Howdy Folks! Smokey checking in from Vermont Opening Goose Day. We've been hunting Canada Geese about 4 miles from the Canadian border in Vermont's NorthEast Kingdom.
In the past, we've used our 20' SeaArk with a blind covered with brown grass to take it into the swamps to hunt ducks. This year, since we purchased layout boats for the swamps, the big boat is on big lake duty. In order to make it work we decided to use ceder and fake rocks, so that if needed for diving ducks, we can just anchor the boat totally in the middle of the water. We ended up with the best boat blind in the state:
It only took 12 hours of finding, and [poaching] ceder from around the area, transporting it, then attaching it to the blind with the rocks. I think it turned out quite well, for any lakeshore with greens, and an island itself. Most birds don't see anything like it.
And this is what it's all about, part of our 3 dozen fleet of full body Goose Dekes:
And:
And results you ask? Needless to say it was a slow day [due to ridiculous 85 degree temps, and other hunters invading our spots, but we didn't get skunked].
Here's my hunting buddy, hard at work. Btw, I met him playing counter-strike about a 8 years ago:
Happy Hunting!
P.S It was a great birdwatching day, regardless of how much we got to shoot our guns. We saw: Bald Eagles, a Redtail Hawk, a Goshawk, Mallards, Wood Ducks, Herons, Kingfishers, a Loon, some Eastern Griebs, Bluebills, and of course, Canada Geese.