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I had to miss the opener on Saturday to help the school/church my wife teaches at and my family attends.
Sunday morning I was like a kid on Christmas up at 4:00 ready to go, things went downhill from there. I rolled my son out of bed and went to warm up the truck and hook the boat on for the trip to Farmington Bay. Dead battery in the truck, Got er done with the jumper cables and got on our way. Got to FB and launched the boat and was really excited to get set up and have the first birds of the day cupped and headed into the deke's. Motor issues
on the boat put us back to getting under way till about 30 minutes till shooting light.
By this time I am spun up pretty well and of course I will be heading into area's that have hunters and their gear set up waiting for the birds to pour in. I get about 400 yards from where I first wanted to set up and of course somebody is already there. No big deal it's a big marsh I'll go somewhere else. I start heading to the east and about 100 yards off shore a guy is standing in the water yelling at me to get out of here that they are full and there is no room. This is the cleaned up version!!
Now to the bit of advice I would like to offer this gentleman and those that would behave like him.
You do not know me, I like to think of myself as a pretty nice easy going guy but at that moment with all of the troubles that had gone on by 6:30am I was at the point where
I could have honestly gone either way with going ashore and beating some sense into this fool or setting a good example for my son of what kind of a hunter to become and how not to act.
Please if you see someone that is obviously having mechanical troubles at least be patient
at best offer a hand.
To the guy on the south end of unit one sunday morning yelling at passing boats just remember you don't know the people you are yelling at and a closed mouth will never gather a foot or fist.
Sunday morning I was like a kid on Christmas up at 4:00 ready to go, things went downhill from there. I rolled my son out of bed and went to warm up the truck and hook the boat on for the trip to Farmington Bay. Dead battery in the truck, Got er done with the jumper cables and got on our way. Got to FB and launched the boat and was really excited to get set up and have the first birds of the day cupped and headed into the deke's. Motor issues
on the boat put us back to getting under way till about 30 minutes till shooting light.
By this time I am spun up pretty well and of course I will be heading into area's that have hunters and their gear set up waiting for the birds to pour in. I get about 400 yards from where I first wanted to set up and of course somebody is already there. No big deal it's a big marsh I'll go somewhere else. I start heading to the east and about 100 yards off shore a guy is standing in the water yelling at me to get out of here that they are full and there is no room. This is the cleaned up version!!
Now to the bit of advice I would like to offer this gentleman and those that would behave like him.
You do not know me, I like to think of myself as a pretty nice easy going guy but at that moment with all of the troubles that had gone on by 6:30am I was at the point where
I could have honestly gone either way with going ashore and beating some sense into this fool or setting a good example for my son of what kind of a hunter to become and how not to act.
Please if you see someone that is obviously having mechanical troubles at least be patient
at best offer a hand.
To the guy on the south end of unit one sunday morning yelling at passing boats just remember you don't know the people you are yelling at and a closed mouth will never gather a foot or fist.