grumpy wrote: Nice fish, Brookies are from New England. Do youse guys consider tham an invasive species?
That’s a messy question. Yes they are invasive, as are the brown trout. In some high elevation lakes in the Sierras, biologists are working at removing all the fish because there never were any and the native frogs/salamanders are being eaten. CDFW still stocks some lakes with non-native fish each year. But they also are working on restoring and conserving Heritage trout streams, where the native rainbow is home. It is ironic that we have transplanted rainbows all over the world, they are native to these waters, and then we introduced brooks and browns in the water here:roll: I’ll happily eat the invasive trout and release small and big rainbows (while eating a couple medium sized ones, or fish I hooked badly).
Steve, you obviously have more experience hunting white-tailed deer than me. I’ve hunted them all of 12 days on one hunt. But we rattled in a buck, and I sat over a scrape that a buck came to! Maybe those were my once in a lifetime opportunities 😆 Mostly I sat on trails, trails that were in transistion areas, like a meadow into a swamp, or a forest into a swamp. They seemed to have a lot of action. However, the place I hunted had some topography features aiding me, like a bay and inlet and peninsula, a really thick swamp they felt secure in, and a couple houses they were trying to avoid.
Good luck Grumps, and just have fun. I wish I was still hunting right now.
