What I'll do for a Duck

First off, Jen told me I should start adding a few posts on here so we can get more people interested in our site. I still don't know what that says about me.
So here I go, I'm going to try to be interesting.
Well anyone who knows me knows I love to duck hunt. I enjoy scouting and trying to figure out where the best blind spots are for the upcoming season. Over the years I have found some pretty good "holes"... One of them I call Heart Attack Pond. Why you may ask?... It's about a 1000 yard canoe paddle followed by 900 foot canoe drag. When I say drag I mean through some Cambodian saw grass hell. I figured someone will have a heart attack someday on the way out there.

So today I took 4 heavy oak pallets and decided to make some better blinds back in Heart Attack. The first blind was easy, it was constructed at the end of the dike. The pallets give you a safe and sturdy structure to sit and shoot from. It saves you from the embarrassment of standing up to shoot in waders and realizing your feet are stuck in awkward positions.

After the first blind was complete I set out to drag the two remaining pallets out there using my canoe as a sled. The temperature was still in the mid 70's so it did not take long to start sweating bullets. The water was up with the recent rain and that helped the paddle but the drag was rough. I think my groin is still out there being pecked apart by a group of cream shitters. I got about halfway and realized I had stopped sweating and was starting to feel cold. That is never a good sign. I decided I could go no further so I dumped the pallets and turned around. I remember looking at my phone to see if I could call for the flight for life chopper from Marshfield if I had to. It even got to the point where I tossed by lunch out there. MMMM Jen's Spaghetti. I knew I had water back in the truck and the paddle back would be the easy part.

Well as you can guess I made it home safely, looking back it was not the brightest thing I have done in awhile. Then again I still have to get the pallets the rest of the way.

Hope you found this interesting.

~Dutt