DComeaux wrote:Nice hunts spinner. I just saw the weather for you guys up that way for the week. It looks brutal.
Deltaman wrote:Congrats on the bands!!!
Duck Engr wrote:Good to see y’all finally had some ducks to work spinner! Read like a pretty good time in the blind
SpinnerMan wrote:Excited about next weekends trip to Lake Erie. Temps look good, but the wind forecasts concern me a bit...
Rick wrote:SpinnerMan wrote:Excited about next weekends trip to Lake Erie. Temps look good, but the wind forecasts concern me a bit...
Some days it's better to be the tender and do your ducking with the dip net than laying out...
Rick wrote:An Erie hunt without bills, who woulda thunk it?
DComeaux wrote:Interesting hunts. Would definitely be something different for me.
SpinnerMan wrote:January 12 (Snow Day)
Hunters: Myself and Jose
Temps in the low 30's with a moderate ENE wind and snow varying light to fairly heavy (got about 3 inches while hunting)
Waterfowl Activity: Almost non-existent
There are still a fair amount of resident geese in the area and they have been picking up a few here and there for the last couple weeks.
We took turns about every hour going out to clean off the snow from the decoys. The only real action we got, my turn to sweep the decoys and I hear "goose" and hit the snow. Out of the corner of my eye I see a single looking good coming our way. It drifts out of view. Apparently it gave one pass in range, but Jose thought it was going to come in and didn't take the shot
That was pretty much it all day. We saw maybe a dozen geese all day. There were geese in the area that we could here on and off all day. Right at sunset the snow had almost ended and we were out of the blind and saw a pretty good pile of geese go in to roost about a quarter mile behind us. Apparently the bulk had roosted to our north and flew out the north to feed.
I checked the roosting areas to our south on the way home. Froze over and snow covered. So no geese where we have our best chances of intercepting birds heading out.
Lagniappe: My #$%@ truck Friday I had planned to go hunting. I was literally in the field ready to set up when I got warning lights on my dash. I had this same problem 2 months ago that they had "fixed." I immediately went home and dropped my gun and blind bag. If I turn the truck off it may or may not restart I was first in line when they opened. The last repair was an expensive computer module. This was a different expensive computer module. I was assured that this would take care of it. Sunday I get gas before heading out to scout for geese around the cooling lake. Mother #$%@. The same warning is going off. #$%@, #$%@, #$%@. Even if I find geese, I can't risk turning my truck off in the middle of nowhere. The snow didn't move any geese. We didn't get much to our north where we really need it to move geese. Now I'm sitting waiting to see what they say about my truck. 6 months out of warranty and I'm having chronic problems To add insult to injury. I was backing into my garage and decided to take some stuff out. Opened the back hatch on my cap, took out the stuff. Oh, look at all that water on the floor, so I swept it out, forgot to close that hatch and backed into the garage and busted it up
I do like hunting on the snow. It's just pretty being out.
Rick wrote:See what happens when the government quits paying our border guards.
That's about a mile from a large cooling lake (Braidwood) that hold a ton of ducks and geese when it freezes up up here and there is enough snow to the north to push them to here, but not too much snow around the area to push them further.Duck Engr wrote:Wow what a treat spinnerman! If you could kindly remind them it’s chilly up there and they should relocate one state south, that’d be super.
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