I know, I know.... I've been slacking on putting out posts on the Blog! Well I'm happy to announce that we'll be updating this Blog often now that hunting has started to kick into high gear.
Its amazing how fast 2 months of hunting can roll past. It seems like we were just swatting mosquitoes in the early season and then I blinked and it was the beginning of November! We had a pretty low key early goose season with a lot of hunts taking place with family and friends. We spent quite a bit of time in the field with our 4 year old boys, Kelton and Brady. This years early goose season was warmer than usual with temps in the high 80's and even some low 90's. Needless to say hunts only lasted a couple hours and were mornings only!
Then we moved right into the duck opener. We decided to hunt a secluded little wood duck honey hole and did very well, even though we couldn't see more than 30 yards in front of us because of the thick fog. It was a fun opener with enough woodys decoying to keep the gun barrels hot and the shooters humbled!
The month of October had us getting our fields ready and fitting in some hunting where ever we could. We had a couple work weekends in order to get the pits looking great and getting them all cleaned up and ready to hunt. We've also spent a lot of time getting decoys and trailers ready for the upcoming grind that will start soon. There is a ton of work that goes in to getting our fields ready and what we consider huntable. A special thanks to all our guys that show up and bust their butts getting the pits ready. Jeremy, Charlie, Dave and Bob always show up and get the job done. I say it every year, but if it weren't for these guys helping get the fields looking perfect, our hunters wouldn't have such great hunts. Thanks fellas for the hard work!
These two pics were of different flocks of geese coming into the decoys during a couple early season hunts.
Hawk retrieving the first goose harvested in the "Verizon" field
We were able to take 3 kids out on a goose hunt in October. The pile wasn't huge but the smiles were!
Kelton helping out calling on a flock of geese on an afternoon hunt
His calling must have been good enough because he helped me get my limit that day!
All hands on deck for getting the pits ready... Even if the hands are that of 4 year olds!
The early bird gets the worm. We work at all times of the day, even at 4:00 am!
And this is the finished product
There's an old saying "Every dogs got its day" and this year at Last Pass we are living this saying out hunt after hunt. Little Miss Josie has started to come into her own and is starting to become an excellent retriever. She's a machine when it comes to retrieving ducks. Geese are still giving her a challenge but she is stepping up and starting to show those big slobs who's boss!
Hawk and Josie on duck opener
Hawk with a drake woody
Josie with her first duck retrieve!
