re: One of my top 5 worst duck hunts

I had to jump in. Last week of season,around 2001, me and two brothers, our impoundment was frozen, boat was breaking ice on the way in, white capping on the way out. Once we realized there were no ducks, we fired up the coleman cooker. Somehow during the bacon frying, the blind caught on fire. We all three jumped from the blind to the boat, took a mojo pole, grabbed the cooker and threw it in the water. We got back in the blind, still no ducks. Around 11:00 we had enough, we loaded up boat and was headed to the camp, about half way there my Labrador jumped on the bow, where my brother was, at the same time a wave white capped over the bow. It took less than 10 seconds and the boat, motor, guns, shells, everything was on the bottom of the lake. We all had chest waders on and were 150 yards from the levee, swimming in water barely above freezing.
While trying to make it to the levee, my lab kept trying to swim up on my brothers back, he nearly drowned (we all did). We went back the next day with a magnet, got all of our guns, and the motor. We drained the carb. etc. still runs good.