Well, my time as an OH resident has ended... It has been a good time, I haven't met a ton of you guys personally but the people I have met were great and have had some good times with. I basically realized Columbus is definitely not the place for me. I went from Penn State to D.C., lasted 8 months and hated it, moved here thinking I'd be into a lot more hunting. Turned out I'm still looking at 45min+ to get to public land, at least an hour to decent public land. Even just trying to shoot my bow was a half hour drive, minimum. It drove me insane especially when in high school during spring gobbler we'd be able to run out and hunt prior to being to school at 8am. I grew up in a town of 3k people, having tons of hunting just out my door and within a 15min drive as well as some great golf courses. In addition to that some great fly fishing, stocked and native, within a bike ride of my house.
I wasn't actively looking for jobs but it turned out I had a company reach out to me from scranton pa. At first I was apprehensive but I considered it more and interviewed and visited. After seeing the town and all the guys there are PSU alums, it was a pretty easy decision. I'll be living in the mountains just north of Scranton but I talked to my to-be neighbor and he said there's resident bears in the area and it's not uncommon to see a flock of turkeys or deer in the backyard, I missed that about where I've been living. My current back yard here has a nasty dumpster with couches around it for the past 3 months that have yet to be removed. At my new place there's 60 acres that's behind my yard, I didn't see posted but i'm going to find the landowner, that'd be great to get permission.
Within 15min of my house I can hunt, fly fish, run the dog, golf, shoot at the rifle range, shoot my bow, go to my gym, and get to work.
A stretch of the Lackawanna River that runs thru Scranton was recently declared prime-trout fishing territory. I can't wait to get back to tying flies and flyfishing for trout, I can remember the times with my dad that we'd hike 1-2 miles in knee deep snow in the mountains to go fly fish brook trout. Sounds silly hiking that far to fish an 8ft wide stream for an 8-10" long trout, tip toeing thru it b/c any ripple in the water will send them boogeying to the next pool but it is an absolute hoot and I highly recommend.
It's been great guys! I'll definitely keep in touch.
T.J.
I wasn't actively looking for jobs but it turned out I had a company reach out to me from scranton pa. At first I was apprehensive but I considered it more and interviewed and visited. After seeing the town and all the guys there are PSU alums, it was a pretty easy decision. I'll be living in the mountains just north of Scranton but I talked to my to-be neighbor and he said there's resident bears in the area and it's not uncommon to see a flock of turkeys or deer in the backyard, I missed that about where I've been living. My current back yard here has a nasty dumpster with couches around it for the past 3 months that have yet to be removed. At my new place there's 60 acres that's behind my yard, I didn't see posted but i'm going to find the landowner, that'd be great to get permission.
Within 15min of my house I can hunt, fly fish, run the dog, golf, shoot at the rifle range, shoot my bow, go to my gym, and get to work.
A stretch of the Lackawanna River that runs thru Scranton was recently declared prime-trout fishing territory. I can't wait to get back to tying flies and flyfishing for trout, I can remember the times with my dad that we'd hike 1-2 miles in knee deep snow in the mountains to go fly fish brook trout. Sounds silly hiking that far to fish an 8ft wide stream for an 8-10" long trout, tip toeing thru it b/c any ripple in the water will send them boogeying to the next pool but it is an absolute hoot and I highly recommend.
It's been great guys! I'll definitely keep in touch.
T.J.