spent the night with bigfoot & the coyotes

[bigcans]

well, i can't wait to also get a blind for my 17.6 roughneck. made the rookie mistake yesturday and wasn't payin attention as the tide seemed to be sucked out in a matter of minutes. I never hunted this area and it was my first time hunting the columbia. I arrived at my spot just over an hour after high tide. got all set up me and the dog and opened a bag of seeds...oh yeah, nothing like duck hunting right? I looked and saw more Green, my....why it's green grass growing right in front of my face.  Too late, the back end of the boat was grounded with my 50 horse merc. in the air of course. it's not fun when you know you have 12 hours ahead of you with nothing to do but think and that was only at 4pm. The tule fog set in around midnight and the coyotes began to cry...then they saw my light and they cried all around me and geeze, that sounded close. closer than i didn't want that's fur sure. I then thought they might wanna get a hold of a black lab. I no longer have my Beretta 45. acp  I had only a 12 ga. well, that didn't happen but being stuck in a wilderness setting had me thinking...it was a real interesting yet neat feeling when the water finally lifted my boat with using my only muscles of course. It was as if memories moved every fiber in my mind after feeling the boat was finally moving forward with some pushing and shoving. Heck, i could have just sat there and lit a cigar and used my push pole if I was in that sort of mood, but at 3am? I wanted to get the heck out of there. Free and moving at last.  Jumped in like nothing happened. motored over to my confidence decoy, then headed back to the ramp not before i had to then navigate through the fog. Didn't use my lights, just looked at the tops of the mnts to guide me and my spot light.  woowee that was fun! It was a  real rip snortin Lewis & Clark Adventure only those guys were a lot smarter. Had to apologize to the dog a dozen times. She watched out for me and then laid down while i watched out for both of us. It's not a lot of fun sitting in a boat knowing your gonna have to wait 12 hours to get out of there. The time seemed to go "faster" than it did but that's not because i'm sitting home nice n dry. It sucked and I don't ever want to go through that again.  Didn't hear any branches or limbs break,  so i guess Bigfoot wasn't around. 

[DUCKDOWNER]

Roughneck and Avery Quickset is a good combination!!! Have the same boat and with the blind on it can hunt anywhere on the Columbia or Potholes.

[Skagit_Hunter]

Not to be a smart azz.... But reading the tides and knowing where your hunting might help. Just saying.......Things happen, Glad you made it out safe.

[ICEMAN]

Cool little story bigcans. Glad you are ok.

[h2ofowlr]

Sounds like fun.  A marsh rat is the way to go.  Throw it in the boat and anchor in the deep water.

[dirty24d]

Glad you made it back!

[Austrian Hunter]

Sounds like fun!  I was stuck on the Columbia, the big motor was stuck in the up position, the trolling motor died, we had been out all day, and it was dark, two miles away from the boat lounge, fun fun fun.   

[White Tornado]

Awesome story!!!  Had to laugh, not at you but at myself. Been there and done that myself years ago. There are plenty of hazards hunting tidal areas. If you live through the learning experience it can be great hunting. There were a few times I wondered if I was going to make it back at all!!! H2o is right though. Unless you know an area real well, anchor the larger boat in deeper water and hunt the tidal marsh with a Marsh Rat or Aquapod!!! 

[Happy Gilmore]

Did that once with a livingston on the wallula flats....carrying a boat through knee deep mud is a drag. Dam started letting water out and we were quite a ways from where we stashed the boat in shallow water but, on the Walla Walla river side so, didn't notice it dropping much......