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Unfortunately Eric, we are out of sight therefore out of mind. John McPhee was right too, the mighty Mississippi can't be tamed. A French fella was documenting French General Lafayette's travels into North America in 1825. He made this mini film on La Balize, a town at the end of...

Yes. Our camp is East of the Head of Passes. I have a friend from Metairie who also hunts and fishes Biloxi Marsh when he can't make it down to camp. We only pirogue hunt so it must be heaven not to have surface drive mud motors on Biloxi. One day I'll get up there.

I discovered S. Louisiana 2 weeks after losing my waterfowling mentor, my dad, January 1st, 2020 (remember Y2K, I was on a plane flying from SC to Detroit, MI the eve of 12/31,1999 but I digress). I was invited to a camping duck hunt 70 miles S of New Orleans near a place called Venice, LA...

Prayers for the surgeons and complete healing for your bride.

The shift northward is what has folks in the South don't understand. The mantra in S Louisiana is "corn ponds are holding all the ducks North". Lots of conspiracy theorist stating their beliefs. Hunters are blind to the fact that the Great Lakes don't freeze anymore and that little to no...

I've been watching a change over the last 25 years hunting S La. This isn't surprising but definitely shows what's happening on the lower MS flyway. https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/60-years-data-show-shifts-winter-ranges-three-duck-species-midwest By Communications and...

It's small but built to scale. Not sure the dimensions. He's got incredible talent.

That's awesome! I miss the taste of fresh walleyes. Do you have any pics of your handmade fishing rod and lures?

SC boys were probably the most notorious for misidentification and shooting Wood Ducks as biologists surveyed from "spy blinds', so much so that SC's early teal season won't allow shooting UNTIL LEGAL SUNRISE. In Louisiana the hunt is about over most mornings at legal sunrise.

I like it! That bow design, looks like it could handle a chop yet the hull would draft shallow. Add a manual on the fly jack plate and I bet she'd really run in skinny water.

Here is one of the shrimp trawlers he built. Very cool stuff.

I have a friend in Louisiana that made me this pirogue and paddle He builds model trawlers too. A scaled down duck boat shouldn't be a problem. Shoot me a private message if you want his contact information. .

A buddy gave me a tiny 79cc (3hp) Harbor Freight mud motor to try on my Refuge Runner. My boys had a long paddle in to hunt so I towed them out afterwards. For safety reasons I'm only sitting on the bowline to the pirogue should things have gotten squirrelly.

Absolutely deadly on ducks, but you're right about the weight! I have to drag mine over the side of my 2472 Sea Ark and each duck season it gets a bit heavier, probably why I use a pirogue more now. LOL

Great stuff Brad! I know many folks are questioning AHM and wanting "change", whatever they think that may be. I hear of hunters wanting to reduce season length and limits in order to try to grow the population of ducks. One super wet Spring can explode the waterfowl population and most...

Does the West Coast ban mallard release programs?

Multiple hens will lay eggs in other Wood Ducks nests, sometimes other species will lay eggs in other Wood Duck nests. I have had 35-40 eggs in one nesting box, aka a "dump box". I used to think it was a bad thing due to poor nesting box placement but now I believe nature has a way of...