The drag of dark waters pulled the boat off plane as Ryan McCafferty eased off the throttle. A short, pre-dawn ride had put us ahead of any other hunters, not that we expected to see many. Although squirrel hunting is a long-standing tradition in Kentucky, a declining number of hunters hit the woods on opening day, which falls late in August when temperatures are still boiling and a thick canopy makes spotting squirrels challenging. Even fewer hunters go to the trouble of launching a boat, but McCafferty and friend Will Brantley have discovered doing just that allows them unpressured access to the thousands of acres of otherwise untouched, th