Never even saw a mosquito. It was awesome.

Killed 15 greens and 9 blues. We never have this many green wings in September. Gonna be a hell of a duck year.

11 Bluewing and 1 Greenwing. Nice hunt this morning.

Weird teal opener for us. On a pond that we can almost always shoot a quick limit of teal. The front arrived just before shooting time and the wind started to pick up. Had 2 flocks and 2 of us knocked down 5. That was it. It was almost as if these birds were just arriving. I bet our ponds are covered up next weekend.

14 birds with 3 guys in Hunt County. Probably should have had more, but we thought we had more on the ground during the first wave and didn't want to go over our limits.

First duck hunt for the pup and he made a couple of great long retrieves. He was a little overwhelmed when we first were shooting a bunch and he didn't know what to think about swimming through the decoys, but he did about as good as I was hoping for an 11 month old dog.

The front that came through on Thursday sent all of my teal to you guys down south. Called in some big ducks and enjoyed watching them dump right into the deke spread but no dice on teal. Only heard about 20 shots on the entire wildlife area.

Beautiful morning though. 44 degrees.

Guess that picture is a great way to wrap up your season

Is that a griffin?

My guys picked up 6 limits in el campo. I'll be teaching Sunday school tomorrow but will be back at em Tuesday, and Thursday.

We had 2 groups of 4 limit out on our place, and our group was 2 short (no dog). Two other groups got shots, but were concentrating on training new hunters more than the number of birds. Not a bad opener at all.

Round 2

You hunting DFW public land?

Yeah. The birds are gone with the front. Got 1.

Far fewer birds this morning. Our blind had 15, but others had 2 or 3 if they even got a shot. Had to pull the mojos by 8:30 after we had a group of 40 flare on them.

At 6:30 this morning I was worried I was going to get hit in the head by all the teal coming in on my spread. At 7 a.m. they all disappeared. I should have gone this weekend. 2 teal and 1 dove. It was actually me getting bored and shooting the dove that moved the teal I got as a double.

The weather over night and the wind this morning really moved them out.

the best reminder to give a bird enough of a lead? cleaning one that has been gut shot

Damn. Hating the fact I can't get out after them this season.

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Far fewer birds this morning. Our blind had 15, but others had 2 or 3 if they even got a shot. Had to pull the mojos by 8:30 after we had a group of 40 flare on them.

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This. I pull my Mojo once daylight hits for same reason and stay with the jerk rig on still days.

Shot my first teal ever today. That was pretty damned fun.

Got another two limits in el campo.

Finally made it out to shoot teal again. Teal were so thick we killed two with one shot two different times.



Need A second opinion here. Is this bird an early season Cinnamon?

We didn't see any birds to speak of near Point Comfort last weekend... and given the lack of weather, I'm not hopeful for this weekend. We had guys say, "Screw it, we'll dove hunt instead."

Need pics of the bill to determine cinnamon.

Pic of bill and eyes will help determine

did you make it out before the rain?

Dang, I dumped the birds after I cleaned them. No more pictures. More likely or not that its cinnamon?

Yea I got out of there before it rained much.

I'd still say BWT, but hard to tell from the pic.

Cant go again until this weekend, hopefully today's weather didn't push them out

We shot a few like that opening day, strange color. Didn't see a red eye or notice anything different with the bill

There's still some birds out there... But not quite as many as there were yesterday. Hankamer, TX.