Frustrating Day at the Camp

[Matt G]

We finally had a free weekend to make it out to the camp to get some work done and boy were we suprised! If it weren't for Coors Light, the day would have been a waste...... We get to the launch and are greeted by a field of hyacinth.

View from the launch.
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We launch the mud boat and start making passes in there to try and break it up some. Not realizing how bad it would be, we also brought along my father in laws tunnel hull to help carry stuff to the camp which is about a 10-15 minute boat ride from the launch. We go through all the hyacinth around the launch and the main channel is fairly clear. About half way through the cut to our camp, it gets packed up again.

The mud boat running point was working pretty decent until I had to stop to clear the outboard. By that time my brother had already left us in the mudboat. We finally make it to them and the mud boat is broken down and they flooded it trying to get it started. Now we are stuck with a boat that won't start and another boat that couldn't make it through the salad!!!! After a few curse words we all just pop a top and wait. The mudboat finally gets started and we make it to the camp.

View from the camp.
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The camp is overran with wasp but a few bug bombs knocked that out quick. We start doing a little cleaning up and weedeating when the weedeater head explodes and parts fly everywhere! So we start cutting grass with machetes. We made the decision not to run to the blinds because the cuts were choked up as well and the issues we already had with the mud boat. We tie the boats off together so I didn't have to put that outboard through that again and head back to the launch without a quarter of the work done that we wanted to get accomplished.

To top off such an amazing day, I noticed some smoke coming from the muffler on the mudboat coming back in and I could smell burnt plastic. After getting my brothers attention and poining it out, he holds up my Benelli . Our work detail turned into a recon into an expensive f**king day! I still can't wait to get out and blast some ducks though!!!

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Does anybody have any suggestions for getting rid of the hyacinth? Can I just spray some 2-4-D or is that a big no no? My brother said he has seen an attachment for a mud boat that chopped it and threw it off to the side. Said the guy called it a salad shooter. Any of you heard of this or have one I can look at to build one?