Something headed south already

[Ricky Spanish]

Musta looked at last year or something.
Fuck them teal birds.
They generally just fly out on the opposite side of lake then don't return.
Don't matter I hunt the big dumb park ducks.
If spinnerman wants to try fruitlessly I'll go.
Hell I'll go try and kill teal tomorrow.
Have better luck I bet

Hey do I gotta sort out my teal decoys or just toss out honker decoys or whatever is in the boat?
Old Style cans work?

[SpinnerMan]

I am going to help with the kid's fishing tournament at our club tomorrow. I'll hunt the park geese before the kids start to show up.

Actually seen a few geese moving a little. A little luck I'll get something other than bass before I head to the clubhouse.

[Anotherone]

Musta looked at last year or something.
Fuck them teal birds.
They generally just fly out on the opposite side of lake then don't return.
Don't matter I hunt the big dumb park ducks.
If spinnerman wants to try fruitlessly I'll go.
Hell I'll go try and kill teal tomorrow.
Have better luck I bet

Hey do I gotta sort out my teal decoys or just toss out honker decoys or whatever is in the boat?
Old Style cans work?

All you need is that old spinning wing decoy with a fresh battery and you’ll limit out.

[Ricky Spanish]

Musta looked at last year or something.
Fuck them teal birds.
They generally just fly out on the opposite side of lake then don't return.
Don't matter I hunt the big dumb park ducks.
If spinnerman wants to try fruitlessly I'll go.
Hell I'll go try and kill teal tomorrow.
Have better luck I bet

Hey do I gotta sort out my teal decoys or just toss out honker decoys or whatever is in the boat?
Old Style cans work?

All you need is that old spinning wing decoy with a fresh battery and you’ll limit out.

Quit telling me fairy tales.

[Anotherone]

Southbound and down!

[Ricky Spanish]

The honkers are back in numbers.
They're shopping at Lowes and Menards.

[Ricky Spanish]

Saw mallards mixed in with the local geese this morning.
Supposed to get cold tonight.

[Anotherone]

Getting brighter down south.

[Ricky Spanish]

I can't believe we've all missed this little detail.
That's a bird watcher map not specific to waterfowl.
Hummingbirds, starlings, grackles, and every other trash bird....not waterfowl.
BIRDcast.

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[Anotherone]

That was supposed to be a secret. I receive checks from a waterfowl organization for leading waterfowl hunters into spending more time and money chasing these doomed species. Fun times.

[Ricky Spanish]

in January it's probably waterfowl.
If you're getting checks from Delta tell them I want to rent them girls from the Jonesboro Delta banquet.
Do they deliver?

[Anotherone]

I’ll have the Delta ladies at possum cove opening day.

[Ricky Spanish]

I’ll have the Delta ladies at possum cove opening day.

That'd be epic. However there's no guarantee that I can get in there. There are 4 "holes"
1, 2, 3, and 4.
If you get out a laser sight and start measuring things only two are "legal".
The state designed the damn place and knows they effed up. I hear about it from kids with laser range finders but they lie. I've hunted there for 40+ seasons and have had guys set up 90 yards away.
It can get "weird" and I go from zero to weird as hell pretty much instantly upon confrontation.
Send then to parnell. Sigh.
I'll leave a light on.

I'm heading south November 18th.
Will probably just disappear unless they put up a cell tower on 7mile road. Signal is real iffy.

[Anotherone]

Pintails headed to possum cove. Get ready.

[Ricky Spanish]

Pintails headed to possum cove. Get ready.

Not likely.
That's a mallard hole.
The pintails never go there.
Bizarre but true.
I suppose maybe in February....I'll ask Chris Atkinson. He walks his dog there a lot.
He says that HBC (houseboat cove) gets loaded with ducks in February.
There are a couple spots where they roost.

I'm just not that excited this year.
It's gotten incredibly difficult to kill ducks unless you go every day. One week they're stupid and it's over.
Poof just like that they quit playing right.
Im.pretty sure it's them Canadians that screw me..
Damn Canadians.

[Ricky Spanish]

Uh. That cove will be dead until November 8th.
There will be a storm front.
I'll see it coming, change tactics, and piss the competition off by being there early.
I'll sleep thru the storm in boat. It ends and mallards rain from the sky.
It happens like once a year and I get a week where they turn when I call and glide on in.
Then it's over.
You can call, beg, plead, demand and everything in the book as they ignore you completely.

Then I go south where it's even harder.
Love this game.
Quack

[Ricky Spanish]

More: at the end of easy week sucks so bad.
You'll work a nice flock of 8, they circle twice, on third they commit.
They're locked up gliding in when the nearest hen flares at 55 yards when she sees the spinner.
They gone.
It's over.
You have to be completely nuts to hunt them pea brained birds.
In a week and a day I'll be getting nutty. Again

[Anotherone]

Sea ducks?

[Ricky Spanish]

Sea ducks?

Pink footed geese.

[Anotherone]

I’m game!

[Ricky Spanish]

I’m game!

I dunno I just asked Alexa what birds migrate in October.
Clueless as usual.

[Anotherone]

Coots?

[Ricky Spanish]

Shouldn't it be more yellow?
Why aren't all the arrows pointing to Kansas?

[Anotherone]

Must be outta water or corn?

[Ricky Spanish]

Must be outta water or corn?

Uh. You ain't seen much on northern Illinois hunting which I don't do except rarely.
They talk and act funny north of Kankakee.
They got corn and water big time.
Spinnerman is pretty near the epicenter of epic that once was.
I'm not allowed to mention the name of the power plant lake that sort of dominates the area. It's not worth mentioning anymore though.
Things change and then change some more.
Sigh. It's never good.
Old duck and goose clubs tend to have fiery endings sadly. I lived thru it and so did yankeegray.

Southern Illinois used to be pretty epic too. 3 or 4 decades ago.

[Anotherone]

Sound like Louisiana too.

[Anotherone]

Funny they’re avoiding this area. Aliens?

[Ricky Spanish]

Somebody been dopplin with the radar again.


Oh...
Dew dew dew dew
Dew dew dew dew...

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[Ricky Spanish]

This actually sounds right to me.
Each year we get this heat wave after the first frost.
If this guy is right mid-november in Arkansas looks good.


Get ready for this.
2 Unlimited

[Anotherone]

Ringnecks?