still life with dead duck

the first duck of the season for the lakeland crew.

waiting for a duck

dustin looking for a target

drake

i like to set a goal for the duck season. my goal this year was to get a wood duck drake and or a blue wing teal drake. either one would make me happy and would produce a mount for my hunting/fishing room. on the second day out i shot down this wood duck drake. i was so excited that i could hardly wait to go pick him up. unfortunately, when i picked him up i realized he didnt have a full head of hair. he’s not a mature duck so he wont go on the wall but he will still find a cozy home in my belly.

wood ducks

from the first day of early teal and wood duck season. didnt get any teal but i did limit out on wood ducks(both hens) the first day.

green hornet

a pic from last year of me with a green wing teal (my favorite duck)

did some scouting yesterday and found some teal and wood ducks. hope they will still be there on saturday. ONE MORE DAY!!!

teal time

so there was a little bit of confusion on the site as to what a teal is, so i decided to post a few pics. a teal is a small duck. i believe im correct in stating that the green wing teal is the smallest of all the ducks. there are a few different types of teal. in florida we really only see two kinds of teal, green wing and blue wing. the teal are the first two pictures i posted. the third is a wood duck. all three taste great. on september 23rd early teal and wood duck season opens and i can hardly wait. im having trouble with my boat right now but hopefully i will have it fixed by then. if not i will be crying myself to sleep at night and there will much complaining on the blog, so pray that I get it fixed so that you don’t have to listen to that.

dust duck

another from last season. more then anything last season dustin wanted to get a drake hooded merganser. here it is. it came on the final hunt of the season and was the last duck taken. pretty crazy, huh

early teal

a pic from last duck season. i had to stay up on land while the boys hunted out of the boat. it was a small cattle pond so it didnt really make much of a deference. early teal season is just around the corner. i can hardly wait. sept 23 cant get here fast enough. hope the teal are out and about.

where i wanna be

another brit pic from over at the beach. i can just imagine fishing from the shore and watching the sunset