Season

[Rick]

"Like the old days..."

[Deltaman]

WOW, what a beautiful strap!!!! Congrats Eric, and glad to see somebody is on the birds

[MARSH BEAR]

Great hunt - hoping we have a few ducks this weekend, If you have a few extra send them south.

[Ducaholic]

Well Done Sir!

[Ericdc]

Date: 12-21-19

Time: quit at 10:45

Location: pit blind

Cloud Cover: solid high clouds (my least favorite conditions)

Wind Direction and Velocity: calm to light NE

Temperature: 40’s

Barometer:

Moon phase:

Special Notes: breakfast was good

Waterfowl Activity: ducks moved decent all morning just couldn’t do anything with them in the conditions

Waterfowl Responsiveness: none for either ducks or geese

Hunters: Michael dakota and I

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s): cane did great

Special Equipment: 2 higdon pulsators

Kudos: we have birds around, today was just a slow day..especially for a Saturday but we enjoyed the visit

curses: goose season opened and they didn’t move other than the local herds of snows on normal feeds.

Birds By Species:
4 shovelers

Photo Ops:

Dakota Cane and me



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[Ericdc]

Date: 12-24-19

Time: left at 10

Location: dakota’s pit east of Monroe

Cloud Cover: clear

Wind Direction and Velocity: calm to light NE

Temperature: warmed up quick from 40’s

Barometer:

Moon phase:

Special Notes: dakota’s been frustrated with their lease but near as much as one of his partners, rest of guys life out of state and would be better off buying hunts with an outfitter.
So.....he enjoyed hunting with me Colin and his dad today

Waterfowl Activity: got better as morning went along, packed up with specks looking interested

Waterfowl Responsiveness: specks responded good, pintail worked good, rest were passing shots

Hunters: my nephew Colin, dakota, his dad, and I

Guns:

Malfunctions: I got caught up on one of the blind flaps raising up on group of specks.

Dog(s): Colin paid rent this morning

Special Equipment: dakota is trying my no spinners approach when other guys aren’t there

Kudos: we had a good time and made a decent hunt

curses: not nearly the birds on this farm as there were doing early speck in November

Birds By Species:
4 green winged teal
2 pintail
1 mallard
2 specks
1 shoveler that’s going to John C after the season

Photo Ops:
Really enjoying new phone’s camera





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[DComeaux]

Nice strap of birds and awesome pictures.

[Deltaman]

Nice hunt, and love seeing that drake smilin' Mallard in full color!

[Darren]

Perty spoon, look forward to seeing the mount

[Ericdc]

Date: 12-28-19

Time: left at 10:30

Location: pit blind

Cloud Cover: heavy to partly back to heavy

Wind Direction and Velocity: ESE to SSE 10 mph

Temperature: 60’s, wore t shirt and shorts under waders

Barometer:

Moon phase:

Special Notes: Good company helps pass a slow hunt

Waterfowl Activity: local ducks on local flights, hardly any geese moving any very little seen in area like we had up to a week ago

Waterfowl Responsiveness: mallard drake and spoons landed way wide

Hunters: dakota Michael Kyle and I

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s): cane

Special Equipment:

Kudos: sausage was good

curses: been hot for a week and our birds left, saw 2 specks all morning

Birds By Species:
0

Photo Ops:
New decoys look good


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[BGkirk]

Date: 12-28-19

Time: left at 10:30

Location: pit blind

Cloud Cover: heavy to partly back to heavy

Wind Direction and Velocity: ESE to SSE 10 mph

Temperature: 60’s, wore t shirt and shorts under waders

Barometer:

Moon phase:

Special Notes: Good company helps pass a slow hunt

Waterfowl Activity: local ducks on local flights, hardly any geese moving any very little seen in area like we had up to a week ago

Waterfowl Responsiveness: mallard drake and spoons landed way wide

Hunters: dakota Michael Kyle and I

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s): cane

Special Equipment:

Kudos: sausage was good

curses: been hot for a week and our birds left, saw 2 specks all morning

Birds By Species:
0

Photo Ops:
New decoys look good


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landed way wide because your decoys are way wide?


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[Ericdc]

Date: 12-28-19

Time: left at 10:30

Location: pit blind

Cloud Cover: heavy to partly back to heavy

Wind Direction and Velocity: ESE to SSE 10 mph

Temperature: 60’s, wore t shirt and shorts under waders

Barometer:

Moon phase:

Special Notes: Good company helps pass a slow hunt

Waterfowl Activity: local ducks on local flights, hardly any geese moving any very little seen in area like we had up to a week ago

Waterfowl Responsiveness: mallard drake and spoons landed way wide

Hunters: dakota Michael Kyle and I

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s): cane

Special Equipment:

Kudos: sausage was good

curses: been hot for a week and our birds left, saw 2 specks all morning

Birds By Species:
0

Photo Ops:
New decoys look good


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landed way wide because your decoys are way wide?


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No, they landed over 100 yards away, my furthest decoys are maybe 40 yards. Just spooky locals that don’t want to fly over a decoy no matter where it is.


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[Ericdc]

Addendum to curses: I cut the mess out of my left hand in between my pointer and middle finger pulling grass this morning.

Wet grass and wet soft skin equals a nasty cut that bled pretty good


Probably gonna be pretty sore and stiff next several days.


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[Rick]

Don' do dat no mo'.

[Duck Engr]

Owwwwch

[DComeaux]

Deep cut. I would be very worried with a cut like that in the marsh. All kinds of cooties wanting in that wound.

[Ericdc]

Date: 12-29-29

Time: left at 10:15 before heavy rain

Location: pit blind

Cloud Cover: heavy to lighter to heavy with off and on light rain

Wind Direction and Velocity: E to SE to calm to W to Calm to SE

Temperature:50’s

Barometer:

Moon phase:

Special Notes: we didn’t goose egg like yesterday

Waterfowl Activity: good teal flight with decent big duck flight

Waterfowl Responsiveness: teal real good, big ducks bad

Hunters: my nephews Colin and hunter and me

Guns:

Malfunctions: follower on my browning gold backed into my receiver after first volley, believe it’s an old age issue and loss of metal on receiver where it meets magazine tube. Was able to punch it back in but not before decoying 30 teal

Dog(s): nephews

Special Equipment:

Kudos: boys dropped 4 out of big bunch, but we only killed 2 out of the 4 that landed in decoys earlier.

curses: big ducks won’t work and very very few specks around. Saw several poles of snows on ground on way back to Bastrop in higher ground corn fields

Birds By Species:
6 green winged teal

Photo Ops:



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[Ericdc]

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Date: 12-30-29

Time: they left at 11:30, I left at 12:30

Location: pit blind

Cloud Cover: clear (first clear day I’ve had this split)

Wind Direction and Velocity: 6-10 WSW

Temperature: 40’s to 50’s

Barometer:

Moon phase:

Special Notes: geese came back

Waterfowl Activity: pretty good flight just can’t do anything with the big ducks right now

Waterfowl Responsiveness: teal and specks great, mallards and gadwall terrible. Pintail did ok we just screwed up

Hunters: garrison ridge and I

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s): Ace and cannon

Special Equipment:

Kudos: we shot good on specks

curses: we shot bad on ducks and I missed the call on pintails and messed up on a big group of teal, first pass was better than 2nd pass.

Birds By Species:

8 green winged teal
2 shovelers
5 specks

Photo Ops:



My lunch time specks


Pretty day


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[Darren]

Very nice!

[Ericdc]

Date: 12-31-19

Time: left at 12:30

Location: pit blind

Cloud Cover: clear

Wind Direction and Velocity: light SW to calm for a bit then W to NW 5-8 mph or so

Temperature: 30’s to 50’s

Barometer:

Moon phase:

Special Notes: got to bring the nephews

Waterfowl Activity: big push of mallards from the north, good teal flight, lots of geese on farm.

Waterfowl Responsiveness: teal came pretty, first mallard we worked did perfect and I thought I had something.. I was wrong. Specks were not having it today. They would come out of big snow feed to north and maybe look a little then push on, nothing like yesterday

Hunters: Colin hunter and I

Guns:

Malfunctions: my maxus trigger caused my nephew to miss first 2 teal volleys, I do not understand what happened between when I put it up yesterday to this morning but it wouldn’t “cock” the trigger mechanism. Took it apart and finally got it to work, did find rest of day. Will take apart and clean trigger assembly before next hunt.

Dog(s):

Special Equipment:

Kudos: boys shot well

curses: we had a big group of teal later in morning bomb in on us coming with the wind then cut back into it right in the suns very bright glare. Figured they would come back around but they left and I was sick. Should have shot them as they cane from west, plenty close, just going real fast, but the early groups decoyed so perfectly I guess I thought these would too.

Couldn’t put the boys on any geese

Birds By Species:
9 green winged teal
1 mallard
1 wigeon
1 shoveler

Photo Ops:
Colins green


My favorite duck

The boys


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[Duck Engr]

Looks like a nice morning!

[Rick]

My favorite duck

Certainly my favorite waterfowl gunning. Went for some years before learning that the black bar so well represented at the base of that one's wing is the sign of a mature one.

[Ducaholic]

Nice DC!

[Ericdc]

Date: 1-4-20

Time: other 3 left at 10:30, I left at 12:15

Location: pit blind

Cloud Cover: clear with one cloud line passing from north before wind picked up to about 15 mph

Wind Direction and Velocity: 5 -10 W to 10-15 NW

Temperature: 40’s to 50’s

Barometer:

Moon phase: saw what might have been tail end of meteor shower

Special Notes: we shot pretty good today

Waterfowl Activity: strong teal flight. Lots of mallards and pintails flying north and south high and not breaking. Goose flight was not as strong and specks were high.

Waterfowl Responsiveness: teal are coming real good to my new this year Matt pierce whistle. Broke a medium high group of specks and had a young bird sick out of them right around noon

Hunters: 4 members

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s): ace

Special Equipment:

Kudos: called shots right on teal and we shot well.

curses: no luck with big ducks, thought no spinners would help, glad we aren’t using them but can’t seem to figure out the big ducks this year.

Birds By Species:
14 green winged teal
1 shoveler
1 speck


Photo Ops:

The guys with the ducks



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[Darren]

Nice hunt, and your new dekes indeed look good!

[Ericdc]

Date: 1-7-20

Time: left at 11:30

Location: pit blind

Cloud Cover: clear

Wind Direction and Velocity: west 5 -10 then NW 10

Temperature: 40’s

Barometer:

Moon phase:

Special Notes: enjoyed sharing blind with 2 friends I haven’t hunted with in 3 years

Waterfowl Activity: slowest I’ve seen this season

Waterfowl Responsiveness: had the group of teal, single mallard, group of gads, pair of pins and couple different specks decoy we would have had a decent hunt but the way the big ducks have been acting most of the 2nd split has me pretty frustrated, especially when I have folks in for probably our only hunt together.

Hunters: perry (ducaholic) Jonas Lance and me

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s): moon

Special Equipment:

Kudos: had a decent time visiting

curses: very very few ducks compared to my last several hunts and didn’t see our big goose feed anywhere

Birds By Species:
1 speck around 9:30 saved our scratch

Photo Ops:



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[Ducaholic]

Appreciated the hospitality.

[Ericdc]

Appreciated the hospitality.

Appreciate the sausage and Pantwalettes, they might end up in a pot with that speck Friday.


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[Ericdc]

Date: 1-11-20

Time: got there around 8 post storms, 2 left at 1 pm, Colin and I left at 3:20 pm

Location: pit blind

Cloud Cover: heavy to partly to heavy

Wind Direction and Velocity: I think it blew all directions until it got set on W 15-25 mph around 1 pm

Temperature: 50’s to 40’s

Barometer:

Moon phase:

Special Notes: I always enjoy hunting days when the weather gets somewhat extreme

Waterfowl Activity: good duck flight when we got there then off and on and picking back up around 2 with mostly pintail

Waterfowl Responsiveness: have really enjoyed pulling teal off a ways with my Matt pierce whistle. Pintails worked ok. One speck opportunity was same time Colin was 300 yards from pit after a teal.

Hunters: garrison, devin, Colin and I

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s): cannon then Colin

Special Equipment:

Kudos: we waited them out any more than doubled our strap between 1 and 3 pm

curses: Colin missed his pintail opportunity

Birds By Species:
1 pintail (going to John Chiasson)
2 gadwall
1 shoveler
7 green winged teal


Photo Ops:

Broken clouds are one of my favorite conditions

Decided I needed to take a pic, hadn’t in weeks.


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[Darren]

Pretty sprig, look forward to John’s work with it!