Hunting in Da Storm with Storm!
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Brandon Yuchasz
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Storm defiantly was still having fun. He was watching the birds fly down the river. As for me I was more comfortable with my back to the wind then looking into it for the picture.
Brandon Yuchasz
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Paul thats a [font=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][font=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]Hoefgen skiff. Its been modified a little the combing is not as tall and the oar locks were added.
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The differences between your experience and Brandon's are: You didn't have a 24/7 weather forecast of what was headed your way. You didn't drive to your hunting spot on paved roads with a 4X4 truck. You didn't have a cellphone equipped with an internal GPS to provide First Responders a sub-meter accurate fix on your location should you get into trouble. And, you didn't have a camera to record your travails...!
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Phil Nowack
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INDEED!!!! While not old.. they will be 8 in February.
Brandon Yuchasz
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Its funny that came up. When I was sitting out there I was thinking the same thing. I knew what the storm was going to bring that is why I went. The original storm caught them completely by surprise. Started out nice and sunny a little to warm and then the bottom fell out. We are lucky to live when we do with the technology we have to make our lives easier but for some reason it still makes me a little sad.
Sad series of events, largely because of the lives lost and the massive numbers of decoys burned that day in an effort to minimize loss of life!
I got caught in a blow on the St. Marys in 1993. We were hunting downriver from Munuscong Bay out of a deep-V 16' aluminum boat with my canoe lashed on deck to jumpshoot. We ended-up excavating a pocket under the canoe on a sand bench on the protected side of a small island. Our overnight kit consisted of a couple of powerbars, a diet coke and a two man limit of ducks along with a hungry retriever. A three dog night, with one dog...too windy to keep a fire going even if we had access to dry wood.
Because the system is so shallow waves kick up fast on a good sustained blow. Combine this with seiche and life can get ugly in a hurry. More than once we have "hidden" on the lee side of an ore freighter to get through constricted windblown channels-not an option on the day of our "camping trip", as my former hunting partner referred to the events in summary.
Over the following three days it was routine to find someone's decoy scattered throughout the shoreline. When we checked-in with the Sheriff's Marine Patrol for Chippewa County they had five boats unaccounted for. From what I recall, two boats sank and were lost, but no loss of life resulted.
I got caught in a blow on the St. Marys in 1993. We were hunting downriver from Munuscong Bay out of a deep-V 16' aluminum boat with my canoe lashed on deck to jumpshoot. We ended-up excavating a pocket under the canoe on a sand bench on the protected side of a small island. Our overnight kit consisted of a couple of powerbars, a diet coke and a two man limit of ducks along with a hungry retriever. A three dog night, with one dog...too windy to keep a fire going even if we had access to dry wood.
Because the system is so shallow waves kick up fast on a good sustained blow. Combine this with seiche and life can get ugly in a hurry. More than once we have "hidden" on the lee side of an ore freighter to get through constricted windblown channels-not an option on the day of our "camping trip", as my former hunting partner referred to the events in summary.
Over the following three days it was routine to find someone's decoy scattered throughout the shoreline. When we checked-in with the Sheriff's Marine Patrol for Chippewa County they had five boats unaccounted for. From what I recall, two boats sank and were lost, but no loss of life resulted.