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I suspect those birds weren't drinking but trying to dip their bills in the water keep their nares from Icing up further, Worth. We watched some hen scaup doing this that landed off our feet a few yards when we were hunting during Super Storm Sandy's passage a few years back. As our luck would...

Hunted the Veterans Day storm on the Bays de Noc. Opted to not try and fight wind gusts forecast for 50mph from the southeast, so I stared hard at my notes and map of the Stonington peninsula. I grabbed one leaf bag of bluebills and one of redheads and stacked them in the canoe after sliding...

The interesting back story on this buck: Lewis sent me a pic of a buck that had come down the field edge toward his treestand but had gone below a hgh spot and never reappeared. I blew the picture up until it started to really blur the rack. The first deer had much longer brow tines and G-2s...

I am looking for a USED Maxi Poke Boat for a friend who is just starting-out in duck hunting. He has asked me repeatedly if I am interested in selling mine...

one consideration with a TDB-14...if you anchor bow-in to the wind in rough conditions you will get alot of hull slap on the water. I generally anchored my TDB-14' stern first into the wind using a 35 river anchor. You have enough freeboard via the whaleback design to allow yourself to remain...

Carl's pictures are an accurate testimony to how effective this approach can be. I have hunted open water for years, shooting divers with my TDB-14. Still do it with success in my TDB-17 now. The birds will generally swing right up a longine and set-down in the open water gaps. We just spent...

Just read this after getting back from a diver hunt in the eastern UP. Good to hear the outcome was positive. Given the quality of dog, overlaid on the geography where it was lost, she is lucky someone didn't decide that they had found themselves a "new" huntin' dog.

Good luck, we are headed for the St.Mary River mid-week for a handful of daysin hopes of running into migrators.

A friend had similar issues with his kicker, also a Mercury on his brand new Lund Mr. Pike. Have you done anything with the supply line, particularly did you replace it or the pressure bulb? Kareem eventually found a piece of plastic inside the bulb just large enough to mostly impede fuel flow...

I'll keep my fingers crossed that it brings you both precipitation and birds! Good Luck!

Al, good luck. There is an intense low pressure system that is going to roll across the northern border and well into Canada beginning on Friday that should push good numbers of birds south ahead of it.

When you shoot a bird that is a chip-shot as the group settles into the decoys and they don't even roll over, something is suspicious watching them shudder and then settle to the waterand start swimming away, it gets more than a little frustrating.On the positive side, the dogs got in a boatload...

Weird season turned to ugly on Wednesday. Good wind and much cooler temps. kept the birds moving. I grabbed a zip-loc with some seven year old Hevi Metal fives in it that I had left in the boat over winter a couple of years back. Over the course of the first half of the day I shot five...

One pair of goose hunting partners use it routinely, along with some copies of the county plat map twsp pages of interest. No system is foolproof. We have set-up on unposted land while in NoDakk, prior the new system's implementation and have been confronted by the landowner telling us to...

Congratulations John, nice array of good eatin' birds! One thing that stands out to my eye is how many are well along in the plumage development for birds killed so early in the season. Makes me wonder how many birds never engaged in nesting... We are seeing more mallards here, but I...

I admit I am still trying to find the retirement "sweet spot" where time expended and time left are in proper balance.

Mark Twain once said that truth was stranger than fiction, because Fiction was required to remain in the realm of possibilites; while Truth was not. That is a good summary of the last three duck hunting outings...3 mallards and four wood ducks on hunts with zero wind and daytime highs in the...

Three years ago, I had an eagle roost in a dead tree about five hundred yards from me. As I was taking pictures of him, I realized he was staring straight at the boat prior jumping into flight and gliding right at the TDB. I forgot I had laid a wigeon on the blind grass on the rain roof to...

I will share this one with you. We paddled about three quarters of a mile into a stiff wind to get in position to push down a shoreline stretch that we had watched about fifty mallards and two big groups of blue wings totaling over a hundred birds using for two days. There are a couple of...