Certainly a Duck Day

Hello again all my technologically advanced and well connected waterfowl enthusiast friends. Well, I remember posting something about preparedness in my last post. Was a bit of a late start this am but got to the ditch just in time. The wind was howling like a mutha and it was just too much work for one man to move the deeks. The big foots were falling over every 30 secs and after awhile the re-setting up just wasn't worth the fight. Must admit wasn't a very good aiming day. Had 3 different volleys and came home empty handed. The bottoms sounded like World War III for a couple hours this morning. North South East and West there was shooting all over the place! Not a plethora of new ducks but there were some nonetheless. Nice to see some already. Will be back up Sunday. Check back for the latest and greatest and thanks for all the hits.

Hello?

Hello again all my technologically advanced and well connected waterfowl enthusiast friends.  It appears that the water-fowling community actually reads this blog and some of you have been wondering if I had retired from being a "word-smith."  Well I haven't and I'm glad to report we have had a bit of action the last 10 days or so.  I start 10 days ago on a Wednesday.  A south windy day and there were birds around.  A wrecking crew of 3 manged to hammer down on 6 ducks, should've been more, but one of them happened to be outside the blind with the dog when about 12 came in "hot."  The Wednesday morning was soooooo good that after the morning hunt, lunch and a nap, one guy decided to roll back out late afternoon.  No disappointment, brought home 2 gaddys on the afternoon shoot.  The only real mishap was on a single can, "one more pass" got em and no steel flew. 
The next day, Thursday had a zero in the bag and very little going on.
Fast-Forward to Sunday, I would like to title this day "Two Too Many."  A one man show began with trying to calculate "leave" time Saturday night after a few too many hops and barley.  Mistake number one, showed up late, after shooting time and kicked off birds.  Next comes some screaming teal, again a bit foggy from the night before, didn't even pull up the gun.  Later, it was time for a muffin, after opening it up and taking a bite, oops, dropped on the floor, reached for it and stepped on it, hit head on shelf, immediately looked up and had 7 dropping in hard.  3 shots and not a bird.  I've been told that LUCK is when preparation meets opportunity.  This day definitely had nothing to do with that.  After a bit of frustration, it was time to leave. 
Now on to yesterday, no morning hunt and afternoon hunt and no birds.  Will be in the ditch in the AM with some opportunity.  I haven't had any fine pilsner this evening so we should be ready to go.  This wind has been howling out of the NNW for about 24 hours now and there has to be some new birds heading in.  Please check back for the latest and greatest and thanks for all the hits.

Opening Morning

Hello again all my technologically advanced and well connected waterfowl enthusiast friends.  It's official, the season has opened.  We have until December to keep the blog full and active.  We will see how long it lasts. 
The first morning was a bag of nothing.  The plus side is that we laid down a handful of groups but were not set up for the South Wind.  They went all around us and away from us landing on the water.  We did fire a marginal shot and even with 3 guns we couldn't find any feathers when the smoke cleared.  Lots of first light shots around the area that we could hear.  Saw a fair amount of ducks moving and some Can's too.  All staying on the river.  Seems like there are more birds than we have been accustomed to the last couple years on opening weekend.  Things slowed quickly and we were OUT by 930AM with nothing to clean.  The dogs got some exercise, the Polaris got the cob webs cleaned out and we're off to the races.  Another season upon us and with it comes early mornings, over-thinking, blogs, stories and fights with the wife.  Ah, the life of a waterfowler!  That's all I got for now, check back for the latest and greatest and thanks for all the hits.