2020-2021 Season Log

Re: 2020-2021 Season Log

Postby Darren » Tue Sep 22, 2020 10:36 am

Look the birds! Gooooood night. Other blinds get them too?
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Re: 2020-2021 Season Log

Postby MARSH BEAR » Tue Sep 22, 2020 11:13 am

Rick - thank you for sharing - the only teal I will see this teal season.
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Re: 2020-2021 Season Log

Postby DComeaux » Tue Sep 22, 2020 11:23 am

Sigh....
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Re: 2020-2021 Season Log

Postby Duck Engr » Tue Sep 22, 2020 11:30 am

I am green with envy! Awesome Rick.
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Re: 2020-2021 Season Log

Postby Rick » Tue Sep 22, 2020 1:16 pm

Darren wrote:Look the birds! Gooooood night. Other blinds get them too?


Only Isaac's. Others haven't been aggressive enough to break the flight down.
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Re: 2020-2021 Season Log

Postby Deltaman » Tue Sep 22, 2020 1:52 pm

Appreciate you sharing Rick! I have often wondered about what you call momma kacking, and now understand what you mean, Thanks :thumbsup:
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Re: 2020-2021 Season Log

Postby BGkirk » Tue Sep 22, 2020 2:10 pm

Rick do the no shows get any money back at all?
I would gladly be on your emergency call list to fill the blind, if it’s on the no shows dime ! Although I’m sure you’d much rather take family, I would myself.
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Re: 2020-2021 Season Log

Postby Rick » Tue Sep 22, 2020 2:33 pm

BGkirk wrote:Rick do the no shows get any money back at all?


Depends on a number of things, but barring emergency type situations: worst case they lose their 50% deposit and best case they pay the guide fee (unless he declines it, which he might for particularly good regulars), and the deposit goes toward another date.
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Re: 2020-2021 Season Log

Postby Darren » Wed Sep 23, 2020 8:00 am

Rick wrote:
Darren wrote:Look the birds! Gooooood night. Other blinds get them too?


Only Isaac's. Others haven't been aggressive enough to break the flight down.



Yea I figured he was getting them, have recognized his boat in a number of photos/vid clips that I guess Adrienne has been posting.

You getting any word out of your neighbors? CR? Some of wife's family had some luck at Oak Island last week I think, though no word on how it's gone overall.
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Re: 2020-2021 Season Log

Postby Rick » Wed Sep 23, 2020 9:04 am

Darren wrote:You getting any word out of your neighbors? CR? Some of wife's family had some luck at Oak Island last week I think, though no word on how it's gone overall.


CR was getting at least some shooting, though I didn't hear but one of their blinds this morning. Haven't heard anything out of Oak Island's guides, and it is too far for me to hear - but a most everything I saw the other morning on that hard east wind came from their direction.
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Re: 2020-2021 Season Log

Postby Rick » Wed Sep 23, 2020 9:17 am

Date: 9/23 Wed

Time: morning

Location: mudhole

Cloud Cover: partly

Wind Direction and Velocity: SE moderate

Temperature: still comfortably cool

Moon phase: waxing crescent (weatherunderground says 1% which is at odds with yesterday's)

Special Notes:

Waterfowl Activity: Saw next to no big ducks of any sort, early or late, and thought the former bode ill for the wind change, but enough teal showed as the sky brightened for too-quick limits.

Waterfowl Responsiveness: Birds did as they always should.

Hunters: 1, Mark, a long time favorite regular who surprised me with yesterday's no show and was bothered more by it than I was - which was a fair bit.

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s): We dropped several on the flotant, so the bug was in his glory and found them all.

Special Equipment: SOS

Curses: Just that Mark's aging father wasn't up for it again.

Kudos: Great time with a great guy.

Birds By Species: 12 bw teal (8 drakes and 4 hens)

Photo Ops: forgot the camera

Lagniappe: Mark left his bag in the blind, and we had to go back for it. Which I told him was a good thing, because I'd get to catch a party of guides poaching it after we left. Which we did. "Were gonna text and ask." but somehow didn't get around to it. I gave them a healthy ration of shit, before telling them to have fun, but ask first next time...
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Re: 2020-2021 Season Log

Postby Duck Engr » Wed Sep 23, 2020 9:29 am

Funny that you predicted the guides poaching your blind before y’all even got back to it. Would have loved to have been a fly in the blind for that conversation.

I was just watching your videos again and noticed your handle on YouTube, “i8coot”. I got a good laugh from that.
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Re: 2020-2021 Season Log

Postby Rick » Wed Sep 23, 2020 10:35 am

Duck Engr wrote:Funny that you predicted the guides poaching your blind before y’all even got back to it. Would have loved to have been a fly in the blind for that conversation.


The looks on their faces was, as the ad goes, "priceless".
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Re: 2020-2021 Season Log

Postby Rick » Thu Sep 24, 2020 8:53 am

Date: 9/24 Thur

Time: morning

Location: mudhole

Cloud Cover: heavy

Wind Direction and Velocity: NW moderate

Temperature: cool

Moon phase: waxing 48%

Special Notes:

Waterfowl Activity: Didn't see a teal on my after-LST ride to the blind and far fewer than we've been seeing, even yesterday, once there. So few I decided I might shoot into bunches to fill, but didn't end up having to. Very little shooting on CR or from even even from Isaac's.

Waterfowl Responsiveness: Had a couple bigger bunches plainly bump off the spinners, but didn't call to see if their minds could be changed. Singles and pairs worked pretty.

Hunters: Grrr... Third no-show this week, second from Tom and his people, so he's on "time out" with me. Almost relented to take him tomorrow after learning Comeaux couldn't play hooky then, but I'm over that.

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s): Rode our last one out to kill it over the flotant, just so the poor pup could stretch his legs.

Special Equipment: SOS

Curses: Both the no-show and that the flight has petered so. Hopefully just the wind change.

Kudos: Birds were all fat.

Birds By Species: 6 bw teal (2 drakes and 4 hens - a first hen-heavy September ratio in memory)

Photo Ops: The bug's favorite bird of our morning:
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Re: 2020-2021 Season Log

Postby Rick » Fri Sep 25, 2020 9:41 am

Date: 9/25 Fri

Time: morning

Location: mudhole

Cloud Cover: heavy

Wind Direction and Velocity: NE light

Temperature: cool

Moon phase: 60% wxing

Special Notes:

Waterfowl Activity: At least as slow, if not more so, than yesterday with precious little shooting heard.

Waterfowl Responsiveness: Thankfully excellent.

Hunters: 1, Mark again

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s): easy morning with but three on the flotant.

Special Equipment: SOS

Curses: Just worries for the coming weekend.

Kudos: Mark was killing two at a time and cursing himself for not tripling - which I assured him was ok.

Birds By Species: 12 bw teal (8 drakes and 4 hens)

Photo Ops:

Lagniappe: That such a hard drop-off in bird numbers accompanied yesterday's NW wind reminded me of Paul Link's Louisiana transmittered blue-wings migrating southeasterly through Florida and Jamaica, instead of southwesterly, as I'd long assumed.
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Re: 2020-2021 Season Log

Postby DComeaux » Fri Sep 25, 2020 9:56 am

I had your video from a couple of days ago in full screen this morning and was shooting with my finger.
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Re: 2020-2021 Season Log

Postby Duck Engr » Fri Sep 25, 2020 12:17 pm

I have to imagine weekend warriors will give you enough traffic to finish strong.
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Re: 2020-2021 Season Log

Postby Rick » Fri Sep 25, 2020 12:35 pm

DComeaux wrote:I had your video from a couple of days ago in full screen this morning and was shooting with my finger.


Wish our timing had been better and you were here. Wasn't a shoot''em-up but still a mighty pleasant morning to be at the mudhole. Saw that Matt's (one of Wed's pirates) little dove spinner was dead as I was going and moved he and his to my place, but didn't wait to hear how that went. Not nearly well enough I'd venture.
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Re: 2020-2021 Season Log

Postby Rick » Fri Sep 25, 2020 12:37 pm

Duck Engr wrote:I have to imagine weekend warriors will give you enough traffic to finish strong.


I'm sure hoping so, as my guys for the weekend are not the best of hunters or shots. Can't honestly say I'm looking forward to it.
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Re: 2020-2021 Season Log

Postby Rick » Sat Sep 26, 2020 11:04 am

Date: 9/26 Sat

Time: morning

Location: mudhole

Cloud Cover: clear

Wind Direction and Velocity: southerly light

Temperature: coolish

Moon phase: 70% waxing

Special Notes:

Waterfowl Activity: Thought sure we were going to fall short of enough ops for this crew of new an too rare guns, but eventually filled before curfew.

Waterfowl Responsiveness: Thankfully much better than ours.

Hunters: 3, three generations, two Freds and a Charles.

Guns:

Malfunctions: Lots of "misfires" for all three that I'm guessing weren't on their guns.

Dog(s): The bug was aces until he wasn't and again after.

Special Equipment: SOS

Curses: The the guys weren't playing the same game the teal were. But the BIG curse, in the "no good deed goes unpunished" column was that the guys I've been moving into my blind after we've finished left three stinkers on the flotant, and Marsh and I had to have a come to Jesus meeting over his decision to eat the first of them that a mink or some-such likely opened up for him.

Kudos: No human was killed in the making of this adventure.

Birds By Species: 24 bw teal (20 drakes and 4 hens)

Photo Ops: Fred III, Charles and Fred II
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Re: 2020-2021 Season Log

Postby Duck Engr » Sat Sep 26, 2020 2:58 pm

Rick wrote:But the BIG curse, in the "no good deed goes unpunished" column was that the guys I've been moving into my blind after we've finished left three stinkers on the flotant, and Marsh and I had to have a come to Jesus meeting over his decision to eat the first of them that a mink or some-such likely opened up for him.



Sounds like a good way to lose one’s privileges.
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Re: 2020-2021 Season Log

Postby Rick » Sat Sep 26, 2020 3:06 pm

Pretty much has to happen to anyone without a dog to work the flotant. May share the blind again in the morning if able and need be, as it's the last day for over a month. But I don't expect to do so again after that.

'Course if my crew's shooting goes like this morning's again, we may well be out there until curfew ourselves. Might as well have been popping firecrackers.
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Re: 2020-2021 Season Log

Postby BGkirk » Sat Sep 26, 2020 5:01 pm

I thought for sure you were talking human stinkers


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Re: 2020-2021 Season Log

Postby Rick » Sat Sep 26, 2020 6:52 pm

BGkirk wrote:I thought for sure you were talking human stinkers


Gather you've never tried to poop on flotant.
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Re: 2020-2021 Season Log

Postby Ericdc » Sat Sep 26, 2020 9:05 pm

Rick wrote:
BGkirk wrote:I thought for sure you were talking human stinkers


Gather you've never tried to poop on flotant.
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Re: 2020-2021 Season Log

Postby Rick » Sun Sep 27, 2020 11:45 am

Date: 9/27 Sun

Time: morning

Location: mudhole

Cloud Cover: clear

Wind Direction and Velocity: southerly light

Temperature: warmest morning of the season

Moon phase:

Special Notes: last day of September teal

Waterfowl Activity: slowest morning of the season, but still should have been plenty

Waterfowl Responsiveness: An appreciably higher percentage of birds pushed off than on any previous morning, but what should have been more than enough did it right.

Hunters: 3, Freds and Charles again

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s): Had to call the bug off not one, not two but three birds that were diving in shallow too near deep water for my comfort. Only let him splash around so long before saying "enough".

Special Equipment: SOS

Curses: Had the feeling Fred III and Charles were just there for Fred II and not even trying.

Kudos: No one got shot and the dog didn't get bit.

Birds By Species: 18 bw teal

Photo Ops: Had the camera but not the desire.

Lagniappe: Was a 2020 kind of morning.
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Re: 2020-2021 Season Log

Postby Darren » Sun Sep 27, 2020 1:52 pm

Sounds like 2020 indeed but still heckuva haul. Must have been a weird feeling with the bulk of your party seemingly not in the hunt to at least some degree.
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Re: 2020-2021 Season Log

Postby Ducaholic » Sun Sep 27, 2020 2:56 pm

Rick,

Excellent teal season! I’m curious how it compares to the others on record. I’d be surprised if it’s not No. 1.
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Re: 2020-2021 Season Log

Postby Duck Engr » Sun Sep 27, 2020 3:06 pm

That wit in the kudos section is the reason I look forward to reading this log every day.
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Re: 2020-2021 Season Log

Postby Rick » Sun Sep 27, 2020 5:40 pm

Ducaholic wrote:Rick,

Excellent teal season! I’m curious how it compares to the others on record. I’d be surprised if it’s not No. 1.


Just ran the numbers, and in that regard it beat my recent best, 2018, by just 2 birds and fell well short of my all-time numerical best of 488. But it may have been as close as I've come to every party limiting and certainly so with the possible exception of that banner season in what's become the "way back when..." before spinners or my switch from voice calling.

(Still pissed that one party that season brought five dogs that broke every time a bird tried to cross our flooded field and kept me from topping the 500 mark. Were seven or eight guys and six dogs, only one of which was held steady by its man while the others made an incredible cluster-flutch of their "hunt".)

Anyway, this year's was a grand September season, aside from having to admit that I wanted to limit every trip to the mudhole so badly that I let it make this final weekend more miserable than it should have been. Should have copped a wise old woman I was blessed to know's Rx for resentment: "That's just them." And gotten on with making the best of it.
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