BilletHead Posted September 6, 2014 Posted September 6, 2014 Ok I will get the teal thread party started! There are some here, and with the two cool fronts last nights and the one coming these two weeks should get better. I / We have been watching two ponds. Both are used for irrigation and have been pumped pretty low. Mud flats they have and blue wings like it. No cover to hide but if hidden the best you can and not moving it will work. So a plan was launched last Evening hoping that it wasn't raining too much. Up early checked the radar, some clearing on the way. So we hit the road to the water. Got there in good time and no rain so we got all set up. As the Eastern sky started to lighten the rain started falling lightly. Just like usual in teal fashion they started flying and landing before legal shooting time of sunrise. Nice bunches of a dozen to twenty. Back and forth in and out of the decoys. Then it was time and we got in some shooting. The morning flight was over before we were but it did happen. The set up, No lab for me but a nice fetcher just the same and she doesn't smell like a wet dog. She says to tell you all like most women she had to take the time for her makeup. No complaints from me about this. The mornings results were seven little blue winged rockets. Three nice adults with a goodly amount of fat build up and four thin skinned youngsters BilletHead "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
JohnP Posted September 6, 2014 Posted September 6, 2014 Congrats. Hopefully i'll be able to get some teal hunting in Monday thru Wednesday.
Feathers and Fins Posted September 6, 2014 Posted September 6, 2014 Now im jealous Ar does not open till next weekend https://www.facebook.com/pages/Beaver-Lake-Arkansas-Fishing-Report/745541178798856
BilletHead Posted September 6, 2014 Author Posted September 6, 2014 Will send some your way, BilletHead "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
Feathers and Fins Posted September 6, 2014 Posted September 6, 2014 With BBQ sauce please. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Beaver-Lake-Arkansas-Fishing-Report/745541178798856
BilletHead Posted September 6, 2014 Author Posted September 6, 2014 Do I dunk there little webbed feet in it? OR should I cook and baste them before sending them on there way? HA! BilletHead "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
moodyfour Posted September 7, 2014 Posted September 7, 2014 Ours wasn't quite as successful # wise, but my new pup did get to make her first retrieve so success was even sweeter with that!!! Saw two groups and only had one group decoy. Killed one out of it. Played catch the rest of the time with the pup. Will post a pic later.
jdmidwest Posted September 7, 2014 Posted September 7, 2014 Man, the look on her face in that one pic. Normally she looks so happy, but that is not a happy face. Nice war paint. Took me a while to figure out the casting rod, then realized you must have water over wader deep in front of you. I took this weekend off. Still getting trailer finished for layout boat and finishing up with the bees for the season. Gonna hit it all weekend next week. "Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously." — Hunter S. Thompson
moodyfour Posted September 7, 2014 Posted September 7, 2014 Today was a little better. Saw two groups again, but more birds in each group. Took my 7 year old for his first ever duck hunt and I believe he is hooked. First group came in right in his face and he actually saw the second group for us. My pup is a little young so we have been keeping her in the truck till she is needed. After te first group I had got her out and she retrieved all 5 we knocked down. My dad was going to walk her back to the truck when the second group came in. They had only walked about 20 yards away when we shot and it didn't even phase the pup. She came right back and off she went to retrieve the two we knocked down. All in all another successful morning.
BilletHead Posted September 7, 2014 Author Posted September 7, 2014 Moodyfour good on you all. Nice picture of your young one. Both of the young ones. I have had the pleasure of watching dogs work a couple of times. It was neat. Someday there might be a dog in my future. If so I will be asking a lot of questions. Until then I will be using the kayak, long hook pole, waders, Mrs. BilletHead or the wind to retrieve. We made another hunt this morning and bagged two, one each. We had a group of fifteen buzz us before LST and then two work later and we got them. A single big duck flew by and then a group of eight big ducks in the distance. Lots of geese pestering us but they don't like the spinning wing decoys. We will work them over during early goose or at least try. Todays photos. JD she can smile, BilletHead "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
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