With no cold weather on the cards the only thing that might work was the strong wind and rising tide!
I ran a long mother line out on the mud flats much to chips delight as he likes to help out by standing on every thing lol…also a string of Teal on a running weight.
The Teal decoys came up first which was a good thing as these mallard came across the wind around 10 mins of me settling into my hide.
I can never get over how fast birds can fly even in this wind, a factor which was only to real with 2 drakes slipping across the wind straight at me.
Got to shoot them way out in front other wise there is no chance, 36gm 4’s in my 425 with a nice left cast to bring the narrow rib in the centre, the first bird landed close to the hide with the second falling some distance behind.
Chip did his I love the mud run then picked the second which had rolled off the salting’s
The wind was a lot keener than I thought so he sat with my coat on until it was time to go…
Tim.243
I ran a long mother line out on the mud flats much to chips delight as he likes to help out by standing on every thing lol…also a string of Teal on a running weight.
The Teal decoys came up first which was a good thing as these mallard came across the wind around 10 mins of me settling into my hide.
I can never get over how fast birds can fly even in this wind, a factor which was only to real with 2 drakes slipping across the wind straight at me.
Got to shoot them way out in front other wise there is no chance, 36gm 4’s in my 425 with a nice left cast to bring the narrow rib in the centre, the first bird landed close to the hide with the second falling some distance behind.
Chip did his I love the mud run then picked the second which had rolled off the salting’s
The wind was a lot keener than I thought so he sat with my coat on until it was time to go…
Tim.243