Help me resist The Force!

[BLACKJACK]

The Force I'm talking about is getting out on the ice and hunting roosters in the cattails. With last weeks snow on top of the thin ice that we had, the ice in the cattaills is going to be bad, bad, bad. Yet I know that the pheasants will be in those cattails, nothing better than getting on a big slough with a 20-40 yard ring of cattails and running your lab thru them. The Force is strong, luring me in, but I'm trying to resist. On Wednesday, I saw my lab breaking thru in a few spots at the edge of the cattails, yet if a person could get to that clear ice on the inside edge of the cattails... Help me. I know I need to get out there before the other crazy pheasant hunters beat me to the spot, if I was was 27 or 37 instead of 47 I'd be out there, but now my logic says don't do it, cold wet feet can be the only result. Yet The Force pulling me in is strong. And before you call me a wuss, all I can say is that I've been there, done that many times, I always carry a spare pair of boots and socks this time of year, I've hunted lots of pheasants in hip boots, I've even went thru the ice up to my titties hunting pheasants, so I know the pheasants will be out there in those cattails. The Force is strong.

[Guest]

BJ
"WISDOM COMES WITH AGE......USUALLY." If you still feel young, use some snowshoes, it will help distribute your weight(47 you say?) more evenly over the ice.
summerzoff
TALKOOOOOOOOOOO!

[greenman]

Sounds like an intervention is in order or some 12 step program. What the heck go for it I was out Tuesday and they are in the corn early and cattails later.