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love thinking outside the box. for a trailer, check this thing out, http://www.ducksbucks.com/howtoassemble.html I have been looking at it for up here. He says he has had people add a bicycle mount, floats, wheels come off. he will sell it without the blind at a reduced price, but his...

Here is Brandee's dad, Cato. The dog doesn't realize he is not a "Retriever" and he was not a happy camper being left at home this season.

Brandee at work this fall. This was her first duck season and she was fantastic. Hardest part was leaving her dad home as he has been my never fail duck dog for 6 years, but she needed to get some expereince.

the bad news. last night all water froze, even the big lakes around me. bad news, snow geese are still here in big numbers and ducks seemed to concentrate and are still hanging around. I saw a number of flocks just sitting on the ice driving into work, so they must think its going to warm up.

I am waiting for the last push of mallards myself. We have snows in my area, but in a 150 mile jaunt yesterday, I only found a couple small concentrations of Mallards. all other ducks are gone, except a few bills here and there. Small and some medium sized potholes froze last night, but still...

So thats what a pheasant looks like? Looks like a great time. where you able to walk for chickens with any success?

Thanks guys, we are covered in them, haven't seen cans like this in years, small water, big water, non traditional places. Many have left, but seems like more keep taking there place. They are about 3 days past due to leave and we have a moderate NNW wind tommorrow so I hope that doesn't take...

I use a Simms waterproof camera bag, little spendy but I love mine. desgined for a SLR but I only have a megazoom P&S. Small enough to fit in my possible bags, has padding. its been stepped on and tossed around the last few years with no damage to the camera. It wouldn't hold a SLR with...

both dogs down with giardia/bacteria, bathroom break every hour on the hour. I don't feel right going out without one of them, so I took the day off and its painful for me as canvasbacks are late to leave and some redheads are still around. Before it hit Cato I shot this one on our property...

Thanks mike, on my drive home from work, it looks like this NW wind today pushed some good birds in. This next 6-7 days will be dedicated to reds and cans before they leave.

Hope the ducks don't look on shore, we had widgeon in the dekes on that day. I try to use low profile field blinds and a mutt hutt but if its a long walk with 2 doz dekes in a sled, I make do with what I can. The pothole this morning was even less, the cattle had it down to mud. Tommorrow I...

Here is some pics of the new rig in use. On sago lakes you will get a variety of birds, redheads, cans, ringers, widgeon and pintails are all what I like to target. I have a few left to finish but they are balsa bodies, white cedar heads and the cans are keeled with salvaged cedar from our 100...

Bill, I come from the german world of dogs where we believe gun sensitivity is an inheretited trait, and we test for it. Yeah, you can make any dog gun shy, and you may be able to hunt or mask a dog that was predisposed, but somewhere there is some wiring that is a bit off. I am not an expert...

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First, hook with a local carver or carvers. Watch them work, then decide what medium your going to choose and what will work best for you. No video or book is going to come close to helping learn the craft. Educate yourself from as many sources as possible and develop your own style and...

Unfortunately this is all too true. I bartended this summer in a small town that used to have a large outfitter and boy did I hear the stories. Some of it was criminal, literally.

I had one of the rural mail carriers stop in a few weeks ago, during his survey period, he didn't see a brood of phez to mark down. The DNR is saying phez in this area are down 56%, and last year we were down 35% I think. But it is a pretty big region and there are area in this regions that...

Yeah, good nesting season would have been nice for the birds. I can honestly say I have seen more coveys of huns this summer than Phez, and we are not in a good hun area. I have personally seen one brood of pheasants this summer, I even released 10 adult birds this spring at our place and I...

Be sure to talk with your local contacts on bird numbers in your area. Its been a terrible nesting season around me, cold wet spring with summer hail storms. I think its a number of factors but duck numbers just aren't good around here right now, pheasants are nearly non-existant, and even...