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Area 4 on a lock on
Wind is picking up a little
35 Whelen; shooting the first thing I see

Pointe Coupee Parish
Pit blind with both my boys
A300 12 gauge
47F with 9mph NE wind

Primitive weapons deer hunt
Area 9 Marathon pipeline ROW
53 degrees, overcast and 9 mph east winds
NEF single shot 45/70 with 300 gr handloads

Said I was done for the season but here I sit with approaching rain? Co-worker invited me to his lease and said shoot the first 4 legged critter that walks out the swamp. I don’t feel like cleaning anything so it’ll be a wall hanger or nothing. Mainly just be happy if I can get back to truck before rain gets here. Good luck to everyone out today!

We are going to join your thread today from the Boat


Sarasota Bay.

Targeting Snook, Reds, , sheep’s trout and whatever the hell else bites.

Got some shrimp, swimbaits ,a spinnerbaits tied on and may even do some jigging.

Going to be 83 and sunny.

Awesome.

As far as 4 legged critters go, I’ve seen a raccoon and a nutria so far. Come on 10 o’clock!

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You’re going to remember this one forever. I’d rather watch mine kill them, than shoot them myself.

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I told my son when he killed his first at 7 years old “you’re gonna kill a bunch of deer in your life. And probably going to forget about most of them. But you will never forget this one.”

Congrats to the young hunter!

Was a nice day for us out there on the water. We basically stayed in town today, did not go off shore at all. The forecast was not good for me to take my boat out then it just layed down today and was perfect for me to do so but I was not rigged for it so we stayed in and just fished for junk fish.

We caught a lot of mangroves inshore , a dozen or so grouper, a ton of small trout and a few keepers. I found a very nice rock pile today in the inlet using my side scan. Was a pretty good find here. We dont have a lot of places like that. Its pretty slick. We got set up on a incoming tide on it and caught some nice sheepshead, mangroves and even a few small Spanish hanging out on those rocks. Just draging a live shrimp on a heavy jighead.


Great day and yes, it was 83 deg out there.

Of course I saw 9 does this morning, which made me question if my freezer really was full, or if I wanted gift someone a deer.

Ended up getting down at 945, took a dump, packed up, washed out the coffee pot, before I started draining, and blowing out everything. Locked up the camp as the first drops started to fall, it was a full on rain by the time I got on the highway and hasn't stopped since. About as efficient as I could have been.