yeah well i went fishing

[chadroc]

hard to believe its been a month since i ice fished. we walked the plank in the dark. ah, well. more glass, less bass, for the good man gankadank.







lets find out what the fuck that is down there.



oh, a gross pickerel that choked on a sunfish.



then all that beautiful ice melted. downflag days.



fucked with these little guys on a decently warm afternoon on a 7'#4 kabuto. before a series of snowstorms rolled up the coast and punched new england in the fuck.







later skaters. euro nymphin season. sleep when i'm dead.

[gankadank]

Nice chadroc. No glass here, but there's a few bass

We had an over-nighter out of the canoes. There were chicken nests among the karsty bluffs. I cast once while we stopped to abuse the dog but other than that it was all about her until we made camp. Once we were settled I went out solo and caught two fish on a cf baitfish. One of them turned out to be the best smallmouth I've ever caught. It rained the next day but I hardly noticed

[Bigguy]

Looks good times were had by all

[chadroc]

gank stuff is really really good.

[chadroc]

wheres the gank? here we go.

early springtime stuff.











sugar houses are great places to get drunk on saturday nights. this guy does it right. we put the sausages right under the belly of the beast. with crackers, hot pepper jelly, and cheddar cheese.









when the sausages get cold. you can put them in a mason jar and fill it with hot syrup.



you can then add chunks of cheddar cheese which will get goopy and shit.



or just dip cheddar in the syrup, which is fine.



we go out into the woods to walk some lines, just to have something to do in the cold night. one is down, dave restrings it like a boss.





burn the board when everybody full.



go out euro nymphing with my aching back.































vernal pool intheback



snowed again. of course.





anchor flies so heavy. cold nights.









easy spots.



stockies.







cold feet up. on a bench.





walking for arrowheads. they found 3. per them.

[Bigguy]

Needs more pancakes with all that syrup!

[CC Riebeeck]

strong matter that

[blumpkin]

Love what you’ve done with the place...

[flashback]

Old tools awesome, sugaring awesome, kids awesome...spring is awesome. Great report.

[fly-chucker]

damn chadroc

[chadroc]

more spring shit. amphibiax shit.









carnage on the wet roads. slick with amphibian guts. incredible the migrations that take place on wet warm nights in new england.





i collected nine species of amphibians. green frog, wood frog, peep frog, grey tree frog, american toad, unknown toad, yellow spotted salamander and red backed salamander in about an hour.















really cool being out on a rainy night listening to tunes, rolling slow down back roads near vernal pools. all of the animals were released in their general areas after showing my kids them in the morning. i had over thirty toads in a cooler, for effect. see? this is the shit right out there living in these woods? pretty fucking cool. what they didn't know was that the now retired cooler was for one night a furious orgy. none the wiser, until they are.....



i released the yellow spotted's in a remote location. these salamanders can grow to 12" in length and live to thirty years. they are burrowing mole salamanders, and i could not believe how fast they did just that and burrowed away.











i hit up a bass pond or two.









felt really good to do a little paddle.





got a lotta fish. nothin big, though. and they only wanted the little tiny fly.

















couple nights later i got one on top. it was starting to get warm again, everythings getting green.

[fatman]

rocin', chad