Date: Saturday 1/6/18
Time: LST 6:21.........or near about
Location: Farther North in the delta, to part of our Upper Delta Management Area. I found a long feeder creek a few years ago that was blocked by a treetop. With my boat being so small, was able to use a machete and whack off a couple of 4-5" thick limbs to allow access. Then creek is lined with white oaks and this year, as it was 5-67 years ago, we seem to have a bumper crop of acorns, as I listened to them dropping the whole time we were there (squirrels were thick and I may have to revive my childhood and do a hunt soon.
Cloud Cover: A few clouds, again, keeping the predicted low 20 temps more in the upper 20's
Wind Direction and Velocity: NE and light
Temperature: 29 degrees when I got up, and 26 at the boat launch.
Moon phase: Waning, but still bright
Special Notes: Brother hunt. I have 3 brothers that love to hunt as much as I do, and we always try to get a few brother/nephew hunts in during the season.
Waterfowl Activity: Woodies doing what Woodies do, only a lot more of them up here than we saw in da Nigra yesterday.
Waterfowl Responsiveness: The creek we hunted was only 15-20' wide, so we had to hunt the areas that have the most open sky amongst the cypress and oaks.
Hunters: Jack (my youngest brother), and his youngest son, Bay
Guns: Franchi Auto, 1187 and M2
Malfunctions: None
Dog(s): None
Special Equipment: Made it a two boat hunt, as we both had plans after the hunt. Both of us were going to scout, and I wanted to go South to the causeway and try to kill the other half of my 6 bird limit, hoping to kill a couple of Gadwalls.
Curses: 2nd hunt sucked.............set up in John's bend around 11:00 a.m., and watched the Gadwalls as they kept bunching up in the middle of the bay.......educated and happy to be avoiding the guns. Never fired a shot and picked up around 3:30 p.m. Spent the rest of the afternoon scouting other bays in the surrounding area, and cutting some palmettos for future cover. The hard freeze here last week has killed the roseau, rendering it worthless for duck blind building
Kudos: Awesome daylight Woodrow hunt, and Bay shot a hen Woodie that was banded. (2 1/2 years old when banded in Henry County, GA in Aug 2017)
Birds By Species: 9 Wood Ducks
Photo Ops: Only on phone, and I still haven't attempted to figure out download
Lagniappe: Bay got his first duck band
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you in trouble. It's what you know for sure, that just ain't so"
Mark Twain