks of that wide beam spread, we call him the Texas Longhorn ha ha.
#94
Non Hunting/Fishing Photos / Re: Mountain Man rendezvous.
Last post by nastygunz - September 24, 2026, 02:41:54 PMI told the little guy in the picture if he wants to be a real mountain man he needs to start working on growing his beard, he looked at me and said What!?.
#95
Non Hunting/Fishing Photos / Re: Mountain Man rendezvous.
Last post by nastygunz - September 24, 2026, 02:40:57 PMNow that sounds like my kind of party 
#96
The Tailgate / Today in history 9-24
Last post by remrogers - September 24, 2026, 12:28:45 PM1971
Sep 24
A game warden is reported missing
Neil LaFeve, the game warden at Sensiba Wildlife Area in Wisconsin, is reported missing. When LaFeve, who was celebrating his 32nd birthday, did not show up to his own party, his wife called the police.
The next morning, authorities found LaFeve's truck. A pool of blood and two .22-caliber shells lay nearby. LaFeve's headless body had been buried in a shallow grave, and his severed head, which had two bullet wounds, revealed that he had been shot with a .22 rifle.
Detectives immediately began investigating anyone who had a motive to kill the warden. Because LaFeve was known for harshly confronting poachers, everyone that had been arrested by him at the wildlife area was questioned. Those without solid alibis were asked to take a polygraph test. While this process took a long time and those involved grumbled, only Brian Hussong refused to take the test.
LaFeve had arrested Hussong several times for poaching, most recently for shooting pheasants illegally. After investigators received a court order enabling them to wiretap Hussong's phone, a call to his grandmother, Agnes Hussong, broke open the case. Police heard Agnes say that Brian's guns were well hidden. When they searched her home, she showed them the .22 rifle that was later proven to be the murder weapon.
At Hussong's trial, his grandmother denied both the phone conversation and the encounter with the police, but the Michigan Voice Identification Unit verified that the voice on the wiretap tapes was indeed hers. After the impeachment of his grandmother's testimony, Hussong did not stand much of a chance: He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1972.
Sep 24
A game warden is reported missing
Neil LaFeve, the game warden at Sensiba Wildlife Area in Wisconsin, is reported missing. When LaFeve, who was celebrating his 32nd birthday, did not show up to his own party, his wife called the police.
The next morning, authorities found LaFeve's truck. A pool of blood and two .22-caliber shells lay nearby. LaFeve's headless body had been buried in a shallow grave, and his severed head, which had two bullet wounds, revealed that he had been shot with a .22 rifle.
Detectives immediately began investigating anyone who had a motive to kill the warden. Because LaFeve was known for harshly confronting poachers, everyone that had been arrested by him at the wildlife area was questioned. Those without solid alibis were asked to take a polygraph test. While this process took a long time and those involved grumbled, only Brian Hussong refused to take the test.
LaFeve had arrested Hussong several times for poaching, most recently for shooting pheasants illegally. After investigators received a court order enabling them to wiretap Hussong's phone, a call to his grandmother, Agnes Hussong, broke open the case. Police heard Agnes say that Brian's guns were well hidden. When they searched her home, she showed them the .22 rifle that was later proven to be the murder weapon.
At Hussong's trial, his grandmother denied both the phone conversation and the encounter with the police, but the Michigan Voice Identification Unit verified that the voice on the wiretap tapes was indeed hers. After the impeachment of his grandmother's testimony, Hussong did not stand much of a chance: He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1972.
#97
Hunting Photos / Re: Buckage.
Last post by msmith - September 24, 2026, 07:44:43 AMI see you have a butterball West Virginia eleven point there.
#98
Non Hunting/Fishing Photos / Re: Mountain Man rendezvous.
Last post by msmith - September 24, 2026, 07:22:07 AMQuote from: FinsnFur on September 12, 2026, 10:10:25 PMNNNNnnnice!
They have a Rendezvous here every June over in Prairie DuChein. Mostly fur trader, and Indian stuff since thats what this part of the Driftless region is famous for.
It's absolutely huge. Hundreds of teepee's, native art stands, civil war reenactments etc.
I quit going cause thats like 300 people too many for me.
I used to go to the NMLRA Rendezvous when they would have them in Doddridge County WV. It was huge too. I especially liked the artillery. They would use 55 gal drums as targets and shoot them with beer cans filled with concrete.
#99
The Tailgate / Today in history 9-23
Last post by remrogers - September 23, 2026, 10:10:56 AM1875
Sept 23
Billy the Kid arrested for first time
On September 23, 1875, Billy the Kid is arrested for the first time after stealing a basket of laundry. He later broke out of jail and roamed the American West, eventually earning a reputation as an outlaw and murderer and a rap sheet that allegedly included 21 murders.
The exact details of Billy the Kid's birth are unknown, other than his name, William Henry McCarty. He was probably born sometime between 1859 and 1861, in Indiana or New York. As a child, he had no relationship with his father and moved around with his family, living in Indiana, Kansas, Colorado and Silver City, New Mexico. His mother died in 1874 and Billy the Kid—who went by a variety of names throughout his life, including Kid Antrim and William Bonney—turned to crime soon afterward.
McCarty did a stint as a horse thief in Arizona before returning to New Mexico, where he hooked up with a gang of gunslingers and cattle rustlers involved in the notorious Lincoln County War between rival rancher and merchant factions in Lincoln County in 1878. Afterward, Billy the Kid, who had a slender build, prominent crooked front teeth and a love of singing, went on the lam and continued his outlaw's life, stealing cattle and horses, gambling and killing people. His crimes earned him a bounty on his head and he was eventually captured and indicted for killing a sheriff during the Lincoln County War. Billy the Kid was sentenced to hang for his crime; however, a short time later, he managed another jail break, murdering two deputies in the process. Billy the Kid's freedom was brief, as Sheriff Pat Garrett caught up with the desperado at Fort Sumner, New Mexico, on July 14, 1881, and fatally shot him.
Although his life was short, Billy the Kid's legend grew following his death. Today he is a famous symbol of the Old West, along with such men as Kit Carson, Jesse James, Wild Bill Hickok, Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp, and his story has been mythologized and romanticized in numerous films, books, TV shows and songs. Each year, tourists visit the town of Fort Sumner, located about 160 miles southeast of Albuquerque, to see the Billy the Kid Museum and gravesite.
Sept 23
Billy the Kid arrested for first time
On September 23, 1875, Billy the Kid is arrested for the first time after stealing a basket of laundry. He later broke out of jail and roamed the American West, eventually earning a reputation as an outlaw and murderer and a rap sheet that allegedly included 21 murders.
The exact details of Billy the Kid's birth are unknown, other than his name, William Henry McCarty. He was probably born sometime between 1859 and 1861, in Indiana or New York. As a child, he had no relationship with his father and moved around with his family, living in Indiana, Kansas, Colorado and Silver City, New Mexico. His mother died in 1874 and Billy the Kid—who went by a variety of names throughout his life, including Kid Antrim and William Bonney—turned to crime soon afterward.
McCarty did a stint as a horse thief in Arizona before returning to New Mexico, where he hooked up with a gang of gunslingers and cattle rustlers involved in the notorious Lincoln County War between rival rancher and merchant factions in Lincoln County in 1878. Afterward, Billy the Kid, who had a slender build, prominent crooked front teeth and a love of singing, went on the lam and continued his outlaw's life, stealing cattle and horses, gambling and killing people. His crimes earned him a bounty on his head and he was eventually captured and indicted for killing a sheriff during the Lincoln County War. Billy the Kid was sentenced to hang for his crime; however, a short time later, he managed another jail break, murdering two deputies in the process. Billy the Kid's freedom was brief, as Sheriff Pat Garrett caught up with the desperado at Fort Sumner, New Mexico, on July 14, 1881, and fatally shot him.
Although his life was short, Billy the Kid's legend grew following his death. Today he is a famous symbol of the Old West, along with such men as Kit Carson, Jesse James, Wild Bill Hickok, Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp, and his story has been mythologized and romanticized in numerous films, books, TV shows and songs. Each year, tourists visit the town of Fort Sumner, located about 160 miles southeast of Albuquerque, to see the Billy the Kid Museum and gravesite.
#100
Big Game / Re: Archery elk down
Last post by Hawks Feather - September 22, 2026, 09:01:48 PMCongratulations to them. They aren't taking the easy route.