8th Week of Duck Season

My how the time is flying by. Eight weeks down already. I made it out on Friday with Dave and Dick. I shot my first duck this year. I was starting to worry because I almost ran out of days and shells. Ha-Ha!! Leaving the lake I was #4 to slide off the road. OOPS!!
My Handsome Prince on a Green Deere showed up to rescue me. Aww-Aww!!
Dave and Dick continued to hunt and did well.
Hope you have enjoyed the blog. I will post more next week. Well , I wish you all a Very Blessed New Year.
Love, Mickey

Duck Season 7th. Week

Well Dave got you some great pictures to see this week. These are pictures of the New Lake. The temperature has been cold and the lakes are iced up. This means the hunters need to stomp on the ice and break it into big chunks. Then they push the chunks under the large sheet of ice. The duck want open water to land in. This work out is better than any they would get at the gym. Dave used irrigation tubing and had the water running trying to keep the water open in the East Lake. (Go back and look at week 5 for those pictures) The temperature has gone up the last couple of days. It's in the 50's and raining. This will melt things and open it up a bit.
Here is a picture of the Old Lake. As you can see the water is opening up a bit.













Here is a picture of the East Lake. The water is open.



Here are some pictures of the Canada Geese flying over.This is a very large string which is unusual. There are plenty of them if they would only come in. It is awesome sitting in a blind and seeing large groups like this go over. They are quite noisy too. Well if we can get the water open they might slow down and look a bit. Ha-Ha!!



Happy Holidays!
Love,
Mickey

Duck Season 6th Week

I know I am a little behind. Things are a little busy this week. We got some pic finally.
Early last week things were great for hunting. The weather changed, sleet, rain, and snow. Dave and I went out hunting on Tuesday. We were working on a new type of foot release for the screens. It is hard to hunt and work on blinds. Dave and I did get a couple of shots off but didn't hit anything. The guys in the New Lake, blind 1, did great.


















Here is a picture of the East Lake. Visibility was low and it is hard to see the ducks before they are right on you.


Have a Wonderful week.
Happy Holidays!
Love, Mickey

5th. Week of Duck Season

Welcome to week 5 of Duck Season.
Laure is enjoying this year of duck hunting with her dad. Thank God this isn't a beauty pageant. She could never win with an outfit like this.










She took some pics of this eagle flying while they were hunting.





























The weather is changing with temperatures dropping. Dave ran the irrigation tubing out to #5 blind in the East Lake to keep the water open. We thought yesterday, 12-5, was going to be good but the afternoon on the East Lake was slow. Dave and I had a shot at 2 ducks. Tom called them in wonderfully but they wanted our side of the lake. I think my shells must have been old because I didn't hit anything. It couldn't be operator error. Ha-Ha!!

The guys on the New lake did better. They got several ducks and a goose too. Way to go!!
Today snow, freezing rain, and sleet moving
in. I hope it is better hunting in the East Lake today. Dave is headed out now.
Have a good week.
Happy Fall! It feels more like winter now.
Love,
Mickey