Little man and I headed up to bunkie area farm yesterday morning to check on things and hoped for lucking into a speck sighting or hearing. Specks were no-shows but got some cleaning done in the camp, checked heater, checked pit, etc. Cover around blind looking promising for us after there was largely none earlier this summer after the field work.
Field work now done, but water situation seems a bit sketchy moving forward. Talked to farmer who was after some hogs in the area, sounds like he's hopeful to get us water on this cut alone but not any time soon as he's struggling right now to get water on his rice stubble for crawfish. Water was nearby, just one cut away, so hopefully the ease of logistics plays in our favor as opener gets closer. Most ricer stubble had water on it and pumps were rolling throughout the area. With no rice and thus no crawfishing on this cut, we're last in line so not exactly holding our breath.
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new water control weir now in place, has plastic slats for level control instead of the old warped, wooden board we had
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New treeline levee/road was major effort over summer, came out really nice and brings easy access to what we never had before
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All set, just need water.....easier said than done this year as most know
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With things tightened-up up there, will get back to focus on the marsh and readying for youth hunt Nov 4th and opener a week later. Hoping fronts have the early migrators on the move, bring on the grays ! Full moon on the 28th
could coincide with a pretty big front if what models are sniffing ends up playing out. That's usually the timing they really start showing for us.
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