Ericdc wrote:Are those horse flies on his hind quarter?
Rick wrote:Absolutely sucky day, largely doing a farmer's job for him and getting BSed about needed water control parts that flooding can't commenced without. So I headed for the marsh to weedeat fourchettes on the flotant, which, for those who've not tried floundering around on flotant in waders on an 80-something degree afternoon, sucks plenty in its own right. And my day was topped by finding said flotant around our Mudhole laced with plenty big enough gator trails like this one:
Son of a bitch.
Deltaman wrote:DAMN! I'd be mighty tempted to bait'em up on a hook and kill said bastage......... and never say a word about it to anybody
Rick wrote:Was marsh retriever appreciation day, as I spent six hours on the flotant he fights every open season day weed-eating every fourchette he's apt to run into, save a very few in places I was pretty sure I couldn't climb back out of after breaking through. Not sure how many times I did stretch it too far and ended up belly button, or titty, deep, but it was way too many and climbing out of such predicaments doesn't seem to be getting any easier with experience. Have to hand it to the dogs that work the stuff.
Tickled me to see my nearest marsh neighbor's armada assembled at the boat house:
Knew he used a lot of decoys but found that display pretty graphic. Makes me feel like a piker with my sack of ducks, sack of poule d'eau (coots) and sack of specks.
Did see a few more ducks in the marsh today, including some jacks (ringnecks), but nothing to make me wish I were taking youth hunters tomorrow. Hopefully, the predicted rains will stir what is around for the kids.
Rick wrote:Another day in paradise. Started it checking to see if a makeshift overflow held and it hadn't. But I got to call in several groups of specks waiting for a track hoe to come do the job right, then again while waiting for the operator to go back to town for a fuel filter (a common theme with equipment fueled by the camp tank). Then a cold downpour caught us without rain gear just insure we were enjoying letting the machine do the labor.
Still raining when I went back out a bit ago to see if the overflow needed adjusting, but a slicker, finding the water depth right and a few sweet bunches of greenwings doing their crazy in the rain thing made that more fun than misery.
Might add that I heard but two little youth weekend volley's all morning and have to hope other areas saw more duck traffic during the pre rain hours most kids were apt to be out.
Rick wrote:Our ducks fly in the rain, so that's it's fine by me. Just a PIA right now.
Ducaholic wrote:Rick what about the pup? Not quite ready for the grind?
Ericdc wrote:Ugly?
Coot83 wrote:Would he be classified as a sedge color?
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