Rick wrote:Been bothered by a couple things I'd left "Close enough for the opener." at my blind and went out and made them right shortly after LST this morning. Fellow who set up the back blind said a couple or three bunches of big ducks worked it while he was there yesterday, so I hoped to see some birds stirring, and especially so when the cold/wet front blew in just as I was starting down the trail. But I spotted just two little groups of jacks, both crossing the run between Ed and Gabe's east end blinds. Gabe said there were but three jacks on his big pond yesterday.
Did, however, have a farmer friend say a piece of fallow ground he's been buffaloing (too-wet-to-plow weed control for next year's rice) on Dixie was absolutely loaded with teal and big (mostly gray) ducks. So there are some birds in our general area...
DComeaux wrote:Big winds for tomorrow that'll have them coming at your back, correct?
Ericdc wrote:If it’s a big NE wind it’ll be perfect for mud hole
Rick wrote:Anyone else notice the day before the opener can be the longest day of the year?
Rick wrote:Anyone else notice the day before the opener can be the longest day of the year?
Rick wrote:When I aired the bug this morning a chill northeast wind was blowing, the first blues I've heard in the dark this year were yelping overhead - in two directions, and public land hunters were passing with pirogue laden bateaus. All is well.
Rick wrote:Have to wonder what's really new and what's just coming out of hiding.
Have been patching the last of my shot-up poule d'eau and rigging new replacements for my faded-out teal decoys to sweeten the pot a bit, but am otherwise about out of ideas for making more of what we're offered. Well, other than wanting to spruce up my fading flocked mallard heads and not yet having struck on a satisfactory paint scheme, which may have to wait until spring.
Rick wrote:Have to wonder what's really new and what's just coming out of hiding.
Have been patching the last of my shot-up poule d'eau and rigging new replacements for my faded-out teal decoys to sweeten the pot a bit, but am otherwise about out of ideas for making more of what we're offered. Well, other than wanting to spruce up my fading flocked mallard heads and not yet having struck on a satisfactory paint scheme, which may have to wait until spring.
Darren wrote:Rick wrote:Have to wonder what's really new and what's just coming out of hiding.
Have been patching the last of my shot-up poule d'eau and rigging new replacements for my faded-out teal decoys to sweeten the pot a bit, but am otherwise about out of ideas for making more of what we're offered. Well, other than wanting to spruce up my fading flocked mallard heads and not yet having struck on a satisfactory paint scheme, which may have to wait until spring.
Going to run that war-struck spinner as-is or have plans for any patchwork on it ? Poor thing was shot up!!
Speaking of decoy adjustments, I'm making plans to take the bulk of my teal wad out of my marsh spread in favor of 6 more Avian X grays that I feel will not only show better due to size but allow me to scatter them out across the pond in a more relaxed look than a wad of bunched up teal.
Teal will come to about anything anyway I'm figuring, and we're not exactly seeing them in numbers so far.
DComeaux wrote:Procrastinator...
Darren wrote:Going to run that war-struck spinner as-is or have plans for any patchwork on it ? Poor thing was shot up!!
i didn’t even shoot at a pintail The 1st split.. but we did work some groups... I slightly expect them to be around satRick wrote:Answer, according to a survey at the time, is "fair".
Look like gnats on my tiny flip phone screen, but a friend who farms on Dixie and knows what a lot of ducks look like sent me a couple videos of new to there swarms he says are pintails.
Rick wrote:...a Cherry Ridge guide's that an eagle put up "a couple thousand mallards" on the east end of their marsh yesterday is encouraging. Maybe they've just been hiding out behind the barn waiting for us to leave.
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