Well as you all know another waterfowl season has come and gone. This one seemed to go by awfully quickly, probably due to the Feds ridiculous decision not to open it back up right after Christmas as usual, and instead skip 3 days making it senseless to take the week off from work. Anyways there were some good hunts to be had. As you can see from this picture the hunting on the weekend of the 5th found us in some snow with good birds despite the real cold weather that proceeded the weekend. Good sized birds that I wish I could say Sheeba retrieved but alas she was only interested in the photo opportunity. This next picture is of a hunt we had on the last day of the season. Only 7 days had passed but so did the snow. This had happened 
an awful lot this year, that is one day snow next day 50 degrees out. This hunt was followed up by an evening spent at the lake grilling up Duck and Fresh Goose at the BBQ pit at Double Black. While the cooking was going on another Goose was added to the pile. A few cans of beverage met their demise as well along with a bottle of harder substance that will remain nameless as will the name of the slob that finished the bottle off. Thanks Keith for opening your property to those that enjoyed a hunt there, if only to watch the daily changes on the lake. I would also thank all of my friends that made another hunting season special. Maybe next year I'll get to see Tantillo again. Till then be good and be safe, as for me, it's off to the north country for a bit of the hard water fishing,
an awful lot this year, that is one day snow next day 50 degrees out. This hunt was followed up by an evening spent at the lake grilling up Duck and Fresh Goose at the BBQ pit at Double Black. While the cooking was going on another Goose was added to the pile. A few cans of beverage met their demise as well along with a bottle of harder substance that will remain nameless as will the name of the slob that finished the bottle off. Thanks Keith for opening your property to those that enjoyed a hunt there, if only to watch the daily changes on the lake. I would also thank all of my friends that made another hunting season special. Maybe next year I'll get to see Tantillo again. Till then be good and be safe, as for me, it's off to the north country for a bit of the hard water fishing,
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4 comments:
Ernie,
thanks for mentioning me--next year you can count on me being up there, this was just a plain tough season all around, for lots of reasons. But there's always next year.
thanks for the writeups and the photos--I love to see how the boys perform without Spinelli backup in the blind. It's amazing you guys get any ducks or geese at all, really.
heh heh
Jim "call me Cagey" T.
You guys are making me jealous. I've only gotten out for ducks about three times, and between my son and I, we've shot exactly one duck.
Ernie,
That was a really nice write up. It was a great season, and despite your disappointment with bird numbers and your bad luck with bluebirds days on days you could get away to hunt (versus great weather for hunting when you had to be working for a living), you still managed to be VERY successful out of the dozer pile. And, you made some quality memories with big Jim.
Thanks for the write up on the Last Day Blind Party at Double Black...its getting to be a tradition, even if Tantillo didn't show up for it this year.
And speaking of Tantillo, I seem to remember that whole "Spinelli back up" thing being proven a myth right in front of the boss in Double Black...more on that story in a future blog post.
;)
Signed,
The REAL Cagey T
Keith,
When your right, your right. As I look back over the season I cannot remember a single day of hunting with different good friends this year that we got skunked, zero, zipped, nodda thing. There were a few single bird days but those days gave me a lot of time to just sit and talk, especialy with Mike O and Jim. Sure I probably complained a lot and sounded like a spoiled little brat but in the end I had a great time and wouldn't have wanted to be anywheres else. Then there were the few days when nothing could go wrong. Hunted at Brent's several times in the early season, the Islands with both the Thompson boys, it was the first time both were able to get off the farm for a weekend at the same time, several good hunts from the dozer pile which included one with Jim's brother Ernie comming down here for the first time. In fact it was the first time Jim and Ernie hunted waterfowl together in the 73 years Jim has been around. What about the last day of the early Goose season when on Hosters field there was a limit of geese taken for 8 guys, and how about that hunting demonstration Rich put on when he shot 2 geese with one shot, sweeeeeeet! Like I said at the begining of this post, Good Friends and Fast Times, it's all good and full of memories!
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