(I tried to delete the other thread but couldn't figger out how?)
Three of my buddies (njacob, a lurker named Clint and a drunk named Bill)and I headed down to Rockport for a little duck action this past weekend. A great time was had by all, not as many ducks as we would have liked but they just aren't there in the numbers they have been the past few seasons. It was quite an experience sitting in the marsh as the cold front blew in Saturday morning, with conditions going from 80+ and completely still to 55 and honking 30-40mph in about 2 minutes. Gotta love this Texas weather. The slow hunt Sunday was salvaged by nice drake pintails for everybody and a party-shot band.
This pic is from Saturday before the front, still, hot and nothing flying. We were with Capt. Jeff Steckler, he worked his butt off building a cool little ground blind the hide four fat guys.
Milo escorting a drake Redhead back to the blind Sat. morning. No hero shot today but I think we had 5 redheads and a GW teal. Just not many birds around.
Sunday morning Hogheaven (Capt. Jason Brou) dropped us off in one of his blinds. It was windy and COLD, by Rockport standards anyway.
We saw approximately one gazillion pintails and nothing else. We each took nice drakes, here is Milo bringing one back.
The highlight of the day was definitely the beautiful banded drake pintail that njacob and Clint teamed up on. He is going on somebodies wall, not sure whose! Last year they also each shot awesome bull cans when I took them on a hunt I bought in a DU aution. Not sure I am taking these guys hunting anymore.
Hero shot with our sprigs
Despite the overall lack of birds it was a fun weekend. Chasing woodies and greeheads in the East Texas woods next weekend with the same guys, hopefully they didn't use up all of thier duck karma on that band!
Three of my buddies (njacob, a lurker named Clint and a drunk named Bill)and I headed down to Rockport for a little duck action this past weekend. A great time was had by all, not as many ducks as we would have liked but they just aren't there in the numbers they have been the past few seasons. It was quite an experience sitting in the marsh as the cold front blew in Saturday morning, with conditions going from 80+ and completely still to 55 and honking 30-40mph in about 2 minutes. Gotta love this Texas weather. The slow hunt Sunday was salvaged by nice drake pintails for everybody and a party-shot band.
This pic is from Saturday before the front, still, hot and nothing flying. We were with Capt. Jeff Steckler, he worked his butt off building a cool little ground blind the hide four fat guys.
Milo escorting a drake Redhead back to the blind Sat. morning. No hero shot today but I think we had 5 redheads and a GW teal. Just not many birds around.
Sunday morning Hogheaven (Capt. Jason Brou) dropped us off in one of his blinds. It was windy and COLD, by Rockport standards anyway.
We saw approximately one gazillion pintails and nothing else. We each took nice drakes, here is Milo bringing one back.
The highlight of the day was definitely the beautiful banded drake pintail that njacob and Clint teamed up on. He is going on somebodies wall, not sure whose! Last year they also each shot awesome bull cans when I took them on a hunt I bought in a DU aution. Not sure I am taking these guys hunting anymore.
Hero shot with our sprigs
Despite the overall lack of birds it was a fun weekend. Chasing woodies and greeheads in the East Texas woods next weekend with the same guys, hopefully they didn't use up all of thier duck karma on that band!