Stache's Blog: 2nd to last hunt of 2010/2011 season

Bob, Dad, Taylor, and I all headed down to the marsh for the second to last weekend of the season. I was pretty psyched because it looked like the weather was going to cooperate. They were calling for 10-15 mph winds out of the west and the temperature was suppose to dip down in the twenties. The last time Bob came down it was bluebird and we only killed 1 goose and 1 scaup, so I was hoping we could show him a better hunt. Unfortunately the weather only cooperated partially. It got cold but as you can tell in the sunrise pic below it was dead still until about 1:30 in the afternoon. We also had a low ceiling which was nice but the wind would have helped a ton with the ducks. Dad and Taylor hunted the point blind and limited out on geese almost immediately. They had a big group do it just right and 3 birds did back flips, and then they filled their limit on a single. It took Bob and I hunted #4 and it took us a little longer but we had our limit of geese by about 9:30 and we snuck in one green head which was nice because he did it just right. We saw a bunch of ducks fly early but they did not even give us a look. The water was like a mirror and our dekes looked ridiculous. The whole crew left me after the morning hunt and I had to call in the reserves to hunt with me in the afternoon. Mase, Duncan, and Merrick joined me for an afternoon hunt and the wind finally showed up and the tide got full. We killed 4 more geese and 3 greenheads. All the ducks we killed and one of the geese decoyed perfectly. We had one green head drop straight down from at least a hundred yards up with his wing tips almost touching. All in all it was a good day I just wish that wind had showed up sooner. As is becoming pretty standard this season we all could have killed 10 geese per gun in the morning. They are every where.