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Deltaman wrote:Curious, what is your meaning when you are talking about buffaloing a piece of property?????? Bush Hogging??

Stubble Roller

DComeaux wrote:

Deltaman wrote:Curious, what is your meaning when you are talking about buffaloing a piece of property?????? Bush Hogging??

Stubble Roller

Looks like fun

Easy way to make a pond:


So it is more fun than some of the others. Well, unless you lose something:

Rick wrote:Easy way to make a pond:


So it is more fun than some of the others. Well, unless you lose something:

Oh damn.

Ahhhhh, thanks for the explanation, hadn't seen that before.

Teal need to move, scat, vamoose form up there!

Monday, August 31, 2015
Stonewall, Manitoba

Hunting:
Opening day is tomorrow

Species/Numbers:
Migration certainly has started, migrating Canadas have begun to show up and are starting to hit the cut fields. Sandhill cranes are starting to show up also in good numbers. Early fall migrators like Blue-winged Teal are in really high numbers. Key to finding them, is to find flooded temporary wetlands. Found a couple spots that held a couple hundred to a couple thousand!

"Patience, Grasshopper." What's here now seems a good indication that things are on schedule. Don't want 'em to be in Belize when their time comes.

When I read that report it brought on flash backs of the past two seasons. I know they get down here in a hurry, just don't want them to lollygag again this year. I don't have a good feel of whats here as I've not been out and about.

Well, they're definitely going to do whatever they do. But I feel better having them around in what seem appropriate numbers now.

Rick wrote:Well, they're definitely going to do whatever they do. But I feel better having them around in what seem appropriate numbers now.

No doubt. Recall my preseason scouting year before last, no birds and I didn't fire a shot during the season. Last year, no birds for opener but killed a decent (for us) few for the season. This year, we have birds two weeks out, and hope we catch more of the heart of the migration rather than the tip of the front end as we have been in last couple of years. We'll see! Hope to check back in on the birds this weekend

Serious flights of mile high birds over your (Dave's) place late this evening. All going north. Season's over, you missed it.

That made me laugh! I WILL be out there with Blake on Saturday and probably one other day over this holiday weekend.

I'm messing with trying to get the Francis (where I watched the high flights) and Scanlon farms to your NW flooded now, but your piece was still holding good water Sunday morning.

Rick wrote:I'm messing with trying to get the Francis (where I watched the high flights) and Scanlon farms to your NW flooded now, but your piece was still holding good water Sunday morning.

Francis seems to have installed new equipment and plumbing right after the purchase. I know there was a ton of activity on that farm that year and a lot of 18 wheeler's with what appeared to be sand.

Everything's virtually new on it, yet I couldn't find a single drop pipe sleeve that hadn't been busted up by plow or bush hog.

Then there's the Scanlon piece that hasn't been farmed in years, where everything that can be found is busted. Not that much can be found.

Think it was Scanlon farm I hunted with Jason C a few years back, was fallow as far as I could see.

Well, Blake, Ellie and I will be heading out early in the morning to take a peek at what might be hanging out at the blind. We plan to fill in the part of the levee brush at the blind that got wiped out, and I need to build Ellie a lunch pad/hide. Not sure we'll get it all done tomorrow so we may make another trip on Sunday. Monday is reserved for car shopping. Need to get my wife a new vehicle and the dealerships are open. Planning a stop at G&H tomorrow to take advantage of the tax free weekend on hunting supplies.

Hope to be out there in the morning watching water across the way and will try to stop by.

Rick wrote:Hope to be out there in the morning watching water across the way and will try to stop by.

Sounds good! And that should read LAUNCh and not lunch pad..... I was hungry at the time.

i thought that was just where she ate during the hunts

Hope you see some blue winged buddies out and about. Will be out and around on my end this weekend as well, will report if anything worth noting. Probably at least get some more dog work in

My nephew Blake and I were out at the blind yesterday doing a little work in this sauna that is our current weather. I think we hit triple digits with the heat index yesterday. It was awful! We did see a few teal during the morning but not enough to be fully confident for a good opening morning. With the heat and humidity we had to deal with I didn't take the time to get pictures.

It's hard to breath when your active in this saturated atmosphere. All you have to do to break a sweat is stand outside for 10 minutes, no activity required. We had to get back to the truck as the morning progressed to sit it the AC for a time. Even running on the bike to try to get air moving around us during the still morning didn't do the trick. IT WAS FRICKEN OPPRESSIVE!

Weenie.

Rick wrote:Weenie.

Hey.... it was hot dude.

SEE THIS!

Reports For Lake Arthur, LouisianaSeason:
Tuesday, Sep. 8, 2015
R. Guidry reported No migration; few local birds
SUBMITTED VIA iPhone
Comments: Saw no teal in our rice fields this past weekend.

IT UPSETS ME!

It's kinda spooky. Been setting ag land gator lines around Klondike today and seen a lot of pretty teal floods without little ducks. Probably didn't move more than 3 or 4 dozen teal. On my way to set lines on your piece and across the way, so maybe that's where I'll see the mother load. Or not...

Not. Not setting yesterday or picking up today. Just not seeing many teal.

Doug crapped out of the buffalo business pretty quickly this evening, so I'll be doing yours tomorrow morning if everything holds up. Have one to finish to your west and another to do near it, then will do yours before moving onto the Francis farm.

Oh well, it will be what it will be.

You're a good man, Rick.

It ain't done yet...

We had been unseasonably hot up here in WI and had big groups of teal trading back and forth in the marsh. The weather just turned cooler so hopefully that sends them your way since our season is now over. Good Luck!

Rick wrote:It ain't done yet...

John Deere and I let you down, Dave. Fought fuel starvation all day, changed the filter and bled the injection lines 87.12 times, but lost the battle to what someone smarter than me says is a shot primer pump that's sucking wind. Doug's been having "filter problems" and had a spare in the cab, and it did seem better after installing it and bleeding the injectors - until crapping out again about half way across your blind's north cut. That changed my "big pond" ideas, but I did try to make you a decent one between frequent konk-outs and trips to the levee to try more bleeding. Finally got worried about running out of battery and leaving it in a bad spot and headed for a better work place. Got faked into thinking it might be OK and going back to the pond a time or two, but just had to call it. Was running so well when I got to the pump that I stupidly kept going with the intent to park it on one of our other farm's equipment pad, and damn near left it blocking Dolza Rd.

Be fine with me if I never climb on another tractor.

But it did give me a chance to run to the marsh and finish my spinner's hard wiring - and knock down the new black dirt in the pond and boat slip...again. Was raining most of that while, so I hoped to see teal moving and did, indeed, get to see one.

Anyway, you've open water for decoys, but it ain't pretty. Basically about half of a pond smaller than planned pond on the north side and just a very few rounds on the south side when that was the easiest course after bleeding.