Recent content by bob welsh

Round bottom decoys dont give the impression of live feeding ducks. Conventional decoys give the impression of a SQUARE MEAL. Thanks I'll be here all week.

nice to see you again i enjoy your doodles

This was driven by the Guides Association first in Manitoba and then to SK. After listening to a podcast the lobbyist for this change reasoned that every non resident that set up shop for a month(or season) and had friends dropping in and out every few weeks constituting a de-facto guide...

Im afraid that these opinions FF trots out as the smoking gun are not at all science based. Tell a lie long enough people start to believe it . The many working biologists I know just discount their flooded corn theory as junk science. But as PT Barnum put it , "There's a sucker born every...

The head is connected by a thin anchor line knotted on top or at the neck somewhere then it passes through the body. 1 or 2 wraps around the metal post on original (i used a roofing nail) keeps the head tight to the body. I used a forstner bit for the anchor recess, but Im sure there is a better...

Glad to see TOP MEN working on the project. Who? TOP----- MEN!

Here is a bluebill I picked up in Wisconsin, and my copy in the raw. I don't think it's a KD but a hunter copy. Vince nailed it they were called pocket decoys.

And it has the folding lower unit, good find.

Hi Nancy, The boat has orgins in the upper midwest. Looking at the boat from the inside ,it looks to be a lapstrake hull where the planking on the outside overlaps each other like siding on a house. The decks were originally covered in canvas and a thick compound would have been applied to fill...

nice find Dave