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[Rick]

Good to see the bad guys haven't got you yet, PJ. Not much good news on this end. Camp's teal season's been in jeopardy, and I gather Doug's back is wrecked. Ashamed, OK: semi-ashamed, to say I thought he was playing possum, but Ed's confirmed it.

[Ericdc]

What happened?


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[Rick]

Don't know, all he's told me was that he couldn't get out of his chair. Probably tugged on something he shouldn't have...

[Darren]

Don't know, all he's told me was that he couldn't get out of his chair. Probably tugged on something he shouldn't have...

Sorry to hear of it, hope he's on the mend.

[Rick]

Heard teal just showed up in force near 383 and Bayou Chene.

Saw none in Klondike this morning, but the dogs had a big time, anyway.

[Rick]

Doug went to see a back guy yesterday, and I've not heard what came of that but understand a MRI suggested/showed conflict between a bulging disk and sciatic nerve.

Rode a new farm with recently flooded stubble above Morse yesterday, but still haven't seen a for-certain teal.

[Rick]

...still haven't seen a for-certain teal.

Apparently should have rode with the Cherry Ridge crew checking on some millet they sowed there. One said they saw the most bluewings he's seen there at this time of year, which isn't ever a lot compared to big rice field bunches but hundreds, plural, yesterday.

[Rick]

Or flush us altogether. Hoping for substantial rain is tricky business this time of year...

[DComeaux]

Was out late yesterday evening in the marsh, and out before sunrise this morning, didn't see much of anything Had some young guys making a round in a truck on the levees in the refuge, and what they jumped wasn't impressive The mottled must have dispersed.

[Rick]

The mottled must have dispersed.

Probably enjoying second crop flooding somewhere.

[Darren]

Did see one for-sure bunch myself down here in shell beach yesterday evening while fishing reds, about a dozen swooping and diving all over just off Lake Borgne

Tides are way up so lots of flooded marsh, watching gulf closely next few days

Just looked at radar and looks like you’re getting some rain this morning

[Rick]

Just looked at radar and looks like you’re getting some rain this morning

Went out and stood in it a couple times this morning, just because I could. But we're still not getting anything significant here in town. River gauge has been trending in the right direction, though, so I guess there may still be some chance of hunting the mudhole. KNOCK WOOD.

[DComeaux]

Get you some,Rick.

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[Rick]

Looks a whoooole lot better on radar than on the ground here at the house, but would like to think it's more significant drainage-wide.

[Ericdc]

Looks like several inches have fallen around your area Rick. I know I went through a good one on the way to grand Chenier this morning.


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[DComeaux]

That's an awesome shot.

[Rick]

Watched what you photographed coming out of AMACO/White Lake Complex from the east blind on Dave's old farm south of Gueydan this afternoon, with nary a teal seen moving with it or on any of the area's picture perfect sheet water.

Did get to perform the season's first gator eviction, which was apparently none too soon, given his mighty thin condition. Made me feel like a bunghole for not bothering to look in the blind the last time I was out there.

[Ericdc]

Yea it stayed west of 27 for the most part. I saw what I think was a small group of teal that boiled up with a host of other birds on west side of 27 near sweet lake. They were probably a 1/4 mile away but nothing else rolls like teal so maybe....


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[Rick]

Finally saw a few for-certain teal today: six or eight buzzing Klondike ag land and a couple dozen more while setting lines in the Cherry Ridge marsh.

[DComeaux]

Did get to perform the season's first gator eviction, which was apparently none too soon, given his mighty thin condition. Made me feel like a bunghole for not bothering to look in the blind the last time I was out there.

Where's the blind covers?

[Rick]

Blind covers? Don't need no stinking blind covers.

[SpinnerMan]

Did get to perform the season's first gator eviction, which was apparently none too soon, given his mighty thin condition.

I had to perform a snapping turtle eviction earlier in the year from one of our blinds. I wasn't too excited about pulling a snapping turtle out of the blind. That was exciting enough for me. No way would I want to pull a gator out.

[Rick]

No way would I want to pull a gator out.

Believe me when I say I'm no friend of the alligator, but couldn't leave him there to starve.

[DComeaux]

No way would I want to pull a gator out.

Believe me when I say I'm no friend of the alligator, but couldn't leave him there to starve.

We had to miss the first 5 to 10 minutes of LST on a teal season morning with birds moving well because "someones" released gator was in our pit. It was carried to the big ditch and released.

[SpinnerMan]

One nice thing up here is that we don't even have poisonous snakes to worry about. A beaver is about the worst thing you will find in a blind. We had one eat through the door and it would not leave. Not sure if eating all that arsenic treated lumber messed it up or it just thought under the bench was its safest bet, but it would not leave. I damn near fell in the blind with it trying to get it out. Finally gave up and we were forced to evict it with a .22.

Thankfully we came out to do some last minute touch ups or opening morning may have involved an 85 lb dog and a 50 lb beaver going at it in a small wooden box.

[Rick]

"someones" released gator was in our pit.

Mea culpa: the alligator in the east Marceaux pit was, in fact, a farm return and almost surely one I'd released. Albeit nowhere near that blind. (Usually chunk 'em in the west blind.)

[DComeaux]

"someones" released gator was in our pit.

Mea culpa: the alligator in the east Marceaux pit was, in fact, a farm return and almost surely one I'd released. Albeit nowhere near that blind. (Usually chunk 'em in the west blind.)