It Won't Be Long Now.....

Since nobody else will make a post I guess it's up to me.
Today, mere days away from 'The Tour Of Champions', Clider and I made a run in the boat out to Killarney Lake.  We had two reasons to make the trip.  The first was to do some investigative boating to see just how well Clider can build a boat motor out of spare parts, gumption and endless streams of money.  I will leave it to him to report on the outcome.  The second and more important reason was to shoot some greenies.

Another boat trailer was in the lot and we figured that he had taken the only spot at Hidden Lake so we motored out to the west side of Killarney.  Clider had earlier seen some guys hunting from a spot on the shore and we set up in the same area. A mass of decoys were set and we waited for the ducks to come piling in.  We waited long enough for the sun to come up and warm us and to warm the ducks that had, as yet, not shown up.  Soon after one of the decoys had made a break for open water. While Clider took a short walk out to wrangle him in, and right as he waded into the water 3 mallards spun in in perfect formation towards the blind.  I watched the henny land in front of the spot Clider had been in a minute before and the 2 greenies fly off, scared off by the big dog and bigger human in the water. This pattern would repeat itself twice more during the day.

Sadly, no ducks were shotten today but we learned something about the boat and we did see ducks.  I'm convinced that having the big spread, with lots of variety, made all the ducks that did come by take a good look and want to land.  Thankfully we will have thousands of decoys, and time to set them out, this coming week.  Tempatures are dropping and the fronts are moving in.  It's all setting up for a perfect week of slaying action.  Stay tuned.....

GBCH