Recent content by Dave Simon

Build a boat or two. Apologies to Buck Owens "Act Naturally"! Anyway, we filmed a big time TV show out here last weekend, and this shot featured two duck boats I built recently. There is a cameraman and sound man in my Devlin Snow Goose, and another cameraman in my Busick one man layout boat...

I think they were extra thorough because they were training a new guy. They were very polite and professional. I know most of the CO's, and I guess they know me through DU events and habitat work. I know I wouldn't leave the house unless I was totally legal, but there is always that flicker...

I had a lot of little scrap 3/8" plywood left over from boat building, so I made some long line holders. These may look a little "fishy", but they work pretty good. Make the tail and the mouth nice deep v's, and you can use the eye hole to secure one end. I just half hitch around the narrow...

Ryan, Go to the top and hit "search posts". Then enter "eider sleds". There was a helpful post with some drawings recently. You'll find it right away. Dave

Dear Andrew, We haven't seen a lot of brant either... they were here a few days before the season opened and when I looked for them today they were scattered. I had a few hundred dialed in two weekends ago, but the season was closed for that Saturday and then everybody got busy with...

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas. Pretty quiet out here, weather has been terrible for duck hunting, and can't bring myself to finish the y-boards until after hunting season. But the long weekend is looking up! Had a nice oldsquaw hunt out of the two man Busick layout boat. Here is a...

Thanks Tod! This is a great board, everybody is extremely helpful. Who knows, maybe I'll make a batch of sleds next. Then I'll need a bigger boat for all the gear! Happy Holidays, Dave

Thanks Carl!

Here is the Y board, primed... And the stack. I made a little rabbet for the widdle duckies to slide into... And my first try at a brant silly... Where do you attach the anchor line? On the fixed board? Near the middle, or does that make it spin? What color do you...

Thanks to Carl for his Y board post and buffie pattern! Can anyone help me get started with some Brant patterns. I've drawn one so far and it is a little funny looking... I'm also looking to do a few GE and OS. I made a nice pile of sawdust and came up with 8 Y boards this afternoon...

Same as Andrew's, Dave! Devlin Snow Goose. It wasn't that bad this morning, I just saw that picture of my little dog looking east towards Portugal and thought he looked a little forlorn. We didn't pack enough sandwiches for a transatlantic. I will look into the website you mentioned...

Up at 5:00, launch boat, motor runs perfect (after a $250 repair bill from the mechanic, sticky float due to ice, plastic tanks and whatnot...causing two cancelled hunts) crash through a bunch of 3 foot waves and a few lots bigger, cuss the weatherman/NOAA for the wrong wind forecast...

Thanks again, Carl. Best wishes for a happy holiday season, and may Santa Duck visit you day and night for the rest of the legal duck season. Dave

Thanks Carl! I need a post duck season project and these will be perfect. Now, can somebody post a bunch of diver profile patterns e.g. old squaw, goldeneye?

You're welcome, Bradley. How are the birds up on Lake Champlain? Pretty mild weather up there also, I hear. We'll keep the Sound just like you remember it, unless they put the huge liquified natural gas tanker right in the middle of it...