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Still have a black box full of scooby snacks and the worlds best food: blueberry cream cheese muffins from QFC? I would throw puppies and babies out windows for one of those muffins. D-

Steve- How about you install some radiant heating up there, and while your at it, a seat warmer for my favorite seat in the front, and dont forget a new cup holder - drink koozy thing for my tripple shot venti espresso. And... most important a midget warmer for the day you have to pull some...

Steve Sanchez and I carved these late last spring and I just now got around to wrapping them up. These are part of Steve's growing frond rig - and bound to hunt reaches of the SF bay this season. He wanted a decoy that was reminiscent of the region - hence the frond style and simpler paint...

Oh neato, I now feel the need to get home and don the "Effen warrior of Gasbury invisibility cloak" a-la Dungeons and Dragons style. If I am lucky I may still have 3 Cyclops credits and can go on to level three. With this music in my I-pod there won’t be a troll in California, I can’t take on...

the ba$tard sold it for the asking price. I had an offer in and he got a better one. O well, lots of others to look at. Now is that a red and white bobber like your southern roots or a clear Pac-NW one. How are those aquapods working out - get to slide them over any levees lately?

Holy crap - please say this isn’t so, a phony Steve Sutton is on the board. You seriously did not say a plastic - I repeat plastic decoy looked good.... While we all know Mark can carve and even if it was cast in pink sparkles would make ducks come in ... But Sutton - plastic. I bet you went and...

South of Market, well the only quacks to hunt there will be the looney city people. The region in and around SF is a historic waterfowling zone with an abudance of private and public hunting opps. You have three major branches to the bay (SF, San Pablo, Suisun) - all providing good to...

Looks great, been a fun build to watch. If you hurry it will be ready for october.

I have never had any problems with water intrusion or water overload. The canvas is painted over and the bottom rim is sealed in bath caulk. It could happen though. They are just like traditional canvas deeks, just filled wth foam, not wire. All canvas deeeks can leak easier, its just their nature.

Yes they will self right without keels if the profile is low or easily with keels on a higher profile like I posted. I use synthetic decking ripped into thick keels. The foam makes these ride very high in the water - so the weight of the decking is nice to draw them loer ad keel the cost of...

Yes, I do like that method, but you need a good sized hole to let the foam "breathe" enough. If it does not breath it wont expand right and not balloon out the canvas.. You also have the time to plug the holes - which can be hard. I typically run the slit alond the top board, but for this post...

[inlinesc20 (Small).JPG] This is a sample of a completed bird i made about 10+ years ago...

This is fun & easy way to make mag-sized "filler" blocks for heavy use. I have been making these for years and love the versatility and punishment they can take. I hope I took enough pics to show all the steps to make these. This is #1 of a large scoter rig I am working on. I will post pics of...

Dave- I carved that for Kevin Layne's rig. Someone else here had carved something similar (and better) for one of the shows. It is hands down the most fun I have ever had making a decoy, and really hard to part with. I am working on a mallard version right now for my rig. It will include a...

That is Sutton's rig up on the Sound a couple of years ago. Anyone that has hunted with Steve can attest he has some of the coolest/biggest carved rigs from people all over. I think in this pic there are blocks from Suttton, Lou's e-allens, Bill Kell, Bill Wasson and maybe a Mueller bird. I...

I will get those up right away - next to the Prop 8 hand pic of you tiptoeing though the flooded river. I am having "inline" post issues, they keep rolling up to the top of the page and cuttign in half - any ideahow to fix them? I havent had this prob in the past. D-