Yes, filleted and skinned should be good. Very deeply hooked and just shy of six pounds. I will chunk up the filets and deep fry in some Cajun seasonings. Not the target species, lake has great brookies and landlocked salmon

What lake were you fishing?





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Schoodic, great water quality as it’s primarily spring fed

Nice lake - nice area!





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I'm seeing a lot of turkeys in timothy and sorghum fields. They have seemed to make it through a somewhat tough winter in good shape. I'm not so sure about the pheasants. A lot of them get taken by the hawks. But there should be enough for the breeding season.

Hawks are a big problem for the pheasants on the property. Since they are illegal to shoot, there seem to be a lot more of them now than when I was a youth. I don't advocate killing them, but I wish the population wasn't so high.

We are headed up to scout the reservation next Wednesday for a few days. Will buy a predator permit and carry my Remington varmint rifle in 223. Huge amount of Coyotes I’m told right now.
Although that will be secondary to finding the turkeys for March 27th opener.

End of March for me.

Snapped thru the glass of the back door this morning with my cell. I would say they were about 20 yards or less from the house. Wednesday afternoon there were 19 birds best as I could count in the bean field, looked like 12 were toms.

I got up early this morning to go turkey hunting but it was raining hard...iuse to like to hunt when it was raining but now I don't...got old quick.....the sun came out at 1 oclock so I grabbed my gear and took off...I got to my hunting place and put out two decoys at about 30 yards wind got up and blowed one of my decoys about 50 foot straight at me....put the decoy back up after the wind died down.....used every one of my 5 calls but never heard any thing I stayed till 5.30 and left...going out I seen a fresh gobbler track in a sand bed my spirit was lifted will be back tomorrow for another bout...charlie

went hunting this morning the wing was blowing pretty good...at 1 30 pm iwent to a bigger bottom I was hunting in a 100 acre field...I forgot my binoculars did see what I thought was a turkey but it might have been some thing else....my eyes aint near what they use to be...will go back Monday and try them again...got the bino s in the truck.....charlie