Youth Season Excitement

Hello again everybody it's that time again.  Time for another story about the Ditch.  With the lightening and thunder Saturday about drive away time, it seemed like the right choice was to stay home the first day of the Youth Weekend.  Little did we know that just 25 minutes after LST would it be over, oh well.  Sunday was the call we thought so we pulled out early this AM wondering what kinda shape we were going to be in when we got to the Ditch.  Deeks blown around and water as high as the Missouri River is what we found.  A couple inches of rain a week or so really filled up the pond.  We were overflowing on the west bank so it was time to quit pumping.  The bottoms are completely soaked right now.  Mud everywhere and water sitting in every crevice.  We took a couple young men with us this morning who were more than willing to answer the 5AM wake-up call.  The bird action started right away and there was no disappointment to be found.  The boys ended up bringing home 4 birds, 2 teal and 2 smileys.  Had about 6 kaboom booms and the entertainment was second to none.  Each volley went about like this...Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom..."got ONE"!  It was great.  Being the only dad there without offspring on sight, I only had breakfast to really worry about.  Seeing the boys nailing some great shots and hearing ducks thump in the water really got my blood boiling.  Between the two of them there was a full box of empties lying around after just 2 hours.  We packed it up right at 9AM.  There are alot of teal and smileys around.  We had bunch after bunch buzzing us for a strong hour and a half.  Saw just a few bigger ducks and two small bunches of Can's getting off some of the local water.  Next week is the opener and the season is finally here, you can sleep in again sometime after the first of the year.  If the ducks and geese decide to migrate our way this year and they set up shots like the boys took today it could be a fun season for us.  Looking forward to getting back here to write.  That's all for now.  Check back for the latest and greatest and thanks for all the hits.