Days of yore

[JABIII]

Here are a few pre-digitals with some dogs and days gone by.

Goff Swamp on the Wateree River in 1973.



Fork Swamp on the Congaree/Wateree/Santee Rivers





Parr

[JABIII]

High water in Fork Swamp



Low water in Fork



Dawkins



Bayou Meto. Note the hens. I could not kill a drake to save my life on that trip.

[LabLuvR]

Many a man holds grand memories of hunts along the Wateree Swamp. Great pics!

[JABIII]

Potato creek



Where blackducks went to die





The first tamies we ever saw. Grimes Creek.

[JABIII]

At the Sportsman's Classic in the 1980's Robin Jones handed me this brochure for his guide service. We laughed at him for having to go all the way to Arkansas to kill ducks. 10 years later we were racing him to the hole.



These got us in a bit of a bind. We had been hunting Bayou Meto, White River, and James Fraize's big blind in the levy. We had a pretty good pile of ducks and decided to let a picker pluck them to get them out of the Sahara. Upon calling the picker they asked us to just drop them off, seperating them with our names and licence #s. Nobody was around when we made the drop but we got a call shortly thereafter to "Come get all these #^$*$((*& ducks!... [img]redface.gif[/img]

I don't think they appreciated the fact that we had been there for several days...



An atypical Fork hunt with no blacks.



The Greenhead Patch

[JABIII]

My old dog Mack's last hunt in Bayou Meto.



Fork swamp the way we loved to do it. On 4wheelers...



The hole



Fork Swamp

[JABIII]

The Sahara Motel. Many SCDUCKERS have stayed in this rattrap. And yes. The brass mallard head was a BAD idea.



Fork Swamp



Fork Swamp



Mack

[Duckman#1]

I stayed in the Sahara for the first time in 1984, Man what a dump ! Nice pics !

[BOGSTER]

Many black ducks have died in Fork Swamp.
Many teal have died in Squirrel Creek.

I'm just sayin...


Come on Jab.....KIA??
ive been done wrong.....i motion to strike.

[JABIII]

Coy's post about his father and that Model 12 reminded me of the first image with Kennedy at Goff and this one at Wateree...

[slowiedawg]

The stories to be told, very lucky that Model 12 isn't a trophy hanging on George Hines wall.

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[nitro5x6's]

Days of yore - and never more.... those days are likely gone forever.. Sad.

Great photos. Thanks for sharing them.

[coonsqualler01]

Love these old pic threads, who's in the very first pic?

[JABIII]

My Uncle, Father, Ward, Kennedy, Rowland

[Highstrung]

You know, there's a tightly weaved web of hunters on here.

[Sportin' Woodies]

Bet it was cool hunting with Donald Southerland. I imagine him as he was in Kelly's heroes.

[coonsqualler01]

I found a treasure trove of pics like this when my folks moved recently, next time I pass through there I will see if I can get someone to put em on here for me. Got several of that same crowd in them, and I never get tired of hearing about them. Thanks again for posting JAB. Indeed the good old days of big ducks in SC.

[duckcommander727]

I miss when post like these were normal. I also wish I would've been alive during those days.

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[ccleroy]

Very Nice!!

[JABIII]

I found a treasure trove of pics like this when my folks moved recently, next time I pass through there I will see if I can get someone to put em on here for me. Got several of that same crowd in them, and I never get tired of hearing about them. Thanks again for posting JAB. Indeed the good old days of big ducks in SC.

I would love to see them when you get them up.