Captain commander pooty tang with Boudreaux and Dex (behind him). This pic is from our first hunt in town. We killed our limit in about 2 hours. 13 wigeon and one green head.
Poot and I had an unreal hunt on our 3rd day. We set up in a new spot with a strong wind from right to left. When we first set up it was clear and sunny which is great for this section of river. It was slow for the first 45 minutes until we had a group of 40 mallards do it perfectly. 3 greenheads dropped in from about 200 yds up like they were coming down an elevator shaft. We let the 3 land and the rest of the group took one more pass and came in about the same time that the 3 green heads on the water spooked. Poot and I killed 5 out of the group. One of which was the double banded bird below with a $100 money band. It ended up getting really foggy which we thought would be a deal killer but we started calling alot to help the birds find us in the fog and it only took us about another hour to fill our limit of mallards.
This picture is from the boat ramp on the way out after hour last hunt of the trip. It was 33 and rainy with a 15mph wind all day. Unfortunately the hunting was good enough for us to fill our limit but it took us all day and we were soaked to the bone and miserable by the time we got out of there.
This pic is from my first duck hunt back in Virginia. My buddy invited me to a beaver swamp he has access to about 45 min from Charlottesville. We shot a green head that sailed into the woods beyond the swamp and we assumed it was lost, but at the end of the hunt I walked over to where I thought the bird went down and sent Dex on it and to all of our surprise he found it.
Oakey and I went down to the Marsh two weeks ago on a Thursday evening and the next morning we killed 10 mallards/blacks in about an hour and a half which is the best hunt I have ever had down at our marsh. The whole river was frozen up except for a chunk of open water in the middle of our marsh. We walked to the hole and tossed out a handfull of dekes and the birds worked perfectly. We ended up hunting the river in the afternoon as the ice moved out with the tide and killed 2 more ducks to fill our limit and 3 geese just one shy of a limit. This one is permantently burned in my mind. Pretty much everything was perfect. The ducks worked perfectly, we shot straight, and Dex was absolutely perfect. Without him we would not have been able to get to or find any of our ducks.
Dex was so tired he fell asleep in the fire. :)
Dex helping dad drive.
Dad and Taylor joined Oakey and I on Friday evening and on Saturday the ice made the hunting a lot tougher but we ended up scratching out 4 ducks in 4 shots. Taylor folded a black duck at shooting time followed up by a triple by Oakey later in the day.
Yesterday the King brothers treated us to a great goose hunt out at their place. Thanks Guys!!
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