Ducks and Fishing Trip

[WeekendWarrior]

i would have liked to be out there today and see if my pattern was working with the a-rig in the wind but no can do, Doctor says no fishing for a month after having a heart attack and having stent put in Saturday so we will have to sit it out for a while. At least I got out of putting up all the Xmas lights ?

[196champ]

Holy smokes! Hope everything goes well and you back on the water soon! 

[fishinwrench]

Yikes warrior, sorry to hear that, man.  

I don't think you're missing much, they are trying to drain Truman down and our levels are doing the backwater up/down/up/down thing.   I never do well when that is happening.

I can't find the bigger shad either, all of them down this way are the little 2 inchers that don't seem to have grown a bit since Summer.    

[196champ]

I may have my table rock mind set here but does anyone ever go out deep and spoon/drop shot?

[WHARFRAT]

9 hours ago, WeekendWarrior said:

 At least I got out of putting up all the Xmas lights ?

At least you found your silver lining! 

Relax and enjoy the Christmas season.  It won't be too long before the pre-spawn, and you want to be in good shape.

Prayers coming your way!

[WeekendWarrior]

feeling good and will be back at it soon enough, toughest part is the wife hid my smokes and I am trying to quit now which is pretty rough but haven't had one in 4 days so for 

[MOsmallies]

12 hours ago, WeekendWarrior said:

i would have liked to be out there today and see if my pattern was working with the a-rig in the wind but no can do, Doctor says no fishing for a month after having a heart attack and having stent put in Saturday so we will have to sit it out for a while. At least I got out of putting up all the Xmas lights ?

Very sorry to hear this man... Glad you are doing ok now! Hope you continue to feel better! Enjoy the Holidays with family and you'll be rearing to go in the Spring

[fishinwrench]

3 hours ago, 196champ said:

I may have my table rock mind set here but does anyone ever go out deep and spoon/drop shot?

No.    But if you figure something out while doing it I'd sure like to hear about it....and learn how to do it.

[Mitch f]

On December 4, 2015 at 0:28 PM, fishinwrench said:

The only "hassle" is when a cripple gets under a dock (and they do that alot).   Dock owners get all freaked out when a hunter trys to retrieve a injured bird.  They call the sheriff and say "there are two armed men poking around my dock" and the law comes flying in like a military excersize.    Trust me it'll ruin your day.

I have a good retrieving a cripple story. We were hunting Truman up the grand arm one season about 20 years ago. My brother crippled a drake mallard and got out of the boat blind to go find it. He couldn't find it, but on his way back, we saw him squat down. When we looked up in the sky, there were probably 200 mallards funneling in to us, we couldn't see them because they came in from behind. My brother was watching this unfold from about 75 yards away. He said one drake was very smart and stayed back.....about 40 yards away from the others. But what the drake didn't know was that my brother was right next to him. My brother shot him and got his first banded duck. The duck was 10 years old according to the records, and was banded in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada. He still wears the band on his call lanyard to this day.

[jpb2187]

2 hours ago, Mitch f said:

I have a good retrieving a cripple story. We were hunting Truman up the grand arm one season about 20 years ago. My brother crippled a drake mallard and got out of the boat blind to go find it. He couldn't find it, but on his way back, we saw him squat down. When we looked up in the sky, there were probably 200 mallards funneling in to us, we couldn't see them because they came in from behind. My brother was watching this unfold from about 75 yards away. He said one drake was very smart and stayed back.....about 40 yards away from the others. But what the drake didn't know was that my brother was right next to him. My brother shot him and got his first banded duck. The duck was 10 years old according to the records, and was banded in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada. He still wears the band on his call lanyard to this day.

Reminds me of a story I saw from Ducks Unlimited about a guy in California this year. Shot a banded duck, went to look at the band and saw it was from Japan and from 2001! That's quite the journey.