2010 Duck Hunting Prep...

Now that we have an area picked out that we want to try this season, we had to get our gear ready. I knew we were going to be doing most of our hunting out of the boat so we needed to make sure it was ready to go. Since we only used it once last year, I didn't have many worries, but it is always better to be safe than sorry!

We got the boat and trailer out from the backyard and hooked up to the Suburban. The trailer lights were having a couple issues, and it turns out is was actually the socket on the Suburban that needed some cleaning and adjusting. After getting that fixed, the boat and trailer were ready! Since we would not be using any outboard motors this year, we saved a bunch of time not having to test those! The 3 hp Johnson is still not 100% I haven't had any time to work on it and Dad hasn't finished bringing his 7.5 hp Mercury back to life yet either! When we were done with the boat and the trailer, we had a little help from Maeve and Will getting our gear loaded up and decoys checked!

We got all of the gear down and accounted for. We ended up restringing a couple decoys, but had all the parts we needed to fix them. We loaded most of the gear up in the back of the Suburban (which will serve as "Home Base" this hunting season) and the bigger stuff we left in the boat. We put the boat and trailer away in the backyard and called it a day. Now all we had to do was pick a day and hit the road!