Hunting and Fishing Thread - With Poll

[pilchard]

Barbecued snakehead fish

Ingredients:

1 Snakehead fish

2 tbsp. Olive oil

1 tbsp. fresh chopped onion

1 tbsp. Lemon juice

1 tbsp. Pepper Vinegar

1 tsp. Tabasco

1 tsp. Chopped Garlic

jalapeno peppers (to taste)

salt and pepper (to taste)


Recipe:

Lop head off fish. Chop tail off fish. Yank out entrails. Discard. Slice fish down the center. Rinse off blood and marrow. Set aside. Combine other ingredients & fish. Allow to marinate for about 20 minutes. Place on hot grill, skin side down. Cook about seven minutes, or until raw fish look is gone, drop on a pad of butter until melted. Eat, but be careful not to swallow bones.

 

[Mike S.]

So who's eating venison this year and who's stickin' with more domesticated fare?

 

[energy]

Teeming with venison potential

So who's eating venison this year and who's stickin' with more domesticated fare?

All the states around this region are experiencing a deer population bursting at the seams. You see them in backyards, crossing roads and just about everywhere there is a small patch of woods. Time to turn the hunters loose and get it back to normal. A drive in the country these days can be hazardous to your health and secondly, your vehicle.

 

[Craig H.]

So who's eating venison this year and who's stickin' with more domesticated fare?

So far, missed 1 buck and shot 1 doe. I have passed up several does that were looking in the woods like something big was going to jump out.

The biggest deer I have seen so far was last Saturday morning, We decided to go shoot doves instead of deer hunt. A big buck, chasing a doe, ran accross the corner of the field. This field also has 2 - 3 deerstands that would have had a shot. All we had was #8 birdshot. ARRGH!!!

Anyhow, its always nice to get out.

Craig

 

[allen ml - 2007]

Up here in NW PA, there's been a new antler restriction in effect : legal bucks are 4 points on one side...

Makes it awful hard to pass up a nice 6 point, but overall the past couple of days I had off to start off the season were eventful.

Got a shot at a 10pt early in the morning on Monday, and seen almost nothing but smaller bucks the rest of the day. Hardly any doe around. Got a couple stories from neighbors that night of finding smaller bucks left to rot because of the restrictions, shame to hear about that...

Anybody else near the tri-state have any luck baggin' a big one?

 

[Mike S.]

Well, I imagine in areas where they require 4 points to the side a very good optical quality scope and maybe binoculars are fast becoming required tools.

A major shame about the smaller bucks being left to rot.

In my state the only restrictions is 1 antler at least 3" long -- a much easier standard to meet. Got a forkhorn 4 late on the first day. Will probably go out some more in a different mgt. zone -- need to spend some more time in the woods.

Some of the local guys who hunt farmland go out for an hour or two and come back with huge 8-pointers, but that is a different game entirely (no pun intended) than hunting on state-owned forest land.

 

[db]

So who's eating venison this year and who's stickin' with more domesticated fare?

Just got a load of venison! Folks bring me what's left over from last year's hunt in their freezer to make room for this year's deer. I turn it into jerky, and they get half of the jerky produced. It is a year old, but it makes decent jerky.

 

[Craig H.]

Up here in NW PA, there's been a new antler restriction in effect : legal bucks are 4 points on one side...

Makes it awful hard to pass up a nice 6 point, but overall the past couple of days I had off to start off the season were eventful.

Got a shot at a 10pt early in the morning on Monday, and seen almost nothing but smaller bucks the rest of the day. Hardly any doe around. Got a couple stories from neighbors that night of finding smaller bucks left to rot because of the restrictions, shame to hear about that...

Anybody else near the tri-state have any luck baggin' a big one?

Allen, it is a shame that meat is left to spoil like that - unsportsmanlike to the extreme.

As far as the antler restrictions go, from what I have read and heard about PA deer hunting, it is going to be especially tough to make the change. In GA, many clubs have been doing Quality Deer Management (QDM) for several years, and 2 counties now enforce antler restrictions. If you are willing to look, there are resources available to explain how to start QDM. Antler restrictions are but a part of it. One resource is the QDMA, based in GA but with a National staff. Phds in Biology and the like. But, the hard part is getting people to change the way they hunt, and their attitude towards the wild in general.

Sounds like another kind of quality, doesn't it?

Note: BTW, my comment about PA was not meant at all as a putdown - the deer hunting tradition there is as good as you will find anywhere, according to reports from friends who have had the experience.

Craig

 

[energy]

Hairy Deer?

I had to visit a customer and take a few digital shots of a completed project. Across the street I noticed these deer in the field. I tell you, they are everywhere. I got as close as I could for fear of spooking them.

 

[Mike S.]

Well, Sheriff, your pictures (and everyone elses) just serve to remind me that I'm a second class citizen these days -- all I see every time is a "Scarlet Letter" -- in this case, an "X". But based on your title of "hairy deer" and your smiley, I assume they are goats? The bad thing is, years back I had a friend of a County Sheriff tell me the Sheriff had to cite a city idiot for shooting a goat and taking it to a checking station to check it in -- thinking all along he had a spike buck.