Preseason 2014-2015

Re: Preseason 2014-2015

Postby DComeaux » Fri Sep 12, 2014 8:49 am

My nephew made a trip out the blind yesterday afternoon to check on things and get rid of some ants around the blind. He called me when leaving and when I answered, the greeting was a chuckle, which I took as a good sign. He estimated 150 to 200 BW with a large amount of mottled and wood ducks in the area. The north cut was holding a mix of wood ducks and mottled ducks while the south cut was all BW.

He didn't get photos as he had left the camera on dry land. He was afraid of losing it, as he's not the most sure footed fellow in that water environment........ I'm hoping they stick around, and with this front edging closer through the day and night, I'm feeling confident about our hunt in the morning. It's a better bird situation than last year at this time, that's for sure. But regardless, it will be nice to be in the blind again!
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Re: Preseason 2014-2015

Postby Rick » Fri Sep 12, 2014 11:20 am

I'd think sorting low woodies a booger with the high levees at your spot, especially with them on three sides of that north cut.
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Re: Preseason 2014-2015

Postby DComeaux » Fri Sep 12, 2014 1:07 pm

Rick wrote:I'd think sorting low woodies a booger with the high levees at your spot, especially with them on three sides of that north cut.



Yeah, I know. It's on my mind.
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Re: Preseason 2014-2015

Postby DComeaux » Sat Oct 11, 2014 3:13 pm

We made a trip out to the blind this morning to fix the entrance to our parking spot and I got to hear and see the first specks of the year. It was a wonderful thing! We actually saw a couple of groups the short time we were out there. It's time for the farmers to get that second crop rice out of the fields!!! Seems to be a lot of it this year, more than usual.
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Re: Preseason 2014-2015

Postby DComeaux » Sun Oct 26, 2014 9:03 am

I walked out the door just a bit ago to the wonderful sound of Speckle Belly. :D The only bad thing was, they were headed north.
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Re: Preseason 2014-2015

Postby Rick » Sun Oct 26, 2014 10:19 am

Still seeing precious few on this end. Just one little flight while running the dog in Klondike this morning, which is about par.

If the wind shifts as predicted today, I expect to take a little walk at your place late this afternoon and will report back here.
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Re: Preseason 2014-2015

Postby Rick » Sun Oct 26, 2014 8:00 pm

Your place was the place to be this evening. Didn't see a deer but slipped up on you pond and got to watch and listen to hundreds of mostly mottleds and teal with a few spoons and even jacks in the mix. Maybe others but the sun was behind them. Also had the first body of specks I've seen on the ground popping off on the piece to your south with a some traffic to it from the north and east.

Just a really neat place to be, even if all of your mosquitoes didn't seem to be off visiting their Klondike. Least I've been bugged after sunset all week.
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Re: Preseason 2014-2015

Postby DComeaux » Sun Oct 26, 2014 8:05 pm

Thanks for the good feeling, Rick!!
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Re: Preseason 2014-2015

Postby Rick » Sun Oct 26, 2014 8:09 pm

It's I who thanks you.
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Re: Preseason 2014-2015

Postby DComeaux » Sun Oct 26, 2014 8:27 pm

Keep after em. I know they're some 4 legged critters on that place. We've seen them while sitting in the blind and while working.
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Re: Preseason 2014-2015

Postby Rick » Mon Oct 27, 2014 5:18 am

As grown up as it is, the odds of catching one offering a shot are mighty slim. But if you're not going to shoot a deer, it's a sweet place to do it.
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Re: Preseason 2014-2015

Postby DComeaux » Mon Oct 27, 2014 7:14 am

Rick wrote:As grown up as it is, the odds of catching one offering a shot are mighty slim. But if you're not going to shoot a deer, it's a sweet place to do it.


Yeah it's nasty. I wish I had the equipment, time and money to take care of that place.
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Re: Preseason 2014-2015

Postby Rick » Mon Oct 27, 2014 9:31 am

The good news is that it let me get to the spot I watched without running your ducks out. (Dropped down off the levee into the field hidden behind it at the end of the flood canal.) Let them remind me how much ground "just like a duck" covers.
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Re: Preseason 2014-2015

Postby Rick » Tue Oct 28, 2014 10:11 am

Went up the middle road yesterday afternoon to watch the middle bottom cut, which is where I've most often seen deer on the piece, and didn't see a whole lot of anything before quitting time. Were some mottleds on the east pond (which doesn't have nearly the water you do), but the specks to the south were AWOL and your ducks must have been well settled in. But the walk out included a heck of an air show. Precious few specks but ducks everywhere.

Expect to sit where I can at least listen to your ducks again this evening before tomorrow's wind shift runs me off the place. Haven't seen a hair, track or turd, but it's still a sweet place to be.
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Re: Preseason 2014-2015

Postby DComeaux » Tue Oct 28, 2014 3:06 pm

Thanks for the report!
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Re: Preseason 2014-2015

Postby Rick » Tue Oct 28, 2014 8:51 pm

Sat by your pond this evening, still a mess of big ducks but no teal whatsoever were seen on the water or as part of the night flight. Weird, that. Perhaps ironically, your birds started getting up in waves about 6:45 and heading SE, right toward where some enterprising soul was making a night hunt on the other side of 91 as I walked out last night. Also saw a swamper.

This fellow was too close to a little cluster of country homes to give a pass and my only kill this deer season:
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Was a smaller one where the flood pipe goes under the path when I went in, but I didn't want to shoot and he wouldn't coil so I could safely stomp him. Ended up getting away. Sorry.
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Re: Preseason 2014-2015

Postby DComeaux » Tue Oct 28, 2014 9:51 pm

Enterprising hunter, ducks? .......Swamper, rabbit?

We have yet to push many ducks off those ponds in the early mornings. Since we've been there, our mornings start with us listening to others shoot at LST with our turn coming just a tad later, if the teal aren't around.

SNAKES! When draining that cut in the spring of 2013, they were stacked at the gates working the current. Would hate an accidental encounter with a sunning, sluggish cotton mouth while brushing. Come on cold weather.
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Re: Preseason 2014-2015

Postby Rick » Wed Oct 29, 2014 5:22 am

DComeaux wrote:Enterprising hunter, ducks? .......Swamper, rabbit?


Some ignorant soul the Brits hadn't told he needed a full moon and proper veil of clouds was making a good, presumably duck, hunt well after dark thirty.

And, yes, a swamp rabbit. Was eating something hanging over the edge of the buffalo's trail that he had to stand on his hind legs to reach. Wanted to know what but not badly enough to run him off to find out.
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Re: Preseason 2014-2015

Postby Rick » Mon Nov 03, 2014 9:54 pm

They were burning levees where I normally deer wait, so rather than sit in smoke and fume, I ran out to your place in hope of enjoying the company of some ducks and specks while I twiddled my thumbs and watched the buffalo path to the east blind. Didn't appear that you guys (or anyone on a bike) had been there, but Elvis had left the building. Were some mottleds and teal using the pond, but not nearly as many, and they were uncharacteristically quiet. One or the other perhaps popping off briefly just often enough to remind me they were there. No night flight to speak of, either, not doves, ducks, geese, bec croche or black birds. Nothin'. Strange, but still better than the tube.
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Re: Preseason 2014-2015

Postby DComeaux » Tue Nov 04, 2014 11:25 am

Rick wrote:They were burning levees where I normally deer wait, so rather than sit in smoke and fume, I ran out to your place in hope of enjoying the company of some ducks and specks while I twiddled my thumbs and watched the buffalo path to the east blind. Didn't appear that you guys (or anyone on a bike) had been there, but Elvis had left the building. Were some mottleds and teal using the pond, but not nearly as many, and they were uncharacteristically quiet. One or the other perhaps popping off briefly just often enough to remind me they were there. No night flight to speak of, either, not doves, ducks, geese, bec croche or black birds. Nothin'. Strange, but still better than the tube.


We haven't been out there in a couple of weeks or so. We will however be out there this weekend to set up, maybe both days. I sure hope we have a few birds to play with on opening day! Blake and I are off the entire week of the first split. If the ducks don't cooperate, we will attack the redfish down in the marsh.

What does the water level look like in that cut? Will I need to add some?

Will you be doing the youth thing at the mud hole next weekend?
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Re: Preseason 2014-2015

Postby Rick » Tue Nov 04, 2014 11:38 am

Your pond still looks good from a distance and through the brush, but I've been staying down over the levee to keep from running the birds I want to listen to out and not given it a good look.

See I didn't mention that there was a body of specks on the ground somewhere south or southwest, but none came or went and I could only hear them when they got wound up over something, so I'm not sure where.
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Re: Preseason 2014-2015

Postby DComeaux » Tue Nov 04, 2014 12:27 pm

Thanks, Rick!
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Re: Preseason 2014-2015

Postby DComeaux » Fri Nov 07, 2014 8:48 am

Over the years, the appearance of robins in our area was a good sign of migration, usually telling of a good push of ducks as well. Well, this morning I walked out to the first sight and unmistakable sounds of these fine birds this year. :D This is the earliest I've seen them in the last three or four years.
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Re: Preseason 2014-2015

Postby Rick » Fri Nov 07, 2014 11:33 am

Good to hear. Some of us were talking a few mornings ago about the scarcity of robins in recent winters. Damned RU's been short stopping them.
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Re: Preseason 2014-2015

Postby Flightstopper » Fri Nov 07, 2014 12:04 pm

Haha
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Re: Preseason 2014-2015

Postby DComeaux » Fri Nov 07, 2014 12:31 pm

Rick wrote:Good to hear. Some of us were talking a few mornings ago about the scarcity of robins in recent winters. Damned RU's been short stopping them.



No doubt! hahaha!
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Re: Preseason 2014-2015

Postby DComeaux » Sat Nov 08, 2014 10:41 pm

Took a little video of what greeted us this morning on the way to the blind. I hope they stick around as the duck situation is not looking good. Hopefully this next front will help. We had a good bit of low bunches of these wonderful things fly over us while at the blind. It was wonderful!!

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Re: Preseason 2014-2015

Postby Darren » Sun Nov 09, 2014 1:45 am

Gotta love it! Hope you get some ducks to show as well. Reports on our end were really good for youth hunters today, though none exactly where we are so I'll have to wait and see what we have late next week. It's a good start for the SE end nonetheless
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Re: Preseason 2014-2015

Postby DComeaux » Mon Nov 10, 2014 12:25 pm

Darren wrote:Gotta love it! Hope you get some ducks to show as well. Reports on our end were really good for youth hunters today, though none exactly where we are so I'll have to wait and see what we have late next week. It's a good start for the SE end nonetheless


I've seen several good reports with pictures and video of the weekend youth hunts. I'm really looking forward to getting out there. Football games this weekend SUCKED!
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