Slip Sliding Away

 Sudden deep water is still terrifying. A huge floating island/mud tusset got pushed into the kayak launch area. I almost got out of the boat to drag it over the mud. Fortunately, I checked the depth first. It was taller than the kayak paddle. I spent the next 15 minutes pushing the boat inch by inch into open water only to find that I had to paddle back to shore and tote everything another 50 yards down the levee.

When we finally got to our spot, I thought my arms might fall off. It was a long paddle through some thick hydrilla. Then some interloper was set up too close to our island . We had to move to a lesser island. I didn’t look at the water when I started putting my decoys out. I picked a spot with no hydrilla. All my decoys were floating away. Mike had to rescue most of them. When we finally got blinded up, it was time to load the guns. We missed the first and only big group of ringers that came in right at first light. By the time I realized they were ducks, they were gone.

Shots after that were slow and what few I had were at a bad angle. I dropped one hen ringer cleanly over the decoys. Mike got two. At least we weren’t skunked. And the clouds stayed in the east and blocked the sun from blinding us.

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