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Carl

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I think the Forum traffic and posts just hit an all time low!
Somebody post a puppy pic, a new boat or cool decoy photo or something....
 
We have planted ginger roots many times and never had luck, its not easy, especially in our heat!

I hear flatheads are tasty!
 
Carl,

Took Molly out with us on Saturday to a pet friendly restaurant with outdoor dining. She is likely a social media star by now given the number of people taking photos.

Rick
 

About the "the baby tick transporter".

PA and Penn State did a study years ago at Presque Isle State Park in PA. The park has a very high rate of ticks and Lyme Disease, also a large deer population.

Moles, mice and chipmunks are the primary tick carriers proven in the study. Not deer.

Lack of a Red Fox population to control the primary carriers plays a very important role, according to the study.


One of the first things I noticed when I moved to western NY was the large Red Fox population. Vastly different from what I experienced in 60 1/2 years living in PA.

During the years I have lived here I have yet to kill a deer that carried ticks, as most times I butcher my own venison. I find that amazing, considering all deer, and turkey that I killed in PA were infested with ticks. Especially those in NW and north central PA.

So... every time I see a Red Fox I smile.

I take ticks and Lyme Disease very seriously, as it cost a good friend & woodsman his life.


my 2 cents
VP
 
not quite a "puppy" but she is cute

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Carl said:
I think the Forum traffic and posts just hit an all time low!
Somebody post a puppy pic, a new boat or cool decoy photo or something....
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Will pick up this little girl on Friday of this week.



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In the meantime;
I had a good morning the other day. Tale of the tape was 28", 29" 32" and 28". The smallest weighed an even 5 pounds. All 4 were caught in ten foot of water while trolling a #5 Berkley Flicker Shad.



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And NO, these are not all the same fish. [w00t] Most were released to catch again another day.
 
Did our nearly annual Memorial Day perch trip.

Nice sunrises.
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Found some yellows.
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Pretty nice Pickerel.
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Girl and her dog.
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Retrieve at sunset.
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Nice sunset.
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Garden is doing well.

Peas have been coming for a couple weeks, most stuff is in now even though it isn't in the pic. Summer squash and broccoli are producing along with a very strong supply of greens.
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Had a garden visitor. She got in the fence and laid eggs, so that will be neat to watch for.
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Followed Steve's tutorials for making these homers. Two of these will be at our wedding this Saturday; one with a top hat and one with a veil on top of the heads. The duck boat has been cleaned and will be there as well, likely for photo opportunities. Brewed 5 gallons of cold brew coffee for the morning after, and the bar for the wedding was built with all local red maple from a friends farm.View attachment 509106C1-1D56-44DD-ABF4-DDCA17AE38B7.jpegView attachment A0270191-2311-4499-95CF-CB63B0EDD69A.jpegView attachment 36EB9513-E0C6-4413-AEE5-537876BCA24A.jpegView attachment C8234A5A-4AF6-4DDF-90D0-A77179676BFE.jpegView attachment 15099CAF-C11C-40C0-A933-1E6C9A33409A.jpeg
 
Vince, deer are the principle vector for deer tick spread, a proportion of them infected with a spirochete bacterium the causes Lyme disease..

On the other side of the tick spread campaign, three years ago we had four red fox kits at one den site. Last year the kit number ran up to ten at three dens. This year we counted 14 fox kits out and playing among the five dens we now know of.
 
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I assume the crash in the fur market and huge reduction in trapping effort most likely has red fox numbers up.
Back in the mid 80s, a good red fox brought in $40-70 dollars, quite a premium for a kid in high school running a trapline before school out of mom's car.
 
Vince Pagliaroli said:
About the "the baby tick transporter".

PA and Penn State did a study years ago at Presque Isle State Park in PA. The park has a very high rate of ticks and Lyme Disease, also a large deer population.

Moles, mice and chipmunks are the primary tick carriers proven in the study. Not deer.

Lack of a Red Fox population to control the primary carriers plays a very important role, according to the study.


One of the first things I noticed when I moved to western NY was the large Red Fox population. Vastly different from what I experienced in 60 1/2 years living in PA.

During the years I have lived here I have yet to kill a deer that carried ticks, as most times I butcher my own venison. I find that amazing, considering all deer, and turkey that I killed in PA were infested with ticks. Especially those in NW and north central PA.

So... every time I see a Red Fox I smile.

I take ticks and Lyme Disease very seriously, as it cost a good friend & woodsman his life.


my 2 cents
VP
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Given the chipmunk population on my lawn this spring and the ongoing mouse capture rate in the house and barn, I'm doomed. And no red foxes denning under my barn, either. Would love to have them back--they keep the woodchucks out of the garden when they bless us with their presence.
 

RL, when nature is out of whack, and deer are the "principle vector" the barn door is wide open, and good luck shutting it.


When deer are well cooled and hung for days with the hide on. Newspaper is spread under the deer in a Jet Sled (easier clean up). In Pa there would always be lots of ticks on the paper after a few days.

So far in our area of NY, not one tick after several days. To say that impresses me is a understatement. I am ****ing amazed! Heck in PA after killing a deer, and rolling it on it's back to gut it. I would see ticks scurrying everywhere, on and in the white belly hair. Have yet to see that here, thank goodness.


It was always a rare sight to see Red Fox (and even more so Grey's) in PA.

Here, Red Fox are very common like I have not seen before for various reasons, not just lack of trapping. Trapping, and hunting predators is very popular here.


So from just my personal experience. I trust the study.

Hopefully with the info that you posted, it shall help in your area as well.


When I lived in PA, my MD specialized in Lyme Disease. His waiting room and office always had plenty of info. He had large posters warning folks to keep Humming Bird feeders well away from the house, and yard. As ticks use Humming Birds as hosts of transport to new areas.

Nature always finds a way, and then we must try to cope with it as best we can.


my 2 cents
VP
 
I guess I should correct your to you're, as long as we are pointing out each others spelling gaffs.


Lyme disease used to be a Wisconsin based issue, seldom diagnosed in the UP. Then it was only in the Wisconsin tier counties. Over the last handful of years, case counts have gone up in our county. Now, it is quite common in people and pets around here-beware the bulls-eye rash. Adults are about the size of a first instar wood tick. I have been averaging about a dozen wood ticks an outing while mushroom ;phunting, about a one: one ratio with the number of oyster mushrooms found thus far. Time to switch to fishing walleye or salmon until we get more rain...

Deer tick: Pictures, identification, and Lyme disease (medicalnewstoday.com)

My next door neighbor teaches nursing at the local state college. She "feeds" deer to "save" them from hunters. Apparently, six apples now and then, a half head of cabbage and taco/burrito shells by the dozen are the ideal nutritional fare for seven to nine deer. When I tried to explain to her she was underfeeding them, I received a lecture that underscored her RN credentials earned at the University of Chicago. Oddly, they ate two rhododendrons a creeping juniper and half a six foot tall burning bush this past winter on our land, and every ornamental she had on hers. She took this as an indication of how 'hungry' they were, not that their supplemental feed was absolutely inadequate.

Yes, this is the same woman who had several of her dead cats coffins exhumed to have their cadavers tested for a variety of poisons because she was convinced her ex-boyfriend had killed them, after they parted way

i often leave her literature on the value of long walks in the woods during tick season....
 
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