worst duck hunt

[duckdreamer]

I really have had some BAD hunts, but one of the worst was a few years ago on lake lewisville in Texas. A friend and myself were hunting a flooded field. He has just bought a new Eska 14 hp outboard. It all started out bad from the start. I met Roger at his house and as usual he was still in bed. He jumped up and dressed and we threw his 14' jon boat with the motor in the bed of his truck. The motor was laying in the bottom of the boat along with dekes and the rest of the stuff. On the way out he missed a turn and slammed on brakes and burned rubber in reverse to make the turn. We hadnt tied the boat in and when he slammed on brakes to stop, it shot out across the road and slammed up against a barbeque place and sounded like a shot. We jumped out and threw it back in and took off. After we checked the boat the prop had nearly ground through the boat on its 10 yard slide on asphalt. We finally got to the launch spot and had to put the boat over a flooded barbed wire fence and run about 1 1/2 miles to the field. We did well and on the way home the impeller on the motor sucked up a lot of seeds and it started running hot. Really hot. I started to paddle and Roger was working on the motor. Every so often it would start and run about 2 or 3 min. After a while he took the cowl off and poured water around the motor to cool it. It ran ok till he poured the carburator full of water. We still had about 3/4 of a mile to go, so I started paddling again. Now Roger was big ol' boy and wore about a size 50 or 52 coat. He got hot trying to get the motor started and unzipped his coat and opened it to cool off. The wind was blowing about 15 mph and it caught his coat and he acted like a sail to sail us to the truck. Of course we had left something on and the battery was dead on a sunday afternoon on a remote road with the Cowboys playing, but that is a story for another time.

[NuffDaddy]

Sounds like duck hunting. Last hunt of the year for me was last Friday. Ran about 2 miles along the bay and got all setup. After about an hour the wind switched a little and started blowing a lot of ice in. By the time we decided to call it the decoys we just a ball of ice with a mallard head sticking out the top. When I went and got the boat from down the shore I realized I forgot to drop the lower unit back into the water, so the prop froze solid with about 2" of ice around it. Busted off as much as I could and started it up. Took about 10 min, but the exhaust finally melted it off. We then had to break 1" of ice for 2 miles back to the launch. The whole boat and all out stuff including my waders had about 1" of ice on it.
All that for a merg and a greenhead.

[RonE]

Sounds like a couple of pretty good hunts to me.......You kilt something didn't you?

[NuffDaddy]

Sounds like a couple of pretty good hunts to me.......You kilt something didn't you?

Yup. And won't forget it for a long time. If its not a PITA every once in a while, then your not duck hunting.

[Duck20]

Hey, that is a pretty rough day! hopefully you got some birds anyway. A man will do a lot for a duck!