Gobbler Nation

I took these pictures Monday night 07-06-15 on the solo ride across open bay. I learned later that the smoke from Canadian wildfires was the cause of such a beautiful setting sun. Vole Island on the left and Adam's Point WMA on the right. This is where Cromett Creek feeds in. http://i134.photobucket...

Good Day on Great Bay
07-03-15

07-03-15 Took my neighbor on the Bug Boat this afternoon. Couldn't have asked for better company on a beautiful day to be in the Bay. We hauled more than thirty pounds of keeper lobster. Towards the end of hauling gear with available cooler space becoming a premium I notched three female keepers, th...

06-30-15 Left the dock in skinny water on an outgoing. Hoped to catch the bottom of tide where Shawn caught his fish. Didn't make it. The tide turned incoming just as engine was shut down. Drifted the eel in some deep water without any love. Did see some bass breaking at the head of the rip. Ended u...

06-26-15 Just like Cracker Jacks the traps were full of surprises today. http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q87/dohearn/Bugs%20and%20Bass%202015/IMG_1581.jpg http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q87/dohearn/Bugs%20and%20Bass%202015/IMG_1582.jpg Caught a couple blonde, very fine looking, nautical femal...

I ran a small under ice beaver trap line last winter until the deep snow forced me out. The set up http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q87/dohearn/Beaver%20Trapping%202015/IMG_1263.jpg The Prize. http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q87/dohearn/Beaver%20Trapping%202015/Twobeaver01-18-15.jpg http://i134...

Please keep the pictures coming. One of my favorite critters to trap are fisher. http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q87/dohearn/Fisher5.jpg Years ago CT and PA had fisher restoration projects going and asked NH trappers to live trap them. I sent two to CT and one to PA. CT http://i134.photobucket.co...

Thanks for your kind words. I feel blessed having a wife who encourages my outdoor adventures and as Raps says the coast of ME and NH is a sight to behold. P.S. we have no wild turkeys. :) 06-20-15 A Day in the Life of a Great Bay Lobster http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q87/dohearn/Bugs%20and%20B...

06-10-15 Got the boat back on the trailer last night. Then I went and picked up ten lobster traps in the barn that are now in the driveway for tuning and new tags. The boat gets its service tonight. I’m going down and watch because this four stroke fuel injected engine ain’t no two stroke carburetor...

06-07-15 Got to the boatyard after lunch. Sanded the hull lightly by hand then got down to the business of bottom painting on two coats. Bottom painting a boat sucks either you are on your knees or laying on your back. But after the fresh two coats were applied there was that sense of accomplishment...

I've been running this thread yearly since 2008. I live within fifteen minutes of my summer slip on the Squamscott River that feeds my summer play land NH's inland ocean, the Great Bay. This is my seventieth year trapping lobsters. I have been fishing striped bass regularly since 1990. I've received...

We have smallmouth, largemouth and trout locally. But it is the salt water striped bass that calls my name. Went looking for a 50 pounder on my 50th birthday a few year ago. Came close with this 39 pounda' http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q87/dohearn/Striper%20fishing/Birthdaybass09-04-09.jpg She ...

06-06-15 Maine Out the front door of camp at 0408. I took the hard road down to the Bittern Swamp. I was in position to slay turkeys at 0435. By 0500 my anticipation was waning. By 0530 I was calling lonesome. By 0600 and not hearing a thing I pointed this turkey hunter up the mountain for a memory ...

06-03-15 Maine It ain't over. June 6th last day in Maine. BIL is in Maine this morning hunting with a friend in a few towns over from camp. Said they gobbled good till 0600 and are now hung up in a posted field across the street from his location. He attuned it to trying to call the birds out of the...

I've had a terrible time as my eyesight got weaker with age. I switched to a NEF Pardner from my 870. The NEF has one front sight that I continually looked over as I pulled the trigger. Miss a few gobbler chip shots. Had been watching BIL rolling birds over with his Encore. So I made the switch and ...

I don't see it that way Chatterbox. You got a front row pew in God's church of the outdoors in one of the prettiest month's NH has to offer. To me you are a winner for the effort you put forth in the name of our team. My contest days are over here at GN. Too many requirements to "prove" yo...

06-01-15 7PM NH Yard Birds Season is over. They are teasing me. http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q87/dohearn/Backyard%20Pictures/2%20jakes%2006-01-15.jpg http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q87/dohearn/Backyard%20Pictures/yard%20birds%2006-01-15.jpg There was actually two jakes and three hens. The ...

05-24-15 NH We were after the gobbler who is now walking dead when Bertha failed to fire last weekend. It started a lot easier than last weekend. While waiting for my buddy to get ready I told him I'd go outside and listen. Wasn't there a couple minutes when one gobbled in his back forty. Set up on ...

Please post up your birds Doc!

Looks like we are going to need them.

Sorry guys another wash. The registration station didn't have a scale. Due to the daytime temps I dressed the bird when I got back to camp. He was no heavy weight. 05-21-15 10:40 Maine 13.5 pounds 7 inch beard 3/4 inch spurs Score 42.50 http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q87/dohearn/Turkey%20hunting...

05-21-15 Maine Great day in the turkey woods at the American Bittern Swamp at the base of camp mountain. #1 Worked three jakes at daybreak. Fearing an butt whooping they would not commit over the last rise in the tote road. But a nice Maine buck came up to take a peak. Their antlers are growing. #2 ...

Sorry guys, I didn't get pictures of measurements.

But for what it is worth

NH
05-17-15 0815
18.5 pounds
9" beard
7/8 spurs
Score 54

05-16-15 Maine BIL and I went back to the American Bittern swamp. We were in our listening spot at 0445. The Bittern was home but there was no gobbling on our side of the swamp. You guessed it, there were two what sounded like jakes over in the coyote spot across the swamp. We stayed on my friend, B...

American Bittern Last Friday at 0430 I’m going down this logging road in Maine after some gobblers I found the day before. I hear this noise out in the swamp that was very unfamiliar to me. At the cusp of daybreak the sound was actually kind of eerie considering you are alone in the woods. When my b...

05-13-15 Been gauging the roost gobbling activity from our bedroom window each morning this week. I'm hearing three jakes close and one a long ways away. Was up at 0330 with every intention of heading to the blind at Habitat Improvement but snuggling got the best of me. The jakes gobbled real well t...