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Date: 10/26

Time: Morning

Location: Blind #14

Cloud Cover: Mostly Sunny

Wind Direction and Velocity: Very little initially 5-10 NW as morning progressed

Temperature: 70s-80s

Special Notes: 2025 Youth Weekend

Waterfowl Activity: Much slower than I expected. I was at the farm on Wednesday getting the blind ready and we had hundreds of mottled ducks in this field plus teal everywhere. We had two big lines of thunderstorms roll through Friday and Saturday nights dropping 2" of rain. Birds must have left for the new water. Only saw one group of non-mottled "big ducks." Hopefully the front this week pushes some down or opening weekend will be Teal Season 2.0.

Waterfowl Responsiveness: The blue wings we did see played it right. If the dads were shooting we could have made a pretty nice pile.

Hunters: 4 dads with 4 boys (11-13); me, David, Alex, John and Grant, Jack, Hughes, and Oakes

Malfunctions: None

Dog(s): Jake

Special Equipment: 2 spinners

Curses: None

Kudos: None

Lagniappe: It is really nice to have a hunt solely focused on the boys.

Birds By Species: 14 bw teal

Hard to beat that !

Thank goodness for blue-wings.

Fearing weather coming is going to blow out a lot of holdover blue wings the southern end of flyway is hanging on to, sure hope some others backfill.

Looks like the boys had plenty of action despite the big duck blowout! Congrats dad