How do you honor a lost hunting buddy?
02-14-2017, 09:25 AM
#12
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 1,834
Sorry for your loss Flags and GREAT story and idea. We honor a friends dad here in So. Ill as well. Mike "River Rat" Little passed 2 yrs ago this past Nov. We had a family friend who is a Champion Duck and Goose caller and his brother at the funeral. They done a lonesome hen call at the graveside then as walking away a come back call. Tears filled everyones eyes there!! We then began a yearly duck hunt dedicated to him. The local sporting goods store that he always frequented bought 8 Marsh bags and a duck call in each for each of the sons and grandsons. They had his name, DOB and DOD embroidered on them. No daughters or granddaughters in that bunch. They had a special hunt that year dedicated to him and they used his shotgun, and calls held at his pit. No birds came in that day until about 20mins till the end of the day and a lone greenhead came in and was taken by his grandson with his shotgun. They now hold a hunt each year dedicated to Mike at his pit.
02-14-2017, 06:53 PM
#13
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Winnipeg Manitoba Canada
Posts: 1,822
My father passed two years ago last November. He was an avid hunter and fisherman. He had fished this one particular lake for just over 50 years. Every fish he caught was entered in a journal which my brother now has.
He had always talked about having his ashes spread over this lake. The family waited until his birthday at the end of June. Twenty of us drove the ninety miles to this lake.
He had always said towards the end that the fish from this lake had fed him for all those years and he wanted to repay the fish back by feeding them. We spread his ashes over the lake that day as a final birthday present.
Ron
He had always talked about having his ashes spread over this lake. The family waited until his birthday at the end of June. Twenty of us drove the ninety miles to this lake.
He had always said towards the end that the fish from this lake had fed him for all those years and he wanted to repay the fish back by feeding them. We spread his ashes over the lake that day as a final birthday present.
Ron
02-16-2017, 08:09 AM
#17
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 1,834
Originally Posted by rbduck
My father passed two years ago last November. He was an avid hunter and fisherman. He had fished this one particular lake for just over 50 years. Every fish he caught was entered in a journal which my brother now has.
He had always talked about having his ashes spread over this lake. The family waited until his birthday at the end of June. Twenty of us drove the ninety miles to this lake.
He had always said towards the end that the fish from this lake had fed him for all those years and he wanted to repay the fish back by feeding them. We spread his ashes over the lake that day as a final birthday present.
Ron
He had always talked about having his ashes spread over this lake. The family waited until his birthday at the end of June. Twenty of us drove the ninety miles to this lake.
He had always said towards the end that the fish from this lake had fed him for all those years and he wanted to repay the fish back by feeding them. We spread his ashes over the lake that day as a final birthday present.
Ron
