Admittedly it took a bit more effort to get me to leave home with the family last night to head east for another hunt this morning, think I'm at one of the highest total second split hunt tally's on my log but figured it was an easy hunt to make and was back in plenty of time for a solid day at work. Just not as mad at them at this late hour in the season and have resigned to being just fine with a few birds scraped together rather than the hopes for big heavy straps. At least it's puddlers.....last reports I was getting from guides in Delacroix area were putting paying guns on dos gris, getting easy 3/man limits of those in short order, then hoping for some other bird to help mix the strap.
Plus, it's nice to be back in home marsh I was such a regular in for many years. There's been some much needed, significant, restoration work done so this offseason will have some evolving habitat that will do nothing but benefit the ducks and the long term viability of the area.