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A guy I know is currently looking at a TDB-21'. Unfortunately, it was painted, boat and blind. He would like to remove the paint from both surfaces. Anyone have any expertise on removing paint from a fiberglass hull via media blasting with either walnut shells or ground corn cobs??

I stopped by the Rainwater basin to observe the sandhill concentrations in early April for two days to wander around, prior driving down to Humboldt, Kansas to pick Flynn.. The one thing i wasn't prepared for was the quail numbers, bobwhites calling in early morning as the sun burns the dew...

I recently purchased two 1959 Browning Superposed in 12gauge; one gun in 95% condition and one gun that required a complete slow rust blue application, as well as stripping what remained of the finish on the stock and forearm and several soaks in an acetone bath to pull the oil and grime out of...

John, that was quite a windfall, particularly considering the quality and utility of UFO layouts. Congratulations! From a direct observer, what is the wetland condition overall out there this spring? I generally hunt from Max up to Lostwood NWR west of you..

The rails I have shot had rounded arrays of primaries, not pointed.

I was hoping you were back home by now to offer comment. The forecasts of up to 12" appear to be a little over exuberant??? That low has "walked north-northeast for two days over us and then actually backed slowly to the northwest toward you. We have had four days of either intermittent snow...

Hopefully this indicates that the jetstream has shifted north... the forecast for Minot, ND calls for 3-8" over the next three days. Overnight temps. low enough to provide some level of frost seal to enable runoff to accumulate in the wetlands. The bad news is the precipitation isn't extending...

The TDB will ride in the water like one of those Columbian narcotics submarines, Joel! I sealed the bottom of this bird, after shaping, with two coats of thinned epoxy. I made some scaup in black cork that I completely sealed in epoxy, which not only enabled me to cut in some primary...

Black cork Canada floater, one of eight that I started a couple of decades ago and never completed when I realized how heavy they were going to be.

Other than the folks working on the Nipigon River population the general data indicates that coaster brook trout are largely excess production the emigrates from flash basin streams in good production years where YOY fish exceed carrying capacity and end-up in open lake waters. USGS, and MiDNR...

Dani, in salmonines (salmon and trout), males arrive prior the females to stake-out their spawning redds and defend them, basically apportioning the existing substrate. Steelhead tend to darken once they enter rivers from the Great Lakes, a physiologic response that minimizes their contrast...

Three of us fished a Great Lakes tributary for steelhead prompted by a call from Kevin to tell me he was seeing near-constant "flashing" males (males flipped on the sides fanning the gravel to make a redd). We actually caught more fish, but two of us sorted fish to only keep hatchery origin...

Nick, if you use the heavy commercial longline clips others have mentioned with 4/0 swivels they will grip the longline well enough to not slip, unlike several of the diver hunting longline clips sold by Avery and several others, which allow the decoy dropper to slide and bunch blocks up on the...

Just use two to three different tans, grading toward yellow, applied with a one inch hog bristle brush to streak various lengths over the deeper tan segments of the cattails using the lightest color on the top edge of each frond. This will yield depth and realism to them. You can do the same...

Here is the North American drought monitor. I had intended to post this initially but the US monitor closer to real time. This is a better representation of the extent of the problem, while not being an up-to-date depiction of actual severity: 202102_nadm-en.pdf (unl.edu)

We have had a number of low pressure fronts roll down the U.S./Canada border thus far, with very little noteworthy precipitation associated with them: https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/ Not looking very promising..

Actually, I pulled them out and checked the keels; these are made by Blackwater Decoys.

Vince, I was still squeezing fish back in the mid-1980s, living 300' off the Big Munuscong River about a half-mile from Munuscong Bay. From November on to ice-up the only duck you would see were blacks. We would jumpshoot the length of Sand Bay jumping hundreds of blacks to shoot two per...

Interesting point, Vince, I would have assumed they would move to suppress mallards due to eastward miration and hybridization with blacks issues.

I have somewhere between 4-6 of the Superduck redheads, as well as 6 geese. The only issues I have had with the geese is the head/necks are made from the same urethane material the bodies are poured from. Consequently the lag screw doesn't really have any good purchase when fixed in the neck...