Difficult conditions in Finger Lakes
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Central NY- I was one of the few hopefuls with Craig thinking we could get in the marsh yesterday
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I have a lotto hunt coming up in a few weeks near Georgetown, SC, and am looking forward to it. I am probably going to take my BE Fox and give it a spin. Supposed to get a good hunt near Beaufort too. Will probably take a Parker on that one.
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OH Osthaus wrote:it was a short walk to the limit of the boats progress
as said - disheartening - I had hopes of a formative year for Macallan, my young golden- just not to be
That looks like work!!!!
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This ice locking out duck hunting reminds me of a story back when I was a teenager. I had built a Banaget Bay boat out of cedar. My younger brother and I went to one our favorite duck hunting lakes for a morning hunt. The lake was totaly frozen over with about 5/8" of ice. We wanted to get to a tule patch that was surounded with open water (ice) a few hundred yards away from the landing. We started out with me using a push pole and my brother one of the oars breaking ice. It took some doing, but we made it to the tule patch and put out some decoys. We shot the only 2 ducks we saw. Before we picked up and headed back to the landing my brother said he lost his wallet. Well, we headed back on the broken ice trail we had made going out. On the way, we stopped for a rest. My brother looks down in the water and there is his wallet laying on the bottom! It was a incredable miracle that we found it. What luck! After that trip my boat was so chewed up by the ice that I had to fiberglass the bottom for future trips.
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Jim, good story. I'm assuming that the water wasn't very deep and your brother was able to reach down and get his wallet. I hope he didn't have to dive in to get it.
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The water was less less than a foot deep. That's why it was good for ducks. Jim
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Boy, did you ever get into them. I see you have a big smile. Nice going, Craig. JIm
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Wow! That's a lot of ducks, and a beautiful gun, but where's Lucy?
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Very nice Craig!!!! I just Came across the muck flats. That’s loaded up and looks like the guys were getting some shooting.
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I count eleven .................whydja' quit? Oh, wait........... bet I know. Somebody shot a shoveler and y'all hid him before taking the pic.
Just kidding, Craig. So glad you finally got into some shooting. Well done!
SRH
Just kidding, Craig. So glad you finally got into some shooting. Well done!
SRH
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Stan we had 12 birds down but no dog that day due to ice, lost a bird we thought was feet up. One day we only shot mallards the next mallards and blacks. Lucy made it yesterday as the ice melted but the hunting was slower only 5 ducks. May be Lucy's last duck hunt as it's time next year to hand over duck duties to Nellie my new pup. A couple more pics.
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That's the kind of pictures I love to see, Craig. I have been following your posts about Lucy and to me she dosn't seem that old.
Jim
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Goodbye Mandy, once in a life time hunting dog. I miss you every day.