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On This Date 30 Years Ago...
Posted on 12/19/19 at 3:39 pm
Posted on 12/19/19 at 3:39 pm
I was muzzleloader hunting at Tara Wildlife. The rut was on so I was hunting all day. I had just finished my exams (Sr in high school) the day before. About 3 pm it started to sleet. I decided to call it quits and head for the truck (1983 Nissan). When I got to the truck, my starter was bad. I got my dog out and started walking back to camp. By the time I made it to camp at dark, it was snowing sideways. My dog was a sheet of ice.
When I got to the camp I had a message from my dad that I had gotten into the college of my choice, early decision. I started drinking beer openly for the first time in front of adults that night.
My dad came and picked me up and we drove to Greenwood for dinner. When we walked out of Lusco's at 10 that night the bank clock showed a temperature of zero and the wind was blowing 30 from the north.
The next morning we found a spot the mallards had kept open and we stood under a funnel cloud of ducks and killed our limits in 10 minutes.
That next day even the rivers were frozen, and we dug pits in a soybean field and killed them over dry ground.
Later that next afternoon the sun began to thaw the ice off of one corner of a wheat field my cousin had planted. We drove the truck out there and counted 90 deer crammed into one 5 acre corner of that field where the sun was thawing.
One of my buddies from New Orleans had a camp at Shell Beach. For years he had a picture of boat loads of specks and reds that they netted floating dead in the canal outside their camp.
Who else remembers that cold blast?
When I got to the camp I had a message from my dad that I had gotten into the college of my choice, early decision. I started drinking beer openly for the first time in front of adults that night.
My dad came and picked me up and we drove to Greenwood for dinner. When we walked out of Lusco's at 10 that night the bank clock showed a temperature of zero and the wind was blowing 30 from the north.
The next morning we found a spot the mallards had kept open and we stood under a funnel cloud of ducks and killed our limits in 10 minutes.
That next day even the rivers were frozen, and we dug pits in a soybean field and killed them over dry ground.
Later that next afternoon the sun began to thaw the ice off of one corner of a wheat field my cousin had planted. We drove the truck out there and counted 90 deer crammed into one 5 acre corner of that field where the sun was thawing.
One of my buddies from New Orleans had a camp at Shell Beach. For years he had a picture of boat loads of specks and reds that they netted floating dead in the canal outside their camp.
Who else remembers that cold blast?
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Posted on 12/19/19 at 3:45 pm to No Colors
I do.
We are the same age...
We are the same age...
Posted on 12/19/19 at 3:46 pm to No Colors
and a week later Exxon in BR blew up
Posted on 12/19/19 at 3:46 pm to No Colors
I was only 9 years old but I remember December 1989 very vividly.....it was by far the best snowmen we ever made in south LA that hung around the longest too.
My parents still talk about that....it was blistering cold. I'm fairly certain my dad was supposed to take me deer hunting during that time but he said F it because it was too cold.
My parents still talk about that....it was blistering cold. I'm fairly certain my dad was supposed to take me deer hunting during that time but he said F it because it was too cold.
Posted on 12/19/19 at 3:50 pm to Tigerpaw123
quote:I had driven to BR for some reason and saw the cloud of smoke. The top floor of our condos had water pouring over the porches from busted pipes.
and a week later Exxon in BR blew up
Before heading to BR, I hunted a frozen Catahoula lake. Small spots were open and ducks were committing suicide to get to them. Then the wind picked up from the southwest and started moving large chunks of ice. It was pretty dam scary being in that moving ice.
Posted on 12/19/19 at 3:51 pm to No Colors
quote:
Who else remembers that cold blast?
We lay on the levees of catfish ponds around the Cutoff and watched ducks funnel down into the only open water in Tunica County.
After we got tired of shooting them of course
Posted on 12/19/19 at 3:51 pm to No Colors
1989. The only time in my life the ice in the swamp was thick enough to walk on top. 9 days I think we never got above freezing
Posted on 12/19/19 at 5:43 pm to No Colors
I was only 8. Don’t really remember too much of it. The older members of the club have some good mallard stories though
Posted on 12/19/19 at 6:25 pm to upgrade
Had worked all thru that crap at night. One cold SOB. 
Posted on 12/19/19 at 6:30 pm to No Colors
I remember it well. That night, knowing the snow was coming, my dad rented some movies...we watched Hoosiers and cooked deer sausage on the grill. I was 12 at the time.
Posted on 12/19/19 at 6:32 pm to No Colors
I'm close to your age too
That has to be the year some friends and I went duck hunting up the Boeuf (grassy bayou), it was 7 degrees and had been for a week.
All standing water was frozen solid, grassy either had current or the boats kept it open. We came around a corner before daylight and what seemed like a million mallards got up flying in all directions.
We sat up there and killed an easy limit, the number of ducks was phenomenal. One of the best hunts I've ever been on, cold as frick.
That has to be the year some friends and I went duck hunting up the Boeuf (grassy bayou), it was 7 degrees and had been for a week.
All standing water was frozen solid, grassy either had current or the boats kept it open. We came around a corner before daylight and what seemed like a million mallards got up flying in all directions.
We sat up there and killed an easy limit, the number of ducks was phenomenal. One of the best hunts I've ever been on, cold as frick.
Posted on 12/19/19 at 6:34 pm to bbvdd
I must be as old as 2 posters in this thread since I was also a Senior in HS. It was some epic duck hunts in Monroe. Remember those hunts like they were yesterday. I guess hard to imagine it was 30 years ago. Limit was 3 ducks back then and holy frick it was cold.
Posted on 12/19/19 at 7:06 pm to No Colors
Same front that some duck hunters died in the marsh getting stranded and unprepared?
Posted on 12/19/19 at 7:22 pm to MWP
quote:
I must be as old as 2 posters in this thread since I was also a Senior in HS.
Make it 3, class of 90 here as well
Posted on 12/19/19 at 7:49 pm to No Colors
I was 2. My dad has talked about the bank in Yazoo City saying 3 degrees when he went hunting that morning.
Did you get the hot or mild shrimp at Lusco’s?
Pro tip for anybody that ever goes to Lusco’s: get one as an app and the other for your meal. Sounds dumb, but it ain’t.
Did you get the hot or mild shrimp at Lusco’s?
Pro tip for anybody that ever goes to Lusco’s: get one as an app and the other for your meal. Sounds dumb, but it ain’t.
Posted on 12/19/19 at 9:13 pm to No Colors
I spent that weekend camping out at southwest pass on a mud flat. We spent the day catching redfish at the jetty two at a time till we were shin deep in them
by the time we got back to Venice they were all frozen on the deck of the boat. I have never been that wet and cold in my life
by the time we got back to Venice they were all frozen on the deck of the boat. I have never been that wet and cold in my life
Posted on 12/19/19 at 9:16 pm to Tigerpaw123
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Make it 3, class of 90 here as well
Damn y'all mfers are old.
Posted on 12/19/19 at 9:16 pm to No Colors
I think that cold blast reached all the way to the Sabine Refuge if I recall. I remember seeing smiling mallards frozen in the marsh.
Posted on 12/19/19 at 9:44 pm to No Colors
Wasn’t born yet you old fricks!
Posted on 12/19/19 at 10:08 pm to No Colors
Remember it well it was still cold on Christmas Day I thought we'd never get warm again.
Killed about 15 large old trees that surrounded the house and completely changed the look of the property from park-like to ordinary.
The oak trees we planted afterwards are doing well today.
Killed about 15 large old trees that surrounded the house and completely changed the look of the property from park-like to ordinary.
The oak trees we planted afterwards are doing well today.
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