Season

[PorkChop]

Trying to get caught up with everyone’s logs. Great pictures and awesome your wife went with you!

[Deltaman]

Thanks for the reports Eric!!!!

[Darren]

Note on the spinners......we used no spinners of any kind on Sunday in Bunkie. You might leave them home rest of season.

[Ericdc]

Note on the spinners......we used no spinners of any kind on Sunday in Bunkie. You might leave them home rest of season.

My guys used 3 yesterday and shot those ducks decoying.


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[Duck Engr]

Hahaha just when we think we have them figured out!

[Ericdc]

Date: 1/20/2025

Time: Hutton and I stayed till almost 2

Location: 86 pit

Cloud Cover: clear

Wind Direction and Velocity: NNE 5-10

Temperature: low 20's to low 30's

Barometer:

Moon phase:

Special Notes: first ice day this year. Field still had open water and we easily opened up an area on south side of pit with Hutton's wheeler

Waterfowl Activity: very slow to start. Very few ducks around or moving. Mostly pintail with a few spoons. Goose activity starting picking up by mid morning and had a real good low flight from 11 to 1. Big goose feed to our west

Waterfowl Responsiveness: specks did better later in day. Spoons came pretty.

Hunters: me Hutton his guest Mike and Martin

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s): Mike had 2 dogs he swapped mid hunt. Not sure why but he's 74 and drove from Illinois to hunt with Hutton.

Special Equipment: 2 mojos on remote (mostly off)

Kudos: Hutton came back to pit after seeing Mike off and got to see a good speck show.

Dry weather all week will make decoy pickup easy this Saturday. Should be able to drive to pit.

curses: Mike and Martin missed speck show and no ducks around

Birds By Species:
1 pintail
1 shoveler
5 specks

Photo Ops:
Showing the Yankee a good time










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[Ericdc]

Reminder: lot of meat on a speck if you use everything.


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[jrock75]

No doubt about that. I shot some specks a couple of weeks ago and cut the legs out skin on and forgot how much good meat was on them. Took a while to cook down to tender in the gumbo but it was very good.

[DComeaux]

Specks are awesome.

[Ericdc]

Date: 1/24/2025

Time: Hutton and guest left at 11, I waited on geese to move and left at 12:30...they didn't move

Location: 86 pit

Cloud Cover: small cloud bank early but it cleared by sunrise

Wind Direction and Velocity: light and variable all day on a prediction of 5-7 WNW all morning.

Temperature: mid 20's to 40's. still a good bit of ice on north half.

Barometer:

Moon phase:

Special Notes: Hutton's guest is a serious hunter who hunts a pit south of us and on highway 15 and we got to compare notes on the season.

Waterfowl Activity: pretty slow. Local pintails and mallards flying together. Nothing else except the teal singles early. Geese sat on unhunted water to our west.

Waterfowl Responsiveness: teal worked pretty well. Big ducks give a look and leave.

Hunters: Hutton Freddie and me

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s):

Special Equipment: mojos on remote

Kudos: good sausage

curses: I crippled a big pintail that won't survive but went to river. Got caught by a mallard and didn't call shot on a borderline pair of gadwall.

Birds By Species:
3 green winged teal

Photo Ops:
Maybe tomorrow


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[Ericdc]

Date: 1/25/2025

Time: called hunt around 9:15 and started picking up

Location: 86 pit

Cloud Cover:clear, beautiful day

Wind Direction and Velocity: SSW 5-10

Temperature: upper 20's, ice in south cut warming tp 40's

Barometer:

Moon phase:

Special Notes: the recent very dry cold sunny weather dried out farm roads enough to drive our trucks to blind today to make an incredibly easy cleanup.

Waterfowl Activity: as predicted, most everyone hunted today. Noticeably stronger teal flight from south early fizzled quick to nothing else moving. Geese sat to west again in safe water

Waterfowl Responsiveness: big groups all pushed past except 1..... singles came good enough

Hunters: me Martin and Hutton

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s):

Special Equipment: 2 mojos on remote

Kudos: shot decent and quick cleanup

curses: big bunch of teal was about to get on us when 2 leaders came behind blind and guys shot at them...I was saying wait but they didn't see the big group. It happens. Still very much enjoy our group.

Birds By Species:
6 green winged teal

Photo Ops:





That's a wrap 



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