Divers In Michigan!
 

Well the Divers finally showed up....bk7799, Goose Spanker, and myself braved the 30 MPH Northwest wind and setup for some open water divers. We pulled in 2 hen buffies early morning and put them both down. A bit later we had a flock of hooded mergs come up the west longline...4 of them fell, one got up and flew away:(but we ended up with a beautiful drake and 2 hens which 'Spanker is getting mounted. JUst after the smoke cleared a gropu of 6 BIG divers swung just on the edge of range, bk7799 dumped the closest and to all of our surprise it was a white einges scoter. Fun hunt even with the wind. It will only get better.

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Sounds like you might be a tad excited. I first thought it said drivers in michigan. Calling all truckers maybe.

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Sounds like fun

Yeeees
They are headed down

Soon they will be in my area and lake Erie will be a little calmer , 4 - 8' waves the last 2 days

Have fun

Johnch

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HERE'S SOME PICS
bk7799 and crapmaster

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bk and me

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what brand blind is that in pic? or is it homemade?

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congrats on the birds guys !!! would love to kill a white winged !!! im envious ... killed a surf scoter drake here one season ... as carp knows im a diver fanatic .... just dont get many here in this area most seasons ... hope its different this year !! .... yall been seein many scoters ??? and have yall seen any longtails (old squaw) ???

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Canis - first of all welcome back you ^%$%*&^*&^!!!

I saw my first longtails this year while steelheading, yet to see them while hunting....

These are also the first scoters we have seen while hunting, I have seen them while scouting....

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The blindwas homemade by Goose Spanker and myself. It seems to work pretty well even in the middle of the lake.

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yeah it (blind) looks good kinda thinking of somethin like it for my rig.what is the main netting? camo on some kind of wire? i have been looking for some plastic wire or fence somethiung with alittle backbone to stand on its on any sugesstions?

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Marty
The frame is nothing more than 3/4 dia emt conduit. Prolly could have went with 1" but it was free, so it works. All that was done was we weaved the avery fastgrass on to the 3/4 tubing it seems to work great. Last year we used zip ties to hold the grass to the blind but that seemed to be really hard on the grass and it was easy to rip. There is no backing on the grass we just use the weight of the grass to keep it down. How ever I saw some black snow fence material at one of the Home improvement places. I don't want to name names cause i've never been impressed with them and I also don't care for their driver but it's an orange #20 car if you follow nascar at all. One other way that you can stiffen it up some is to run a rope allong the gunnals of your boat and zip tie the grass to that it doesn't support any weight but it keeps it from blowing around.

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thanx again carp .... and congrats again on the scoter !! too bad ya couldnt have dumped em all !!! lol ..... wish ya luck on a longtail ... ive been wantin to shoot one for awhile now ... will have to break down and head to the east coast i spose .... towards the end of the 98-99 season we had limited out and was headin back to the boat landin when we flushed a flock of 6 longtails out of a cove .... couldnt believe it .... then the next day after limitin out did the same thing (different cove) .... would have loved to bag one of the drakes .... awesome lookin birds !!!

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thanks for the info i'll try it