"I DON'T WANT NO GOOSE"

My Uncle Kelly and I got down the marsh just before all the snow showed up and did some damage despite the fact that we had absolutely no wind. Kelly killed a goose the afternoon before I got there and the next morning we limited out on geese and killed 3 gadwall, 3 mallards, and another drake pintail. None of the ducks decoyed just right because our spread looked pretty fishy after some junks of skim ice tangled up a bunch of our decoys and the tide took a couple away. Also Kelly stoned a goose at about 50 yards right above us that landed directly on my new robo d and smashed it. We got em to come in and take a good look though which ended up being good enough. For the most part we shot straight and Dex did a great job on a couple tough retrieves. We had one mallard sail on us and land on the other sided of the river and swim up in the marsh. Towards the end of the day we took Dex over to the other side to let him hunt the shore line even though we did not think there was much of a chance of finding the bird, but Dex found it within a couple minutes. All in all a good day in what is turning out to be a pretty solid season down at The Marsh.




I stopped at the Rayzway on my way home and one of the ladies behind the counter asked me if I had any ducks I could share with her. I quickly offered one of the 4 geese I had in the truck, and she looked at me like I had just offered her a fresh dog turd and exclaimed "I DONT WANT NO GOOSE!!!" :)

"Cash" Arrives

Yesterday Sarah and I drove down to south west VA with Taylor to pick up his puppy "Cash". These folks have some really good looking dogs and Taylor got the pick of the litter. He is a male with a black nose just like his daddy "Beau Brooks". "Brooks" is one of the best looking yellow labs I have ever seen. Here are some pics.

Sarah with one of Cash's cute little sisters. It was tough for us to get out of there with just one puppy, but cooler heads prevailed.

That's Cash on the far right catching a nap with two of his sisters.

Cash with his new Dad

Cash up close

This is Beau Brooks showing off in his pen. He looks to be about 80-85 lbs and handsome.

Brooks just hanging tight

He is a beef cake for sure

"I like DAT DUCK"

My brother Taylor and I had a pretty good swat yesterday morning. It is amazing how much difference a good cold front and a little breeze makes. We hunted two weeks ago on opening day and it was 60 degrees and dead still. We scraped out 1 goose and 1 ring neck but it was pretty slow. Yesterday we had a great mixed bag with 2 pintails, 2 mallards, 1 ring neck, 1 teale, and 3 geese. Here are some pics

My dad stole my chest waders and left them in the back of his car which is in the richmond airport parking lot so I borrowed his hip boots and ended up filling them which sucked!

Taylor with his new hunting dog

The first bull Pintail I ever remember killing down at our marsh. He did it just right with his girlfriend. Taylor and I both shot him in the face and then Taylor got sloppy and shot the lady in the ass

Me and Dex. Dex did a great job yesterday and he is still passed out. The old man is slowing down a bit unfortunately

Taylor and Dex in front of the blind

Our birds hung up at the cabin