Anyone take advantage of the new layout hunting? I think I'm going to add it for next year, not crazy about eating divers, not sure why..but I like killing birds.

So has anyone done it?

I'm thinking I'm going to set a couple of tip ups out tomorrow and try for some northern. Don't worry not going to walk on the ice, but the docks at the marina. Then ducks the rest of the week.

I have a conduit from with some plastic netting and fast grass attached. I can have grass attached in about 30 minutes. I covered the plastic netting with grass matts, but always have to pull a bunch of local vegetation to finish it off once in place. I seldom use it because my boat is so narrow the...

Here's my blind from last year..

39" northern caught on the Mississippi

Here's my lab. His first retrieve last year at the age of 5-1/2 months.

So what's everyone use. I have a black lab that started hunting with me last year at the age of 5 months. He has a pretty good year last year and this year I really couldn't have asked for anything more. His biggest problem is shallow water retrieves on teal. He can fit the bird inside hid mouth and...

I would just like some casual conversation about everything duck hunting without the bantering.

Is the word out there that there's another MN waterfowl site? Figured there would be more of a mass exodus from TOS. Or is it better to let this site grow slowly?

Tuff, Tuff day. Ended with a drake red head, goldeneye and a big bull can. Although the can dove once and I never saw him again. Pretty much empty skies. Saw very few mallards.