Recent content by Jeff Reardon

I'm jealous, so my only response is 60 IS REALLY OLD! We did a family trip to Marathon Key last spring, and all I managed to do was break off two very large snook in a mangrove creek we could kayak to from our rental. The third morning a manatee cow and calf show seemed to spook all the fish...

For info on canvas over wood restoration, check here: https://www.woodencanoe.org/ I hope more photos are coming as you progress. Wood deck on a metal hull is something I've not heard of before. Someone here may know something about the origin/history of such craft.

I set up for ducks last fall under some tall pines on the river bank and there must have been 25+ turkeys roosted in the trees above and behind me. We have a fall season, and they'd have been legal to take, but all the ones who flew down in range were before legal shooting. Had to chase the...

Brandon's advice to have a second person there to take note, and, if appropriate, ask questions, is spot on. I have had psoriasis, another inflammatory disease with potential for arthritic complications, since I was 15. The only other bit of advice I would give you is to ask lots of questions...

I cross the border a fair amount, since our "world headquarters" are in New Brunswick. I have not hunted, but have fished in Quebec and New Brunswick. A lot depends on the province, as rules for access are very different. New Brunswick requires a guide for US salmon anglers, for example. And...

Oops, missed this. We DO get a Dani scary snake story, even though she's playing it all cool and nonchalant. To a northern guy from the land of no poisonous snakes, that was a near death experience.

Don't we usually get scary snake pics from Dani's turkey hunts, too?

I've made my share of rants about "flat brims" and insta-guides, but I don't think many of them are yuppies. The real yuppies from back in the 1980's and 1990's all got rich and are hunting private ranches and clubs that monopolize access to public waters and public waterfowl. That's one side...

I need a replacement for my 14' tin boat. Hoping to go up to 16' and from 15 to 20 or 30 hp. I look around a bit, but am not seeing much. That's nothing exciting, just a utility boat useful for duck and fish and picnic duty. I've also got my eyes on the peddle drive sit-on-top kayaks. What...

Not from Indiana, and where I live sandhills have only recently returned. (Or some would say expanded to a place that didn't used to support them.) My only note is the potential impact on the population is a lot higher with one of those options than the other. I have no idea what kind of...

Certainly possible. I have not heard of any avian flu bald eagle deaths, though. I saw bald eagles twice growing up in Maine, both in fairly remote places. I now see three or four on my 30 minute drive to work every day, mostly scavening deer carcasses along the highway. It's common to see...

Steve Sanford's comment on the thread about Alaskan nest boxes caught my eye, and rather than divert that thread, I figured I'd start a new one. What are folks around the country seeing for avian flu impacts on waterfowl? We had a pretty large mortality event on Canada geese and ducks. (Duck...

Thank you for the heads up. I tried to look after your earlier post and couldn't get the website to work. (Perhaps you started a DHBP rush that crashed the system!) Working today, though a little slow. For those who have trouble, simply restart and things will go smoothly, or at least they...

Why should the state not getting sales tax affect the warrantee? Or is the commercial discount more than just the waived tax?

The proper term for being killed by alternating current electricity is that the victim has been "Westinghoused". Or at least that's how Thomas Edison saw it. The history of Edison's competition with Westinghouse over whether electricity standard should be DC or AC led to the invention of the...