Sat. 11/13/2021 - La West Zone Opener
Delacroix
johnny, anthony and I with harry
Post-front conditions, wind rippin 15-25 from NNW, low 50s, clear
We listened to grays chattering all around while setting decoys so seemed we were going to be in the game but turns out it was another let down. Took three green wings that came nice and downed our allowed three of a 5-pack of mottleds, losing one lively crip. That was it. Had but one pair of grays give us a look and dropped hard only to ease off, that was it for grays on us. Mid morning we did see some massive flights of grays coming into the area from the north. Hard to tell if they're settling in or just cruising by but easily a few thousand in total. Strange to not see a single dosgris/scaup given how rough the area lakes and bays were. Same goes for mergs, just largely absent altogether.
(5) 3 GW teal, 2 mottleds
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pretty birds regardless if not as heavy as we'd want. Blind hunted beautifully for us
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North blind on lease scratched. Other reports in our area were mostly green wings and mottleds, grays were scarce overall, true to the LDWF survey. Heard of multiple blinds seeing a few mallards, odd enough for our area as it is. Watching wind/water to see what our options are for tomorrow morning. Harry saved us an otherwise, and initially thought to be, lost green wing that had paddles enough to get away from him initially diving and then made it up a trenasse before I called harry back. End of hunt took him back up in there in pirogue (after initially saying I wasn't going, "nah hes gone") and started what looked like a needle/haystack AT BEST prospect but he eventually tracked down a lively teal waaaay back up the trenasse, tunneling under dead marsh grass. Huge recovery, the nose knows.
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