End of Summer

My in-laws pool is closing on September 30^th. While this is the signal of the end of summer, it is also the beginning of my fall/winter hobbies. Bow hunting season is here and the striped bass should be running with-in the next few weeks. There is also plenty of fall trout fishing. I am going to dust off the fly rods and give it a try again.

The hunting in New Jersey is getting worse and worse each year. I am afraid to hunt on public land anymore. There are way too many people hunting in small areas. I am lucky; I have private property to hunt on (for now). It is a farm of about 59 or so acres in North West Jersey. If/when I lose that I am not sure what I’ll do. I don’t even pheasant hunt anymore. Especially on opening day. It is like a war zone.

Upstate New York is the place to hunt. I went turkey hunting up there this past April. I know a guy who has a hunting cabin and 7 acres that borders hundreds of acres of NY state land. I hunted there for two days and never saw or heard another hunter. You can only hunt for turkeys in the spring until 12:00 noon. Unfortunately, all the turkeys we saw were after 12:00 noon. As the saying goes; a bad day of hunting is better than a good day at work.