Hey all,

Been a long time. I haven't been hunting or fishing much this fall due to butchering the Chickens, pig, and many other farm chores. Jocelyn is also due in two weeks, so hunting time is suddenly going to be limited. Been out Bowhunting a lot. Shot a big doe opening day (115lbs gutted) about 50 yards from my foodplot. I have passed up 5 different bucks. My trailcam has pictures of 8 different bucks taken in the last week. I also had 45 pictures of does. One is a nice 8pt (100"). I would gladely take him with my bow. Last Saturday I went duck hunting with Andy, his dad, friend, and Bakes. We lit them up (see pictures). I think we finished with 21 ducks in three hours. I shot 32 times. My shoulder was crazy sore. That evening I sat in my Oak stand and passed up a 3 yard shot at a 7 pt and a 5 yard shot at an 8pt (both yearlings). Just nice to see bucks. I think this is the weekend for my buck. Good luck all and shoot straight!!!

Hey all...been awhile...sorry! Recent fishing pics. Trout from Oatka. Limited out (20-30 a day)many days in a row. Caught them all on waxworms or small pieces of worm. Pike from Silver Lake on a rubber worm fishing for bass (35 inches). Bass from Silver Lake. We've been catching a ton. Larry and I caught over 50 combined yesterday. Larry's biggest was 20 inches! Crappie from Oatka. We caught 140 fish in three days. Great fishing! Hope you are all doing as well.

Joe

Hey all, it is Shaun and I am recovering from surgery I had last week (Gall Bladder/Lipoma removal) I know TMI. Anyways I am extremely stir crazy after close to two weeks of TV watching, not working and being afraid to bend or twist etc. I really, really, really would rather be ice fishing. I did alot of fishing the weekend prior to my surgery in a two day contest. I won 100$ with third place perch! Saturday I set up on a good spot I found with alot of strructure in the channel. I got eight flags and one jig pole hit. Catching Three walleyes and two perch and missing several other fish. I moved Sunday morning to fish with some friends of mine but the fishing was quite slow in that spot. We had 30 tipups in the water all day (pretty much) and got only two fish, both of which were pickeral one was 27 inches!. The spot we were in is usually an old faithful, good for Pike and Walleye. If I feel up to it, I may tag along with some friends this weekend if I can get them to cut my holes for me. If anyone is in the area in March and wants to go ice fishing please count me in and give me a call. I really like the late March northern lakes for Salmon and Laketrout. Many times you will need your sunscreen and regret not bringing the lounge chair to lay out in the sun!!

Regards Shaun

Hey guys...Went rabbit hunting with Dad and Matt last week. I shot one and missed one other. We just hunted for 30 minutes around the house. Tons of rabbits around though. I've also been hearing coyotes everynight out back. I've seen two in the last week within 300yards of the house. I have to start carrying my rifle with me when I go out. One I saw would be pushing 60 pounds I bet. I've seen many deer much smaller that him (like Larry's 30# fawn shot this season!) I hit Coneseus lake (a fibger lake) ice fishing last Saturday and brought home 50 bluegills for meat. That's a good take. I hope to get down again this weekend to catch some more meat fish. I've attached a couple of pictures from bear camp this year. We had a ton of fun. If you go back into the archives you can see pictures Shawn posted from the trail cam showing me and a black bear in the same spot withing 12 hours of each other. Pretty cool! It seems there may actually be bears in the Adirondacks. I also posted a picture of the racoons I found in my barn this summer and a nice Salmon I took out on lake Ontario in the fall. Take care! Oh yeah, deer are absolutely killing my food plot (Brassicas) right now. Like 15-20 deer a night. We have also been seeing 13-20 turkeys hitting the food plot twice daily for the last two weeks. Guess I'm sold on this food plot thing.

Joe

My Big buck pictures wouldn't download in the last post, so here they are. He was a BRUTE! see also opening day pic!

HELLO EVERYBODY!!! Well I know it has been a LONG while, but I am back. Deer season and the new cow were REALLY taking up all my time since the season began in October, so I will give you the highlights. Bow season seemed to have a great start, because I shot a nice 8pt the second morning of the season. Unfortunetly I hit him in the shoulder (I thought...I'll talk more about this later) and we lost the blood trail after about 1/4 of a mile and jumping him once. After that I saw a ton of deer on my property for a week (like 5 or 6 deer a sit / I passed up a ton of yearlings)...Then nothing for the rest of the season. I ended up shooting a small doe with my bow and that was it. I missed several others and am going the use new broadheads next year, and practice shooting a LOT more. Gun season started with a Bang (haha), when Matt shot his first deer. It was a five point and I was psyched for him. It's always awsome to be with someone when they shoot their first deer. He was so excited he couldn't even find the deer when he got out of the stand, even though it died instantly when he hit it. I ended up shooting 4 deer with a shootgun including a HUGE 6 point at 15 yards during the third week of the season. In muzzleloading season (10 days after shotgun season ends) I had an unbelievable time hunting the river bottom/gorge area in Letchworth State Park with Larry and his brother Adam. We shot 8 deer in three days hunting down there. I saw over 25 deer a day. The last day of the season I shot two deer within 5 minutes of each other (a HUGE doe and a six point). Overall a great season with lots of deer killed. My Freezer is full!!! I will be posting more regularly now as soon as we thaw out after the 30" of snow we have gotten in the last two days. I can't wait to get out rabbit hunting, ice fishing and tributary fishing for huge browns and steelheads. I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and New Years! Enjoy the pictures of the last two months!!!

A couple of notes on the pictures:

*The nice 8pt you see me with is the one I shot on the second day of bow season and my buddy shot the last week of shotgun season 50 yards from where we lost the blood trail. 6" of my arrow and my broadhead were still in the deer. The deer was perfectly healthy. My arrow was a little bit high and missed all vital organs and hit the opposite shoulder.

*One of the does I shot in the picture on the river bottom was piebald. You can see the white on her belly and legs.

A couple of pictures of this years escapades in the woods. The picture quality suffered a little as my digital camera crapped the bed! It was quite a year! I got a nice eleven pointer (almost 13)and we got several other deer like the dual four pointers above...is that an eight point or two four pointers. For about a five minute period of time there was a buck being shot every two and a half minutes within a mile of the camp in Speculator. Also saw a pine marten while hunting up there. Joe you haven't posted in quite awhile as you are busy milking that cow and making cheese apparently. When it starts cutting into your hunting time it will be time to get some steaks and hamburger made up. Hope everyone is happy and healthy, Merry Christmas and Happy New year!

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Incredible Start to the 2008 Black Powder Season in Central Virginia



Hi, I'm Steve Montgomery, son of Jeannie Montgomery and older brother to Shaun Montgomery (Also have a twin brother Scott and sister Sally). I'm also cousin to Joe Rebisz Jr.(?), I know his dad was named Joe too because he was my Uncle Joe so I'm guessing Jody (as we always knew him when we were kids) is a Jr. I grew up in Broadalbin, NY and hunted and fished all my life growing up. I then went into the Army and took a break from that type of thing but have been back into hunting and fishing quite a lot for the past 20 years or so. I was talking to Shaun about my incredible start to the hunting season here and he suggested I try to post about it on your blog (Hooked Up). I'm not sure how this works but I'm going to give it a shot. I've lived in Central Virginia (Chesterfield County/Chester - between Richmond and Petersburg) for almost exactly 30 years now. We hunt about an hour southwest of here in two towns; Blackstone and Dundas.The hunting season has started off pretty much unbelievably for me. Kind of like a dream or something. I hunted Saturday and Monday and got three bucks and a doe and could have easily shot more. I got a six, nine and eight pointer along with the doe. I'm going to try to attach a few pictures. I'm getting the 8 pointer mounted at Gary's Taxidermy, he's less than a mile down the road from me. I took it in there yesterday, shot it Monday afternoon. It's a perfect 8, very symmetrical and fairly heavy horns. The inside spread is 17-1/4" so I've certainly seen bigger ones but they've been deer that others have killed. It's worth it to me to have this one mounted - I just don't get them like that very often.I saw an incredible amount of deer on my four still hunting periods in two days. I saw 4, 3, 8, and 1 deer respectively. The 1 was the eight pointer and it was at 5:15 Monday afternoon. After I shot the 9 pointer Monday morning I watched a 6 pointer in my scope in the light line I was on for close to 30 minutes. I could have easily shot that deer too but didn't want to be ridiculous or greedy. I felt a little bad anyway because my good friend Mike hunted Saturday morning and only saw one doe and then brought his son (Pearson) down Monday morning where he got a shot at a doe but hit it in the front leg and they trailed it for some time but never could find it. Then he took Pearson home and came back to hunt the afternoon and sat where I had seen 8 deer that morning and didn't see anything and I end up getting that nice 8 pointer. Frustrating for him so that puts a little bit of a damper on things but still it has been an incredible start to the season.They say they've been spotting a cougar in Blackstone very near where we hunt. None of us have seen it as of yet but it's still early in the year. I'm thinking my luck is bound to get worse because I don't see how it could get any better.Now to see if I can figure out how to post pictures and maybe (just maybe) get this post onto the Hooked Up blog.
Steve M

Joe, I put this post on your blog. Can you give My brother Steve rights to post on you blog? His blogspot account is "Steve M's Story" . Thanks Shaun