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re: TBT OB version. Remember Christmas of 1989
Posted on 12/25/14 at 7:40 pm to CP3
Posted on 12/25/14 at 7:40 pm to CP3
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TBT OB version. Remember Christmas of 1989
Didn't they lift limits on specs and reds since they were all dying from the freeze that year?
Some agents wrote tickets, they were never prosecuted
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Posted on 12/25/14 at 7:42 pm to choupiquesushi
Several memories. Catahoula shifting ice sheets. Exxon explosion. Water pouring off the second floor condos on Brightside View from broken pipes.
Posted on 12/25/14 at 7:49 pm to choupiquesushi
I remember duck hunting that morning and it wasn't cold, went back that afternoon and the temp was dropping so fast we went to move decoys and the string would freeze on deck before we'd put it back out. Hunted that spot until bayou froze over, Dad said kind of tongue and cheek, you should hunt the river. Jesus, that was just stupid.
Posted on 12/25/14 at 7:58 pm to VernonPLSUfan
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It was 83, and it didn't get above 25 up here for like 10 days. The plumbers made bank. Our lake finally froze over after about a week. If you could stand it, and I'm talking about low teens with 10-15 mph winds, the ducks were here for the taking, until the lake froze. Was driving to B.R. for Christmas on hwy. 28 and while crossing the Calcasiue(sp), a flight of greys hit right by the bridge. Only open water.
Coldest I've ever been. I was unprepared for it and the first day the front came through, the high was 15. I was working an a portable office on a jobsite and the wind was cutting through it. Our pond froze solid except for one small spot the ducks kept open. Pipes froze, and finally thawed on Christmas day
Posted on 12/25/14 at 8:07 pm to RogerTheShrubber
I remember the steam pouring off my gun barrel during those few days. Just went and checked my log book I shot three and a half cases of shells in three days.
Posted on 12/25/14 at 8:29 pm to Da Hammer
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I shot three and a half cases of shells in three days.
Good lord...
Posted on 12/25/14 at 8:36 pm to wickowick
Yeah I won't put the kill numbers up, we literally shot enough ducks to convince me my whole upbringing on duck hunting was wrong. It just flipped the switch and I was done no more baiting, no more disregard for the limit, no more plugless guns. I swore to myself I would never shoot over the limit since then and I haven't. Hardest part was to quit hunting with my dad until I could convince him to come around.
Posted on 12/25/14 at 8:38 pm to Da Hammer
quote:we had 55 gallon drum buried behind the blind. I can remember the lid not going down on it one day. I was responsible for running the ducks to the can, I guess Pops figured even our broke arse could bail out a 7 year old.
we killed ducks that would make most on here stomach turn
But in 89, we found a roadside dugout pond that the ducks had kept open. We would kill em til they quit coming in, then put a boat on the ice and scoot out across it to pick em up. The hole got smaller and smaller by the day until it froze over. There was a ring around where the open hole was about a foot tall full of feathers where they had tried to keep it open.
Posted on 12/25/14 at 8:56 pm to tigerfoot
83 I was bad.... Real bad but never shot a case of shells a day......
By 85-86 I had learned the err of our ways here and reformed....was further enhanced fall of 86 one of me relatives instituted a break the law you are banned from family land and camp...got lonely. Quick..
Got an exclamation point on the east coast when I joined a hunting club but was given the stipulation I could not hunt alone...because I was from la..
When it came to waterfowl. We were bad...real bad...makes the old Miami hurricanes look like altar boys
By 85-86 I had learned the err of our ways here and reformed....was further enhanced fall of 86 one of me relatives instituted a break the law you are banned from family land and camp...got lonely. Quick..
Got an exclamation point on the east coast when I joined a hunting club but was given the stipulation I could not hunt alone...because I was from la..
When it came to waterfowl. We were bad...real bad...makes the old Miami hurricanes look like altar boys
Posted on 12/25/14 at 9:29 pm to choupiquesushi
I remember shortly after the great freeze of 89 , I was a deer hunter and still in highschool, my soon to be brother in law who was a big burd hunter traded me a duck hunt, I show up with knee boots and he says no problem I have some old waders you can borrow
Posted on 12/25/14 at 9:32 pm to Tigerpaw123
How many holes in the waders? 
I bet he is a real SOB...
I bet he is a real SOB...
Posted on 12/25/14 at 9:50 pm to wickowick
Well poetic justice was served, he gave me hell about not being a good wing shot and said he could hit anything with a shotgun, anyway when he showed up for his deer hunt he missed 3 different deer with his shotgun, all at less than 30 yards and one at less than 10
Posted on 12/25/14 at 11:45 pm to Tigerpaw123
I've always blamed it on the chokes....and mice at the camp
I wonder if theta blue goose ever died
I wonder if theta blue goose ever died
Posted on 12/26/14 at 5:47 am to choupiquesushi
Very nearly got stuck in the marsh near the game wardens camp out of Bayou Dularge area. Water dropped so fast, had to pull the bateau across a lengthy mudflat using our 2 mushroom anchors. No one had gloves and our hands were some kind of raw from the cheap poly rope we used back then. Likely would have died had we not made that pull and stayed stuck.
Posted on 12/27/14 at 3:41 pm to choupiquesushi
Have a camp on the W Pearl river. Christmas night, launched at Davis Landing, while running in the canal to the river, we were breaking ice. Got to the camp, flip the light switch, no power, uncle says lets go home. Tried to convince him to stay since we had propane heat in the camp, then he put the flash light on a frozen solid gallon of water.. Tells me, I can tollerate the dark, but I'm not freezing in the dark....
Ran back to the launch, the canal was frozen over again and we broke ice coming back...
That was my last year at SLU, from what I remember, that front came through on the 22nd of December and it snowed it's *** off. Got stuck on Central Ave for 2 hours in a blizzard. Sat in my '80 Supra the whole time time, thank God I had gas and a working heater...
Ran back to the launch, the canal was frozen over again and we broke ice coming back...
That was my last year at SLU, from what I remember, that front came through on the 22nd of December and it snowed it's *** off. Got stuck on Central Ave for 2 hours in a blizzard. Sat in my '80 Supra the whole time time, thank God I had gas and a working heater...
This post was edited on 12/27/14 at 3:48 pm
Posted on 12/27/14 at 3:54 pm to choupiquesushi
I remember, first winter in my house, all electric. Power went off, ended up in bed, in my sleeping bag, with hunting clothes on, under covers and blowing smoke while listening to my pipes burst.
2 weeks later I was running a 1.5" gas line.
2 weeks later I was running a 1.5" gas line.
Posted on 12/27/14 at 7:27 pm to choupiquesushi
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Remember Christmas of 1989
Remember it well. I was a Senior in HS.
When I go back home to the Mecca for Christmas and watch Tom do the weather, I am always reminded because these 3 days are the record coldest days in Monroe and then I remember they were the coldest duck hunts of all time out at Pin Oak Mallards and I almost lost 3 close friends that got lost one evening hunting Woodrows up on DeLoutre.
This post was edited on 12/27/14 at 7:28 pm
Posted on 12/27/14 at 8:27 pm to choupiquesushi
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Keow. It was cold down here.....8 degreeish lows for about 4 days.
I would think that kind of cold probably killed off a lot of the gators and legless reptiles?
Edited to add that the winter of 85-86 was the coldest I've ever experienced. It got down to -31 here. Had a calf born that night, too. 12 inches of snow on the ground really helped prevent a lot of freeze damage. Step outside and you could hear trees popping. Sounded like .22 long rifles goin off. Never experienced anything like that before or since. Stayed bitter cold for about a week. Don't see how RogerTheShrubber stands that Alaska cold.
This post was edited on 12/27/14 at 8:42 pm
Posted on 12/27/14 at 9:40 pm to choupiquesushi
I was 8 yrs old. Spent Christmas at my uncles house at The Bluffs. We're breaking I've around the edge of a water hazard and throwing it. Tried to break some with my foot and slipped and went in the water under the ice. Had an uncle close that pulled me out.
We also had a lot of fun sliding a barn cat as far as we could out in the ice at home. Cats may always land on their feet but they slide in their backs just as good and catch hell getting traction on ice
We also had a lot of fun sliding a barn cat as far as we could out in the ice at home. Cats may always land on their feet but they slide in their backs just as good and catch hell getting traction on ice
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