The love that i have for the outdoors likely began around the age of 5, when I was taught how to help out on the trapline with my grandfather in Oakfield NY. From stretching muskrat skins in the basement to running the trapline, together we checked from 200 to 300 traps in the Oak Orchard swamps. When my family moved to Hilton NY I spent my school years trapping, chasing salmon and spearing suckers in Salmon Creek and fishing for bass in every farm pond me and my brother Jeff could ride our bikes to. At age 12 the area small game were in trouble, and by age 14, armed with my grandfather's Bear recurve, deer were next. Once I finally connected, many other trophies followed, including some very respectable whitetails and black bears. The outdoor season is continuous for me, spring turkeys, Lake Erie smallmouth fishing, then onto the tractor to fit foodplots. Summer is for spending time with wife Michelle and daughters Shelby and Lindsey playing and fishing on Butterfield Lake, and catching monster largemouth bass and scouting for deer. Fall brings big game season, then predator hunting. I cheris every sunrise Iam blessed with. Seem I spend some time outdoors in just about every one of them

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