Strange day
Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 9:19 pmWell today was the first diver hunt of the year for my group. Made the 9 mile run down the sound early this morning fine(my first time running down the sound in the dark) without any problems. Got down there and got everything out and in the blind. Got in the blind a few minutes after LST and had 2 buffleheads right off the bat. I didn't get one of those 2. The guy we put in the blind first didn't load my gun 
Got those 2 in the blind and it kinda slowed down for a little while. Had some pintails give us a look but didn't want to come play. Shot 1 more bufflehead and everyone in the blind had a duck.
We start to get a little hungry so we break out the grill and cook some eggs and deer sausage. While we were cooking we got blindsided by some blackheads and didn't get a shot off at them. This is where it starts getting creepy. So after a little while we want some lemonades out of the boat(which is about 200yrds away. Soy friend goes and walks to the boat and he saw a big rope that was floating there that wasn't there earlier. When he gets back to the blind all our decoys that are in front of the blind are all in a line and they keep getting closer. Before I go on I should tell this. The state has dredge pipes out on a sandbar about 200yrds in front of the blind for dredging the inlet for a new bridge. Well what happen was the dredge pipe anchor line had broken and it was drifting towards our blind with the tide. So we start getting our decoys from around the pipe that were getting tangled and throwing them behind the blind. So we are doing that and the next thing I hear is "big ducks! Big ducks! Shoot them!" So I turn around and all I see is 2 jet black ducks hauling ass towards use with orange on their bill so I say "their scoters! Shoot them!" So my friends dad was the only one in the blind so he grabs his gun and kills one and hits the other one but it kept flying. So I go and pick it up and it's a freaking drake black scoter. Well about that time the pipe moves 3ft when we weren't expecting it and it about took my friends legs out from under him. So I run and go get the boat and start throwing decoys in there and getting guns out of the blind and putting them in the boat. By the time we got the boat next to the ladder on the blind we could feel the pipe hitting up against the blind and the blind was starting to lean. So we get everything and everybody in the boat and start heading out of there. So we are about 800yrds from the blind and a state boat the was helping with the dredging come running by us heading to our blind. So we watch for a little and it looked like they were trying to put something around the pipe and drag it back where it needed to be. But all in all it was a fun and interesting day. Saw a new kind of duck killed and had fun with friends. Ended up with 4 buffleheads and the scoter. Not a great day but we will take what we can get his early in the season.
Got those 2 in the blind and it kinda slowed down for a little while. Had some pintails give us a look but didn't want to come play. Shot 1 more bufflehead and everyone in the blind had a duck. We start to get a little hungry so we break out the grill and cook some eggs and deer sausage. While we were cooking we got blindsided by some blackheads and didn't get a shot off at them. This is where it starts getting creepy. So after a little while we want some lemonades out of the boat(which is about 200yrds away. Soy friend goes and walks to the boat and he saw a big rope that was floating there that wasn't there earlier. When he gets back to the blind all our decoys that are in front of the blind are all in a line and they keep getting closer. Before I go on I should tell this. The state has dredge pipes out on a sandbar about 200yrds in front of the blind for dredging the inlet for a new bridge. Well what happen was the dredge pipe anchor line had broken and it was drifting towards our blind with the tide. So we start getting our decoys from around the pipe that were getting tangled and throwing them behind the blind. So we are doing that and the next thing I hear is "big ducks! Big ducks! Shoot them!" So I turn around and all I see is 2 jet black ducks hauling ass towards use with orange on their bill so I say "their scoters! Shoot them!" So my friends dad was the only one in the blind so he grabs his gun and kills one and hits the other one but it kept flying. So I go and pick it up and it's a freaking drake black scoter. Well about that time the pipe moves 3ft when we weren't expecting it and it about took my friends legs out from under him. So I run and go get the boat and start throwing decoys in there and getting guns out of the blind and putting them in the boat. By the time we got the boat next to the ladder on the blind we could feel the pipe hitting up against the blind and the blind was starting to lean. So we get everything and everybody in the boat and start heading out of there. So we are about 800yrds from the blind and a state boat the was helping with the dredging come running by us heading to our blind. So we watch for a little and it looked like they were trying to put something around the pipe and drag it back where it needed to be. But all in all it was a fun and interesting day. Saw a new kind of duck killed and had fun with friends. Ended up with 4 buffleheads and the scoter. Not a great day but we will take what we can get his early in the season.
