Tag: duck hunting
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Sprigs! Pintails back in the day
Pintails were the only ducks we really chased back in the day. By “back in the day” I mean the late ’70s and early ’80s along the Gulf Coast. What a wonderful time and place to be a teenager. It helped that our family owned Portland Marine and I had easy access to a variety…
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Hunting Dog Training Tip; 20 Weeks Old (5 Months)
Usually, sometime around the 5 month old mark, you are going to start to notice blood on bumpers, or the pup’s teeth missing and bloody gums. Sometimes it happens earlier than 5 months, so be watching for it. At this time, we need to stop the retrieving drills and let their mouths heal. One thing…
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Hunting Dog Training Tip-Intro to Gunfire
Now that we have our pups crazy about retrieves both on land and in the water, at 12-15 weeks old, we introduce them to gunfire. By now, they are completely settled into our training routine, familiar with their surroundings and the other dogs. We start off in this phase shooting .22 blanks while they are…
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Duck Hunting in Seadrift, Texas
NOW BOOKING DUCK HUNTS FOR THE 2018-19 SEASON Along with the anticipation of this year’s daily limit for Pintail increasing to two per day, per hunter, there will be much more wing action available in the back lakes and along the bay front up and down Matagorda Island along the southern portions of Espiritu Santo…
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Seadrift Cast and Blast!
With temps warming up and the tide dropping fishing is getting back to what we have been use to here on the Middle Coast. Walking knee to thigh deep grass beds throwing Down South Lures soft plastics, we saw limits of trout and reds today.
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Cast and Blast with Capt. Nathan Beabout
Day 1 & 2 of 5, has been decent mornings of duck hunting with lots of air traffic, but weary birds. Fishing on day 1 was slow with zero trout action, but a few redfish falling for the Down South Lure trick.
