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For all of those who share the woods with us hunters and trappers, here is the 2007 regs with the various season dates. http://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/dighnt07.htm#pdf Bow is open in quite a few management zones already and it will be open statewide on 9-29-07. Looking forward to a good...

Today and tomorrow (9-15 and 9-16) there is a sportsmen's jamboree in Millville on Union Road just north of Rte. 49. Cumberland pond right on 49 will also host demonstrations of sporting dogs and fishing. The show is split between the Menatico Gun Club and the Good Sports Gun Club both on...

It's that time of year again. A few of you on this board have enjoyed my homemade wine and actually lived to see another day. (Bob, Jeff) I use fresh juice that I buy in 6 gallon pails from Gino's in Hammonton and I started the first few batches last night. I am going back Thursday for more...

Sleeping with my 12 ga. tonight. Locked and loaded and within arms reach. A double muderer, who killed a father and his 4 year old son, walked away from Ancora yesterday. He has "survival gear and camping equipment" and is being looked for in my woods. Cops were parked just inside Wharton...

For any other hunter/gatherer types out there, this week the wild cherries are ripening up in throughout the pines. Look for old fields where the cherry has invaded. It is always around the 3rd week in July. I have been eating gobs of them every night back here near Miller's Bog on my nightly...

For those who have toyed with the DEP iMap system it now has a base map layer of 1930 aerial photographs available. I posted this information in another thread but I wanted to do a separate post on the subject. I use the system almost daily in work and the layer just became available. Once you...

On Sunday afternoon I took the dog back to the bogs off Hampton Gate Road for a little minnow drowning. The fish weren't biting but the sky and the bogs were awe inspiring. With the cool air and north wind, the sky was truly a Simpson's sky. It made for some beautiful shots...

We did our 15th annual Good Friday freshwater trip today and it was a little brisk . We fished one of my favorite places in the southern reaches of the pines. We were missing our good friend Pat Hansen this year who passed on last fall with cancer. He made the trip with us last year when he...

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Over the last few weeks you have seen some information and photos from Guy and myself about a piney named Dave Amato . He died about 25 years ago and his house is still standing. An older friend of mine knew Dave and cut an article out of the AC Press from August 1968 that was about Dave and...

My wife and I were out near Penn Swamp today but on the way home, I wheeled in to a spot close to home near Parkdale for a photo or two. This is a house that I have been gradually learning more about. An older friend of mine knew the owner and stopped in to visit him quite often. If the owner...

Well this guy's is! Anyone familiar with the swamp monster along the Sleeper and who has read the research of the crane, knows it was a UNIT crane. They are no longer in production. I was down in Cape May today driving around Bree Zee Lee where I keep my boat and found a working UNIT. The...

Tonight I should be getting my new Garmin 60CXS handheld GPS. Now I can get lost in color! I ordered the Mapsource topo micro sd card and I will be getting the Bluechart micro sd for the ocean in a few weeks. I have been getting by with a Magellan 315 non-mapping GPS for about 8 years now and...

I went along with pbxbob and woodjin yesterday for an exploration of some ruins and an exporation of old mill pond in Jeff's neck of the Big Woods. We traced an impressive, dry canal for well over a mile to its origins at a stream. There we found the remnants of what was likely a large...

My wife and I were out at the downstream end of Penn Swamp late this afternoon and on our way in we passed an older guy who appeared to be backpacking to Lower Forge. He was about a mile short of Quaker Bridge when we saw him and he was headed that way. Full pack, bed roll and sleeping bag...

Not being one to pass on an opportunity to be in the pines with a gun, I decided to try my skills against the elusive eastern coyote out near Lower Forge. At 6:00 a.m. I was sitting under a pine in the big woods waiting for first light. The woods was dead silent and there was not a whisper of...

Here is a link that a lot of you will find interesting if you haven't already stumbled upon it. http://www.westjerseyhistory.org/ There are a lot of maps and other useful info. I was at the NJ State Archives today for a project I am working on and found a lot of neat stuff on my neck of the...

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We did a little poking around with the dog about a mile north of Lower Forge on Sunday. This is what we found. This is a beautiful little spot along the Batsto river bank. I never made it down to Goodwater Run but I will next week. Scott...

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