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September 1st always is the start of my hunting season and I start to get excited this time of year. Here's some pics of last years dove season which was my bird dogs first season and my first season to hunt with my own bird dog. She did awesome considering I don't know what I'm doing when it comes to dog training. I got the tri-tronics retriever training manual and have followed that but her natural ability has overcome my shortcomings as a trainer. 20 days and counting.




This was Nyla's first hunt ever.


And her second hunt


September also starts the time of year the mullet come into the surf and the surf is clear and flat. Here's a few fishing pics








Its fun to run shark baits out this time of year.

And the bay fishing is good as well with my wife with some reds, specks and flounder.


Its getting to be that time of year. Its still very hot down here in South Texas but the Ocean breeze cools it off some and it won't be long before we start seeing flights of pintails. Y'all take care.

Looks like a great time!

Thanks for throwing in the gratuitous pintail shot there at the end! Assa will love it! This is the year he finally shoots one!

Tiler_J wrote:Looks like a great time!

Thanks for throwing in the gratuitous pintail shot there at the end! Assa will love it! This is the year he finally shoots one!

I took it for granted because redheads and pintails and widgeons make up the majority of my bag limit. I did a flooded timber mallard hunt last season up in North Texas (12 hour drive from my house) and got my first mallard and was amazed at how big and tasty mallard breasts were. During our 7 day hunt we killed around a 100 with mixed bags which included mallards, wood ducks, teal, gads, and ringnecks. It was cool to me to shoot something other than pintails and redheads.

Keep rubbing that in, any more pintail pictures? We are trying to cure Assa of the pintail shakes he has developed.

It's amazing how different areas have such different diversity of birds. I would love to shoot a blue wing teal, we get cinnamon teal all the time. Swap coasts and it is totally opposite. Where I hunt we get a pretty mixed bag of birds.

Very very jealous. Don't make it down to padre much anymore usually stop at POC. Much closer

I'm going there when I get out of the military. I love that state

We get to choose. Doves or Canada geese. Same day is opener for both.
I want the blackfeet.

I will have the A400 by then and it will finally be time to break it in properly.

@Flightstopper

I grew up in Austin and used to own a home in Pflugerville. Not sure how it is now but I used to launch a canoe underneath the Montopolis bridge on US 183 and go down river about a mile and limit out gadwalls and I'd occasionally get some woodies and teal. It was a really cool river hunt.

@DC727

When you get out of the military and want to move to Texas and are interested in a career in Law Enforcement my Department (TXDPS) is heavily recruiting military veterans. PM if you're interested and this last session of the Texas Legislature saw us get the highest pay increase in DPS history (23%). It would be fairly easy to get a duty station somewhere along the coast.

@Assa-

Here's a few pintail pics for you. I took these pictures the week before opening during the 2011 season. I bought a property that was about a 1/4 mile from the bay and where I took these pics. Duck hunting is my thing and I had no idea this area held this many ducks. Needless to say I was pumped.




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And that clump of mangroves to the left is where my duck blind is located. Other times I just nestle into the mangroves.







The last one was my favorite but not sure how it came out. That day we had probably 30 flights of pintails cup up their wings and decoy 20 yards in front of us. We had our limit in like 20 minutes then just sat back and enjoyed the flights and picked off our redheads and occasional widgeons.

That place looks awesome! Thanks for sharing your pics.

@Flightstopper

I grew up in Austin and used to own a home in Pflugerville. Not sure how it is now but I used to launch a canoe underneath the Montopolis bridge on US 183 and go down river about a mile and limit out gadwalls and I'd occasionally get some woodies and teal. It was a really cool river hunt.

Ha crazy, we bought in pflugerville right behind Timmerman elementary. We used to hunt that exact spot relentlessly. 4 man limits were not uncommon in 20 minutes mostly Greys. Was always shady and since about two years ago they blocked it off and annexed everything down to the toll road in to Austin. Where did you live in da Ville?

@Flightstopper

We lived on Smoke Signal Pass in the ville but I grew up in Anderson Mill and went to Westwood Highschool. So all that property along the river is now considered Austin City limits all the way to the toll road? That sucks. Had some great hunts along that river. I used to go check the sand pits to see if they were rafted up. When the sand pits were loaded in the afternoon I knew the following morning was a limt.

Laguna Madre wrote:@Flightstopper

We lived on Smoke Signal Pass in the ville but I grew up in Anderson Mill and went to Westwood Highschool. So all that property along the river is now considered Austin City limits all the way to the toll road? That sucks. Had some great hunts along that river. I used to go check the sand pits to see if they were rafted up. When the sand pits were loaded in the afternoon I knew the following morning was a limt.

Yup all annexed, that was the best hunting within hours. Sucks but have made the best of it and still do decent. My buddy also has access to those big gravel pits and his boss owns the river front land directly across from them. So it's not a complete loss for now. Have spent many of mornings on that first stretch of river though.