Pascal Larocque
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Hi everybody, I wrote this note to introduce my self and try give back a little to the site that has given so much information.
My name is Pascal Larocque; I’m in the mid-thirty and the proud father of 2 little girls. Like the most of you, I have been introduced to hunting and fishing by my father and grand father. I have been an avid waterfowler for almost 20 years now. My hunting buddy, Jonathan Gagne has about the same background and situation (one lovely daughter and a sportsman since childhood).
The place that we hunt the most is the st-Lawrence river. It has high tides, rocky shores and salty marches east of Quebec City double with no tides, and fresh water marches west of it. We do have access to a wide variety of habitats.
At first, we had an aluminum duckboat for 2 guys that was in fact a 14 feet oversize version of the Zack taylor Wigeon but with a blind like the TDB. Later on, we hunted mostly fields for some times. Had great success then, but when we started our respective family, we soon realized that field hunting took to much time in scouting from us. We could have team up with others to split the scouting time. But we do not like to be 4 or 5 to shoot at the same birds. We much prefer to take turn shooting and enjoy the show.
About 3 years ago, I bought a Waterfowler magazine with in it an article called: rule the marsh. It was about 2 hunters named Steve Sutton and Hank Garvey and their boats. This article got me interested in those little boats called BBSB.
We decided it was time for us to go back to water hunting. And In order to be really versatile, we had to make the move to bbsb’s.
John decided to build a Devlin Broadbill.
My girlfriend and I were expecting our second child, so I decided to buy one already made. After some searching on the net and e-mail exchange, I drove to Toronto to Meet Bruce Earl the Canadian distributor for the MLB and returned home with a MLB Wigeon. It’s been a long ride but it was worth it
From the start, we knew that we wanted canvas cockpit similar to the one David Clark or Capt. Hank Garvey have made for their boats. Pictures seen on this site helped us in that project.
Some treads have been written here on good hunting partners and their importance. I do have a really good one. While I was busy at home with my newborn daughter, he offered to install the raised deck coaming and bimini hardware on my Widgeon in his summer vacation so we would deliver both our boats on time to the man who did our canvas cockpit.
Oar locks have been added since those pictures.
In term of outing, our season has been less than we had wish for. With the river level at record low and a winter that arrived soon and strong in late November. With that short season, we did not have time to test all the possibility of theses versatile BBSB. But we wanted little boats that could cross open water and double as a marsh boat to hunt distant mash flat; and they did that very well.
Thank you Mr. Eric Patterson for this ‘pay it forward’ site
Thank you duckboat.net community for all the ideas shared here and the good hunting ethics displayed.
Thank you Mr. Mark Ronger and his Canadian representative Mr. Bruce Earl for having taken the time to answer to all my questions and the good service you guys offer. You guys are doing a labor of love and it shows
Regards
My name is Pascal Larocque; I’m in the mid-thirty and the proud father of 2 little girls. Like the most of you, I have been introduced to hunting and fishing by my father and grand father. I have been an avid waterfowler for almost 20 years now. My hunting buddy, Jonathan Gagne has about the same background and situation (one lovely daughter and a sportsman since childhood).
The place that we hunt the most is the st-Lawrence river. It has high tides, rocky shores and salty marches east of Quebec City double with no tides, and fresh water marches west of it. We do have access to a wide variety of habitats.
At first, we had an aluminum duckboat for 2 guys that was in fact a 14 feet oversize version of the Zack taylor Wigeon but with a blind like the TDB. Later on, we hunted mostly fields for some times. Had great success then, but when we started our respective family, we soon realized that field hunting took to much time in scouting from us. We could have team up with others to split the scouting time. But we do not like to be 4 or 5 to shoot at the same birds. We much prefer to take turn shooting and enjoy the show.
About 3 years ago, I bought a Waterfowler magazine with in it an article called: rule the marsh. It was about 2 hunters named Steve Sutton and Hank Garvey and their boats. This article got me interested in those little boats called BBSB.
We decided it was time for us to go back to water hunting. And In order to be really versatile, we had to make the move to bbsb’s.
John decided to build a Devlin Broadbill.
My girlfriend and I were expecting our second child, so I decided to buy one already made. After some searching on the net and e-mail exchange, I drove to Toronto to Meet Bruce Earl the Canadian distributor for the MLB and returned home with a MLB Wigeon. It’s been a long ride but it was worth it
From the start, we knew that we wanted canvas cockpit similar to the one David Clark or Capt. Hank Garvey have made for their boats. Pictures seen on this site helped us in that project.
Some treads have been written here on good hunting partners and their importance. I do have a really good one. While I was busy at home with my newborn daughter, he offered to install the raised deck coaming and bimini hardware on my Widgeon in his summer vacation so we would deliver both our boats on time to the man who did our canvas cockpit.
Oar locks have been added since those pictures.
In term of outing, our season has been less than we had wish for. With the river level at record low and a winter that arrived soon and strong in late November. With that short season, we did not have time to test all the possibility of theses versatile BBSB. But we wanted little boats that could cross open water and double as a marsh boat to hunt distant mash flat; and they did that very well.
Thank you Mr. Eric Patterson for this ‘pay it forward’ site
Thank you duckboat.net community for all the ideas shared here and the good hunting ethics displayed.
Thank you Mr. Mark Ronger and his Canadian representative Mr. Bruce Earl for having taken the time to answer to all my questions and the good service you guys offer. You guys are doing a labor of love and it shows
Regards
