Cayugad vs. Cayuga
 

OK Dave, you're Cayugad here and on Beartooth, and Cayuga on Modern Muzzleloader. Entertain us with the story. What's a Cayugad anyway? I know there's a Cayuga Co. in New York. By the way, Mapquest can't even find your address.

Semi

I think part of the story is that Dave lives near Cayuga Lake...

And remember the the Cayuga's were a part of the famous Iroquois League (Nation), stretching from New York to Minnesota.

Consisting of these Native American Tribes

Mowhawk
Oneida
Cayuga
Onadaga
Seneca
and later they added the
Tuscarora

You would be surprised how close a lot of our Constitution parrallels the Nation's Laws set by the Grand Council...

Cayuga Lake is ne of the finger lakes in NY, Is there one by Dave also?

Funny he is cayugad on here and is the same on NAHC forums.Whats it matter anyway.He is always full with good advice.

Screwbolts

I guess not I thought I looked up his address one time and I thought their was a Lake Cayuga near by - but I can not find it on the map - so now I do not know why I thought that....

OK I am at a loss as to why I thought that a lake was involved...

Hope he comes on soon and splains everything...

Cayuga is the first part and d= Dave. On one site when I registered, I forgot the d. :confused2:

I live in Northern Wisconsin in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest. In the middle of the national forest off a main highway is a unincorporated town called Cayuga. It is the one of the little towns near me. There are 15 people in Cayuga last I knew. Just a couple families. Also there is still the Cayuga Hotel and Saloon but no other business anymore.

Cayuga was once a big logging town. There were 1500 people there. They had a post office, a bordello, hardware store, saloons... I mean a real town. Once the logging died out the town did also, except for a few that would not leave the area.

This area was originally owned by Cornell University in New York. They had a big study area of the fauna, rock formations caused by Lake Superior, etc. The town's original name was Cornell Crossing. But the University had some beef with the town using the name Cornell, so they changed the name to Cayuga, after the lake that the university sits on. Also Cayuga is a name of a Native American Tribe and there are lots of Native Americans around here.

Even though I am miles away from Cayuga, the joke was I was considered from Cayuga (so they could claim one more person and my dog as population numbers). So when screen names were needed, I just used where I lived. On one site Cayuga was taken so I added a d.

That should answer your questions.... :biggrin:

As I understand it, the name was given to him by the UPS office in his region.


Call And Yell Until Guns Are Delivered.

cayugad

I knew there was a Cayuga involved - just couldn't remember what...

What is the name of the closest Range District?

You mean like the Forest Service Ranger District... That would be Park Falls, WI. The Ruffed Grouse Capitol of the World... :happy0001:

I take that back... I looked in my Big Map book of the Chequamegon and I am in the Glidden Ranger District. Glidden brags that they are the black bear capitol of the world. Glidden once had more black bear in the area then any where else in the US but I think that is not the case anymore.

I just checked my Chequamegon Book.. I am technically in the Glidden Ranger District.

I read the title and thought you went and got married again,and already filed.:biggrin:

cayugad

OK that brings the memories back... I ended up calling them one time... I could just remember you were close to a range district.... amd must have stumbled on a map that had the Cayuga or maybe I asked someone at the Ranger District....

All that public hunting ground near, what a life. Is there alot of hunting pressure around you?

If I walk off the back of my property into the Chequamegon I'd probably not run into anyone for many miles. No there is not a lot of hunting pressure. There are groups that make drives from time to time around here. I used to hunt with a group if guys but they all got married and settled down. So I mostly hunt my property only. That is why I do a lot of snow stalking in muzzleloader season. Find a track and start to walk it out. A GPS and compass is a must when you enter the forest.

The kicker is, leave my driveway and you're on a snowmobile or ATV trail (depending on season) and you can ride for miles and miles. But I only live about a mile from the boat landing on a class A muskie lake. The creek that runs through my property empties into that lake.

Its a ruff life, but I am doomed to my fate...



That's what you see when you leave the back end of the property... Chequamegon as far as the eye can see.

You ought to have some nice bucks running around up there, if for no other reason than them getting some age on them. Pretty country. Where I live is not so pretty, lots of rice patties around here.

These are a couple of deer mounts in a local tavern. These deer were shot within four miles of my house. The one on the right as I remember weighed 248 field dressed and the one on the left was 236 field dressed.

There are some monster bucks back in the Chequamegon. I had a chance at one a few years back almost equal to one of them on my property. But all I could see was the back of his head. I was shooting a .54 roundball and I decided to wait him out because I did not want to knock his rack off. My mistake, because he walked behind a dead fall and then walk straight away from me. But I am still trying.

Bucks around here, you have to work for them or just be lucky. A lot of very nice bucks used to be shot around here before the herd was shot off. The trout are local also.

Very nice bucks Dave. The one on the left looks very heavy. Must be nice to walk out the back door and go hunting. My cabin is 35 mile drive from my house. Nothing but bean fields out my back door. Is it hard for deer to rebound in Wis? Here in Arkansas a few years ago the game and fish change us to a 3 pt rule on bucks and allowed 3 does to be taken by firearms for a few years. Nocked our deer herd way down to, but they cut back on the doe harvest and our herd responded very nicely in a couple of years.

Thank's for clearing that up everyone, I also wondered what a cayugad was, when I was younger I lived on a street called Cayuga Dr, I also wondered why in the heck the street was called that, still never found out.....
(BP)

Great country up that way. Could you recommend a lake and resort nearby? Wife and i fish for most everything but partial to Walleye and Smallies. Any info would be appreciated.

That one on the left was shot by a friend of mine named Gary. He's got a good spot he goes to back in the federal and has shot a lot of nice deer. He later had that mount turned into a full body mount. They shot a deer as big as that one, and all the person wanted was the horns so he took it and made a full body mount out of the deer. If I remember right, it was the second biggest in the State that year.

The one on the right was shot by a logger named Paul. He knew the area and the story is he shot that three miles in. I would have hated to drag that thing out three miles. But he went and got some friends and they brought it out.

Breechplug the word itself means people of the mud or people of the great swamps, I was told. Its a tribe name and also a language. But as I said, its just the name of a small town near me.

There are walleye lakes all over up here. Most of them are not that large. The lake near me has Walleye. Within ten miles of my house there are three walleye lakes. Lake Superior out of Bayfield, WI has great walleye fishing. And if you can get back onto the Reservation to the slues off the bay, they catch some real horses back there. As for places to stay, this whole area is full of campgrounds, hotels, etc.. I really would not know where to send you.

Another thing is Chequamegon Bay has excellent salmon, monster lake trout, small mouth, and other kinds of fishing. There are some charter services out of some of the towns on the Bay.

We fished the Pike-Round Lake chain a few years ago and done OK. The resort we stayed at was really run down and didn't thrill the ole lady much. Is this near you?

That is a beautiful part of the world you live in Dave. Do you fish for the speckled trout in your area? Also are there still some coasters on Superior near you or are they only on the North Shore?
Art

Dave, try a case of this in 3F and let me know what you think? ;) http://www.powderinc.com/cgi-bin/bps...R_ID=504224590