5.1 – Opening day started out with a couple of nice toms
and a number of “blown opportunities.”
5.4 – Mike guided Charlie B. to this “Bruiser”.
5.5 – Tim Green’s group enjoyed our best day ever,
guiding turkeys. Eight birds for eight clients.
5.12 – A nice tom, taken within the first 10 minutes of the morning.
5.13 – Jacob Tague’s first.
5.21 – A nice tom on the second shot. It doesn’t happen often.
5.22 – You wouldn’t know it by the photo, but this
“drowned rat” was a four year old, and one of the
nicest toms taken all season
5.22.06.2 – Tim’s gang had a decent day considering the weather we had to deal with.
5.25 – Tony and Kenny with a beautiful 3'
year old.
9.1 – Opening day – Calm and sunny, but we managed to kill 25.
9.5 – With Hiscock and Barclay. Dead calm. Sound carried and you
could hear for miles. We could hear geese on the water, a mile away
but we never saw a bird until 7:25am. When they started coming,
it was a joke. The party of 9 guns shot 53 when Rick,
"called it off" at 7:45am, stating that "enough was enough".
It sounded like World War III.
9.16 – Thick fog early which helped fool geese. This gang from Rochester is really a lot of fun.
Bobby 9.16.06.2 – Ole Bobby Costello’s first day “guiding geese”. “Sorry boys, we only killed 31 today”.
9.17 - A new farm for us, that looks like it might work out “just fine”.
9.18 - Our friend Gene Reinhardt connected on a few.
9.24 – As is usually the case the last days of the season, the migration has started. There are geese everywhere.
10.07 – Duck opens. The usual characters, up to their usual tricks.
10.08 – Would you happen to know where we might be able to buy some more shells?
10.9 – A great morning deep in the timber with the
Hiscock & Barclay gang.
10.12 – Sal and Co. after the annual “First Thursday Outing”.
10.25 – Big rains put birds in the fields. This was some kind of shoot.
11.04 – The Maxwell father and son team are planning a gourmet duck dinner tomorrow night.
11.5 – Picking off a few divers on a sunny afternoon.
11.7 – The PA boys came in for four days this year.
11.14 – Kyle Cranor’s group from Michigan was a new party
for us this year. We had a ball with them.
11.15- A beautiful drake Barrows Goldeneye. We kill one every 20 years or so.
11.15.06.2 – Preparing to change shooters in the layout boat.
11.18 – Charlie and Ashley Randolph on their annual father/daughter duck hunting trip.
11.19 – Mallards today.
11.21 – Coakley & Co. with a pretty nice shoot.
11.25 – Centerfold Jerry Forger gives us his best “beefcake”
pose with a nice batch of divers shot from an offshore rig.
11.29 – Lake Ontario Pintails.
12.03 – Moeller Marine with awesome field shoot
12.05 – Tony and Ray. We always bring them to the lousy spots.
12.05.06.1 – Susie Q. doing her thing.
12.08. – The coldest day of the season. It got to about 4 degrees with a 25-35 mph NW wind. It felt brutal. There were few places to get out of it but we found one that made the day. The party of six guns limited out on Mallards, Blacks, Gadwalls, Greater and Lesser Scaup, Goldeneyes, Redheads, a goose and even a couple of “Michigan Greenheads” or Common Mergansers. It was a great day.
12.09 – Let's just shoot drakes today.
12.13 – How can you beat it?
12.14 – The last day of the season, limited out on Mallards and
Blacks before the geese even started to fly.
Let’s get while the gettin’s good!