We do some late-season hunts up on some river mouths on the north end of Lake Nipigon and Summit Lake where we can encounter ice and constant wind and spray off the lake as the waves breach the shore along the bars at the river mouths. Late-season geese and mallards along the river and amongst the wild rice. Most days our setup is favorable, but have had the odd day where the wind played a large factor on both us and the dogs.
The Mutt Hut is to keep our guys up of the ice directly and shield some from the wind and spray.
The dogs are steady, we have not had issues with flaring birds, more of an element of protection for the two brown clowns.
180 degrees is plenty in this situation as most of the ducks and the geese are coming off the lake into the river mouths and wild rice, we did move the dogs back up behind us, they then can see up and over us the full length of the river mouth and also up away from the ice on the edges of the river.
No permanent blind options as the water levels of both the rivers and lake fluctuate year to year and it is a twenty-mile run by boat to some of these locations.
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