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Sean Finke
Sean Finke grew up on the eastern shores of Grand Lake St. Mary's in Ohio. His earliest outdoor memories are of hunting waterfowl and doves and also fishing for crappie. Sean's first waterfowling experience involved sitting in a fence row with his grandfather and uncle trying to decoy geese with two dozen Johnson folding goose decoys, blowing an Olt goose call, but mostly pass shooting. Now, at 31 years of age, Sean has nineteen years of waterfowling experience to draw on. Those early days pass shooting geese inspired Sean to look for ways to bring the birds closer. The desire to finish geese in the decoys has pushed him to constantly improve his techniques in dry fields and over water.

Sean's love of the outdoors guided him through college at Ohio State University, and led to a career with the Ohio Division of Wildlife. He started his career banding ducks, geese and doves at Mercer Waterfowl Area, but later Sean went to work at London State Fish Hatchery. He now spends the off-season improving fishermen's odds by raising muskies, rainbow and brown trout, hybrid striped bass, walleye and saugeye. His career also allows Sean to teach hunter education and youth waterfowl clinics throughout Ohio. Sean is married to Linda and they have a daughter, Laney.

Being from Ohio too, Sean was very fortunate to have met Fred Zink in 1995. There friendship as grown throughout the years and has led to many hunts, and presented Sean with the opportunity to appear on Mossy Oak's Whistling Wings, and to help Fred at various trade shows presenting Zink Calls and Avery Outdoors to the public. With everything that Sean has going on with work and the family, Sean still finds the time to hang out with his true buddy, Hunter, his 11 year old chocolate lab.

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