It all started in December of '93. A coworker invited me to go on a duck hunting trip with him and I immediately feel passionately in love with this sport. I had spent the last 30 years hunting deer and various small game in Alabama but had never ventured into waterfowling. Over the course of the next few seasons I hunted ducks from the river banks, blinds, flooded timber, etc. - but always from, or at least near land. I would spend season after season watching as the birds, both puddlers and divers, raft-up out on the open water out of harm's way. I tryed to figure out exactly how to pursue these birds but could come to no logical solution.
It was not long afterward that I heard of a way to pursue these otherwise unhuntable birds by an old market hunter's technique called "sculling." I studied this technique for years from books, the internet and by talking to veteran, "last-of-the-Mohican" scullers and eagerly applied what I had learned. I was surprised to find out that there was little information available on this subject - a few pictures here and a paragraph there but nothing that went into much depth. Thus, the idea of building a web site was born to disclose the information that I have gathered over the years. (And by the way - many thanks to all the fellow scullers and waterfowlers alike that willing furnished me with photographs, information and other essentials.)
Now with several seasons "under the oar," I am eager to help those out that are interested in this growing and most fasinating method of waterfowling - just as I was helped when I first started. Whether your a beginner or an experienced sculler - if you enjoy this site only a fraction of what I experienced putting it together, I'll then know that it was a project worth doing.
- Steve Parsons
My first sculled bag - a mixture of gadwall and mallard from my Humbolt Bay scull boat - December, 2000