2017-2018 Season Log

Re: 2017-2018 Season Log

Postby DComeaux » Mon Sep 25, 2017 1:40 pm

Rick wrote:
Rick wrote:...and we'll make a point of thinking of you while viewing the birdless sunrise.


Turns out I lied. Not that we had much for ducks to look at.



If I had gone, we would have had no wind, zero visibility, and your go devil wouldn't have started.
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Re: 2017-2018 Season Log

Postby Rick » Mon Sep 25, 2017 3:40 pm

Right now my Go-Devil starts fine but won't idle down. Lopes and croaks.
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Re: 2017-2018 Season Log

Postby DComeaux » Mon Sep 25, 2017 4:16 pm

Rick wrote:Right now my Go-Devil starts fine but won't idle down. Lopes and croaks.


I'm guessing Briggs? That was always the problems I hated most with those damn things. Couldn't throttle down fast or it'd die. The one we have now does not do this, YET, and as I've mentioned, may be fixed, somewhat, on top end as well.

I've used the motor we have now all of last season running poorly but we didn't have far to travel. This year with the mile or so to the blind I had to make some adjustments. One that was a must was making a trim adjustment to the prop plate. I bent the trailing edge up about an 1/8th of an inch and I can now do the "LOOK MA! NO HANDS!" thing.....This makes Blake nervous. :mrgreen:
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Re: 2017-2018 Season Log

Postby aunt betty » Mon Sep 25, 2017 5:18 pm

The cold front you've been wanting on is finally coming thru here. It's moving slow. By Wednesday our high temps will have dropped by twenty degrees back to more seasonal levels.

Whenever I get performance issues on one of them small engines I've learned to just go over the whole engine. Clean and tighten everything. Usually something has worked loose or gooked up in the carb. One little leak, compression or intake, and it's gonna make you miserable.
I've heard that it's incredibly stupid to fuck around with a crazy man's head.
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Re: 2017-2018 Season Log

Postby Rick » Tue Sep 26, 2017 4:06 am

Probably a speck of dirt dauber (mud mason) nest made it through what was left of the air filter (Ahemm!) and into a jet. Douched it with carb cleaner from top and through bowl drain hole to no effect, and if Sea Foam and Marvel don't break it down enough to pass, I'll go through the carb - after teal closes.
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Re: 2017-2018 Season Log

Postby aunt betty » Tue Sep 26, 2017 10:07 am

Had forgotten about how every hole of a certain diameter has a certain bug that nests in it.
Around here the only example I can come up with is that spiders will make a nest in the orifice of any turkey fryer that's left out overnight. One of my friends' burns his pot black every time he used his fryer. Tolt him fiddy times "it's a spider web yuh big dummy".

Mud daubers...Champaign county and others had a war on them asian beetles back around oh...2000. Maybe it was the whole state. Not sure.
Fleet of crop dusters attacked the clouds of beetles. We had clouds of them that'd cover a whole one-mile section.
Have not seen a mud dauber wasp since. Still have beetles but not like when they first showed up.
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Re: 2017-2018 Season Log

Postby Rick » Tue Sep 26, 2017 10:46 am

Date: 9/26 Tue

Time: morning

Location: Mudhole

Cloud Cover: clear

Wind Direction and Velocity: light easterly(?)

Temperature: warm

Moon phase:

Special Notes: Hoped the front moving down through the Dakotas would fix us up.

Waterfowl Activity: No noticeable change, yet. Had just three ops through 8 when we quit.

Waterfowl Responsiveness: Thankfully good.

Hunters: 2, Chad and Richie

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s): Marsh tracked one that went down on the west end of the pond well into the marsh before snagging it, despite its having little head start as we were trying to beat the gator there and boated over right away. Was upper wing broke but paddles and wheels were working fine.

Special Equipment: sos

Curses: Mishandled our third op when a big bunch I broke down from way the hey up swarmed the pond from the "wrong" side of the canes blocking view to our rear. Guys jumped and I gave the go-ahead when we should have waited and brought them around. Guys only chipped Marsh's swimmer/runner, and the bunch was off their end before I could try to help.

Kudos: After the guys flat missed an easy single and had me worried, we took five from the first bunch in. That and one of their group had to leave early, so we didn't stay to sweat out the last hour and a half until 9:30 curfew.

Birds By Species: 6 bw teal
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Re: 2017-2018 Season Log

Postby Ericdc » Tue Sep 26, 2017 1:11 pm

My buddy had a decent shoot in northeast LA this morning....so maybe?


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Re: 2017-2018 Season Log

Postby DComeaux » Tue Sep 26, 2017 1:44 pm

johnc wrote:No migration in?

No grand passage that showed up on radar like in 1996 or whatever year that was?





December 13, 1995|By John Husar.

Duck master Frank Bellrose dubbed it "a grand passage," when millions of ducks, piqued by a freaky moment of nature, decide to migrate all at once.

This has happened only twice in the recorded past, in 1940 and 1955. It apparently occurred again last month.

According to Ray Marshalla, waterfowl expert with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, the phenomenon began in early November when hundreds of thousands of ducks rose from the Canadian prairies, spurred by a major cold front. They swept through the Dakotas and Minnesota in increasing numbers, picking up flocks as they flew south.


http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1995-12-13/sports/9512130125_1_fewer-ducks-puddle-ducks-illinois-department
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Re: 2017-2018 Season Log

Postby aunt betty » Tue Sep 26, 2017 2:10 pm

Sat at the lake watching it. Thanksgiving day. T-shirt weather.
There were around 50k then they all left in flocks by the 100's.
Was around that time where I convinced myself that if I was going to kill ducks consistently that I was going to have to travel to where them ducks were going. Took me years and I still haven't quite got it all figured out.

Shot a Canada goose that was banded by Ray Marshalla.
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Re: 2017-2018 Season Log

Postby Ericdc » Tue Sep 26, 2017 2:15 pm

johnc wrote:
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yes these were not from 95 but we used to kill ducks on the farm


99-00 was fun. I started hunting in mid 90’s and I fondly remember that year.


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Re: 2017-2018 Season Log

Postby Bud » Tue Sep 26, 2017 11:43 pm

One of my best speck hunts was at the edge of a field with no water. Rick and a friend were calling to his three? decoys. Still remember the first that slid in and by out front from right to left and not a shot hit him. After a moment's silence, Rick said, "Alright, guys: that bird was killable." I asked where I should have been aiming and Rick obliged me. I was shooting out front of him. Most of them fell after that for awhile. I remember a veterinarian friend from LA was there to hunt with my small team, too.
I'm certain they were looking for that finesse up close calling Rick was doing.

Send some to GA and we will send you guys buffleheads that have better color to them. Learned to love hunting those brown birds.
All in a day's work.
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Re: 2017-2018 Season Log

Postby Rick » Wed Sep 27, 2017 4:09 am

Wish I could remember yesterday's hunt that well - OK, maybe not yesterday's.
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Re: 2017-2018 Season Log

Postby Rick » Wed Sep 27, 2017 10:44 am

johnc wrote:Hearing and or seeing the first specks of the year will cure all that memory loss


My memory's long gone, but both seeing and hearing annual speck firsts remain a great treat.
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Re: 2017-2018 Season Log

Postby Rick » Wed Sep 27, 2017 10:55 am

Date: 9/27 Wed.

Time: morning

Location: Mudhole

Cloud Cover: partly

Wind Direction and Velocity: light?

Temperature: warm

Moon phase: Waxing 30%

Special Notes:

Waterfowl Activity: Saw a very few, mostly distant, teal and even fewer bigger ducks than usual, too.

Waterfowl Responsiveness: What little came within hailing distance was plainly spooked by our place or spinners. Biggest group seen turned inside out doing a 180 away from the big spinner.

Hunters: 2, father and son, Robert and Eric on Eric's first duck hunt.

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s):

Special Equipment: sos

Curses: Nice folks who the hunt was plainly a big deal to, and it belly-flopped about as badly as it could. That, and the last day Sat morning hunt I was hoping to save for grandsons will be spent trying to make up for this one.

Kudos: Getting another chance to make it as it should be Saturday.

Birds By Species: DNS or even think about shooting, for that matter.

Photo Ops:

Lagniappe:
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Re: 2017-2018 Season Log

Postby Ericdc » Wed Sep 27, 2017 11:03 am

How long has it been since you had a DNS in the mudhole? Wow


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Re: 2017-2018 Season Log

Postby Rick » Wed Sep 27, 2017 12:01 pm

Believe that was my second in going on 12 seasons and first for September teal. Absolutely hated it for those folks, could hardly have been worse timing.
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Re: 2017-2018 Season Log

Postby Ducaholic » Wed Sep 27, 2017 12:21 pm

The front I touted a week ago is fizzling in strength and moving at a snail's pace. I'm still hopeful for Friday and Sat mostly due to the wind that we will have at daylight out of the NNE at 5mph. Hopefully things pick up. Folks I know in NW La. reported a decent shoot this morning. It was there first in a while so we shall see.
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Re: 2017-2018 Season Log

Postby Darren » Wed Sep 27, 2017 12:33 pm

Well hell, Rick, know that eats you up. Hope the birds Saturday show the young gun how it can also be
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Re: 2017-2018 Season Log

Postby DComeaux » Wed Sep 27, 2017 8:51 pm

AWWW! Man, that sucks.
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Re: 2017-2018 Season Log

Postby Rick » Thu Sep 28, 2017 4:05 am

Being as how it's deer youth/veteran season, I stuck my discharge card in my wallet and took a rifle for a walk to check out the teal spot our new/old farmer prepared for us on a new piece of ag land with a bit of lowland woods. Saw no deer and found no water left on either our place or the sublet one I passed. SNAFU. But I was able to feed quite a few apparently starving mosquitoes on the way out, so there's that.

Camp's empty this morning, and I'm looking forward a no pressure hunt with only Marsh to disappoint.
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Re: 2017-2018 Season Log

Postby Deltaman » Thu Sep 28, 2017 7:29 am

"Camp's empty this morning, and I'm looking forward a no pressure hunt with only Marsh to disappoint."

Good Luck, and hope they surprise you with some new arrivals!
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Re: 2017-2018 Season Log

Postby Rick » Thu Sep 28, 2017 8:48 am

Nothing "new" but still sweet, sweet, sweet.
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