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i noticed that one of the guys in the airboat pic has a bottle of water that says holiday inn.. so i assummed they were staying at the mazatalan holiday inn...

however... just last week when msu and um played in baseketball.. the announcers while killin some time .. displayed a list of famous alumni from each school... i pretty much knew all the folks from um and all the folks from msu.. cept for one guy on the msu list.. whatever his name was.. they said he was the founder of holiday inn.. it wasn't wilson. i don't think.. it was somone else...

wtf// i guess i was confused by what i saw and heard on t.v...

Don't reckon it matters at all. That trip looks great man. Is the mexican dude on the back of the airboat the "retriever"?

bigwater wrote:i noticed that one of the guys in the airboat pic has a bottle of water that says holiday inn.. so i assummed they were staying at the mazatalan holiday inn...

however... just last week when msu and um played in baseketball.. the announcers while killin some time .. displayed a list of famous alumni from each school... i pretty much knew all the folks from um and all the folks from msu.. cept for one guy on the msu list.. whatever his name was.. they said he was the founder of holiday inn.. it wasn't wilson. i don't think.. it was somone else...

wtf// i guess i was confused by what i saw and heard on t.v...

It was a Mccool....

Beaudog1 wrote:Don't reckon it matters at all. That trip looks great man. Is the mexican dude on the back of the airboat the "retriever"?

That's Chacau, our bird boy. Been with the operation for ten years, whistles and barks like teal as well as any caller I've ever heard (including Jeff), and at an estimated 105 pounds can track across the marsh huffing a filterless cigarrette to recover ducks as easily as most here walk across their living room carpet. Doesn't speak much english - duck, left, right, up, low, beer, yes, no, pintail, cinnamon, bluewing, greenwing, rudy (which I learned meant ruddy), scope (which means scaup) 20, 40, thanks, you're welcome and good shot - but understands everything you ask or say, can open a cerveza with a bic lighter quicker than you can blink an eye, and if there's one thing I sure like to see any bird boy do without being asked is picking up a species of duck he knows you're interested in by the bill or foot and carefully studying the plumage to determine it's a worthy keeper before strapping it up. Field staff were on par with the most experienced and professional of any I've been around, and The Waterfowler agrees, which speaks volumes because if the staff isn't above average we don't represent the operation in the first place.

Pictures don't do this justice and I'm surprised all of RR's are in focus as he wasn't at times.
I'll post up some of mine tomorrow sometime. I did kill a Cinnamon, Bluewing and Greenwing out of the same flock the last day. Second time I've done that down there.

Going on a Mazatlan Mexico duck hunt with The Waterfowler:

Watching Pat (The Waterfowler) grade cinnamons and bluewings is like watching Rembrandt getting his canvas ready...


Here's Pat making sure the trophies are tagged and bagged...


...and he completed the task precisely in time for Happy Hour...

Hey Ramsey, do you have a side view picture of that airboat by any chance? Just curious as to what they are using!

Damn I want to go! That looks like a blast. And I've heard those Mexican and Argentinean bird boys are better than any dog in the world! Looks like ya'll are having a great trip, have a safe trip back state side.

Ended on a great note. They still had to drop off 3 groups after us and kicked up plenty of birds in doing so. First volley, I tripled on a cinnamon teal, green-winged teal and a blue wing. Admittedly, the duck with the blue wing was a shoveler!

Note the fish in the forward left. It's a talapia. Couple hunters swatted a cripple, and when their bird boy went to get it, the fish had caught a pellet also.

Ramsey,

this is on my very short list, and the wife said she'll go to. looks like the predominant bird is greenwings? How were the numbers of treeducks (pachugas? don't they call them something like that) and cinnamons. You can PM me if you want. 20 ducks a day, that has to be close to the south american numbers huh?

kris Schaumburg wrote:Ramsey,

this is on my very short list, and the wife said she'll go to. looks like the predominant bird is greenwings? How were the numbers of treeducks (pachugas? don't they call them something like that) and cinnamons. You can PM me if you want. 20 ducks a day, that has to be close to the south american numbers huh?

It was a fairly even mix of teal for our blind, with maybe just slighhtly less blue-wings, and far more cinnamons than I had expected. Three of us (2 blinds) shot about 30 black-bellied whistling ducks (pichiguilas) the first morning, and I brought 3 nice ones back. A limit of 20 ducks per man/day is slightly less than half the number of ducks per hunt I normally expect while duck hunting in Argentina, or in Uruguay for that matter, and one-third or less per-man that will be killed on great morning shoots. Mazatlan duck hunt is a great couples retreat, the more the merrier, and there will be plenty from here and elsewhere making the trip next February.

Pat will be posting up pics later tonight. These photos and more may be viewed by clicking: Mazatlan Mexico Duck Hunting Photo Gallery

Where the hell is Nita at in her beach wear................thats the pictures I want to see

Where the hell is Nita at in her beach wear................thats the pictures I want to see

i'd hit it