Report from a Duck Blind

These past couple weeks have been exciting, hectic, and busy all wrapped into one. WNY is alive with wild life activity and GTO Outdoors is trying to capitalize on it all. With the whitetail rut winding up and the steelhead running out of the Great Lakes up into the tributaries there's plenty to do. Add on top of that trying to keep on top of this start up company and sell our brand to the masses. For those that do not know we have hand tied flies, roe sacks, and jars of salmon skein for sale. You have a couple options of how you can get your hands on said products. First you can stop by either Nature's Prize in Akron NY or Captain Bobs Outdoors in Clarence NY as they carry a full line of GTO products. Second you can email us at grillingtheoutdoors@gmail.com and tell us what you would like. We will get back to you ASAP and get your order filled. For those with no Internet and do not live near WNY give us a call at (716)560-0364 and Bill will be glad to help you get your hands on whatever your needs may be. We will be simplifying this process also in the next couple weeks as we are expanding our coverage online and will have a fully functional website up and running by the end of November. You will be able to view all available GTO Outdoors products and purchase right from the site. The website will also have photos, videos, links to this blog and all our social media sites along with much much more. We will make an announcement once gtooutdoors.com goes live.

In other news besides missing deer with the bows and chasing steelies and big browns out of the lakes it is duck season!!! One of GTO's favorite times of the year. This year has been treating us well with multiple birds on the ground. Now things could always be better, but we are having a blast and this sick obsession is taking time away from other things. Not only are the birds raining from the sky, but the hysterics and mischief that has been happening in the blind is a great time. The best part of the whole thing is we do not believe the migration has kicked in yet and we have until mid December to keep it up. We are Hoping to get some white tails on the ground next weekend during the firearms opener in NY state so that we can get back In a duck blind to keep the good season going. With all this going on we have been delinquent on our blog posts, but ill try to keep on the guys to post more in the upcoming weeks as we really ramp up our hunting, fishing, and grilling of the outdoors. Till then we leave you with some photos of our harvest during the bird season this year.

Cheers

Billy

PS. Many new products coming in the next couple weeks. They will all be available on gtooutdoors.com. Thanks guys

Overtime

Tis the season. The season I wish there were thirty hours in a day and nine days in a week. The salmon run is in full effect out of Lake Ontario, bow season is starting to get good, and duck hunting opens in a week. From stream to stand as much as I can leaves little time for blogs to be written, face books to be posted, or twitters to tweet. I love October and everything that goes along with it. I love fly fishing for huge salmon and steelhead. It's a treat to grab a huge brown trout while drifting for these awesome fish. When not wading the tribs of the Great Lakes I sit in a tree stand admiring the changing of the leaves. The beautiful transformation passes the time as I sit in stealth and await a trophy whitetail. As the days pass and the weather changes those same whitetail begin to change their behavior patterns as well. Do they know why this happens? Do we know why? Mother Nature changing the environment right in front of our eyes.

In the coming week we will be going to our southern tier operation for four days of bow hunting and fall brown trout fishing. We will prepare the camp for weeks and weeks of debauchery, camaraderie, and hopefully a productive whitetail season. The whole idea of a hunting camp is what drew me to the sport. An escape, a place we gather to de-stress and fulfill our primal urge to harvest and provide. It might just be an outhouse and trailer from 1984 but it is a sanctuary that I look forward to coming back to every time we leave.

October, a time of change, a time of harvest. The month of Halloween, the month of hunting, fishing, and cooking. Huge salmon, nice big browns, bucks and does preparing for the upcoming rut, and flocks of migrating ducks and geese. I might complain about my lack of time or how busy I am, but I truly do love putting in the overtime in the field, in the woods, or waist deep in a Great Lakes tributary. Stay tuned for reports from the many adventures coming up throughout the next couple of months as we hunt, fish, and grill the WNY area.

Cheers,

Billy