Had a great but very frustrating hunt today. The weather was nice to start, cool and foggy, JP gets buddy not to far into the field and produces a rooster which I miss clean. After watching it fly away JP tracks a short distance and produces another rooster which I again whiff on.
Finished up the walk and went back to the truck to regroup and for my brother to switch out dogs. Walk two we follow the slough, island hopping where the water allows, the dogs produce a few hens and the rooster #3 that I drop on the other side of the slough but JP didn't see the fall and couldn't find it when he got across the slough so off come my boots and clothes, I swim across the slough, dogs in tow, and get them searching. JP tracked about 10yds but could never find the bird.
Now I'm getting flustered, 0 for 3 when I should be limited out. Back across the slough and I finally stone a rooster and JP seals the deal with the retrieve. A few more hens then JP gets birdy and flushes a bird which my brother drops and again is delivered to hand, day getting better. :thumbsup:We decide to start heading back as it's is now over 70 and the dogs are laboring but JP has one more bird in him and produces one more flush, my brother and I both shoot, rooster falls hard on the levee road and quickly jumps to his feet and flies off just as JP was just about to pick him up!
Some terrible shooting stopped today from being amazing but boy did the dogs work. Two roosters came home and I'm sure the memories did too. "Remeber that time you should've had a limit but you couldn't hit s#@t?" lol