Blake called earlier in the evening to plan a duck hunting trip for early Saturday morning at 5:30. So I got four hours of sleep and then up and at 'em again.
I got to Blake's we loaded decoys and all the rest of our stuff in Blake's truck and headed for the lake. Within an hour off loading the truck loading up the boat rowing across the lake, and setting the decoys we saw the first touches of sunlight began to light up the surface of the water. Watching the sun rise is a pretty sight.
After a while we started to see some ducks fly, and we had three separate groups that came into our decoys. Blake and Skler each got a mallard out of the first flock, I got a mallard out of the next flock and Skyler and Blake both hit a Merganser from the final group that came through. 
By late morning Blake asked Skyler if he was ready to head in. Since Blake and I were both getting a little cold and we knew that we still had some cold work to do we were glad when he answered back yes! We picked up and bagged the decoys and loaded the rest of the gear and rowed back across the lake. Everything got loaded back on the truck and we finally headed to the house for lunch.
Back at the house I took a few shots of the mighty hunter with the days take.
In the afternoon we worked on covering Blake's pontoon and putting a flue up on a space heater that Blake put in his garage. We suddenly realized that it was getting a littel late so we quickly started getting ready to go deer hunting. This involved changing to a different kind of gear and hiking through fileds and into the woods. 
Since we were going to be hunting in different areas of the farm Blake and Skyler headed out first. Within 10 minutes of getting to my stand I heard a shot from the direction where Blake and Skyler were hunting. I called Blake on the cell phone and found out that Skyler had gotten a nice sized doe. 
Since we were going to be hunting in different areas of the farm Blake and Skyler headed out first. Within 10 minutes of getting to my stand I heard a shot from the direction where Blake and Skyler were hunting. I called Blake on the cell phone and found out that Skyler had gotten a nice sized doe. 
We all continued to hunt until dark and then started tracking the deer. It took a while to get the deer to a spot to do the field dressing and then hiked back to the truck and finally got the deer loaded and back at Blake's hung up until it could be checked in the next day.
Sunday afternoon I went out deer hunting again saw a couple of small deer but decided to let them pass. I headed home just after dark and Blake and family over for Duck and chicken shiskabob on the grill. It was a good weekend.
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