I had pretty good couple of days water fowling in the last week. Started out last weekend down in Yuma with a buddy who has never hunted. I wanted to get him into some dove and quail since it was his first day out and normally a relatively easy shoot for me down there. I hunted with him from sunrise to sunset on Sat and we didn't get a single bird. I was exhausted it literally was the worst day I have had down there. I am guessing the big storm over Christmas pushed the dove south and I just didn't get into any quail. So come Sunday morning I was determined to get him a kill we started the morning calling Yote and had one come in with in the first 5 minutes on the first set he made me at about 100 out and we didn't get a shot. So finally I said screw it lets go to some of my duck spots and see what we can do. Sure enough we had 5 birds down in about an hour and he was stoked. You would have loved to see him neck deep in toolies finding his first kill.
This morning I got to go on my first snow goose hunt with a few customers. Because the field was so soaked we couldn't do lay out blind and could only shoot fly bye's. But it was a great hunt considering the circumstances and weather conditions it poured most the morning we were covered in mud thank God for waders. Between the 6 of us we managed to down 15 birds. I brought two of them to my Royal Ranger group tonight to clean and eat with all the boys. They all had seconds. It was neat to see there faces watching a bird get cleaned most of them have never experienced anything but grocery store chicken.
This morning I got to go on my first snow goose hunt with a few customers. Because the field was so soaked we couldn't do lay out blind and could only shoot fly bye's. But it was a great hunt considering the circumstances and weather conditions it poured most the morning we were covered in mud thank God for waders. Between the 6 of us we managed to down 15 birds. I brought two of them to my Royal Ranger group tonight to clean and eat with all the boys. They all had seconds. It was neat to see there faces watching a bird get cleaned most of them have never experienced anything but grocery store chicken.
