2014-2015 Season Log...

Re: 2014-2015 Season Log...

Postby Rick » Mon Dec 01, 2014 12:36 pm

Date: 12/1

Time: morning

Location: mudhole

Cloud Cover: partly

Wind Direction and Velocity: Southerly nil to light. Again.

Temperature: warm

Barometer: 30.21 rising

Moon phase: half waxing

Special Notes:

Waterfowl Activity: just smatterings of this and that, more big ones and fewer small ones than yesterday

Waterfowl Responsiveness: great, thank goodness. Probably sold another RNT MVP, but also swapped the current Microhen for my old original, more assertive one and had good luck with it, too.

Hunters: 3, Therin, John and Sal

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s): lost two ringnecks I let slide too long while birds were flying before sending him

Special Equipment: SOS

Kudos: Nice guys who were blessed with working birds on what could have been a very light morning.

Curses: Two of the guys hunt a lot in places where the birds apparently don't work well, because they too often tipped our hand by starting to go, or going, when the birds weren't yet where they should have been, instead of waiting for me to call the shot. One the other hand, they hit most of what was right, which was a pleasant change from recent hunts.

Birds By Species: 1 bw teal, 1 gw teal, 6 mallards, 4 ringnecks, 1 spoon, 4 wigeon and 2 specks

Photo Ops: First speck of the Mudhole's season comes in the back way;
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Greed, laziness or efficiency?
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Didn't work in any event:
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Re: 2014-2015 Season Log...

Postby Deltaman » Mon Dec 01, 2014 1:07 pm

Great reports and pics Rick, and glad your season is staying consistent! Love the Peake action pictures!!!!! He is one fine looking hound and has great expression.
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Re: 2014-2015 Season Log...

Postby Rick » Mon Dec 01, 2014 5:26 pm

Thanks, the coyote's been a fine friend and hand, and we've been blessed with surprisingly good shooting for how little we've seen since the weather went stale. Know it can't last, but am thankful for how it has.
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Re: 2014-2015 Season Log...

Postby Rick » Tue Dec 02, 2014 12:45 pm

Date: 12/2

Time: morning

Location: mudhole

Cloud Cover: ground fog

Wind Direction and Velocity: northerly moderate

Temperature: cool to cold as morning wore on

Barometer: 30.24 rising

Moon phase: half

Special Notes:

Waterfowl Activity: grrr... few birds moving in the fog, but when it cleared nada

Waterfowl Responsiveness: fortunately good. New Montana Lite whistle turned the trick on a nice mess of blackbellies that shied from the spinner on their first pass and got bumped by gunfire the first time around when I killed the spinner and got on the whistle. Encouraged by that.

Hunters: 2, Jim and Dennis

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s): Peake made a super chipped ringneck retrieve but lost two other chipped birds.

Special Equipment: SOS

Kudos: Good company and a better hunt than it might have been.

Curses: Just the pee poor flight and lost crips.

Birds By Species: 5 blackbellied whistling ducks, 1 bw teal, 1 gadwall, 1 gw teal, 1 mallard, 1 redhead, 3 ringnecks and 1 spoon

Photo Ops:
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Re: 2014-2015 Season Log...

Postby DComeaux » Tue Dec 02, 2014 2:45 pm

Good to see you staying consistent, Rick. I'm jealous of your whistlers! We'd like to take a few of those, just don't see em after teal season. Do you think it's the fog that gave you the opportunity for those this morning?
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Re: 2014-2015 Season Log...

Postby Rick » Tue Dec 02, 2014 3:10 pm

Maybe. They seem to come and go periodically during the season without rhyme or reason I can see, and it's been a lot more "go" this one. Only halfway consistent thing I've seen is that they prefer the east end of our marsh when they are here unless we catch a west wind. That's when I'm most apt to get a chance if they're around.
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Re: 2014-2015 Season Log...

Postby IndianaYakFish » Wed Dec 03, 2014 1:17 am

Rick, how old is Peake now?
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Re: 2014-2015 Season Log...

Postby Rick » Wed Dec 03, 2014 4:48 am

He'll be eight in late January, but started as a pup, so this is his eighth season.
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Re: 2014-2015 Season Log...

Postby Rick » Wed Dec 03, 2014 12:47 pm

Date: 12/3

Time: morning

Location: mudhole

Cloud Cover: partly

Wind Direction and Velocity: moderate NE

Temperature: chilly

Barometer:

Moon phase:

Special Notes:

Waterfowl Activity: Slooooow for us and the back blind to our west, but everything to our east did well.

Waterfowl Responsiveness: Couple early bunches of greenwings bought in, but everything else we saw was high, hauling and not having any of what I was selling, just broke down one bunch of pins and one bunch of mallards, both of which slid off when we thought sure we'd get shooting. My feet must have stunk as bad as my calling.

Hunters: 3, Spencer and Boyd who've always had strong hunts with me and a new man, Wendel, who probably thinks they lied.

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s): never had to leave the stand

Special Equipment: SOS

Kudos: pleasant company on a p-poor morning

Curses: Eats my lunch when I can't show nice folks good shooting.

Birds By Species: 5 gw teal

Photo Ops:
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Re: 2014-2015 Season Log...

Postby DComeaux » Wed Dec 03, 2014 1:11 pm

DAMMIT!
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Re: 2014-2015 Season Log...

Postby Rick » Wed Dec 03, 2014 4:29 pm

Eggzackly.
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Re: 2014-2015 Season Log...

Postby IndianaYakFish » Wed Dec 03, 2014 11:56 pm

Rick wrote:...and a new man, Wendel, who probably thinks they lied.


:lol:
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Re: 2014-2015 Season Log...

Postby Rick » Thu Dec 04, 2014 4:16 pm

Date: 12/4

Time: morning

Location: mudhole

Cloud Cover: hazy threatening fog but not

Wind Direction and Velocity: nil to light NE

Temperature: comfortably cool

Barometer: 30.14 rising slightly

Moon phase: nearly full

Special Notes:

Waterfowl Activity: Went from pretty slow to quite a bird show - and back judging by the lack of shooting heard after we'd finished.

Waterfowl Responsiveness: Tough as always to get the high ones in without being binged out, and one sweet ball of teal buzzed through and ignored by best efforts to bring them back, but certainly can't complain about taking pictures by 7:30.

Hunters: 2, Darren and Johnny. Liked to choked when I saw who Darren brought, because they had a stinker of a duck morning the last and only time Johnny's been here and he left before a kick-a-- speck hunt that made up for it that afternoon. Yesterday's bomb had me afraid we'd do it to him again.

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s): Easy morning for the coyote.

Special Equipment: SOS: spinner and mmm used as deemed appropriate, mostly on for teal and off for big ducks

Kudos: Was a nice make-up hunt for last year's sloooow one.

Curses: None from me.

Birds By Species: 4 gadwall (season record in honor of the SELA gray duck shooters?), 4 gw teal, 2 mallards, 1 ringneck, 6 spoons and 1 wigeon

Photo Ops: Johnny, Darren and birds:
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Errant gray:
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Re: 2014-2015 Season Log...

Postby Flightstopper » Thu Dec 04, 2014 8:29 pm

Glad some birds showed up for y'all.
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Re: 2014-2015 Season Log...

Postby Rick » Thu Dec 04, 2014 8:59 pm

Me, too.
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Re: 2014-2015 Season Log...

Postby DComeaux » Thu Dec 04, 2014 9:05 pm

Nice pile of birds guys! I'm ready to get back out there. Front coming through Saturday. :D
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Re: 2014-2015 Season Log...

Postby Rick » Fri Dec 05, 2014 4:54 am

DComeaux wrote:Front coming through Saturday. :D


Perhaps the west wind in front of it will push you our ducks.
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Re: 2014-2015 Season Log...

Postby Rick » Fri Dec 05, 2014 12:17 pm

Date: 12/5

Time: morning

Location: mudhole

Cloud Cover: heavy and hazy

Wind Direction and Velocity: southerly moderate

Temperature: warm

Barometer:

Moon phase: full

Special Notes:

Waterfowl Activity: plenty of birds moving again this morning, including numerous mallard flights I couldn't redirect.

Waterfowl Responsiveness: Mallards frustrated the pee out of me, spoiling an otherwise fine morning. Tried some of everything and nothing and couldn't find the key.

Hunters: 2, Darrin again and Mark

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s): Peake made a sweet mark on a chipped mallard.

Special Equipment: SOS

Kudos: At least we had birds.

Curses: If had only been the mallards, we'd of been screwed. Not often I feel at a loss with them, but they had me rethinking my belief that they're the easiest bird to trip with a call.

Birds By Species: 9 gw teal,1 mallard, 1 pintail, 4 ringnecks, 2 spoons and 1 wigeon

Photo Ops: Mark and Darren with birds:
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Peake with his long Susie and a hitchhiker:
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Re: 2014-2015 Season Log...

Postby DComeaux » Fri Dec 05, 2014 12:30 pm

NICE!

Got a report from the fellow that opened up our ponds yesterday that there was a mess of birds just across the south ditch that came up in a big cloud while he was in there. Specks are still there as well.
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Re: 2014-2015 Season Log...

Postby Rick » Fri Dec 05, 2014 1:50 pm

Hope y'all close out the split with a bang.
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Re: 2014-2015 Season Log...

Postby DComeaux » Fri Dec 05, 2014 1:57 pm

Rick wrote:Hope y'all close out the split with a bang.



Thanks! Me too.
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Re: 2014-2015 Season Log...

Postby Rick » Fri Dec 05, 2014 7:00 pm

Date: 12/5

Time: afternoon

Location: compressor

Cloud Cover: partly

Wind Direction and Velocity: moderate to gusty southerly

Temperature: warm

Barometer:

Moon phase:

Special Notes:

Waterfowl Activity: nil, virtually no movement

Waterfowl Responsiveness: Had a couple specks turn for the call but go with blues.

Hunters: 2 Mikes, father and son

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s): slept

Special Equipment:

Kudos: good company

Curses: flat hate taking nice folks on bad hunts

Birds By Species: zip

Photo Ops:
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Re: 2014-2015 Season Log...

Postby Rick » Sat Dec 06, 2014 8:40 pm

Date: 12/6

Time: morning

Location: mudhole

Cloud Cover: high fog, not just ground

Wind Direction and Velocity: southerly to westerly nil to moderate

Temperature: warm

Barometer:

Moon phase:

Special Notes:

Waterfowl Activity: Not bad at all for a foggy morning.

Waterfowl Responsiveness: The birds tried to do their part, we just weren't good at letting them.

Hunters: 3, corporate group with super nice host and one client who were both pretty new to waterfowling and tried hard and one horse's arse client who thought he knew too much to hide or hold his water when birds were trying to get themselves killed.

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s): Peake did his part.

Special Equipment: SOS

Kudos: Should have been a great 24 bird morning.

Curses: One guy buggered it for his party.

Birds By Species: 3 mallards, 1 pintail, 4 ringnecks, 1 wigeon and 1 wood duck

Photo Ops: Foggy morning fly-off:
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Re: 2014-2015 Season Log...

Postby Rick » Sat Dec 06, 2014 8:57 pm

Date: 12/6

Time: morning

Location: thorn

Cloud Cover: partly

Wind Direction and Velocity: north moderate

Temperature: cool

Barometer:

Moon phase:

Special Notes:

Waterfowl Activity: Were bodies north and south of us, but most traffic was westerly. Just enough came our way to make a nice hunt.

Waterfowl Responsiveness: Had shooting on two pairs and a young single, only the later of which bought in without a good bit of convincing.

Hunters: 2, father, Tom, and grown son, Ross, who were infrequent but enthusiastic waterfowlers.

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s): Mostly easy money but tried to break on a long fly-off, so continuing to use the stakeout for goose hunts paid off.

Special Equipment: hunted a very stale spread with that included a dozen blues to be sure birds knew it was bogus, so I sweetened it with 5 of my Deception specks well out in the pond to look like the real deal was taking advantage of no hunters being home. Am convinced they, as much as anything sold the two pairs, both of which initially passed high and murmuring about the blind.

Kudos: Pleasant afternoon with nice folks who did as bid and were rewarded with close, close shooting. And everything we had a chance at went on the strap.

Curses: Bumped heads pretty hard with the bozo from this morning at dinner this evening when he tried taunting me about whether this afternoon's guys followed instructions well enough and hope embarrassing him doesn't adversely effect his nice host's business with him.

Birds By Species: 5 specks

Photo Ops: Shame the heck on me for not getting a hero shot of Tom and Ross, but here are some retrieve shots:
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Re: 2014-2015 Season Log...

Postby Flightstopper » Sat Dec 06, 2014 9:08 pm

Looks like that new camera is treating you well.
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Re: 2014-2015 Season Log...

Postby DComeaux » Sat Dec 06, 2014 9:41 pm

Rick wrote:
Curses: Bumped heads pretty hard with the bozo from this morning at dinner this evening when he tried taunting me about whether this afternoon's guys followed instructions well enough and hope embarrassing him doesn't adversely effect his nice host's business with him.


hmmm...... I'm not going to type what I'm thinking.

Nice hunts, Rick! Send me a few ducks, why don't ya.
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Re: 2014-2015 Season Log...

Postby simplepeddler » Sat Dec 06, 2014 10:32 pm

As I guy who has hosted "sports" for the last 28 years.............I can tell you........it just ain't fun sometimes.......

Now as the leader of the pack, I make the sales guys take the schumck customers by themselves.

Great reports Rick!
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Re: 2014-2015 Season Log...

Postby Rick » Sun Dec 07, 2014 5:02 am

I draw a lot of our difficult parties but bungholes are rare, and the afternoon with Tom and Ross was great salve for that one. Didn't realize how anxious I was to straighten him out until he made such a point of giving me the chance. Still feel awful about putting his host in an awkward place, but this morning's blind assignments have been changed, and all should be well...
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Re: 2014-2015 Season Log...

Postby Ericdc » Sun Dec 07, 2014 6:57 pm

Rick wrote:I draw a lot of our difficult parties but bungholes are rare, and the afternoon with Tom and Ross was great salve for that one. Didn't realize how anxious I was to straighten him out until he made such a point of giving me the chance. Still feel awful about putting his host in an awkward place, but this morning's blind assignments have been changed, and all should be well...


Like the guys who go to sporting events and think that paying admission gives them the right to scream some of the worst things at players in the game.

Glad you straightened him out, maybe his coworkers or family will benefit.
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Re: 2014-2015 Season Log...

Postby Rick » Sun Dec 07, 2014 7:56 pm

We were buddies and pals again at brunch this morning. "Go figure..."
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