No water for fish

Duck season was open a week - then shut down for 5 days - then opened again today - until January 25 (except closed xmas day)

Sounds like 4th of July at shooting time and lot of ducks show up around here - and just now I noticed a dozen that consisted of 9 male and 3 female e.g. those hunters must miss the drakes and hit the females (see bottom for low water bitch :)


Lake is full of birds right now - including those dang sea gulls that keep trying to get a shad (they are not very good). But worst - the stupid water turkeys (Cormorant) see the sea gulls and they go to the same spot - and they can wipe out crappie - bream - small bass in a short time. I keep scaring them away but when the sea gulls start diving - the water turkeys come right back

Starting to see more ringneck ducks and a few bufflehead - but not really doing video of them like last year e.g. I have a lot of video of the birds from last year - and will probably not make many this year

Oh yell I almost forgot the "Great White Egret" and blue heron are stealing their share of fish - and they seem to like crappie (plus they leave big 'splats' of shit on my fishing pier) - bottom line I'm not much of a bird lover this year

Got off track - just wanted to bitch about duck hunters getting all my water - they drop the lake during duck season if the water is low in Grassy lake hunting area (below the spillway). It rained one day this past week but they opened up the spillway gates the next day and the duck hunters got all the water (lake if over a foot low right now)

Fish do NOT bite when water is falling or low - hope those duck hunters have a terrible season - and I wish the water turkeys would choke on a fish - and the coots die from eating too many shad - got to run to chase white egret off my fishing pier and brush pile (about 2 dozen of them keep showing up to get my crappie)