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Date: 11/13/21

Time: finished up around 8:30

Location: marsh

Cloud Cover: clear

Wind Direction and Velocity: NW 10 to 15

Temperature: 40's to 50's

Barometer:

Moon phase:

Special Notes: first time to hunt this particular area and first time on Rod and Robbie's lease....which is going to work out much better than our experiment in northeast Louisiana last year.

Waterfowl Activity: lots and lots of teal in immediate area, big wads with spoons, gadwall, pintail, and fulvous mixed in.

Waterfowl Responsiveness: first hour kind of a flurry then birds started decoying.

Hunters: Rod, Robbie, Doug, and I

Guns: berettas

Malfunctions: Doug had some older xpert shells that causes him a few misfires.

Dog(s):

Special Equipment: 2 teal mojos

Kudos: we decided to pass spoons and lunch at Suire's was great.

curses: too much shooting to finish pintail but not mad about it.

Birds By Species:
1 gadwall
5 fulvous
17 blue winged teal

(Lost our #24 bird, a fulvous)

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Ericdc wrote:Kudos:... lunch at Suire's was great.

Little gold mine, that.

It was a great hunt and lots of fun. I’m glad you were able to go with us!!!

Good luck in the morning!!
Robbie aka Big Hutch

Sweet opener Eric

Date: 11/14/21

Time: packed up at 9:30

Location: Bundick Lake with uncle and cousins (nostalgia hunt with family where I learned to hunt)

Cloud Cover: heavy lake fog until after 7

Wind Direction and Velocity: dead calm to light and variable to light southerly

Temperature: 37 then fast warmup

Barometer:

Moon phase:

Special Notes: cooked a teal gravy for my uncle and cousins at their camp on lake last night followed by some fire pit time then a good nights sleep before this mornings hunt.

Waterfowl Activity: few wood ducks and that's about it. Lake is best on a big south wind. Planning to come back when I can in the first split or before Christmas and it a pre front big south wind with cousins.

Waterfowl Responsiveness: wood duck came as pretty as they come before sunrise then a ring necked hen came through after fog burned off.

Hunters: me, my uncle mike, cousins david and Jared, and David's fiancé Josey.

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s): David did the retrieving

Special Equipment: couple spinners and 2 wonderducks.

Kudos: just a nice easy morning with family.

curses: none.

Birds By Species:
1 ring necked duck
1 wood duck

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Don't know what's different about how you've posted pics these past two times, but they're humongous and only partially showing on my computer unless opened in a separate tab.

I posted original instead of small, I'll do it different.


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Might be more of a nuisance for you to change than me to reopen them, so don't do it just for my lazy self. Was just surprised by it.

Rick wrote:Might be more of a nuisance for you to change than me to reopen them, so don't do it just for my lazy self. Was just surprised by it.

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Thanks for reposting the pics Eric, and your teal & Gravy made me hungry this morning!!!!!!!

That's great stuff right there!

Eric,

any insight on what NE La is lookin like right now as far as prospects for this weekend? Presume the aerial survey is going on for that area this week.

Talked to a guy who has pumped water up in Jones and they had no birds as of this past Sunday. I would imagine they are concentrated in Bunkie, on highway 15, and mer rouge...like usual.


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Ericdc wrote:Talked to a guy who has pumped water up in Jones and they had no birds as of this past Sunday. I would imagine they are concentrated in Bunkie, on highway 15, and mer rouge...like usual.

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The "bunkie/grand cote" area has shown up strong on recent surveys, hoping this one too. We are hunting big slick water this season and I'm really fired up for it. Trying to keep depth down on front cut, < 4-5 inches. Rear cut will be deep as usual when rains come.

Date: 11/19/21

Time: finished around 8

Location: marsh

Cloud Cover: cloud bank to the east but bright and sunny by 7

Wind Direction and Velocity: N to NNE 10-15

Temperature: low 50's

Barometer:

Moon phase: big and bright

Special Notes: very enjoyable hunt with Robbie and Perry. Moon made a great long retrieve on a chipped wigeon

Waterfowl Activity: teal buzzing all morning with a few spoons and gadwall.

Waterfowl Responsiveness: big ducks got binged out mostly. Teal kinda wild acting but plentiful enough.

Hunters: Robbie, Perry, me

Guns:

Malfunctions: left our breakfast boudin in the boat

Dog(s): moon

Special Equipment: 2 mojos on remote

Kudos: we shot pretty well I thought

curses: can't think of any

Birds By Species:
1 wigeon
2 green winged teal
15 blue winged teal

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Date: 11/20/21

Time: finished around 9

Location: marsh

Cloud Cover: clear

Wind Direction and Velocity: calm to 5-7 NE

Temperature: warm

Barometer:

Moon phase: big

Special Notes: 3 for 3 so far on the young duck season. Best start in a long time.

Waterfowl Activity: little slower today but enough teal buzzing

Waterfowl Responsiveness: ducks actually worked better today than 2 previous hunts with better wind

Hunters: rod robbie Cole and me

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s): me and rod. Too warm and saw a lot of gators on way out and a few in pond

Special Equipment: 2 mojos and a wonderduck

Kudos: we shot pretty good

curses: not seeing many ducks besides blue winged teal

Birds By Species:
1 gadwall
1 fulvous
1 green winged teal
21 blue winged teal

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Remarked how it was so heavily weighted to green wings in the field today compared to last year where it was 13 BW to 10 GW in the mix. Clearly still some blue on the coast!

Lot of fun there thanks to those blue-wings.

All our blue wing teal have left - I think only 2 were killed this past weekend at the camp.

Ericdc wrote:Date: 11/19/21

Time: finished around 8

Location: marsh

Cloud Cover: cloud bank to the east but bright and sunny by 7

Wind Direction and Velocity: N to NNE 10-15

Temperature: low 50's

Barometer:

Moon phase: big and bright

Special Notes: very enjoyable hunt with Robbie and Perry. Moon made a great long retrieve on a chipped wigeon

Waterfowl Activity: teal buzzing all morning with a few spoons and gadwall.

Waterfowl Responsiveness: big ducks got binged out mostly. Teal kinda wild acting but plentiful enough.

Hunters: Robbie, Perry, me

Guns:

Malfunctions: left our breakfast boudin in the boat

Dog(s): moon

Special Equipment: 2 mojos on remote

Kudos: we shot pretty well I thought

curses: can't think of any

Birds By Species:
1 wigeon
2 green winged teal
15 blue winged teal

Photo Ops: moon and moon






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Thanks to Hutch for the invite! DC for being a good friend and a pretty good cook. The jambalaya was rocking. And thanks to Moon for what is the 10th year of doing her job reliably and with great passion.

Nice hunts Eric!

Ducaholic wrote:

Ericdc wrote:Date: 11/19/21

Time: finished around 8

Location: marsh

Cloud Cover: cloud bank to the east but bright and sunny by 7

Wind Direction and Velocity: N to NNE 10-15

Temperature: low 50's

Barometer:

Moon phase: big and bright

Special Notes: very enjoyable hunt with Robbie and Perry. Moon made a great long retrieve on a chipped wigeon

Waterfowl Activity: teal buzzing all morning with a few spoons and gadwall.

Waterfowl Responsiveness: big ducks got binged out mostly. Teal kinda wild acting but plentiful enough.

Hunters: Robbie, Perry, me

Guns:

Malfunctions: left our breakfast boudin in the boat

Dog(s): moon

Special Equipment: 2 mojos on remote

Kudos: we shot pretty well I thought

curses: can't think of any

Birds By Species:
1 wigeon
2 green winged teal
15 blue winged teal

Photo Ops: moon and moon






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Thanks to Hutch for the invite! DC for being a good friend and a pretty good cook. The jambalaya was rocking. And thanks to Moon for what is the 10th year of doing her job reliably and with great passion.

I'll take "pretty good cook" from a Cajun Frenchman all day!

Just gotta rinse them greens better


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Date: 11/24/21

Time: finished about 8:15

Location: marsh

Cloud Cover: clear

Wind Direction and Velocity: ESE 5-10 mph

Temperature: 50's

Barometer:

Moon phase:

Special Notes: beautiful morning

Waterfowl Activity: teal buzzing all morning, gadwall worked better

Waterfowl Responsiveness: gadwall and teal decoyed well

Hunters: Robbie jared and me

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s):

Special Equipment: 2 mojos on remote

Kudos: good to see gadwall feet down

curses: I shot TERRIBLE

Birds By Species:

3 gadwall
4 green winged teal
11 blue winged teal

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Haven’t looked back at your previous posts, but memory says you’re off to a blistering start! Nice work!

Looking good! Something different with seeing what looks like pine in the camo brush for the marsh. I though for a second you were on Catahoula.

It's loblolly pine. It's different but can't argue with results


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Happy thanksgiving guys, decided to sleep in and help with food prep this morning giving the warm, muggy, cloudy, calm conditions.


And sleep cuddle with my wife - she typed this part.


Will be after them next 2 days.


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Same to you. Did the same.

Yep nice being home today