So the day began with a Remembrance Day Ceremony, the Parade was well turned out. The weather was less than desirable for an outdoor ceremony, but that’s the nature of Vancouver Island.
This afternoon I met up with Lorne and Steelhead, we were taking Steelhead on his first ever waterfowl hunt. Lorne and I were giddy like school girls, and anxious like a pup waiting for its first retrieve. Steelhead shows up while pile into my truck and trek down the access road. After negotiating a couple deep rivers running across the road, we arrive at the field we planned to shoot. Jumped up a few decent sized flocks of ducks, as we off loaded the kit. It was all we could do to get things setup amidst the ducks trying to still land all around us on the sheet. Steelhead and I were setup and lying down while Lorne continued to dick around with his blind. A Pair of ducks come in all locked up, I holler to Steelhead to shot and BANG…..thud He nails the first duck in the spread with the first shot.
What ensued over the course the next hour was every fowlers dream, to many ducks to keep track of. After about the 3rd aggressive flock of teal’s Lorne and I both call no more teal!! So after approx of hour of craziness, that dam skies opened up and the sun comes out. Things slowed for approx a ½ hr, but at the end of the day we still ended up with 21 birds. Steelhead was still pretty excited overall, even though he was soaked to the bone.
I'm pretty jacked up about todays shoot it was awesome
This Suzie is one of them infamous Comox Valley Fish ducks
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