AWS
Custom Accessory Maker & Retired PM Staff
Yesterday I needed a day of relaxation. I started the day picking up a pork burrito and coffee. Drove 60 miles to the skeet range, shot a couple rounds of "Old Fart Skeet", lots of kibitzing and missed birds.
I took the short cut over to the lake to see about setting up for the opening of duck season. The shortcut cut is seventy miles shear drop-offs(no guard rails) and steep climbs and descents.
I stopped in a an old gold mining town for coffee and bumble berry pie.
Most of the places I launch are bone dry, record low levels and places I used to anchor the boat have cows grazing. Well I took a lot of dirt trails and finally found a place I could launch. I set my duck skiff trailer up with a wheel barrow wheel in the front so I can disconnect the trailer and push it down to the lake and then pull it back up to the road with a long rope. A fair number of coyote tracks along the shorelines and in the road along the river I hunted last year. Not a lot of water in the river this year, they shut the dam that releases water into it.
This is all grass and grazing cows
The river when they close the dam
Off again, taking the back roads, the chilli fields are turning red, some cotton fields are getting cotton bolls, others with yellow blooms and onion seeds in the ground for the winter harvest.
All in all a very productive and relaxing day but isn't looking good for coyote hunting. Along roads that usually have numerous road kill coyotes especially this time of the year after the pups are big enough to roam there was narry a one except for one heavily flattened one within in the city limits.
I took the short cut over to the lake to see about setting up for the opening of duck season. The shortcut cut is seventy miles shear drop-offs(no guard rails) and steep climbs and descents.
I stopped in a an old gold mining town for coffee and bumble berry pie.
Most of the places I launch are bone dry, record low levels and places I used to anchor the boat have cows grazing. Well I took a lot of dirt trails and finally found a place I could launch. I set my duck skiff trailer up with a wheel barrow wheel in the front so I can disconnect the trailer and push it down to the lake and then pull it back up to the road with a long rope. A fair number of coyote tracks along the shorelines and in the road along the river I hunted last year. Not a lot of water in the river this year, they shut the dam that releases water into it.
This is all grass and grazing cows
The river when they close the dam
Off again, taking the back roads, the chilli fields are turning red, some cotton fields are getting cotton bolls, others with yellow blooms and onion seeds in the ground for the winter harvest.
All in all a very productive and relaxing day but isn't looking good for coyote hunting. Along roads that usually have numerous road kill coyotes especially this time of the year after the pups are big enough to roam there was narry a one except for one heavily flattened one within in the city limits.
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