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Sorensen
Jan 5, 1980
Another non-shoot day. I went into blind #3 and ended up with two spoonies which I shot deliberately in cold blood. Betty and I ate them on Sunday and they were delicious, incidentally. I watched three spoonies feeding within 20yds of my blind for nearly half an hour. They moved along in little circles in about 3 inches of water, nibbling along the bottom seeking seeds I guess.
Sorensen
Jan 12, 1980
We tried it once more with little to show. Woody got a bit of shooting in #4 and came out with 3 wigeon and 4 sprigs (mostly shining and molting, however). I was shanked in #5. At 10 PM we left the blinds and started picking up decoys. The continuous rain this just gets on us uneasy about possible flooding. We took out all the floating decoys from #2 and #6, and most of those from #4 and #5. Left the stick-ups.
As it turned out the flood came on Jan. 14 and put us under 10 in. of water. Dennis and Justin stayed over Sunday, Jan 13 and cleared all the floating decoys, which saved them. We will go back after the stick-ups when the flood recedes.
It's been a pretty lousy duck season at Sorensen's!