Smacked em good today.

Luci is no-nonsense now.

​A true waterdawg.

Luci's vet and I snuck out mid-week for a quick 2-man hunt.

Cold weather blew in and froze the hole we were going to hunt solid that held 50-70 birds the day before.

So, not to be denied, we broke a 20' x 40' hole and slid the giant sheet under the other ice.

Put out 4 decoys and 2 motion decoys.

5 minutes after legal we were done.

Single digits.  We were all ready to get out of there.

What an epic hunt though.

​The ducks kept pouring into that tiny hole as we walked away.  Amazing.

Luci appeared unfazed.  😱

What a great morning out with awesome clients that were willing to brave the single digits morning.

Things started off slow as we laboriously tried broking sheet ice on the winter wheat hoping to get to some water below.  No bueno.

Ended up setting decoys on top of ice and ponded in a few MOJO's.

Legal came and we watched thousands of birds... land 500 yards away on the neighbors field.  My heart sunk.

But then, it happened.  A lone goose seemed lost and meandered over to our spread.  He got lit up pretty quick AND the birds on the other field got up AND CAME OUR WAY.    

​Was a pretty quick morning after that and nobody was complaining about the cold any longer.