All you got to do is drive down, the hunts free.
So got up this morning at 4am and didn’t feel like going. The older I get, the harder it is to wake up real early. Anyway Momma didn’t raise no quitter, got plenty of water and I have the birds dialed in and a jam up dog. Put in at the launch with only one other truck and trailer there. 3 more came in as I was driving off. Parked the boat and unloaded the pirogue and gear. I hear a boat coming and they go passed me in another bayou and run their boat the mile I have to paddle. Well fug they might get to my pond. Plenty of area so what’s the odds? Make the paddle and see the boat, paddle half mile more and push into the pond and there is someone w a light at the other end. Thought about going to talk to them…..often I invite others to hunt w me, but opted out. Turned back and went to the spot where I hunted Sunday but 100 yards off the flyway. Set up in the cove with the wind not good but shit I’m in the flyway that they want to fly. 15 minutes before shooting time I have teal in the decoys and buzzing past me. Shooting time comes and a single got the business end. Pearl does her thing and few minutes another comes in and decides to ride home w us. A pair comes in and 3 whiffs well I did get some feathers. Another pair and 3 whiffs. I’m pissed and thinking I should have 4 in 10 minutes. Small flock comes from behind me and don’t see them till too late. Another flock comes from behind me but this time I see them, it’s about 30 and I’m trying to knock four down. Shot in the dark spot and one falls 40 yards in heavy marsh grass, the other two shots……well you know the story. As pearl is trying to find that bird a single comes by and don’t make it out the pond. Pearl finds the one in the grass and I send her on a blind retrieve for the one I just knocked down. Retrieves that bird and another pair is flying by and I drop both. Whooo got my limit. Pearl retrieves a double and the rest is history.
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