Well, the season finally opened here in Louisiana and since I'm bored at work I figured I would let everyone know how my weekend went.

Friday afternoon I was trying to decide whether or not I should hunt the public land surrounding my parents house which I have heard several birds or hunt a favorite spot of mine in a WMA in north LA. Well I decided to make the trip back home and hunt around my parents house and let a friend hunt the WMA spot.

So I woke Saturday to a hot, humid, cloudy, foggy morning. Needless to say, I didn't hear or see anything after hunting all day and covering several miles of woods. My friend, who I let hunt the WMA, had 4 birds come in on him and he was able to take a nice bird with an 11 in beard. Happy for him, but still somewhatfrustrated at the same time...

Without being able to hunt Sunday, I took off work Monday so I could get another day of hunting in. I went back to the same spot I had went Saturdaymorning and quickly got a response from a Tom. I set up on him about 100 yards away. He was answering every call, even cutting me off and double gobbling. He was in an area that I was somewhat unfamiliar, but I was still confident that he was going to head my way when he flew down. I finally set my calls down after and began waiting for that white head to pop up over the ridge. It never came. I called, no more answers. I sat and called now and then for about an hour and nothing. So, I get impatient and snuck over the ridge to find a large creek between me and him that I did not know about. When I finally heard him gobble again he was several hundred yards farther down the creek. I tried to get in front of him, but he went into some private property...

So then I loaded up the boat and went fishing

Even though my opening weekend didn't go as I had planned, I still enjoyed myself out in the woods and I atleast got to talk to a bird. Maybe next weekend I will be able to post some pics of a dead bird.