Sunday happenings

TT & Garth had a great session on the snaps at the Noises, with instant hot bites that stopped as quickly as they started after a couple of hours. I arrived at TT's at 2.45, to find a fish bin full of decent sized (solid) frames. We got saddled up and headed for Karaka. Spoke to Rick on the way and him, Andy, The Big V and Jason had added another 27 ducks to the tally. That takes 'us' to 299 in the bag. Long weekend coming up so I am aiming to shoot Saturday and Sunday, go home Sunday night and spend monday with Family.

We arrived at Karaka at about 4, TT's mate Greg cleaned up a snapper for family dinner and then we jumped in the car and drove down to his slowly filling pond. TT saw a hare straight away and set off on a stalk while I put the decoys in. A couple of shots and TT was on the board.

Meanwhile Greg went to grab his boys from the house. So the hunting party was me, TT, Greg and Greg's 2 young boys. We sat and waited. A lone Mallard circled about 500m off but carried on. Later a flock of parries appeared and one peeled off towards us then shied away. Later still, swan began to move. A few lone calls in the distance was all we heard of ducks. We pulled the pin at 6.15 and got TT home about 10 minutes late for his Sunday dinner. I got home and cooked pheasant schnitzel in herb butter - yum, nice tip Andy!

2 hunts over the weekend. Great stuff.