Introducing the "Duck-N-Cover"

Brandon Bolling

Brandon Bolling

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Drum roll please.....................Well here it is! Finally finished and ready to hit the water. One of my best friends(guy on the right, the LEFT one is me) flew in from Idaho for the week for a family wedding and spent the last night at my house and we worked on getting the boat all grassed in. After the putting on the layer of fast grass I had painted some Rafia grass up and zip-tied it into clumps. After several ideas we came up with a way to make it look like actual grass growing out of the boat. Both the sides are on an aluminum frame held together by a velcro strap/bungee that when released opens up nicely. This came out beyond my expectations and I feel it looks incredible. I was looking for some input from other eyes to see if they agree or if I did something wrong. This is the first time I have put a complete blind together so don't be shy. And at 3:00 in the morning the name came to us and it just stuck. Enjoy.

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looks great they wont see that for sure. you need to take some chicken wire and make a lil doggie hut on the bow for the lil guy.
 
and instead you post pictures of a trailer full of palm fronds blown off of trees in a hurricane....whats up with that?

Had to laugh when I saw them because it reminded me of an "encounter" at a ramp a few years back....I have a double trailer and was hunting out of a grassed up Barnegat while using an equally grassed FatBoy DP as a decoy sled.....on the trailerr it looked like 8' x 13' of grass clippings......so I'm at a little ramp that is just across the street from a row of very nice homes overlooking the Bay and as I'm backing down the ramp I see two people standing in their living room looking out the window at me.......maybe 150 feet away....I back down the ramp, push the two boats off the trailer, drop an anchor and get back in the truck to go park......this is a LITTLE ramp and you can't park without pulling out and down the street to turn around and head into the parking....as I'm pulling out of the ramp I see the door in the house across the street fly open and the "man of the house" bolt across the yard, bathrobe flapping, running towards me...

It's raining, my windows are up, and I'm hard of hearing so I can't hear a word he's saying but I'm thinking, "OH GOD I ran over his dog".....He runs up to the front of the truck, slams his open hands onto the hood and says "don't move you Son Of A Bitch---you can't get away with that shit around here"....he's actually pushing against the hood like he could stop me if I wanted to leave....

I turned the car off and stepped out of the car and asked him "What the heck is your problem"?.....

He SCREAMED, "you stay right where you are, the police are on their way"...."why did you call the police"?, "what did I do"?.......

He straightens up, points at the boats floating at the base of the ramps and shouts, "if you think you can dump your trash in this Bay you got another thought coming bud"......When I busted out laughing he started to lose what little control he was maintaining and it really looked like he was going to explode......I said, "thats not trash, they're boats"......he gives me this "yeah, right" look and then walks over to the base of the ramp...I walked out into the water, spun the BBSB around so he could see INTO the cockpit then did the same for the decoy filled DP and said, "see"........

His reaction was really funny....it was like he deflated, muttered "oh shit", turned and yelled to his wife, who was on the porch, and yelled....."call the police and tell them "nevermind"......( in my mind these severral years later his voice when was high pitced and quavering just like Gilda Radners voice used to when she'd say "NEVERRRRrrrrrMinnnnnnnddd".....

I see him several times a year and if he's in the yard I always call across the road and say...."hey Bobby!!!! O.K. if I dump some trash in the Bay"?......he always laughs and yells back, "go ahead".....

So watch out launching your very own, very nicely crafted, compost pile lest someone calls the police on you...........

Steve
 
Good story Steve. I was thinking the same thing. A pile of refuse on top of a trailer. It will sure work for ducks. I can hear the neighbors say" when you going to haul that away". My laugh for the morning and now back to piling fire wood.
 
I stopped at a Krispy Kreme on the way to one of my favorite saltwater holes. Steve knows where it is. The kid dumping the trash and doing a little dope while he was at it offered to let me in the store rather than having to navigate my lawn mower trailer into the drive-up lane. I told the kid twice it was a duck boat and that I was on my way to duck hunt, but he was intent on telling me all about his former career in yard maintenance.

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I had that happen. Had the fat boy grassed up sitting in front of the house for about four weeks when one on my neighbors asked me when I was taking the compost to the trash. I always wonder what people think as I drive down the street.

Tight Lines ... Fred
 
can't remember the year but it was Maine, on one of the earlier EIDERFEST's that Bill Wasson did.....Mike Livingston from Nebraska was on the trip as was John Tonelii from New Jersey.....as anyone knows that has been on these December trips there is very little to do in Rockland after the hunt, very few bars to do it in, AND since its cold and it gets dark early you have a tendancy to get started pretty darned early "not doing anything".......

The "group" had already been to a couple of the bars and was relocating to the one where they would eat dinner and then continue "doing nothing" until time to hit the rack....cold that trip....really cold....Tonelli and Livingston are walking up to the door of the bar which like many establishments in COLD COUNTRY has a door, then a little room, then another door that opens into the "do nothing" area.....its a heat and mud management thing I'm told.....so anyway, and for reasons never truly known, one of the VERY RARE examples of "finer talent" in Rockland is in the little room and opens the door for Tonelli and Livingston.....

Now PAY ATTENTION......she's not dressed for the cold so she's likely not planning on leaving the Bar, she's wearing a very light scoop necked top and NOTHING under that....she's VERY talented....it's VERY cold.....and her "talent" recognizes that and is at "full cold alert"....

She opens the door and Livingston and Tonelli are stopped DEAD IN THEIR TRACKS, (STUPEFIED I beleive its called), and they aren't looking her in the eyes......Livingston, who is PLOWED, takes off his coat, looks at John and says...."look John, COAT HOOKS", and proceeds to install his coat on the devices provided.....oh, and for the record, the coat never touched the floor.......

A CLASSIC Duck Boat Hunt Page story FOR SURE....

Steve
 
Wow, he's lucky he didn't walk away, or crawl for that matter, talking a few octaves higher. Oh, and this story would be much better with PICS!
 
can't remember the year but it was Maine, on one of the earlier EIDERFEST's that Bill Wasson did.....Mike Livingston from Nebraska was on the trip as was John Tonelii from New Jersey.....as anyone knows that has been on these December trips there is very little to do in Rockland after the hunt, very few bars to do it in, AND since its cold and it gets dark early you have a tendancy to get started pretty darned early "not doing anything".......

The "group" had already been to a couple of the bars and was relocating to the one where they would eat dinner and then continue "doing nothing" until time to hit the rack....cold that trip....really cold....Tonelli and Livingston are walking up to the door of the bar which like many establishments in COLD COUNTRY has a door, then a little room, then another door that opens into the "do nothing" area.....its a heat and mud management thing I'm told.....so anyway, and for reasons never truly known, one of the VERY RARE examples of "finer talent" in Rockland is in the little room and opens the door for Tonelli and Livingston.....

Now PAY ATTENTION......she's not dressed for the cold so she's likely not planning on leaving the Bar, she's wearing a very light scoop necked top and NOTHING under that....she's VERY talented....it's VERY cold.....and her "talent" recognizes that and is at "full cold alert"....

She opens the door and Livingston and Tonelli are stopped DEAD IN THEIR TRACKS, (STUPEFIED I beleive its called), and they aren't looking her in the eyes......Livingston, who is PLOWED, takes off his coat, looks at John and says...."look John, COAT HOOKS", and proceeds to install his coat on the devices provided.....oh, and for the record, the coat never touched the floor.......

A CLASSIC Duck Boat Hunt Page story FOR SURE....

Steve
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Well told!!! Well told!! LOL !!!!



Most of you folks have see my rig. A buddy and I were out just the other day working Cooper on the lake. We trailer the boat and pull up off the ramp to strap everything down. Two fisherman, who I believe were "doing nothing" ask "what the hell is THAT" as I'm opening the truck door. I look around, and reply "a boat" shut the truck door and drive off..........I guess you had to be there......LOL
 
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Bravo Steve.I like it.
SOMETIMES PEOPLE PUT REMOVABLE SHEDS ON THE FRONT DOORS THAT ARE TAKEN DOWN IN THE SUMMER.USUALLY JULY, IN THE HARSH MAINE WINTERS.IT JUST KEEPS THE HEAT FROM EXCAPING,CAN BE A SNOW BOOT AREA.cLOSE THE OUTSIDE DOOR BEFORE OPENING THE INSIDE DOOR.sERVES NO PURPOSE WITH A LINE OF DRUNKS STAGGERING IN.EYAH
 
Great looking rig. The ducks will never know what hit them.

We towed my boat up to Maryland with the grass on one time. The toll lady at the Chesapeake bridge-tunnel asked me what it was. We told her we were anthropologists on the way to do some research.
 
Brandon thanks for shareing your pic of your boat blind, So you said the side frames are held up by velcro and bungees, could you post a pic how you did this or send me a note as I would be interested , very nice job on the blind tell me how it hunts ? John
 
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