I am fat wood challenged

[tonym]

PS Tony were are you going fishing opening day?

All depends on weather. If the ice is off the lakes in Westchester where my boats are; it will be Titicus Resevior or Cross River


If the lakes are still iced up then I will just hit some streams and small rivers like the Saugutuck in Redding.

 

[benchmadebob]

All depends on weather. If the ice is off the lakes in Westchester where my boats are; it will be Titicus Resevior or Cross River


If the lakes are still iced up then I will just hit some streams and small rivers like the Saugutuck in Redding.

I usually go to the natchaug river the first weekend and then the salmon river on the next weekend.

 

[eastr77]

i have found that the old pine protected from the sun seem to be best around my area.

 

[James_Terrio]

Thanks guys, I never thought to dig deeper into the stump; I just assumed the underground part would be wet and rotty.

Look what happens when you ASSuME...

 

[lambertiana]

bladz - that is some top quality fatwood! Is that from longleaf pine? I know that historically longleaf pine was plantation grown all across the south for naval stores - turpentine, pitch, etc. So it must produce a fair amount of the good stuff.

Out here in Commiefornia, it is hit and miss. Some species produce fatwood much more reliably than others (here Ponderosa pine is the best). Sometimes I can look around for a long time and find nothing, and then other times I happen across some good stuff almost by accident. And the suggestion to look underground is good - the best fatwood I have ever found was the roots at the very base of a large ponderosa that had fallen over. It gummed up my saw really bad.

 

[11x11x]

"HeHe - You said Fat... WOOD! HeHe"

 

[myright]

Same here.
It may be regional. I have been told that some people have found a bunch about an hour from me where the terrain and soil are different.
I'm going to try to get over there soon.

Let's plan a FW hunting trip in the Pine Barrens

 

[bladz]

bladz - that is some top quality fatwood! Is that from longleaf pine? I know that historically longleaf pine was plantation grown all across the south for naval stores - turpentine, pitch, etc. So it must produce a fair amount of the good stuff.

It is one of the richest fatwood stumps I have found and big enough, if pulled out of the ground, to produce enough for every poster in W&SS for years to come. I am not certain of the type because there are several kinds of pines here. However, the longleaf is supposed to grow nearly 4' in diameter and I think this stump is that big. So the tree must have been huge.