Adirondacks

[alan]

I'm curious about fellow hunters & sportsmen who hunt/fish/hike/& canoe the adirondacks of NY. I am quite familiar with several areas and am trying to keep on top of new NYS aquisitions and local issues. Anyone else?

[ncboman]

I got a friend that's from that area and probably up on that info. I'll see if I can get him over here.

ncboman

[CJF]

Born and raised in the Adirondacks, have shot several bucks including the one in the advatar plus a bear and a bobcat there. Very familar with the South Western portion (Old Forge south to the blue line near Forestport and the Black River) but have covered all of it at one time or another.

[alan]

Nice Buck! Most of my success has been during early muzzloader season & mostly does & young bucks. Most of my wanderings have been closer to Rt. 30 corridor from Wells to Mtn. View although I have paddled most of the popular canoe routes.

[Sabre]

I've done some coon and rabbit hunting near Glens falls, some deer & bear hunting near Indian lake and some fishing in the Black river. Been sticking closer to home recently though and haven't been up there in years.

[BILL K]

The best advice I could give to anybody wanting to hunt the Adirondacks where I live is that you'd better be the kind of guy that enjoys the hunt more than the kill.
We havent got the kind of browse that will support a big deer herd, and although the deer can be the big bodied sort you'll never see the long tined racks that they show on the cover of outdoor life, but when you finally do tag a buck in the big woods you'll have a feeling of accomplishment.
As to those fish in the Black river that a couple of you have mentioned, I ran a bait shop two hundred yards from the river for five years, and am looking at the river just fifty feet from my house as I type, and I can give you a couple of tips. If you're looking for stocked rainbows, just about any place the highway crosses the river is where the state puts them in. On the other hand, if it's big brown trout that you're interested in, either walk the riverbank or put your little cartop boat in and fish big minnows under a bobber in the slow moving water from evening till morning. That's when the big guys come out from under the ledges and cruise for their dinner.
Incidently, for those of you who live within driving distance and cant stand going home from a hunt without shooting the gun, load up that bird dog and give our grouse a try, they're thicker than sparrows up here.