Tues. 12/20/2016
Delacroix
Raymond & I with Harry
Wind N/NE (10-15+), cloudy, hazy, fog in area, upper 30's and about as cold feeling as I've felt down that way with air so damp
Camp was rockin from N/NE wind yesterday evening on arrival but slowed overnight and was just about right this morning for us, nice ripples on pond. Unfortunately didn't really matter because we just don't have much traffic over us right now, very different from first split. Literally had 8 ducks work the pond, killed 5 of them, should have had all 8.
Saw maybe a dozen grays during entire hunt but then saw hundreds on boat ride out within a quarter mile of us, and even a good pile of them in our north blind on lease no one hunted today. They're just holding in canals, coves, and even flats along main bayous (low water today so feed along shore is matted on surface). With it being so nasty there was no boat traffic in area so birds were stacked up in areas that they'd otherwise be bumped out of by fishermen. Saw plenty more throughout our travels heading in, piled in places they hadn't been in first split, including some wide open unhuntable flats.
(5) 2 grays, 2 GW teal, 1 mottled
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nice to get a mottled finally; pair about took our hats off right at LST and lit wide on Ray's side who had yet to load his gun. Harry was clutch rooting her up in some thick grass as was too early to get a decent mark myself and she was in full self-burial mode
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sunshine seemingly everywhere else but foggy/hazy/hvy clouds down there today, sun never broke through
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Sure hope they find us again or could be a long home stretch of season down that way. I'm on hiatus before heading west mid-next week.
Merry Christmas
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