I must be getting old; there was a time when I couldn't be found anywhere's near my house on a Friday night. Tonight I find myself bouncing back and forth from checking my e-mail and sketching the outlines on my first ever Old Squaw decoy that I'm painting from the ref on this site. So what's your normal Friday night consist of?
Talk about a wild Friday night.
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I was skinning an oldsquaw last night. Three-plus years in the freezer and it was still nice to work with. That's one nice thing about divers.
870, you'll have to post pictures of that decoy when you're done.
870, you'll have to post pictures of that decoy when you're done.
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I carve and paint decoys pretty much every night. and hey Randy, are you a wanna be New Yorker, or a former New Yorker? you spend a ton of time in the NY forum. Or are we just much cooler up here than those salty old guys on the Chesepeake?
You guys talk more. Topics are more interesting, setting bag limits for example. You know how they say no matter where you live you will always curse and count in your native language. W.NY is close enough to W.PA. Besides I'm the only MD guy not out fishing already.
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Friday night..lets see :huh: ..well 1st I eat at 5pm, then I sit down & nap...get up 5 minutes later & look at ship on the river.....fall asleep again......wake up crave some dekes & drink some BOOST....OH wait a minute thats Captainduckheads life.....SORRY :rofl: 
I Think he's cool
I Think he's cool
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I love the little helmsman at the bottom of your reply.
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**** alert!!!!!!!!
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WHERE? Where is he? we could possibly catch him if we shut down all the main roads going to Long Island :rofl:
I plan on posting them when I finish up, so far my Buffs Whistlers, Cans and Ringbills are all I have done. I need to finish up on my Broadies, Blacks and Old Squaws.Whistlerwhittler said:
It took me over an hour just to sketch out what paint go's where on a drake Old Squaw. I'm too fussy, a good buddy of mine who is a pro carver says I put too much detail in working decoys, my freezer says other wise :rofl:
Hey Cap D tell us about crossing the river after dark through pack ice
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Really, you want to hear that one? I wake up in sweats sometimes in the middle of the night from that. And it's a very long story.
I could summarize it by saying when I was 19 and invincible, I sunk a boat in the middle of the night in the middle of a flow of jam ice with 3 friends who were very inexperienced with boats and water. We huddled on a big ice cake and rode it down river for roughly 3 1/2 hours until we drifted close enough to an Island to jump in and swim ashore. By sheer divine intervention we managed to all survive with nothing more than a few minor cuts from ice, and a serious case of being cold as hell. There were many contributing factors that led up to the accident but the biggest of them was my poor judgement. There is no reason for any of us to be alive to tell that story but here I am. It's something that I did as a cocky kid, and I remember it every time I untie a boat from a dock. I wish it had never happened but at the same time I think it made me a better person, both in and out of the world of boats.
I could summarize it by saying when I was 19 and invincible, I sunk a boat in the middle of the night in the middle of a flow of jam ice with 3 friends who were very inexperienced with boats and water. We huddled on a big ice cake and rode it down river for roughly 3 1/2 hours until we drifted close enough to an Island to jump in and swim ashore. By sheer divine intervention we managed to all survive with nothing more than a few minor cuts from ice, and a serious case of being cold as hell. There were many contributing factors that led up to the accident but the biggest of them was my poor judgement. There is no reason for any of us to be alive to tell that story but here I am. It's something that I did as a cocky kid, and I remember it every time I untie a boat from a dock. I wish it had never happened but at the same time I think it made me a better person, both in and out of the world of boats.
Wow, you haven't lived until you ride an ice flow. Mine wasn't because I tried to cross the river during pack ice, though I have more than I want to think about. My ride started in French Creek Bay screwing around with a friend jumping from iceberg to iceberg. Before long there I go heading down river (keep in mind I was a snot nose stupid kid) a lot younger than you were at the time. You know the village looked a lot different when I was drifting by and you think your going to die at anytime. How I didn't panic is beyond me, hearing the ice smashing into each other is unnerving, it kind of sounds like glass breaking. The wind and there wasn't much if I remember correctly moved me close to the docks and I saw my chance and I stared jumping from iceberg to iceberg as we called them and before long I was up on the dock. Keep in mind I started in the Bay and I ended up on the coal docks witch is maybe a ¼ mile away. What's weird is, not that I was so stupid to try that, but how I manage to drift by the whole village without anyone noticing me. :huh:
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As I mentioned there is quite a lot to the story, and if you read the "Official Report" it has a few points of interest that were not entirely accurate. Quite honestly, the entire story needs to be heard from beginning to end in order to get an accurate idea of what happened, but it's a hard story to tell. The entire incident is extremely shameful to me, and there are still people around who don't know me too well, that still bring it up as if I'm still 19 years old, and haven't learned or matured past that point.
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:rofl: :rofl:captainduckhead said:
You know you live in upstate NY if you have rode an iceflow for over 1/4 a mile. Speaking of ice, i was perch fishing the other morning, and the ice was cracking bad, i was behind round island over towards hogsback and then i flipped up my shanty and seen this
I would be lying if i told you what i had for breakfast was still in me.
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That'll bring you out of a daydream in a hurry won't it? Did you catch any perch? or did you leave for the day?
Hey Cap D sorry,,, I didn't know. Personally I wouldn't be embarrassed of what happened, crap happens and if people have a problem with it or you tell them to pound salt. If you live on the river, I mean really live on the river your going to cross it during pack ice; we just do from time to time for whatever reason people do it. So you had a close call, be thankful you boys can tell about it, but it's nothing to be embarrassed about. See ya at the boat show.
I'm greatful for two things from my younger years on the river;
1 I am still here to occasionally share an experience
2 My 16 ft run about can't talk, because my father would have killed me long ago.
I'm not on Porch and Paddles preferred customer list, but they have a sign that reads "In it, on it, beside it, and with it" If you've lived around the river long enough that sign has to make you smerk, and shake your head just a little.
1 I am still here to occasionally share an experience
2 My 16 ft run about can't talk, because my father would have killed me long ago.
I'm not on Porch and Paddles preferred customer list, but they have a sign that reads "In it, on it, beside it, and with it" If you've lived around the river long enough that sign has to make you smerk, and shake your head just a little.
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