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You have to like it."
Sometimes he wonders when he'll stop guiding. Maybe
he'll take a young hunter under his wing, as others have done
for him. "I can just sit, lay down the stories and cook eggs
or something. That's probably how I will go out," Aaron said,
amused at the thought, before he quickly brushed it off . That
day isn't happening anytime soon.
"Those guys that spend 50 years just watching the sky –
that's just so romantic to me, to just watch the years go by
like that, watching migrating birds and wildlife in general,
and how they've adapted to change. These people have such
a long perspective over a span of so many years," Aaron said.
"I'm just more interested in it as the years go by. I'll sit out
there for hours and hours, even when nothing is happening,
and it'll seem like only 10 minutes. It's weird, to sit for hours
and hours in one spot for so many years.
"I can't imagine doing anything else. It's all I think about.
It's all I want to do. It's always calling me."
He isn't satisfi ed yet.
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Schroder carries out green-winged teal and wood ducks
after a waterfowl hunt in Burt County.
A spread of duck decoys sit on a pond at sunrise. Schroder may get up at 2 or 3
in the morning to make sure everything is right before his clients arrive.
