re: Have the good ole days of duck hunting become a thing of the past.

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Yep, it’s the storms and mud boats that screwed up your hunting.

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If you don’t think this is part of the problem

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If you don’t think this is part of the problem

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We hunted prime fresh water “floating or floton “ marsh. At first the trapper had a small motorized boat to run his traps with. He had maybe 15 miles of “trenasse “ that was cleaned with a traditional “ trenasse” machine each year.

The trenasse had a dam usually made out of 4x8 plywood. The trenasse were small and shallow and bypassed all of the ponds. Our ponds never saw a motorized boat. The ponds were undisturbed and full of bass in the deeper holes.

You would paddle down the trenasse jump a piece of marsh and then paddle into a pristine pond.

When a new trapper came n he had a big mud boat. Tore out the dams, depeened the ditches and ran into the ponds. He destroyed 4,000 acres of marsh for duck hunting. They wanted to haul arse to their deer stands.

When the storms came it shifted the marsh, filled the ponds and the duck hunting was over.

Yes I have killed thousands of ducks and I don’t feel guilty. We ate every one of them. The whole duck. Ate the legs. Gnawed the wings and sucked the meat of of the back bones.