Well....... my friend and I were so excited. We had a spot to go to first thing that another friend that used to hunt mendota gave to us. We drove there and nobody was following that direction and the road seemed less traveled. Get to our parking spot decide to check out the "pond" on the map. It's a bit off a walk to get to. And sure enough there is no water anywhere near the area that was supposed to be really good. So we hop in the truck started looking for a new spot met a guy and he gave us a place to start so we headed off and we found WATER!!! who hooo. We were happy again threw our decoys out about 15 min into shoot time and waited, heard a couple shots at a distance. That lasted for about 10 min and then it went quiet. No shots anywhere. So we ended up leaving at 9:30 am empty handed and very tired. Also learned mendota stays slow until late December usually according to the people that work there. So I won't be heading that way till december. BUT ............ on the plus side when I got home my wife had a nice surprise for me, she bought me the beretta a400 extreme unico max 4. I can't wait to try this bad boy out. I've been looking/wanting it since last season.
