With weather at 18degrees & the planned hunting spot an hour away, we decided to skip duck hunting this morning. The likelihood of ice (time/work/frustration that would go along with clearing it in the dark), combined with getting to bed late last night led us to sleep in today. Also a factor is that tomorrow is our last day hunting & then driving 24-28 hours - so we didn't want to be tired going into tomorrow...
Dan & I drove around this morning to look at local spots & were surprised to see Goven's pond only partially frozen. Everything else that size or smaller we saw was frozen, including the spot at Miller's we're hunting tomorrow. This led us to strap on our waders & walk out to clear ice from tomorrow's spot for 2+ hours. By the end of that, we're feeling very good about things for tomorrow, as long as things don't re-freeze overnight tonight. The forecast is for high of 46 today & only low of 28 tonight with 15mph wind, so fingers crossed that the hole we made stays liquid until tomorrow morning.
We know that our spot is pretty good because a hen mallard dropped into it while we were still in there working on it!
Our plan was to hunt phez, clean birds, and pack today/tonight. However, we just amended that because it's windy enough that pheasant hunting would be futile this afternoon/evening. So, unfortunately, we finish the trip with only 2 pheasants shot in 4 nights of hunting (total of about 6 hours in the field).
We'll get yesterday's ducks cleaned & pack this afternoon/evening & get to bed early. Tomorrow's plan is to wrap-up hunting by 10 & be on the road by 12 or 1, arriving back home around dinner time on Sunday. For now, this is what our day looks like... Everybody getting some much-needed rest!
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