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  We hit our spot abot 8pm friday night set the decoys and went to fishing. Didn't come up with much to show friday night as far as fish.  Had one red nock a live mullet and more hardheads than you could count.    we had flights of teal migrating in all night though.  once LST came around we already had three groups buzz the decoys but couldn't shoot yet.  Had steady action until about 8:15 then a 45 minute break and then it picked up again.  we had 4 people and should have had a limit by 8:00 but there were a couple of whiffed shots.  we made a few drifts out on the flats after hunting and found the redfish pretty thick. we caught at least 3 or 4 each on every drift. 

TOTALS=

3 greenwings

12 bluewings

4 redfish in the lower slot, 20"-24"

Anyone else notice the high number of pinnies flying? we decoyed several decent groups, Man they sure are pretty when they work the calls. 

Sunday:  we had three people and the birds had already relocated either to rice fields that weren't being shot or just found better ponds in the marsh.  we could have a limit but it would have taken no one missing a shot.  we managed to scratch out 7 birds and seems the redfish moved on also we had a couple blow ups but no takers. 

TOTALS:

6 bluewings

1 greenwing

another 2 flocks of pintail decoyed and photographed. 

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I've heard good reports from all the coastal areas, that's good i was worried about the water displacement scattering the birds.  Hopefully this full moon will give us a really strong closing weekend with the heavy flight.  Any one else have mostly mature drakes?  I think we had maybe 2 juveniles the rest were all mature birds. 

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