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I don't have the boat any longer, I sold it a long time ago. I think in the last year or so Dave had reacquired it and touched it up and sold it. I debated if I wanted to buy it back, but I have too many boats! Poles and nets work great, but for my style of hunting I like to be able to drop...

Here's one picture I found, you can see how sturdy the canvas was:

It uses curved aluminum tubing with bimini hardware. I'll have to see if I have any old pictures of that blind setup as that's my boat in the pictures. There was no easy way to drop the canvas, which made picking up decoys a bit difficult, but otherwise that rig was great. It was a modified...

I can't tell you the last time I shot a merg of any kind as I am a bit of a puddle duck snob. However I have been using the snack stick and sausage method for the majority of my birds for the last few seasons and it is a huge hit. Sacrilege to use puddle ducks in the grinder for sure, but our...

Looks like an awesome trip. See you on the coast this year!

Excellent work as always Steve. I really like that azek chock idea for the flapper boards.

As someone who still considers themselves to be young (late 30s) but in reality not that young... and have been going since I was eight years old I realized a few years ago that everything I took for granted is a very steep learning curve for those who have not had the mentorship that I have. I...

I leave the pricing and options for those talking to Dave, I wasn't privy to all the details as it isn't my rig. I just wish I had more hunting footage to splice in but I can't give all the secrets away ;-)

Finally got around to editing a walk through of the Estuary II for those that are interested. https://youtu.be/j-OW4TLvajQ

Wow what a shock, always loved Al's posts, stories and pictures over the years. He will be greatly missed.

First bird of the morning the other day was a drake black duck at 15 yards. Shocked isn't strong enough of a word, #6 on the season and my 30th band overall. This one was a March 2022 band, does anyone know if after the covid years they put that budget forward with more banding in the last year?

It's definitely an interesting thing to consider. Obviously I'm not targeting banded birds, nor am I hunting near banding stations as far as I know. But I have shot five banded birds in the same general area over the years where I shot these, all black ducks. I seem to average about one...

I've done it the last few seasons. Haven't received them this year due to the envelope shortages and I didn't have any leftovers last season. I was also asked to keep a log for the feds, which is now an online portal vs. the old handwritten one. So I have been doing that. I also save the...

The run of luck continued with my next hunt this past Friday, second bird of the morning was another prime drake black duck and he was sporting jewelry. Four + year old bird banded in 2020 in South Jersey. First band retrieve for my dad's pup Archie.

My first season gunning, as we call it in NJ, was 1994. I now have 27 bands on my lanyard, quite a few more than my dad who had decades of gunning waterfowl under his belt before I started. I can only assume that they are banding more birds these days or that I got all the luck between the two...

There's luck and then there's my Saturday morning... hunted a favorite area of mine for puddle ducks Saturday morning as the tide was how I liked it. First few groups didn't work me the way I wanted so I readjusted my spread and hide and re-set. Next bird in worked in perfect feet down at 15...

Greg we were up in Tuckahoe, I'm up north of Barnegat so I don't get much farther west than the Maurice usually. Josh for sure the fog made it fun, had to run my navionics app on the phone the ride down the river just to creep along. We had a surprisingly good shoot for not doing any scouting...

I had a similar experience on the south zone opener this year Greg, had a juvenile bald eagle pull up at the last minute over one of my shaker decoys.

I like the SPF face buffs mainly sold for fishing in tropical climates. You can get them in just about any camo pattern, lightweight and easy to use.