Frank's outdoors...

Had a fun hunt on our annual post Thanksgiving shootout!  Not as many birds in the area, perhaps because it wasn't cool enough yet.  We still took 5 geese and totally whiffed on an 8-pack of pintail and only took 1 of them.  So, 6 birds in total.  Interesting about the pintails, there were 8 of them.  It was about 9am, sunny, and partly cloudy with a mild front moving in.  The stubble wheat field was DRY as a bone, and they came in locked & committed without any calling.  Our guide was calling in some specks at the time, so possibly they keyed on  that, but still, they sat right on us. We love hunting with Ryan and Butch from Butch's Guide Service, but anyone know of some good guides down in the Eagle Lake, Garwood, El Campo, etc???  We have had a few slow years, and looking at other potential operations for guides. 

For almost ten years now, my family has a tradition of going on a goose hunt the day after Thanksgiving.  A couple of things caused us to have to do this on Saturday this year.  Well, I'll cut to the chase, the hunt was an absolute bust (from a hunting perspective).  Its ALWAYS a good thing to get out with your friends/family and spent time outdoors. We got to Eagle Lake around 5:30am and were in the field and setup by 6:15am.  By 7 the RAIN was coming regular and steady.  It was raining hard and the wind was blowing.  The birds were there but they were certainly not coming to this field.  We saw lots of flocks and they were moving and even in the wind and rain they were still flying pretty high.  With the front moving through and the cold temperature setting in with the soaking rain (and the fact that we hadn't shot a bird), we called it a day at 10am.  Quite discouraging to say the least.  It is also probably the wettest I have ever ...