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My personal files are clogged with copies of old posts and I thought this one would be fun - as in boy are we now old. A lot of the names are still around, some are ones we lost to soon and a bunch drifted off over the decades. And yes Eric was making us use our names even back then. Happy...

I missed it if anyone has posted about this yet. Last week Connecticut's Migratory Bird Program Leader sent out a request to not shoot the "brown" (young and hens) eiders this season, to help the eider population recover from getting hit hard by avian influenza this spring. It included an...

Hi guys, My Nissan 25 HP 2-stroke is giving me head aches. It is starting and idling great, but as soon as I start to run it up under load the boat will plane out then shortly after the motor stalls out. If I carefully feather in the choke I can get it to run at a higher load w/o stalling...

Hard to believe that the boat is 10 years old already but she is, and the accessories I added need work/replacement. Or maybe I should simply call this "Some of what I've been up to since retirement." The Before Shots: The homemade dodger is past patching. Dead Dodger shot 1: Dead Dodger...

New off-season project - Axe refurbishment with custom Masks. I've always loved edged tools and have ended up with 10 or 12 axes over the years. A mixture of axes, hand axes, hatchets and loose heads. Unfortunately condition wise, there is plenty of rust, mostly surface, and most need to be...

I've been having a tough time getting motivated. Small ponds have been open, we've just come off the 2nd wettest Nov. on record with the CT River in or close to flood the whole time. So today was just par for the course. Walking into work I was greeted by: Here's a bit of a close up for...

To keep this boat modification write-up simple, I'm separating the discussion on the history of my two previous boat decking builds, what I learned and what went into the selection of particular boat and what was behind this total bare hull makeover. It will be posted in a parallel thread to...

I met Dave Morton at 4:45 AM, 2+ hrs. before daybreak, 2 hours since I pissed off the blk dog by leaving him home. After launching his home built duckboat, and loading four bags of hand carved decoys and the rest of my gear on board we headed out onto the open Narragansett Bay. For the last...

Goose opens Tuesday the 1st and we're predicted to be in the middle of a heat wave. Definitely setting up wet wading in a bathing suit, now if I can just remember my pants this year & bug spray. Scott

Came by this morning: Picnic baskets anyone? Scott

Update and BIG THANKS! First off Marsh is still hanging in there on steroids and anti-inflammatories enjoying his canned dog food and now unlimited people table scraps. The better news is that Jetty just joined the family today. He's a black male out of Ken Young's Michigander kennel...

The final goose banding schedule is out. If you'd like a fun & interesting morning driving around, rounding up geese and banding them, I'm sure you're help would be appreciated. Simply drop Kelly an email. I'll be helping out the 24th when they're kind of in my neighborhood. Scott Kelly...

Thought I'd be creative and edit last year's (March 31, 2015) post so the extremely different dates would stand out End of last week I thought I heard a woodcock flying around but didn't get a visual nor did I hear a Veep! Today's walk they were all over the neighborhood with a couple of ducks...

Last evening Meg gave birth to a son. I'm hoping he will spend as much time hunting and fishing with me as his mom did. Meg w/ her first duck 15 years ago. Scott

I've joined the 21st century and retired my old G'zone for a Kyocera Brigadier (ip68 & mil std. 810G). I hope it holds up as well! I am over whelmed with all the apps available for an android based phone. So, my default as always, is to ask you guys, what's good & useful? I have noted the...

I swear this is the truth with little or no embellishment: Sunday morning a bit before 7 AM, 20 min before sunrise, and roughly 29F, I was on the road to go ice fishing for the first time this season. Joining me was Mark, my usual ice fishing partner & Meg’s father-in-Law. We had the road to...

She's a great little deek! I don't know if she had much duck pulling power on salt water in the late Dec snow showers, but she did draw the usual great crew of duck hunters. From L to R we have Wendell's long time buddy, Dave T, Wendell Avery, and Dave Morton. Hidden by the glare of the bag...

I hit the CT River yesterday hoping for either ducks or geese. Water was low and there were a bunch of geese using a nearby section that I can't hunt for a roost. All day the ducks were essentially nonexistent. The morning goose fly out was impressive but none of them were stupid enough to...

After the CWA decoy outing, Meg & I headed down to the coast to try our hand at getting some blue crab. For those of you who have joined since the late 90's Meg is my daughter (Dani's age) who hunted with me a fair amount when she was in high school. Now that she's married and long moved out...

I don't respect the man but I do the office: AirForce 1 flew by the window at noon on his way into Bradley. These were taken from my office. Sorry for the picture quality, my pt & shoot camera doesn't like the tinted windows.