Now retired, I hunt every weekday from September to mid-January.
Our best retrieve and shortest retrieve this past season was 2 yards.
2 rooster flushed at the edge of a cut bank of a creek...I shot a rare double.
First rooster to the right, second rooster to the left.
The problem was it was a 20 foot cliff at the cut bank.
So pup had to run downstream, swim across the creek and hunt up the second rooster.
In the meantime the first rooster, which landed upstream to the right in the creek,
had drifted and was pinned in the water along the cut bank right below me.
Had to handle the lab downstream, across the creek, back upstream,
then come-in whistle to swim across the creek to the cutbank below my feet.
A 2-yard retrieve horizontally, 20 feet vertically.
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Our best retrieve and shortest retrieve this past season was 2 yards.
2 rooster flushed at the edge of a cut bank of a creek...I shot a rare double.
First rooster to the right, second rooster to the left.
The problem was it was a 20 foot cliff at the cut bank.
So pup had to run downstream, swim across the creek and hunt up the second rooster.
In the meantime the first rooster, which landed upstream to the right in the creek,
had drifted and was pinned in the water along the cut bank right below me.
Had to handle the lab downstream, across the creek, back upstream,
then come-in whistle to swim across the creek to the cutbank below my feet.
A 2-yard retrieve horizontally, 20 feet vertically.
