![]() Five pike in the “super-sized” category of 45 inches plus is quite a week. Both Craig Mataczynski and Al Wortz put 48s in their guide’s nets. In any “normal” week a 47 would be the top fish but not this week. On the same day Cam and Andy Godden hit the same total of trophies but both caught 47 inchers. Susan and Frank Saraka have been coming to Scott for a long time but can’t remember a better day together than the nine-trophy pike day they had this trip, topped by Susan’s 45” pike. Mira Lechowicz landed four trophy pike one day and three trophy lake trout on another day. It was a big week for the jacket: Rich’s son John Kracum hit the same number as Bill Calabresa at 102 inches. The other person on top of that leader board is Rich Kracum, another long time Scott guest, with a pike of 43.5”, a lake trout of 41” and a grayling of 19” who landed on the same number. Joe is currently tied for the top spot in that exclusive club with his total of 103.5 inches having landed a 45.5” pike, 39” lake trout and 19” grayling. Both will be proudly wearing their 100+Club jackets. For over two decades the two anglers have been boating big northern pike, lake trout and grayling. They have been fishing hard and successfully. It’s a new era of wildlife watching.īill and Joe weren’t just looking for musk ox of course. Around this small island town this was big news. While the trend line was clear, it was still stunning when guests Joe Novicki, Bill Calabresa and guide Jan Phoenix saw a herd of around twenty-five right on the shore of our own lake. Over two decades sightings were made closer and closer to the lodge. Twenty-five years back Scott Lake Lodge guests who really wanted to see one had to fly in a float plane over two hours north, toward Dubwant Lake to see one. Most numerous on the arctic islands like Banks or Victoria, they are also found on the mainland of northern Canada, but usually well north of this neck of the woods. Just a little history: musk oxen are creatures of the far north, very far north. ![]() It just might be the first time ever that this primitive mammal has traveled the eskers along the north shore of sprawling Scott Lake. They were musk oxen of course, but they have never been seen this far south. ![]() People with travel experience in the high arctic will figure this mystery quickly, but for the 60th parallel this was an amazing sighting. They were stocky with very shaggy long dark coats, horns that belong on a cape buffalo, traveled in a large group, and grunted a lot. More than 20 breeds of cattle were used as oxen with Milking Shorthorns (11.9 %), Holstein-Friesians (10.9 %), Chianina (9.6 %) and Brown Swiss (9.3 %) being the most numerous.On June 28th strange creatures looking like they just wandered out of a Star Wars movie set were spotted on the shores of Scott Lake. 289 people learned to train from friends, 211 from family, 202 from books, 158 from organizations related to oxen, 156 from the Internet, 152 in the 4-H program, 129 from videos, 94 at hands- on workshops, 54 from magazines and 42 from living history farms. Teamsters worked oxen an average of 7 hours/week and 89 % train the oxen as calves. Results showed 257 teamsters used their oxen for farm work, 213 for exhibitions and parades, 191 for logging, 173 for recreation, 165 for competition showing, 144 for competition pulling, 85 at living history farms and in historic settings, and 18 in television and movies. The gender breakdown of ox teamsters was 59 % men, 40 % women. The 423 ox teamsters responding owned 1791 oxen in 39 states, with the majority of oxen and teamsters in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Massachu- setts and New York respectively. Ox teamsters were sur- veyed in 2021via social media using Qualtrics. Their continued presence has been largely due to agricultural fairs and exhibitions where they have been used in competition for the last 200 years. Instead, the culture of keeping oxen has been maintained by a small group of teamsters in the North- eastern states collectively called New England. Unlike other countries,oxen were never completely given up for horses, mules, or tractors. Oxen in the United States of America have played an important role throughout its history.
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