Your dinner is still in the woods.
For Christmas, my mother gave my brother Nathan and I a day of fishing for striper and sturgeon in San Pablo Bay with Argo Sportfishing. On boxing day, we drove into the city with the sunrise to hop aboard the Argo in what has to be about the best slip in the country. The 33-foot […]
On our third day of duck hunting, we headed out into Suisun bay looking for diver ducks, again guided by the folks from Northwind Outfitters. We arrived at the marina well before first light and climbed into their boat, the Sundance. Full dark all around, we road out into the bay, the heavy salt air […]
Day two began the same as the first. We arrived in the darkness and rode out to the blind along the roads between rice fields on the back of an ATV, stacked three across. It was a moonless morning and pitch dark, the only light emanating from the ATV’s faint red tail lights. Our guide’s […]
Each December, two of my high school friends meet up in California for three days of duck hunting. They have been hunting together for years, but I have never joined them. This past spring, in response to some of my posts showing my recent forays into waterfowl hunting, they asked if I would like to […]