Deltaman wrote:Good looking hound Darren, and glad to heart that his training is going well I've owned a couple of Goldens over the years, and other than fighting the longer hair issue, love the breed!
Amen to that.Rick wrote:Wish I thought the future of our waterfowling looked as good as Harry.
Darren wrote:Looking like the most promise is in the prospects for pursuing divers. Break out the layout boats!
Aside from that, all you can do is hope for favorable weather patterns this summer and fall, and be ready for whatever does show up come opening day.
Darren wrote:One factor I think I can point to being effective is the big wad of coots we've been using...
Rick wrote:Darren wrote:One factor I think I can point to being effective is the big wad of coots we've been using...
Shhh...
Darren wrote:Kinda wish GHG would come out with a standard or life-size coot with a fixed keel.
Rick wrote:Darren wrote:Kinda wish GHG would come out with a standard or life-size coot with a fixed keel.
Added some of the better made Tanglefrees - not their old super thin ones - to my GHG, G&H and Flambeau mix last year, but plain black, standard sized "Hotbuy" type coots have long been my unfulfilled wish. Since my coot raft is in the line of fire, they get hammered by anxious guns, and the inexpensive Flambeaus are too thin to hold up to my favored soldering iron "welding" repair, those Game Winners have caught my attention. But not having seen them in the flesh, I've feared they'd be as thin as the Flambeaus and wonder if you could offer comparison?
Just stepped out and counted the casualties still awaiting repair from this past second split, and there are an even 20. Don't recall if I fixed any during that split but do know I'd repaired the first split's and started that one with a clean slate.
Rick wrote:Oh, well. Finishing birds show enough propensity for landing with the coot raft that expanding it much could work against us, either by encroaching on our open "lanes" in front of the blind or encouraging birds to put in too far west, instead of squared up in front, where everyone has a sweet shot. That, and the Game Winner profile seems so much the same as the Flambeaus I already have that they'd add nothing to whatever illusion of life can be offered by posture variety. Probably best I just keep breaking out the 5200 and recycling the Flambeaus with it.
aunt betty wrote:You have to buy coot decoys? Really? @
Rick wrote:And speaking of busted coots...this thread set me to thinking about my thin plastic Flambeaus which put me in mind of an Indaswamp pellet hole repair suggestion I just got off my butt and tried: sticking a wedge of plastic cut from an oil jug in the hole, lighting its end and letting it melt down into the hole. Seems to have made a nice bond.
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