re: White Lake lottery hunts

Have likewise had mixed results in the White Lake rice, but overall pretty good. If not an opener, weather is key, just like any other rice blind. Clear? Calm? Ain't happenin.

With ugly weather, we did well. Only time we were allowed to stay out later was on a day a nasty front line was blowing through mid-hunt which basically forced us to hunker in the blind to ride it out. Think they gave us another 30 mins or maybe an hour, hunting was strong before and after the weather.

Did a marsh teal hunt last year, came away extremely frustrated. Saw a bazillion teal but they wanted no part of our set up/pond. Other blinds did pretty well overall, we killed 1 suicide bird, the only one we fired on.

Later found out that the "guide" that had been hunting that spot bailed on it because of same observations we had made. So why use a blind that's not been producing when they have soooo many others to work with? Guys that work there have all day long to ensure tax paying guests are put in best position possible for success.