Sun. 1/17/2016
SE La public marsh
Justin M., Johnny & I with Harry
Wind N/NE 10-20+, 40's, pt cloudy to clear
Though I'd planned on a change of scene from Saturday's hunt, my afternoon trip found overall more scattered birds in this area than what I'd seen late morning at the alternative location. It was again largely a bust, with very little moving around in the area for first couple of hours. Had one op we should have fired on with some working grays that wouldn't quite finish, got a single gray a little later, then able to scratch down 2 on another non-finishing wad of grays. Unfortunately, the marsh is flooded up like that of a September tropical system and both birds dove on Harry despite his good faith efforts throughout the location we had marked (just across the pond pictured below) and even way down wind of that. Not a feather found, and he never picked up on a scent. Frustrating to have all this water so late in the season, and it's actually plagued us throughout the season such that we hadn't even thought of taking the pushpoles out the boat, muchless actually using them.
1 gray in hand, 2 more crip grays lost to the floods
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Been a few hunts now since the strap came out, grrr. Will try again next weekend, I'm surely not fired up to sneak out for a midweek trip.
Highlight of this weekend was Johnny bringing over a seafood bonanza. He and I spent Saturday evening shucking oysters, grilling them, and pecking away at the crawfish and crabs he brought as well. Also tinkered with a few duck bomb/popper configurations. Hunting may be down but the eating is top notch right now
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