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Thank you for the kind words...it was raining heavily this morning when we pushed off in the heavy Stanley boat towards the Isle du Pas marshes. Another boat of local clients preceded us into the darkness... Things didn't look good. We dropped Destry off with Jacques, a client from Montreal at a blind along a canal facing the DU refuge. Kevin and I went another half mile down the canal and set up in a similar blind. The rain tapered off about 0645 as foolish black duck split from his mate and Kevin fired. It was the blackie's last mistake. After that it was pass shooting. By 1000 we had eeked out our limits. Mallards, the unfortunate black, a gadwall and a single bluebill hen. Destry and Jacques only managed seven by the time we pulled up stakes. Tonight, I'll cook up some ribs and "Pogo" our head guide is joining us for dinner. Two more days and weather is said to be improving...we'll see...
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Day Four- We hunted the "the Bay" again this morning. Overcast skies, 55 degrees, a nice breeze from the west. Not as many duck in the honey hole today. The 3 of us hunted together and in 3 1/2 hours we took our limits of blacks, mallards, woodies and ringnecks...tomorrow we hunt and return home. As I write this, 2 newly renovated sinkboxes sit tied to the river bank. Banned in the US, these low slung batteries harken back to the heyday of the Parker gun and are still used in Lac St Pierre for divers in the big water offshore when the freeze drives them down from Upper Quebec. Perhaps in early November we'll be back...
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09-30-2011, 05:45 PM
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Thanks for the good reporting.
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We finished up on Saturday morning with a Canada and 18 ducks- mallards, blacks, ringnecks, woody drake and a greenwing teal. the weather had changed overnight from summer to fall. It was about 40F, overcast, drizzle and swirling, gusty wind of about 20 mph. After Destry and I combined on a single goose at dawn, the next hour was slow and "duckhunter's despair" began to creep into the blind but we began to pick away at them. Both Destry and I shot banded mallard drakes for a total of 3 bands for the trip. We were finished at 10 a.m. Kevin and I left the lodge at 1:00 p.m. and arrived at my home in PA at 9:00...a 498 miles trip door to door.
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10-03-2011, 03:22 PM
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We should have some more to tell this season. Brant hunting on Barnegat Bay, the annual pilgrimage to Beaver Dam in Tunica, MS, tales from the old duck club on Church Creek off the Chester River in MD...I'll make sure there is a Parker along on each trip so I don't get "the black spot"...we might even pretend to shoot a goose on my farm with my 8 bore DH in a loud act of civil disobediance!
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sounds like the hunting trip was enjoyed by all espically me... maybe destrey can buzz me when yall get down tunica way..im not to far from there 1 1/2 hour away...looking for them next reports... charlie
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Charlie,
I'm not going to make it down to Beaver Dam with them this year unfortunately. If I'm passing through on one of my crop protection shoots down in the southern part of your state I'll try to give you a ring. Destry
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I was as virtuously given as a gentleman need to be; virtuous enough; swore little; diced not above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-house once in a quarter--of an hour; paid money that I borrowed, three of four times; lived well and in good compass: and now I live out of all order, out of all compass. Falstaff - Henry IV |
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10-04-2011, 03:41 AM
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I shot the big 34 inch gun every day but one, wish I'd have taken it along that time as well. The Swamp Angel and I get along pretty well, though the ducks don't seem to like the old girl much.....
Destry P.S. Just entered my band numbers on the government website and both came up with no information available so it looks like both were probably banded this year. Info will come through later in the winter when the banders get all their dated complied.
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I was as virtuously given as a gentleman need to be; virtuous enough; swore little; diced not above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-house once in a quarter--of an hour; paid money that I borrowed, three of four times; lived well and in good compass: and now I live out of all order, out of all compass. Falstaff - Henry IV |
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