Cast N Blast 11-23-2011

[Feathers and Fins]

Not a bad day infact great day.

2 Honkers

2 Scaulp

1 Wooduck

Drake wood and Drake Scaulp both not in picture already sent to taxidermist the picture was taken tonight.

18 Stripers

12 Hybrids

9 whites

3 LMB

2 Kentuckys

Prairie Creek was the scene of the fishing crime and a secret cove for the ducks and geese, Should have limited on ducks but the weatherman believe it or not got the wind direction wrong I set up for SSW and it was North i was busy resetting decoys when i should have been shooting. Great Mix of birds scene today and I probably should have stayed on them but I heard stripers calling lol.

[wc1063]

Beauty!! Happy turkey day!!

[Quillback]

Nice! Glad to see a reduction in the honker population.

[Feathers and Fins]

LOL couldnt find the birds today but managed a 23 in Walley 3 stripers 1 channel cat and a 3pnd small mouth... weather sucked bad and was dangerous on the main lake.

[bferg]

LOL couldnt find the birds today but managed a 23 in Walley 3 stripers 1 channel cat and a 3pnd small mouth... weather sucked bad and was dangerous on the main lake.

Ok F and F...you got me all jacked up. Getting the fly rods loaded up today to try for stripers. Heading to Prarie Creek this afternoon/evening. Might even throw a gun in the boat. Will update you on the results! Any advice? Would love to learn more about your big water duck set up...what do you do differently?

BTW: Thanks for your reports lately. I kinda left OA because the Beaver Lake Forum was so slow. But you have this thing fired back up...

[Feathers and Fins]

Doubt the flyrods will be much use today with the wind. Just had a report from my brother who is out on beaver hunting and he said good numbers of birds came in with the storm but all are high and moving twoard the dam area from Beaver Shores.

As to the set-up I will get pictures later this year but the basics is start with a 8oz to 1pnd weight tie it to a line { 400pnd rated) pull off 30 ft of line and tie a knot in it with a swivel attached 3/0 then pull off 6 ft and repeat till you have done this 12 times. Pull off another 30ft and tie on another weight.

Take the first weight and wrap it around something and put it in a 12 slot decoy bag and clip on the first decoy and place it in that slot. Take the remaining line between that decoy and the next clip and put it in the next slot clip on a decoy and place it in the slot repeat all 12.

This allows you to set your decoys in almost any water on beaver. FOR DEPLOY I like to hook the lead weight to a branch onshore and then let the boat slowly pull offshore to deploy the lines depending on wind. if the wind is right ill run them offshore in lines parelleling shore so basically no matter what the wind is i hunt where i want not having to worry about wind conditions. Ill try to make some drawing later today.