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Great photos everyone; between dog work; scouting (and incidentally SJS and I saw a black bear at one of our spots yesterday) and the evening ritual of re-reading worn copies of Buckingham, Van Campen Heiler and "Duck Hunting along the Eastern Tidewater" --all ready here for 10/10/15. Thanks all.

Agree. 1. Will not hunt in a steady rain other than the first couple hours of opening day. 2. Use to prefer the afternoons on the salt marsh; upstate New York, not generally productive. 3. Favorite weather: a cold front with a Northwester--preferably in November. (Damn, just love...

Thanks Phil: Great Pixs. Great dog.

Good point. You're safe, dog is safe, good friend and companion; decoys can be replaced. All relative.

I am with Shawn on that one-yeah--not the dog. Lucky have kindly and thoughtful friends.

Loved every word of your experience. Keep those cards and letters coming.

I hate change, but I am on the verge of getting a new computer. In part because I cannot post pictures on this site, notwithstanding the kindly advice of many, and also because this computer is very old. I have three questions, but before my three questions- relevant information-I only use...

And shellpeckers!!!

Same here in Cambridge, NY. Rabbits, wood chucks and deer--rodents of a different kind. So 15 years without issues, then WCs. WCs tore through all my beans in a half hour many years ago--I have basically been able to keep them out since. The deer showed up five years ago. Really aggressive...

Been watching for the BWTs down here around Albany, though we don't see them often in this part of the state in numbers. Along the Canadian border where we hunted for many years, we have had at least one "grand passage" of BWTs with an early opener and warm weather. But that day in 1984 was...

Bob: Appropriate and very touching. Thanks.

Jeff: I was with GT, pretty awesome to see salmon coming over a bar in mid-day. They come typically early am and at dusk and night. Lets hope that is a sign for the future-though I maybe a just a little PollyAnnish. All Penobscot numbers so encouraging. The hard work that all you guys put...

Great Pixs. I just came back from New Brunswick, and we spent a lot of time with the NB people, and entertainment is minimal during the long winters, especially last winter. So music is the staple, and so are the poems of Robert Service from "The Spell of the Yukon" and other titles. This past...

Having grown up on LI where and when Blackfish were plentiful and often a throw away after the trawlers came in, several old timers advised how good they are to eat. So my last years on LI, 1980 to 1988, I searched for them off trawlers in Port Jeff, where there were dirt cheap or in the fish...

Bob: That is brilliant. Get it patented--quickly.

Great pic. Love that boat. Had many LI North Shore skiffs, and couple of South Shore boats, a scooter, a punt and a deviant duckboat, a "pumkenseed" built on the style of BBSB-not really a South Shore style skiff.

I, too, built the Zach Tailer (sp?) coffin box, actually two of them. While I am inept boat builder, I am pretty sure the specs from the magazine were wrong but I adapted. They towed ok but could only be used on the salt marsh with a foundation. Any floatation where the entire box was in...

Dwight: I live about an hour from you, and kinda of curious about how you plan to use the BBSB. We hunt small marshes up here which we traverse in aluminum canoes. Impractical for a traditional gunning skiff. Some friends up in Champlain use these traditional gunning boats. And I assume...

Kris: Fashionable, and good for kids--even hunting kids. Used them all though my youth following my father through NE Ohio grouse covers, later hunted hard in them for WCs and Grouse in Southern Vermont. Absolutely no ankle or foot support. Was okay when I was kid. Highly recommend the...

Paul: Thanks. Great photos, made my day.