9-17-11 Sat

9-17-2011 Sat
6:00 AM – 8:30 AM / 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM
H2O: 58 ˚, 4.93’ steady, 17.6 kcfs, turbid
Weather: (0653) E 7, overcast, 47 ˚, 30.29 steady / (17:53) SE 12, partly cloudy, 65’, 30.16 Falling
Location: Mississippi R. Pool 7
Caught / bagged: Mark – three wood ducks, 6 LMB 12 – 15”, 2 pike 23 & 25”
Partners: Hunting – Jake and Mark Tupper

Comments

I took Mark out for today’s youth duck hunt. The ducks were not plentiful, but he did manage to get his limit of wood ducks. He swatted his first one on the water and I gave him heck for it and told him no more of that. In reality the wood ducks were about the only species of ducks we did see. I also had Fritz along and he was able to retrieve two ducks. I do not know how many more retrieves he has left in him, but he still gets excited over ducks.
The fishing this afternoon was not too bad. I did not get any fish out on the lake, but caught all the fish at the end of the channel. It was quite windy and the water out on the main lake was fairly dirty.

Observations:

There are very few ducks around. This morning during the hunt we only saw wood ducks and very few mallards. While fishing out on the lake this afternoon I did see a couple flocks of blue wing teal with one of those flocks having at least one hundred birds in it.