![]() Trent’s dad, Dick Schuster and my brother Mike came to camp for 24 hours as they generally put a hurting on the local perch population. Sunday is always kind of sad for me because Selina has to go back to school and our three-day gab session is over.įor myself and my nephew Trent Schuster it was a new beginning. The following morning Selina and I as well as everyone else in camp was on the water before daylight and many ducks fell out of the sky. Some of the Wandler boys’ ducks from Sunday morning. On this particular hunt there was 13 kids, I could say that I have all of them beat in age by 30 to 46 years. When Grant and Conrad were 16-22 all of their gear was junk but what they had was a love for this trip and now they have the latest, greatest gear and these boys put a hurting on the ducks, and they are a hoot around the campfire. Grant lives in California and flew to Wisconsin for this hunt. Grant is a lineman, as is Conrad and soon Vlad will be. Conrad Wandler is two years younger, Vlad Wandler is 20 and Silver is 15. Grant Wandler is around 30, he grew up with my stepson Joey Dushek and started coming here when he was in high school. A half dozen hunting dogs are exhausted and, for myself, I can look at every one of these kids in camp and I am well aware that they are here because of my dad and in reality because of me as my dad passed away before most of them were born. The evening hunt was very enjoyable, but I have to tell you I love the campfire time on this particular trip. Photo by Mark Walters.Īt about noon we paddled back to camp, had lunch and a two-hour siesta. Selina bringing back one of our ducks after catching aquatic bugs. A person catching insects in your decoys does not help when it comes to ducks being attracted to your decoys, but neither of us cared. Selina takes a net and catches aquatic insects, puts them in a mason jar that has alcohol in it and in the end, she will take them to school and do research. So, I drop a goose and a drake woody, it becomes very warm. With a double major at UW-Stevens Point, a minor, a job working in the Aquatic Biomonitoring Lab and lots of weekend events that are related to school, this hunt and three weekends at deer camp are the best she can do. In reality, Selina does not care much about duck hunting and she will only do this hunt, all season. When shooting began Selina dropped a hen wood duck and now the pressure was off. We all converged on the island as we could, built our camps, checked out our spots and, as always, tonight was a campfire, excellent food and lots of happy talk. My daughter Selina and I hunt out of a canoe, we kind of suck when it comes to bagging ducks, but we have a great time with our golden retrievers Ruby and Red being the center of our attention. Though there is no ringleader anymore, I am the guy that is always here and now much of our group is 15-year olds to 34. ![]() I am now 61, low income, running hard, and still on that “can’t miss trip”.īy the time I would hit the cot two days after today, 17 people would have camped together and all of that is due to my dad. One of our annual “can’t miss” trips was living on an island on the Mississippi River near Ferryville and hunting ducks. We lived kind of like I do now, which is a very busy life that is often centered around the next outdoor experience. Online exclusive made possible by Spicer for 51stįifty-one opening days of duck hunting ago I was a very young boy in a very low income, single parent family, and my dad was raising my brothers Mike, Tom, myself, my sister Lynn and sometimes my brother Bob. Selina and Red were more concerned about sleep than hunting at times on this trip.
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