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Perfect Duck Weather ...
Date: 1/9/2009
Location: San Antonio Bay region
The Smackers: Jeff Larson
Darrin Johnson
The weather was perfect duck weather, depending on who you talk
shop with. Mid 80's South winds about 15 knots. The tide was, great
for the Air Ranger AB, way out. You could almost walk across the
ICW (Intercoastal Waterway) The only thing I did not like was we
were going into a full moon. I will beat this horse to death. I do
not like hunting ducks on a full moon. Please email me your
thoughts on a full moon. I have 15 years of records on a full moon
and it isn't good. It does not stop me from hunting or fishing but
it tends to be a grind.
This
particular day I hunted in the evening with Wisconsin Jim. We
hunted the San Antonio Bay region of the coast. It was a scout
mission for my buddy Darrin Johnson. Darrin needed some assistance
being that I have the Harley Davidson of Airboats that can handle a
group of hunters plus run dry ground. Anyway, Jim and I went to Lil
Smacker's blind to check out the back bay flight plus we are able to
see the bayfront flight. We round the corner to the back lake which
was dry as a bone. No water means no ducks. I told Jim plan B. We
went to Lindsey's blind. No water. Plan C make a new blind where
there is water if we can find any. We ran to the north side of the
lake with a north wind. This is my favorite set up. South wind,
set up on the north side with wind in our face. Another topic,
setting up backwards.
I had some brush
to put around the portable bench and named the blind, Riley's blind
after my youngest daughter. If you can't tell I am sentimental when
it comes to naming blinds.
The spread
had to be put away from the blind. The blocks were laid out about
30+ plus yards away. The birds are supposed to decoy between the
shore and the decs. It worked out like a text book spread but you
don't see too many people setting up backwards that is why I am
writing my own textbook on duck hunting. The birds read my manual
but committed on the left side a little to much for Wisconsin Jim to
get a good shot. The pintails came in by the hundreds. Jim had
already shot his before I got back from parking the Air Ranger.
That's how good it was. I was thankful that the birds decoyed on my
side because it took over a box of shells for me to down my one
pintail for the day. It was so bad that easy going Jim was giving
me a hard time. I was embarrassed how bad I was shooting but I want
to keep my reports honest. I quit shooting until a flock of 10 or
20 redheads hit the decoys between the blind and blocks right in the
middle of the spread. We raised up and dropped 3. So I thought,
Rusty was coming back with the last redhead when I noticed something
floating about 15 yards to the left of the spread floating and
fluttering. So what does any decent duck hunter do. He sends his
dog because no one wants to take a chance of being in the decoys
when the birds are moving. Rusty is sent on line to the fluttering
floating object and picks it up. Its a duck. Its coming back in on
the Rusty express and its looking a little brown. Hopefully its a
drake gray duck. Nope a pintail hen. I was a little disappointed
knowing I shot a hen but we know what women like most. Yep,
jewelry. This baby had a sweet silver band that I still need to
call into the biologist. When Jim and I rose up to shoot the
redheads there was so many pintails setting around the decs that a
stray pellet hit the bird. Now I know that Jim didn't shoot it
because he already had his sprig.
I believe we
shot a few more birds that evening. We cleaned 7. Keep checkin in
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Limit Larson
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One for the books 2...
Date: 1/10/2009
Location: Port O’conner
The Smackers: Donnie Childress
Darrin
Neil
Bryan
Todd
Jeff Larson
The a.m. The
weather is calm overcast with a little bit of fog at the dock, I say
at the dock for a reason. Temp is about 65. The Budweiser group.
Darrin works for Bud so thats their group name, Neil, Bryan, Todd
and Big D. himself. We head out of the cut and into Shoalwater for
the ride to Matagorda Island. We come out of Shoalwater and hit a
nasty sea fog. I have to slow the airboat down for everyone's
safety. The fog is so thick the GPS starts to lose the track plus
the boat is just crawling so we don't hit anything. After a few
circles I see a land mark. I get back on track to the island but I
still have to be careful because of some stick ups between the shore
and route I am going. I make it to shore but I am watching for some
steel debris that I have to go by on my way to Riley's new duck
blind. We are approaching the debris and I come to a sudden stop. I
hit sand with a loaded down boat and you know what that does. Yep
send everybody forward. We escape around that obstacle and continue
southbound in the fog. We finally arrive at Rileys blind, a 20-25
minute boat ride took an hour because of the fog. The Budweiser
group were veteran duck hunters so we divided up the work and got
ready for shooting time. I am not a fan of calm and foggy days for
duck hunting. We scratched out 4-6 birds that morning.
The p.m.
hunt. A norther blew in right on time. I was able to get the group
to a small pothole that is a feast or famine spot. That evening
Darrin ran the hunt and he had pictures of big groups of pintails in
the blocks screaming shoot me I dare ya! The guys already had their
pintails for the day. If my memory hasn't failed me they ended up
with their pintails and a couple of other ducks. Lets say 6 ducks.
So Saturday we had 12 to pick and package.
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One for the books...
Date: 1/11/2009
Location: Port O’conner
The Smackers: Donnie Childress
Kevin Gerard
Jeff Larson
This
mornings hunt was definitely one for the books. After the cold front
that blew through yesterday, we finally had some wind and weather to
get the ducks movings in our favor. We took off in the air boat
around 5:30 a.m. and headed across the bay to one off our favorite
sports, which is perfect for the north winds after the fronts punch
through. Once we finally got to the spot and set out our spread it
wasn't long before we could hear the wings of ducks zipping though
our decoys. Finally it was shootin time, and it wasn't long before
we had ducks pouring in from all around us,and once it started it
took less than 45 mins to shoot our 15 bird limit. What a day and
hopefully we will have more days like this towards the end of our
season down here in our home state of texas.
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Donnie
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Full moons...
Date: 1/12/2009
Location: West Matagorda
The Smackers: Donnie Childress
Kevin Gerard
Jeff Larson
Jan 11th 09,
a.m. hunt. The norther is still blowing around 10 knots and it is
45 degrees. The skys are partly cloudy and the moon was too full
and bright for me to be excited. We all went to the pothole from
the evening before. We set up early and ducks were landing right at
our feet all the way to shooting time. Shooting time rolled up and
the birds had already taken off to Mexico. 2 greys suck in the
blocks looking to get out of the weather. Out of 5 smackers we
rolled up 1. As the morning progressed, we heard speratic volleys
from West Matagorda down toward Rockport areas. The ducks did not
want a pothole they wanted the big water. This surprised me for
such a semi-windy day. 9:30 a.m. rolls around and I have finished
my joke telling so we start getting ready to go back to the bay
casa. That usually makes them fly. Sure enough. 5 big bull
widgeon pitch right in the landing zone. 5 guns should be up
blazing when I call the shot. 3 made it up for the first round and
the 4th guy woke up in enough time to assist on the second falling
widgeon. The 5th guy thought he was being shot at in his dream as
he slept through the aerobatic display of feathers flying into the
decs. Oh well better luck next time. 3 ducks.
I would like to
blog or discuss about the effects of the full moon in your area.
Drop me a line. I will leave you with this. January's full moon was
coming up during the afternoon. I believe that is why the ducks
moved and decoyed better in the p.m. than the a.m. This season's
other 2 full moons, Nov. and Dec. totally sucked for duck hunting
because they set before shooting time or it was up to late during
the day. My records reflected last year specifically in December
that the full moon was tough hunting. Years prior to that I have
numerous notes, "hunting poor due to a full moon" Wisconsin Jim,
the 87 year old duck hunting legend says that he is not bothered by
a full moon. Now his notes date back before I was born so I must
say that this would be a good debate for us TEXAS QUACK SMACKERS.
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Deep mud...
Date: 1/16/2009
Location: Port O’connor
The Smackers: Brennen Larson
Wisconsin Jim
Jeff Larson
P.M. hunt.
Lil Quack Smacker Brennen "HI-SPEED" Larson ace'd a couple of test
in the a.m. before Big Daddy Limit Larson took him on a well
deserved field trip to POC for the remainder of the day. We
arrived at the bayhouse with plenty of time to smack a limit of
quackers before Mr. Sunshine faded away.
The weather was
awesome; cloudy and overcast north wind about 25 knots.
Brennen,
Wisconsin Jim and I went to my buddy's sleeper blind which is in a
mud pit that is so bad that the mud squeezes your wading boots so
much you only sink to your knees and it cuts off the circulation to
your feet. Needless to say that I put the decoys out by way of
AirRanger Express. I put a group of blocks up wind from the blind
about 30 yards out with a tail running back away from the blind
about 40 yards. I attempted to leave enough space for the birds
coming into the wind from across the bay to come between the blind
and the blocks. It did work for the 2 limits we shot but we could
have probably took a few more birds if we would have brought the
tail down the bank. The widgeon set up perfect coming between the
decoys and the shore but those blind shy pintails wanted the outside
of the decoys. We had 3 pintails and the rest widgeon.
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Part of the game...
Date: 1/17/2009
Location: Port O’connor
The Smackers: Brennen Larson
Wisconsin Jim
Jeff Larson
A.M. hunt.
The tide pulled out even more so we couldn't go to the mosh pit. We
free styled the wind change and ran a string of blocks along the
shore for a few birds that set up in the pocket. The pintails were
all over us and everyone else in the area. Thats great but only 1
per person. So pintails and a redhead for the morning. We flat
missed a pair of teal that loved the scattered spread but thats part
of the game.
PM hunt. We
set up in the mosh pit with less water than the day before. Wind
was out of the north still but not near as hard as Friday's wind.
We stuck out 10 widgeon decs up wind from the blind. When I say we
stuck them we stuck the keels right in the mud. It was a mess but
that also is part of the game. It paid off because widgeon have
been loving this grassy pond. We smacked a couple of more to round
out the day with 8 or 10.
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Coming to an end...
Date: 1/17/2009
Location: Halls Bayou
The Smackers: Donnie Childress
TY Hlavaty
The end of
the season is getting closer and the ducks are getting smarter. This
morning we stayed a little closer to our home turf and hunted in
Halls Bayou an extremely good hunting area with 17000 acres of
freshwater marsh. Early morning started out slow the wind was calm
and the decoys were dead and o'l mojo wasn’t helping us out either.
All around us we could here other hunters shooting and hear
there pellets skimming the water as we sat and watched the ducks
look and keep on flying. Finally the we got a decent breeze to give
our decoys a little motion and the birds started to work in our
favor. We had teal,grey ducks, and widgeon working on us and after a
pretty long and cold hunt we ended up with 17 ducks and one bonus
goose.
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Donnie Childress
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The legend...
Date: 1/18/2009
Location: Port O’connor
The Smackers: Brennen Larson
Wisconsin Jim
Jeff Larson
Sunday, Jan 18th, The a.m. sunrise hunt turned into let the fog lift
and sleep in til 9. I like these hunts because I am well rested.
Lil Smacker, Jim and I filled up the airboat for a scouting mission
since the wind was calm to barely blowing and the tide was way out.
We went to the back marshes that were holding little to no water. I
took the airboat to Brennen's blind because he always wants at least
one hunt where he calls the shots. I was surprised to find water
around his blind because there wasn't any last week. Then I saw
hundreds of ducks get up right in front of his favorite spot.
That's it we threw anchor and set up camp. Now it it goes again, I
went with the set the decoys up away from the blind and have them
decoy between me and the blind. It was working but not enough to
Jim's liking so Brennen and I made a quick switch with the decoys.
We took the pintail decoys and set them in closer. I grabbed 15
widgeon and put them to the left of the point. This worked great
for the last group that came in 5 hours later. We finish this 7
hour trip with 2 birds. It was a great long trip. Brennen got to
hand out with the Legend Wisconsin Jim. Brennen was able to learn
some old school tricks on how to make the too big booted waders fit
better with two small ropes. This little trick help Brennen from
losing his footing in the waders. It was awesome to watch a mega
veteran duck smacker like Jim help with a young gun like Brennen.
Its all about passing this treasured passion of watching ducks come
into the spread you put out, adjusting the spread to make it better
for the hunt, infinite knowledge of the way the ducks fly and
watching the shore birds interact with each other and within the
spread, plus the great memories of the dog retrieving the downed
birds and list goes on. I can't wait to hear in the duck blind years
from now when Brennen passes information down to some young smacker
that the LEGEND "Wisconsin Jim" showed me this trick or told me
this. This day was more than whacking and stacking it was about
passing on the tricks of the trade.
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The honey hole...
Date: 1/19/2009
Location: Port O’connor
The Smackers: Brennen Larson
Wisconsin Jim
Jeff Larson
Monday, Jan
19th, Quick a.m. hunt. Cold for Texas 40 degree mark. Winds pumping
20 out of the Northwest. I was thinking when the alarm went off.
Easy pothole hunt. I will be hero or zero and can get out without
too much of a mess. Oh no, The legend wanted to goto his honey
hole. Of course you have to respect Wisconsin Jim because he is
the man every duck hunter dreams about being. We went to his
favorite blind and what do you know, NO WATER. Tide is so far gone
you could practically walk down the middle of the ICW. We made a
fast dash to a point that the community shares first come first
serve. Not much water there either. I put a dozen widgeon drakes
and hens mixed out just up wind from the blind then put 4 pintail
drakes close and in front of the blind. I wanted an easy shot for
HI-SPEED because this was his last hunt of the year. NO DUCKS. I
did not see a duck for 2 hours. Luckily we had one lone pintail
come in and I unloaded my gun praying Brennen shot so we could claim
team work. Heck, It took off, Rusty took off out of the blind
like he knew something I didn't. Lucky for him he didn't have the
shock collar around his neck. Anyway he knew more than I because
the drake started loosing altitude at 100 yards out. Then crash at
200. See Rusty wanted to close the distance and he was freezing
cold in the north wind. Sometimes them dogs are smarter than the
hunters. Or is it that I am making excuses that he BROKE and I am
trying to give him a break. No pun intended.
That's it guys,
Great weather and memories were made on my MLK weekend and day.
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A better day...
Date: 1/23/2009
Location: Port O’connor
The Smackers: Dr. Ed Staggs
Wisconsin Jim
Jeff Larson
Friday seemed
to be a better day. Partly cloudy and winds up to 15 knots. It was
mid 70's which makes it perfect for shorts and flip flops. I slide
the American a/b into the water and yell for Wisconsin Jim and Dr.
Ed Staggs to join me for a quick evening scout/hunt trip. I see the
water has pulled out farther than last week which is great for
getting to those secluded ponds that the birds love to sit in to
stay away from us.
I knew that
Brennen's blind was toast because there was barely any water last
week, so I went straight to the new blind I built for my youngest
daughter, Riley. Riley's blind is set up for a northwind but a stiff
west wind will work. I turned the corner into the secluded lake and
thousands of Pintails, Widgeon, and Greys filled the sky. The depth
of the water is less than ankle deep. Riley's blind has 20-25 yards
of mud in front of it before you get to a pinky length of water. I
put a combo of widgeon and pintails decs out, 6 pintails and 20
widgeon. I figure least is better so when they trickle back to the
blind we can get them looking at our set.
We hunt to
sundown and miss a few pintails and a small group of redheads. I
think we zeroed. Dr. Staggs nickname is T.E. so I will refer to him
as T E until he promotes to the next level. Either way, we had a
great trip despite the fact that I was the only one shooting and
couldn't hit the broadside of a mountain. T.E. brought his new
awesome benelli 20 gauge and hi velocity 12 gauge shells. Jim was
shooting 3 1/2 inch shells when he shot. He didn't even shoot but
once or twice. I burned a half box before I gave my gun to T E and
the ducks never gave us another shot until the last minute when T.E.
gave me my gun back and I wiffed once again on a pintail setting up
about to land in the decoys. Like I said OH Well, I would rather
be in the blind wiffing than being at home wishing I was out there.
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WE FOUND YOU...
Date: 1/24/2009
Location: Port O’connor
The Smackers: Dr. Ed Staggs
Wisconsin Jim
Jeff Larson
Louie Wiess
Jan 24th,
Saturday, Louie Wiess came in Friday to finish out the season. We
woke up to a cold northwind about 15 knots which increased to 25 +
that day. We decided to check out Louie's secret hole where Brennen
and I shot them the week before. Louies blind is right off the bay
and usually has water in front of it but this time it didn't so we
FREE STYLED it a hundred yards down the shore from his original
blind location. The birds are pouring into shallow water all
morning by the hundreds. The ducks are bucking the wind from
Matagorda Island trying to find a little water and sanctuary. We
had a long line of decoys set up down the bank we set up on but not
a single bird broke off and gave us a shot. Louie was thinking we
need to make a move despite having to pick up the big spread so we
obliged. Louie went and got the boat while T E, Wisconsin Jim, and
I picked up the blind and blocks. We rounded the corner of a
little island and there they were rafted up and hunkered down trying
to ride the norther and last weekend grinders out.
WE FOUND YOU!
Louie was gracious enough to drop us off in the middle of the bay
and let us hunt for a couple of hours. We had to put a bench that
Louie built in the 1/2 inch mud and 1/2 inch water, then put what
little brush we had around us. We put a small spread out to make
it quick and easy. We smacked 7 or 8 before Louie returned. Thanks
Louie, that was a big sacrifice being the last weekend.
The PM hunt was
cancelled due to finding some land locked reds in a back lake. It
was pretty quick limits on redfish for LEAD Louie, Tom Cat and Limit
Larson. I will post the picks asap.
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The last day...
Date: 1/25/2009
Location: Port O’connor
The Smackers: Dr. Ed Staggs
Wisconsin Jim
Jeff Larson
Louie Wiess
Sunday was
cold with with the wind slowing to about 5 knots early but picking
up by noon. Lead Louie, T.E., Tom Cat and Limit went to an old
faithful community hole to finish the season. Unfortunately for us
we were late and someone beat us to the hole. We made a quick
switch to a near by pond that would be good to late morning. We
smacked 3 or 4 right off the bat. We were visited by Warden Byrd
from the State and he gave us a thorough check I.D., hunting
license, gun check, bird check, bag check. We passed like we always
do so I always take the time for a photo op. and ask a few
questions. The wardens are super nice and always let me take a
picture. Just a side note, Be cordual when they check you, they
are doing their job and everyone that I met and know they do it
well, so give them the respect they deserve for the 5 minutes they
spend with you, unless of course you are messing up. Ok back to the
hunt. We saw that the guys that beat us to the community hole were
leaving and the birds still wanted in there better than our hole so
we picked up once again and moved. We finished the day with 2
limits and closed the season. We had our pintails, widgeon and a
couple of smiling mallards. Yes 2 smileys and I was glad to have my
dog retrieve them. I enjoy every duck that pitches into the blocks
and gives me an opportunity to harvest them.
Hey guys if you
would like to discuss anything duck in the off season give me an
email and I will get back with you ASAP. I live and breath duck
hunting so shoot me a message.
Thanks for your
support in our new adventure and hope to sit in a blind with you
next season. I will be donating several duck hunting trips this
year to various hunting and fishing organizations so look for TEXAS
QUACK SMACKERS at any banquet you might attend.
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Summer time Duck blinds
Date: 8/23/2009
Location: East Bernard
The Smackers: Jeff Larson
Brennen
Louie
Cody
Louie Jr.
Buddy Nelson
Tom Cat
Its August, 100 degrees, the furthest from people's mind is duck
hunting, right? Not for Texas Quack Smackers! Brennen, Louie, Cody,
Louie Jr., myself, Buddy Nelson and Tom Cat braved the heat to start
getting duck blinds ready for TEAL SEASON. That's right its almost
here. Teal Season is an appeTEASER of the up and coming full meal
deal. We were in Texas' Rice Belt, East Bernard, checking out ponds
and rice fields. Its early, but we do not want the season to creep
up on us, committed SMACKERS.
As soon as we pull up to the gate of our legendary TEAL HOLE, we
call it legendary because you can limit out with a tennis racket,
thats how good this place is. Okay we pull up and TEAL are
everywhere. I'm pretty excited and I will try not to exaggerate but
we saw several groups of teal with 20 to 50 in a flock. The boys are
screaming, "Where's the guns!" Its not season, we are here to work,
Louie Sr. commands to the boys. This is where duck hunting begins,
work, scouting, time in the field observing the flight patterns,
make sure they are all Teal. Louie points out the difference between
Teal and the Squealers, (Black Bellied Whistlers), Mottled ducks and
yes a couple of Pintails flying around the pond.
Louie is a "Stickler" for showing up for work days with kids because
he wants to show the youth that a lot of work goes into harvesting
ducks. "It's not just about showing up and pulling the trigger,
BOYS!" We get to the 1st blind and move the bench and everyone
scatters yelling "SNAKE!, SNAKE!, SNAKE!" Check out the Workday pics.
A 3 footer is coiled up under the bucket part of the bench seat.
Shovels, machettes, posts, you name it everyone is getting ready for
the next invasion of the Body Snatchers. The poor snake didn't have
a chance. It was chopped into corn dog bite pieces.
Now that everyone is walking on egg shells checking every blade of
grass in the blind and every crevice, we start pounding in rebarb
post in place of the BENT TO HECK fence posts the cows used as a
butt scratcher. I must admit, I got soft over the summer, I had 3
blisters on my hand after the 1st post was sunk in the ground.
Luckily, Louie Sr, the last boy scout, had an extra pair of gloves
for my soft hands. The pounding of posts started again, it must have
sounded like snakes mating because a bigger faster snake appears out
of no where and starts coming to the blind. This time Tom Cat grabs
his 9mm and begins firing like he was an endless supply of bullets.
It was hilarious, 5 to 9 rounds were shot around the curious snake
and one finally grazed him so we could begin chopping it into snake
nuggets.
We finally finished putting the frame together and its time to call
it a day. We sat around talking about the different reports
biologists are already writing and printing, the duck population is
up this year. Which of course is a great thing because it gives
everyone a better opportunity to experience what SMACKERS live for
and that's decoying ducks. It is about the decoying isn't it???? OH
YEAH, The retrieving from man's best friend is the other facet we
love when the ducks accidently fly into our shotgun pattern. Hey
wouldn't that be cool if we could shoot ducks, retrieve them, and
send them on their way? or at least use discretion on the ones we
want to eat. Like catch and release. Shoot, Retrieve, keep a few and
release a few. Ok, I'm done rattling.
It was a great day outdoors!
Don't forget the monthly photo contest plus if you have any
questions let me know!
Keep on SMACKIN!
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New Hunting Report
Date: 9/12/09
Title: 2009 Teal Season Opener
2009 Teal Season Opener was
phenomenal for the Smackers who did their homework. I took a
different approach to this years teal season opener. I went around
interviewing teal hunters from public waters to private ponds all
over Texas. Central Texas Hunters are dealing with drought and the
numbers that came into me were ½ limits to full bags. Now the
coastal hunters from say Edna all the way down to the border had
rock ‘em sock ‘em hunts. These hunters had a more consistent pattern
and story. I have to say from the 20 to 30 hunters that I
interviewed, they all had about a 99% success rate in putting birds
on straps. There were 2 parties of 2 that did not fire a shot. But
there was a common denominator from these two groups and that was
they did NOT do any pre – season scouting. For whatever reason these
guys didn’t do their homework, they waited to the last minute and
relied on prior memories of how the birds are always here.
We have to remember to be successful you have to scout or pay a
scout, if you know what I mean. A guide is a great way and resource
to increase your odds of bagging birds.
Back to the report, Mike Kopecinski and I drove the roads from
Galveston to Freeport stopping and visiting with all types of
hunters. The common thread was they were all Duck Hunters from
Texas. It was refreshing to see the young guns out with their dads
who were instilling gun safety and the heritage in the hearts of the
up and comers. The photo ops with the kids holding a strap or 2 of
teal with grins as wide as TEXAS were a cool sight. Mike “ The
Manager” Kopecinski runs the Tigner Ranch Hunting Operation located
in Angleton, Texas and we went to the famous gator pit off FM 2004
where the members had full limits Saturday and Sunday. The gator pit
is actually a reservoir for the rice fields on the ranch. Mike has
been hunting this ranch for 30 years and he comments that he has
never seen the water level as low as it was on Saturday. Now that
concentrated the Teal activity hence the high success rate. We also
did a little scouting for the dove opener which will be a barrel
melt down.
Hey just a reminder for the guys that will be doing the TEAL/DOVE
combo DO NOT CARRY LEAD SHELLS WITH YOUR DUCK HUNTING EQUIPMENT,
even if you are separating the two birds. Keep you Dove Loads in the
truck while hunting Teal. The wording on that ticket is Possessing
Lead Shot while hunting Waterfowl.
Teal season is a great way to introduce a youngster or a newby into
the sport of duck hunting because the weather is mild and even if
you get into a rain shower it’s not as tough on them as Ol’ Man
Winter.
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