congratulations on the new dog Tom. Glad things are looking up. Venison in the freezer thats good. Our rifle season starts on Sat. Carol is pumped she has seen a buck the last two days. The first one a hundred yards from the house. The second one about two hundred. Her stand is right in between where she saw the bucks. I haven't quite gotten in to the spirit yet. I'm still duck hunting. My partner Mark got a goose today,just before we started to pick up. One more go around on that tomorrow. Mark is going to burn a vacation day.
A big flock of Blue Bills can though today. Haven't seen any for a while. We had mostly Mallards set out because thats what we had been seeing. Would you know it no Mallards and the dreaded South wind.
Many years we have had to break ice to get to the blind at this time of the year.
I am going to set out some long lines tomorrow. Your idea of pbc pipe with plywood and a carriage bolt in the oar lock is just what I was looking for. I have some eight inch lying around and lots of scrape plywood. Right now I am using a electric cord spool for one line and the bottom of the boat for the other. The bottom of the boat works better than the spool but that limits you to one line.
I guess I need a bigger boat. I ended up with two Nineteen footers, one I am going to convert in to a duck boat. Take the motor from the other one and have a real duck killing machine. Especially for the late part of the year when the wind kicks up and the water gets cold. The motor is a fifty horse evinrude I have been working on it. No spark so far, did continuity checks ,cleaned the points and regaped them. The coil does not seem to be putting out enough.I have not had time to do any more. I will get it going. I like free boats and motors. Any money I spend on them I am still thousands of dollars ahead. Plus half of this duck hunting is getting things ready.
