I posted some exterior pics of this duck camp three or four years ago. It consists of a US Army Corps of Engineers quarters barge used to house dredging crews that were working waterways to engage in maintenance dredging of the shipping channels. Paul Sabatini purchaed it at auction in the early 1980's. A retired realtor, Tony Andary, Sr, owned the land which was part of a keyhole development he invisioned for this water frontage, but the Michigan statutes eventually blocked this type of water access for all lots approach. His son retained the waterfrontage lots where the barge was initially moored after the remaining 284 acres were sold. Tony, Jr. provided legal services for the out-of-state owner of the property who allowed us exclusive deer and grouse hunting rights over the years I lived over there in the 1980's. Tony eventually sold his membership somewhere through the years. I hunted there in 1985-86.
I promised a snapshot of the interior of the club via some old photos I had, but my scanner was no longer compatible with the current Windows software on my notebook.
Jimmy Gretzinger is the host of a PBS affiliated outdoors show titled: Michigan Outdoors a contraction of Mort Neph's original weekly hour long show: Michigan-Out-of-Doors; a staple in our house while I was growing-up. Apparently, Jimmy arrived up there a few days after Steve and hunted the bay. There was a strong cold front that arrived as our trip ended, blowing out the shackle on the stern anchor on Steve's Crusader our last hunt. There is a State Forest Campground complex located upstream from the Munuscong River's mouth on property that used to be the site of the Dodge Hunting Lodge, which now is marked by only the foundation site of the old lodge. When i worked for MSU, we had a contract with the USACE and the UFWS to enage in a series of baseline monitering studies to determine the potential impacts of running commercial shipping throughpout the year on the upper reaches of the St. Lawrence Seaway and the connecting channels waterways of the upper Great Lakes.I lived over here for nearly five years. In those days the ratio of black ducks to mallards was about seven to three, now that has shifted to about 2 blacks for every mallard seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt-Wq3RqMVU
I promised a snapshot of the interior of the club via some old photos I had, but my scanner was no longer compatible with the current Windows software on my notebook.
Jimmy Gretzinger is the host of a PBS affiliated outdoors show titled: Michigan Outdoors a contraction of Mort Neph's original weekly hour long show: Michigan-Out-of-Doors; a staple in our house while I was growing-up. Apparently, Jimmy arrived up there a few days after Steve and hunted the bay. There was a strong cold front that arrived as our trip ended, blowing out the shackle on the stern anchor on Steve's Crusader our last hunt. There is a State Forest Campground complex located upstream from the Munuscong River's mouth on property that used to be the site of the Dodge Hunting Lodge, which now is marked by only the foundation site of the old lodge. When i worked for MSU, we had a contract with the USACE and the UFWS to enage in a series of baseline monitering studies to determine the potential impacts of running commercial shipping throughpout the year on the upper reaches of the St. Lawrence Seaway and the connecting channels waterways of the upper Great Lakes.I lived over here for nearly five years. In those days the ratio of black ducks to mallards was about seven to three, now that has shifted to about 2 blacks for every mallard seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt-Wq3RqMVU
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