January 27, 2008
The Grand Finale!
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Date: January 27,2008
Weather: Cloudy, rainy all day.
Hunters: Dan Jernigan II, Dan Jernigan, Dave Jernigan,Dale Martin, Pete Teglas, Anthony Rojo
Location: Garcia's Hunting Preserve
Hunt: The last day of the 2007/2008 season was a banger for our crew. We started off slow, but the birds were steady. We shot better than one would expect, and came out with 25 geese and 5 ducks. I'd like to thank Dave for the great setup! The day ended with us making our way to the truck when we spotted a small flight of specks. My Dad pulled up on the middle, biggest, speck and just drilled him. It's the 2nd one on the left. I just love the big bar-bellied specks. What a way to end the season!
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January 26, 2008
Family and Friends...
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Date: January 26, 2008
Weather: Overcast-sunny after 9:00am 40/55
Hunters: Dan Jernigan, Dan Jernigan II, Dave Jernigan, Anthony Rojo
Hunt: Dave worked things out to get us access to a private pond that is part of Garcia's Hunting Preserve. We had a little trouble getting accross a creek and it set us back quite a few minutes. We knew that the first 30 minutes would be our big opportunity to bang up some greenheads, so we did our best to get into position in spite of our tardiness. As soon as we got into the pond and set up the birds were landing everywhere. We passed on a number of non-mallard types, and finally decided to take a pair of widgeon that circled too many times. Luck was on our side this morning when two different groups of Canada's fell victim to the call and decoy combo. I had a great time, and it seemed as though everyone else did too!
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January 23, 2008
Wilderness Unlimited-Butte Creek
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Date: January 23, 2008
Weather: Drizzly rain all morning. Low/Hi-38/46
Hunters: Dan Jernigan II, Bob Neighbours
Hunt: Let me start off by thanking my life long friend and host Bob Neighbours for a great morning of waterfowling. We had an exciting morning with plenty of shooting. We teamed up to take 5 ducks and a snow goose.
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January 22, 2008
No water...
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Date: January 20, 2008
Weather: Low/Hi-35/45, partly cloudy, 6-10 South East Wind
Hunter: Danny Jernigan II
Hunt: It was your typical morning North of the Sutter Buttes. The sun rose in the East and cast a red stain against the mountains. I just knew this hunt would be a good one. I felt the wind sting on my neck every few minutes, and just knew the first flights of geese would be coming my way any time. It was 8:30 before the first flock came through, and I smoked a mature snow goose out of the lead bunch. My benelli prevented any follow-up shots by jamming up on me. She gets moody some days! It was another hour until I had any other birds in close. The next guest at the motel was a drake widgeon that thought it was a good idea to inspect my spread. WRONG... Add one drake widgeon to the daily bag. Next was an odd one... Flights of specks had been cruising around all morning and not one of those darn birds would work the dekes, until this one goose just couldn't stand the Chen Caille any longer. I was clucking non-stop until he broke off of the flight of forty birds he was with. I could see two other birds attempting to get him back with the flock, but there efforts were too late. I had him hooked. He commited suicide. Ever since that storm on the 5th of January the spread has been, let's say, less than perfect. We now have NO WATER in our rice fields. Oh well... Maybe the geese will like it better??? We'll see...
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January 11, 2008
First the boat...then the rice...
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Date: January 11, 2008
Hunters: Danny and David Jernigan
Location: Boated out to a flooded area, then off to the rice fields in Lincoln
Weather: Drizzly rain all day then a light 5-7 mph wind in the afternoon
Hunt: We missed the mark in the morning, and the ducks just didn't want to work the decoys. There wasn't many birds in the vicinity so we decided to try something else. After making a couple of sandwiches and a few phone calls we came up with a spot to hunt for the afternoon. I photographed some geese in a nearby field before we got to the rice field we were going to hunt. As luck would have it I got photos of two collared snow geese. Each of them had a black neck collar. What a day.
Snow with a neck collar in the middle.
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January 5, 2008
The day after the storm.
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Date: January 5,2008
Hunters: Danny Jernigan II, Dave Jernigan
Location: Gridley Property
Weather: Overcast, and post storm. Just a sliver of a moon. Weather blew in as we were leaving.
Hunt: Today was a day to remember. The mallard came in to the call like crazy. Two different times Dave and I went up on a pair of mallard and simultaneously shot our bird. It sounded like only 1 shot was fired each time. There were plenty of hi-fives today, and our shooting was pretty well on fire. I scraped a snow goose, and we teamed up on a speck that Dave convinced to come over at 30 yards. Grand total was 6 mallard, 3 widgeon, 2 drake pintail, a snow and a specklebelly goose. Not bad for a few hour shoot!
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January 5, 2008
The storm of the decade.
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Date: January 4, 2008
Hunters: Danny Jernigan II, Bob Neighbours, Anthony Rojo, Gabe Garcia, Dave Jernigan, Dan Jernigan, Richard Crawford
Location: Gridley Property
Weather: STORMING!!! South Winds over 60 mph.
Hunt: This hunt was pure insanity! The wind was blowing the rain so hard that you couldn't actually walk. Bob found himself crawling through the water after attempting a 20 yard retrieve on a duck he downed. Birds were everywhere on this hunt, and all of us got plenty of shooting. There was a crew that started out in the morning and then an afternoon crew that came in. The morning crew had it the hardest with the worst part of the storm, and we ended up with 16 ducks. The afternoon crew came out at noon and had the best part of the hunt. I was there to witness it all, and loved every minute of the it! The afternoon guys took full limits of ducks... that's 28 mallard, widgeon and a sprig for each man. I also took three snow geese and there were three other geese shot by others. I will surely never forget this hunt. Grand total 46 Ducks, and 6 geese. Wow!
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January 1, 2008
The grinds are just close enough...
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10mph North Wind
The goose grinds were kind of moody due to the constant barrage of poachers. The geese didn't get settled in and relaxed until 11:00 am, and by then we were ready to hit the road. It was a great hunt. I enjoyed some great humor with a long time friend. Thanks, Bob.
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January 1, 2008
Two hour hunt...
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Well... After my Dad, Dave and Anthony banged the geese up in the morning I decided it might be worth while to get the boys (Aaron, Jalen, and Jordan) out to the tank and give them some face time with the geese. The total bird count for the day was 13 geese and 12 ducks. I ended up shooting 2 speck and 2 ducks before the closing bell, and the boys got to see tons of geese fly through the pond just out of range. The sunset was special with my Dad, and the boys.
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January 1, 2008
The Generations Club
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Thanks has to go out to Labin for the invite on this one. What a day... Labin and I had a great hunt on his family's duck club. Birds were skirting our decoys until we figured out what they wanted to hear. Then it was divers feet down. Ace had a hard time trying to retrieve diving ducks all morning and showed his frustration at the last drake redhead by barking at him while he swam out into the open water.
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January 1, 2008
New Year's Day Speck Slaying...
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| F.Y.I.---There are twenty eight speck missing from the grind South of the Cross Canal. I finally got to meet one of my brother's great friends Pete, and hunted with a group of people that Pete put together. We hunted corn stubble out of Power Hunters.
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