Darren wrote:Looking forward to seeing the note!
Hey, what harm can it do?
SpinnerMan wrote:It's a tradeoff. You need to know where the birds are. It's hard to come up and shoot birds that you have to find first...
Rick wrote:SpinnerMan wrote:It's a tradeoff. You need to know where the birds are. It's hard to come up and shoot birds that you have to find first...
I'd like to think Dave, Darren and anyone else who's hunted with me and actually paid attention could tell you that I tell my hunters that I want them to watch the birds and know exactly where they are when the shot's called (and wouldn't pay a nickle for a hunt I couldn't watch). But if they're unmasked, I want them to do it from under hat brims with their faces near the front lip of the blind, rather than cocked back mooning the birds - like the last however-many who shot at them. Which, alas, is what the great majority of them wind up doing, anyway, despite my demonstration of both the right and wrong of it.
Of course, you can't always see all of the action that way, just what's beside and in front of us to include where shots should be called if they're doing their part which is why I'd much, much rather everyone wore masks. I'll also do what I can to quietly keep them informed about how birds are coming from behind us. Not that I can always let off the call to do so or that the birds won't slide this way or that to make a liar of me, but most who actually listen or look to see where I'm looking from behind the cover of a mask or camoed off arm will know where to expect their birds to appear from and be locked on them before shots are called.
Unless, of course, something goes haywire, like a craned neck to force our hand awkwardly early - one of the reasons I love to see masks that afford careful folks 360 vision. The other being birds that see us before we see them.
SpinnerMan wrote:I wonder if some people feel they can't have a blade of grass in the way...
Rick wrote:SpinnerMan wrote:I wonder if some people feel they can't have a blade of grass in the way...
I shame 'em by pointing out that if the Yankees can shoot grouse and woodcock in the woods, they ought to be able to shoot ducks through a few canes. Canes which, by the way, have fuzzy tops roughly the size and shape of the faces I'm hoping to help hide with them.
But it's a safe bet most "hunters" will be breaking our cover down, instead using it to advantage. And God bless the few who'll greet me years after our last venture with "Grass is gold."
Ricky Spanish wrote:I have gotten good at finding where to hide my blind.
It's usually really obvious where other hunters broke down stuff to hide. Sometimes the only spot has no cover at all.
That's when you have to have faith in your brush job and sit really still.
I think you'd die if you saw some of my "successful hides".
It makes no sense at all.
Kill em right out in open wearing green camo in snow kinda stupidity works? No way.
Move north young man. Ducks are way dumber. Hehe.
Now you lecture on how us Yankees make it hard on you.
It's by design. Our politicians make rules about things theyre clueless about and we end up hiding behind a T-stake with a reflective number on it.
Thats part of the problem.us Yankees are forced to hunt in a way that educates birds. Call the IDNR an tell em Rick.
Deltaman wrote:...Snagless Sallies...
Deltaman wrote:...lament the fact that Uncle Josh quit making natural pork skin trailers (green-spotted and Red were my go to colors).
Rick wrote:Deltaman wrote:...lament the fact that Uncle Josh quit making natural pork skin trailers (green-spotted and Red were my go to colors).
I long used plain Uncle Josh pork frogs much as you may fish the Snagless Sally, except often, though not always, slower. On a light wire snagless hook, could rip it or twitch it or both most anywhere.
DComeaux wrote:...or add a little bit of meat tenderizer to soften it up for added action
Rick wrote:Like the idea of using pork frogs as crab imitations. Could have been killer for reds. I was partial to rainbow Silver Spoons. My flounder "go to" was a small gold was a flavored Berkley twister tail on a jig behind a Hildebrant(?) safety-pin spinner, flounder "trick" being to let them work their way up the trailer to the hook before setting it. Just mighty tough to teach folks to get over the impulse to set the hook at fist bite - same-same topwater specks. 'Cept, of course, spinnered jigs didn't come flying back at us like trebble-hooked missiles when someone couldn't hold their water until they actually felt the fish that slapped their Spook.
SpinnerMan wrote:Especially bad when it's in the dark Duck and cover the eyes.
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