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Date: October 18 (Opening Day)

Hunters: Myself and Jesse

Time: Morning

Location: B&G Blind 3

Weather Conditions: Lightning on the horizon and radar showing we are going to get shellacked at shooting time. 65 humid, little wind, and heavy overcast at sunrise to partly later.

We hustled to get the decoys out and seek shelter in the blind. But the nastiness on the radar either evaporated or went around us. Nothing but a few drops of rain.

Waterfowl Activity: Lots of wood ducks while it was still dark. Slowed a lot once it brightened.

Very hard to pick out of the dark background. Quite a bit of snap shooting. Not a lot a lot of hitting. If we had just a touch more light, we would have done better. That's my excuse anyways. We each got a woodie.

Curses: It was nice to have things go my way for a change. The rain skipped us and we had a beautiful morning.

Birds By Species: 2 wood ducks

Photo Ops:
Jesse heading out to hunt his woodie that fell in the brush with a rainbow in the background.

Not sure why your woodie hunt resonated with me so, but I swear I could smell the small waters I once hunted them on.

I should have added a note that I missed having a dog. We passed on some geese that would have fallen into an area I did not want to go to try and recover them.

Also we had a woodie zoom in on us low and was probably 15 yards max when Jesse pulled up quickly and missed. It popped up over the brush for an easy shot and I called him off the shot. He asked me if it was something he should not be shooting at. I asked him if he wanted to go retrieve it from over there. He thanked me.

I passed on one other shot because of where it would fall if I hit it.

When I had the dog, I didn't have to worry about this. Although all the buckthorn and other nastiness, she would occasionally come back with a bloody nose from going into the jungle.

Glad the rain didn't materialize, and y'all ended up with a few birds for the pot!
Thanks for the report Ed!