DComeaux wrote:Thank you! My spasm's have subsided some. I plan on being out a the property in the morning. I must keep the deer flies satisfied and full.
I'm off to grind on the mudhole in the morning.
DComeaux wrote:Thank you! My spasm's have subsided some. I plan on being out a the property in the morning. I must keep the deer flies satisfied and full.
Rick wrote:DComeaux wrote:Thank you! My spasm's have subsided some. I plan on being out a the property in the morning. I must keep the deer flies satisfied and full.
I'm off to grind on the mudhole in the morning.
DeadEye_Dan wrote:Good news - just read a report from a guy here in MI that killed a teal last night that was banded on 8/20/2014 in Saskatchewan - the little buggers should be on the move.
AKPirate wrote:Jason is usually right but sometimes wrong
AKPirate wrote:Jason is usually right but sometimes wrong
AKPirate wrote:Jason is usually right but sometimes wrong
Rick wrote:9/6: Was a too rare workday in our marsh, thanks to the sorry folks we lease right of way to it from and their failure to pump a foot or so of water off much of the road. Claim they'll get around to it before the big season, but we'll have to make do for teal. Which may very well include what resembles an old fashioned hay ride behind a tractor once the rock we put on the road the last time they let it go gets washed out. Friggin' sin.
But we did get out there, and I spent most of the morning opening the mudhole enough to make a fair little show of water for the teal, and am happy to report I also got the decoys and blind set up well enough to hunt, should something happen to prevent another trip before next Saturday. Sad to report my modified Mallard Machine splasher isn't nearly as impressive slinging slop as it was relatively clean water.
Ran into the right of way owner's son, to whom we give the gator tags as a good will gesture (in addition to crazy high rent) and was told an "at least 10-footer" straightened his hook in the run just before it opens to my pond, and I found that line down again when I went in. Didn't appear to me, however, that there was anything live on it. So there's that to think about every time I cut the coyote loose to work something on the floating marsh around the pond.
All of the other guys saw a few teal before I finally got to watch a nice bunch workover a neighboring blind, and later saw another pair.
Would have liked to do more, but storm cells were crackling in most directions and I bugged out as soon as the essentials were behind me. In front of me on the "road" out was this little jewel forming:
Touching down:
And seeming to dissipate:
But it reformed and touched down again as I was hurrying through the gate, least it change its mind about direction, too.
FlintRiverFowler wrote:Awesome pictures. I have still never seen a tornado in real life, and we have a ton of them come through around here.
DComeaux wrote:What an eventful day for you.
Rick wrote:...as ready physically for the coming season as he is mentally...
Rick wrote:You're welcome. Though the snipet doesn't begin to capture how neat it was to be out "amongst 'em," it does offer the advantage of lacking deer flies.
Rick wrote:We have at least three kinds of horse flies: small "green-eyed," big-assed black ones and a mid-sized version. All have big teeth, and they can be a tenacious nuisance, but they're usually loners and aren't waiting in every little bush and clump of grass to swarm passersby.
Rick wrote:May be cool breezes coming, but it's still flat steamy in SWLA. Peake and I hiked a couple miles of flooded second crop rice without seeing a duck of any sort, let alone teal, this morning, so we're certainly not covered up in them yet, despite yesterday's promise just a couple miles away.
Feeling itchy to do something ducky, I also cut a mess of canes my blind won't really need for teal and even set up the mat machine and made a cover for the boat hide door that's definitely unnecessary:
The coyote was his usual helpful self:
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