theboxkid
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If your going based on how easy a dog is to train or by their temperment, then your right labs are better, but if your going based on pure instinct chessies have no competition. Most lab lovers have never owned a chessie and if they have they just got fed up and never really took the time to train it. And don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying labs aren’t good hunters, because they really are good hunters and great all around dogs. but the problem is that labs have become so poplular that a lot of the instinct and drive is being bred out of them (not to mention the diseases that come from overbreading). It’s hard to get a lab with pure duck hunting bloodlines because so many people are buying them for family dogs and never even taking them near water (which is a horrible thing to do to a lab). Almost every chessie breader won’t even think about selling someone a pup if they aren’t planning on hunting with it. As far as the stuborn, aggressive, territorial issue goes, a lot of that has been bred out of them.
Zach,
Did you really get an english setter? Man, those are pretty dogs. I have a chesapeake bay retriever for duck hunting (best duck hunting dogs period, and that’s not just my opinion, thats pure truth). She does pretty good with upland game hunting too but if the wife let me have my way I would also have an irish setter. In my opinion english and irish setters aren’t quite as good of hunters as german shorthairs or english pointers (but that’s just my opinion) , but you just can’t beat the beautiful looks of a setter. How nice of a pair would that be, my chessie on my left and my irish setter on my right. Absolutely beautiful. Congrats Zach.-Kid
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http://www.danica.com/flytier/shansen/pink_scud.htmI usually drop a #18 or #20 tan scud off a copper john or zebra midge around this time of year, works great!
Zach-
Thanks for sharing the info, I am going to buy some material right when I get off work.
The Henry’s Fork is quite an experience, you have got to try it.
