Hi Mountain Seasoning Introduces Home Hot Dog Making Kit

Posted by Wayne G. Barber
Get Your Hot Dogs Here!

Hi Mountain Seasoning Introduces the Home Hot Dog Making Kit

RIVERTON, Wyo. (October 8, 2015) — Nothing compliments a baseball game or a cookout like a hot dog. Now, thanks to Hi Mountain Seasonings, you can make your own delicious hot dogs with meats that you select in the comfort of your kitchen.

While the flavor of the hot dog has long been popular, the ingredients that go into store-bought products have not been as favorable. Most store bought hotdogs are mass-produced using unknown meat parts with added chemicals, fats, food starches and water-binding agents. Once these commercial hot dogs are stuffed, they are often put through a saltwater bath to provide added flavor.

With the new Hi Mountain Seasonings Home Hot Dog Making Kit it is easy to make fresh, mouth-watering hot dogs with wild game or beef. Whether it is your harvest or store-bought, the meats going into the hot dogs is your choice. And with Hi Mountain Seasonings' unique blend of ingredients for the hot dogs, there are no nitrites or MSG, which means your hot dogs are healthy and contain no additives. The hot dogs contain no cure, so they need to be cooked or frozen within the three days of stuffing.

Each kit includes seasonings and casings for 23 lbs. of meat. Instructions for making small and large batches are included, as well as different cooking instructions. The Home Hot Dog Making Kit is available at retailers nationwide and online at www.himtnjerky.com for a suggested retail price of $19.99.

Enjoy your next cookout even more with a hot dog harvested by you and made in your kitchen.

Hi Mountain's entire line of products, cooking tips, instructional videos, and recipes are also available at www.himtnjerky.com, and the products can be found at high-quality sporting goods stores, farm-and-ranch stores and many local grocery stores.

 www.himtnjerky.com.
Located in the heart of Wyoming, Hi Mountain Seasonings was founded in 1991. It is the premier manufacturer of kits for homemade jerky and sausage. Hi Mountain Seasonings has successfully captured distinct, traditional Western flavors in its jerky cure & seasonings, Western-style seasonings, bacon cures and other products that make up the unique line of gourmet Western seasonings, as well as Hi Mountain Seasonings' line of delicious freeze-dried Camping Meals. For additional information, write: Hi Mountain Seasonings, 1000 College View Drive, Riverton, WY 82501; call toll-free 1-800-829-2285; or visit the company website at

Massachusetts Freshwater Fishing Records

Posted by Wayne G. Barber

Salmon, Broodstock	Lake Mattawa Orange	22 lbs 15 oz	Donald Savoy	1997
Salmon, Landlocked	Wachusett Reservoir	10 lbs 2 oz	Richard Gagne	1985
Shad, American	Connecticut River	11 lbs 4 oz	Bob Thibodo	1986
Sunfish	South Athol Pond South Athol	2 lbs 1 oz	Heather Bulger	1982
Tiger Muskellunge	Pontoosuc Lake Pittsfield	27 lbs 0 oz	James Lambert	2001
Trout, Brook	Ashfield Lake Ashfield	10 lbs 0 oz	Peter Harand	2008
Trout, Brown	Wachusett Reservoir	19 lbs 10 oz	Dana Deblois	1966
Trout, Lake	Wachusett Reservoir	24 lbs 0 oz	Michael Sienkiewicz	2004
Trout, Rainbow	Wachusett Reservoir	13 lbs 13 oz	Jeffrey Greco	1999
Trout, Tiger	Peters Pond Sandwich	9 lbs 7oz	Michael Shelton	2004
Walleye	Quabbin Reservoir	11 lbs 0 oz	Robert Methot	1973

Bass, Largemouth	Sampson Pond Carver	15 lbs 8 oz	Walter Bolonis	1975
Bass, Smallmouth	Wachusett Reservoir	8 lbs 2 oz	Barbara Sasen	1991
Bullhead	Forest Lake Methuen	6 lbs 4 oz	Roger Aziz Jr	2008
Carp	Lake Quinsigamond Shrewsbury	46 lbs 5 oz	Shane Felch, Shrewsbury	2012
Catfish, Channel	Ashfield Lake Ashfield	26 lbs 8 oz	Dana Dodge	1989
Catfish, White	Baddacook Pond Groton	9 lbs 3 oz	Michael Payne	1987
Crappie	Jake’s Pond Plymouth	4 lbs 10 oz	James Crowley	1980
Perch, White	Wachusett Reservoir	3 lbs 2 oz	Ray Richford	1994
Perch, Yellow	South Watuppa Pond Fall River	2 lbs 12 oz	James O’Conner	1979
Pickerel, Chain	Laurel Lake Lee	9 lbs 5 oz	Mrs. James Martin	1954
Pike, Northern	South Pond Brookfield	35 lbs 0 oz	Don Greenwood Jr.      1988

Rhode Island State Parks With Fishing

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Beavertail State Park	Jamestown	401-423-9941
Brenton State Park	Newport	401- 847-2400
Burlingame State Park	Charlestown	401-322-8910
Pulaski State Park	Chepachet	401-568-2085
Colt State Park	Bristol	401-253-7482
Fort Adams State Park	Newport	401-847-2400
Fort Wetherhill State Park	Jamestown	401-423-1771
Goddard Memorial State Park	Warwick	401-884-0088
Haines Memorial State Park	East Providence	401-253-7482
Lincold Woods State Park	Lincoln	401-723-7892
Rocky Point State Park	North Kingstown	401-667-6200

Record Moose Taken by Fairfax Woman Bowhunter

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Archery record set last year broken by Miller’s bull moose.

NORTON, Vt. – Pre-season scouting in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom paid off on the second morning of the state’s archery moose hunt for Tammy Miller of Fairfax, Vermont.

 

Photo by Eric Miller

Tammy Miller of Fairfax with her 931 lb. bull moose she took on the second day of Vermont’s archery moose season.  Her bull topped the previous archery record 919 lb. moose taken last year by Kevin Rice. 

Using a compound bow, Miller took a 931 lb. bull moose with an antler spread of 53 ¾ inches on October 2 while hunting in Norton with her husband, Eric.  Miller’s huge bull topped the 919 lb. previous archery record moose taken last year by Kevin Rice. 

 

“Five weekends of hard scouting enabled us to be hunting in an area with good moose trails and scrapes,” said Miller.  “After being in the area for a few minutes Friday morning, we heard the bull raking branches not far away, but it seemed to be moving away.  Eric raked some nearby branches with a moose scapula and called by mouth to imitate another bull moose.  Fifteen minutes later the bull appeared about 15 yards away, presenting a nice shot.” 

 

“It was the hunting experience of a lifetime,” she added.

 

Vermont’s archery moose season began October 1 and ends October 7.  The regular moose season is October 17-22. 
“A total of 225 regular firearms moose season permits and 40 archery moose season permits were issued for Vermont’s 2015 regulated moose hunt in order to sustain Vermont’s moose population in balance with available habitat,” said Cedric Alexander, Vermont’s moose biologist.  “Congratulations to Tammy Miller for a well-planned hunt and taking a new archery record Vermont moose.”

Now and Then, Then and Now

Friday 6-17-013  by Larry Levine,       Murdered on Friday Oct. 2, 2015

The eldest victim of those slain in the Oregon shooting Thursday is remembered as a multitalented Renaissance man and a lover of the great outdoors.

 Larry Levine, 67, was teaching an introductory writing class in Snyder Hall at Umpqua Community College in the town of Roseburg when a student stormed the classroom and killed innocent people.

According to witnesses’ accounts, the gunman first shot Levine at point-blank range in the head before questioning students about whether or not they were Christians and executing them one by one.

I somehow feel a connection with our age and love of the Outdoors and writing and I think a tribute to re-print just one of his similar views on the Great Outdoors, RIP , Larry Levine,

Larry Levine, RIP

An artist friend andI drove the river highway late in the morning, stopping
occasionally along the way. He needed to inventory his paintings at The Inn upriver, and I needed to get my drinking water from the spring where watercress grows, but actually, anything done on the river is done to be on the river. Along the highway, the Scotch Broom was invasively yellow, and the wild Sweet Peas painted with watercolors. We've both lived here for decades; we're in our sixties; we've got experienced perspectives. We've done this a bunch. I learn from him; he sees more than I do; he's got artist eyes; I've got writer eyes. If memory serves me well, I can't recall a time that we both, in a rush of deep appreciation, didn't proclaim the North Fork to be the most beautiful river in the world and the watershed paradise.   

This claim can and should be disputed by anyone who lives on a beautiful river, or on a moderately beautiful river, even on a pretty or cute little river, because learning the lessons the river teaches is gratifying, and if a place makes you feel as if you're in paradise, you are. Why wait. The lessons can be comforting or terrifying, but, if the learner survives, they're meaningful currently, and, over the course of memory, I can appreciate the progression of my education. The education is ongoing, never complete.  A headstone will be my diploma.

When my artist friend can look out at the river and say, "I remember when..." and 

I'm on the same memory page, that's the essence of sharing. When I stand in a spot where I have stood a hundred times and am still awe inspired, that's way cool, because I've got this personal theory about how awe has the power to transform, however temporarily and however permanently. I see the scene, simultaneously remembering its many manifestations over time, remembering the man viewing it twenty/thirty years ago, and, for too fleeting a moment, the old awe adds intensity to the present. Obviously, the river can also make a person a bit strange and esoteric, but its a fine madness.

Here's how I came to this eccentricity: Over a period of time, an eon ago, the 

river whispered to me so softly as to be inaudible. Little by little, its voice grew louder, until I could decipher the message. Much akin to the lyrics of The Band's song, "The River Hymn," it called, "Son, you ain't never seen yourself / No crystal mirror can show it clear, come over here instead."  It made me an offer to which I put up no resistance, and I've been here ever since.  I like that when it addresses me--and address me it does--it always does so as "Son."  It parents; it taught me to walk its rocky, slippery bottom, taught me to walk its banks; it taught me a language I work to understand, and it gave me hope that eventually my voice would be accepted into the choir that sang the language that I alone could not. I wasn't born to it; I'm adopted, and being here only gets better the more here I become.

Souce: Steamboaters Fly Club

Connecticut Steps up the Fall Stocking

Posted by Wayne G. Barber

Trout Stocking Update:   Brown Trout were stocked into the following waters today,  September 29, 2015. Mount Tom,  Stillwater Pond, and Highland Lake.  Good luck!


Broodstock Atlantic Salmon Stocking Update: Today, October 1, 2015,

125 Broodstock ATS were stocked into Mount Tom Pond and 125 into Crystal Lake (Ellington).

Beautiful Brown Trout Also

 Daily creel limit of 1 Salmon per day.

Trout Stocking Update: Brown trout were stocked into the following waters today, September 30, 2015. Beach Pond in Voluntown and the Bulls Bridge Trout Management Area on the Housatonic River, which is catch and release only.

Massachusetts Fall Trout Stockings are underway

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Fall Trout Stocking Underway

 This fall 74,100 trout, comprised of 66,100 rainbow trout and 8,000 brown trout, will be stocked in Massachusetts water bodies.
 The fish from McLaughlin, Montague, Sandwich, and Sunderland Hatcheries range in size from about 12 inches to more than 14 inches.  Stocking will start after September 28 provided water temperatures are cool enough. Trout have been allocated equally to each of the five MassWildlife Districts.

Due to the short stocking season, fall stocking activity is not posted on the website’s stocking schedule. See Trout Stocked Waters for a list of Massachusetts waters that are usually stocked in the fall. Contact your local DFW office for more information.