Date: September 13
Hunters: Myself
Time: Morning
Location: B&G Blind 22
Weather Conditions: Light to moderate west wind. Mostly cloudy. A little cool for the long-sleeved t-shirt before sunrise which was nice to comfortable once the sun peaked through the clouds.
Waterfowl Activity: Geese in all directions making noise, but very little flying. Saw a fair number of ducks.
I had a flock of small ducks fly over me early in the morning. Couldn't tell if they were teal, but I'm pretty sure they were not wood ducks.
Birds By Species: DNS
Curses: I tell everybody I like hunting in September because the geese are dumb. I ran into the smart ones today.
I heard some geese getting up south of me. I suspect a fisherman kicked them up. I had a single heading straight for me. I'm asking myself if I'm going to shoot him or wait on the big bunch I can hear getting up behind him. Then another single hauls ass and catches up to him and appeared to tell him he doesn't want to go there and they swing wide behind me. Five more behind them are looking real good, but as soon as they pass the big cottonwood (that's getting cut down soon) they swing wide out in front. Then the main body of about two dozen geese stayed well behind me. I'm pretty sure some of those birds had been shot up in the blind I was in. They definitely acted like they knew the blind was there. They sat right back down in the big lake a couple hundred yards behind me and didn't get up the rest of the morning.
I saw another high pair far off in the distance and that was it for geese flying.
Fishing: 2 bass and 1 northern pike.
I made up in quality what I lacked in numbers. Biggest bass of the year at 18-19" and the biggest northern pike of my life which isn't saying much, but it was about 25".
Photo Ops:It's not easy taking selfies with a fish in the dark. This guy took my buzzbait about 10' from me. The amount of water he moved when I hooked him, I thought he was quite a bit bigger.
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Glad he was hooked perfectly because I didn't have my pliers with me
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