Post-Season Ponderings
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2017 9:29 am
Though the goose season is still going on, I've been done since Wednesday of the final week in the East Zone. However, have plenty of off-season items on my to-do list, just the way I like it to stay involved tinkering with hunt stuff in the summer.
Made some progress this weekend in cleaning up a bag full of decoys I took home from the Bunkie field. Some were new that just needed cleaning up before hanging up in attic for summer. Others were a collection of a couple dozen decoys of mix and match species, brand, size, condition, etc. Many of these stayed on the bench in the camp this season because the critters apparently got to their rigging since last deployed a few years prior. Also doing a fair bit of draining and patching. Seems that some others with more success than us at this farm (historically) are deploying very large spreads so the idea is to get as many out on the pond as we can for next season. Probably best to spread them more so as not to look like a big blob right in front of blind
Here's a few as an example
Also working to do some scraping of rust spots and re-painting of ATV trailer, as well as rear rack on fourwheeler I just took off and will throw a coat of Rustoleum on for first time since new in 2007.
If I had some time to get away we may have given the field below a chance with the specks which is adjacent the duck "pond" slick water we hunted.
Never had geese go in on their own accord to it but plenty got low and gave it a hard look. Any thoughts as to what is growing, why a farmer would plant it as such, and it's appeal (or not) to specks? Had the water pictured on it at last trip but previously not as flooded
Made some progress this weekend in cleaning up a bag full of decoys I took home from the Bunkie field. Some were new that just needed cleaning up before hanging up in attic for summer. Others were a collection of a couple dozen decoys of mix and match species, brand, size, condition, etc. Many of these stayed on the bench in the camp this season because the critters apparently got to their rigging since last deployed a few years prior. Also doing a fair bit of draining and patching. Seems that some others with more success than us at this farm (historically) are deploying very large spreads so the idea is to get as many out on the pond as we can for next season. Probably best to spread them more so as not to look like a big blob right in front of blind
Here's a few as an example
Also working to do some scraping of rust spots and re-painting of ATV trailer, as well as rear rack on fourwheeler I just took off and will throw a coat of Rustoleum on for first time since new in 2007.
If I had some time to get away we may have given the field below a chance with the specks which is adjacent the duck "pond" slick water we hunted.
Never had geese go in on their own accord to it but plenty got low and gave it a hard look. Any thoughts as to what is growing, why a farmer would plant it as such, and it's appeal (or not) to specks? Had the water pictured on it at last trip but previously not as flooded