Halloween Shopping, Scouting, & Pheasant Hunting

After lunch we made a quick trip to the Cabela's in Mitchell. We needed to exchange our new chest waders because both mine and Dan's were one size too small. I ended up keeping Dan's size 11's and he exchanged my 10's for a pair of size 12's. We also exchanged the new boat cover because it had developed a rip between West Virginia & here. Lastly, I returned a recently-purchased duck call for a different duck call because I didn't like the way the first one was operating this morning.

After our shopping was done, we found a medium size body of water at a GPA North-Northeast of Mitchell that was occupied by 100-200 ducks. We made a plan for what part of the water we will hunt and will go there tomorrow morning. The upside is that we are excited about hunting ducks tomorrow. The downside is that this spot is an hour drive from our base of operations.

We finished pheasant hunting at 6:30 with a total of two roosters. One for each of us. Winnie pointed two hens and Dan's rooster and Mag flushed the rooster I shot as well as another rooster that I missed, which was a very easy shot. Both dogs hunted very well. We started out this evening at a different spot that was a small WPA near the west side of Plankinton but found no birds there. We then returned to our spot from last night and produced the birds described above.