My favorite duck swamp...

Coulter · October 28, 2008, 08:08:44 PM

Here ya go Jim and Vic...

Looking at my main decoy area (after they were removed

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An auxiliary decoy / landing area to the right of the other pic...

My little blind / hideout

My trip back in to check some traps...

The beaver damn that makes this little gem possible...well the top of the beaver damn anyway...

The best part is that this area is only accessible by canoe...and we all know how lazy some hunters can be. I have had this place to myself two weekends in a row

Enjoy,
Steve

FinsnFur · October 28, 2008, 09:31:33 PM

Dear Steve,
I hate you

Mannnnnnnnnnn!, that looks so sweet

Silencer · October 29, 2008, 05:05:38 AM

That is beautiful !!!!! I'm jealous as well, lol. Thats like a childhood dream of mine, hunt and run a trap line out of a canoe like that.

Thanks for sharing Steve

Coulter · October 29, 2008, 05:28:52 AM

QuoteDear Steve,
I hate you

That's been a goal and a dream of mine as well. I am making it happen this year for sure. I found this place last year but I haven't really had a chance to thoroughly explore it until now. It is looking pretty good for rats, beaver and mink. I might even take my muzzleloader for a boat ride after Christmas if it hasn't froze up yet.
I can't wait to hit this place for muskrats...now, that is going going to be some fun.

Steve

vvarmitr · October 29, 2008, 08:46:50 AM

How cool is that ... your own honey hole.
Thanks for sharing.

cb223 · October 29, 2008, 07:55:39 PM

Isn't that every hunters dream?? Their very own secret honey hole!!!!

Yup, I'm jealous too.

nastygunz · November 07, 2008, 08:33:16 PM

I have a few little honey holes that I have all to myself for ducks...heres a couple mallards on the last day of the early season...lucky for them I was muzzle loading

nastygunz · November 07, 2008, 08:39:06 PM

This is above where the mallards were sitting...primo set back from the river surrounded by corn field and oaks...I have a brush blind built at the base of a big old oak tree....toss a few dekes....sit back n wait ...as the pic shows I also shooteth thee croweth there

nastygunz · November 07, 2008, 08:40:30 PM

nastygunz · November 07, 2008, 08:44:03 PM

nastygunz · November 07, 2008, 08:50:34 PM

Coulter can you muskrat hunt where you live?....I can in NH and VT....thats some fun stuff!

FinsnFur · November 07, 2008, 09:20:34 PM

Ewwwww doggy...we get caught with that and we slapped with a big ole fine. No shootin water vermin.

nastygunz · November 08, 2008, 05:29:19 AM

Slap that rat between 2 biscuits.........thats some good vittlin! ....

....Jimbo, I had some flatlander jump all over me on a forum once about shooting muskrats....said it was illegal, blah blah....well it is legal in NH/VT and theres even a Spring season....its a lot of fun kind of like jump shooting ducks but they cant fly

....by crikey I think im goin ratting with the Super Comanche today!

Silencer · November 09, 2008, 05:15:22 AM

Quoteflatlander

lmao, thats what we call em around here as well

that a woody drake not in plume yet ?

Coulter · November 09, 2008, 06:42:39 AM

Cool pics Nasty...that looks like a great set up you have there. I plan to take a crow deke and call with me to my place too. There are tons of crows flying in the area. Sounds like a good way to pass the time while waiting for some ducks to swing around.

No muskrat hunting in PA either...trapping only here. No spring season - it runs from just before Thanksgiving until the first or second week in January. We still catch a few after the season closes in beaver sets though. We try to make the sets so they will avoid catching rats, but its not always possible.

BTW...what kind of kayak ya got there or is that a poke boat?

Steve