Thread: Game bird diary for all

A light fog and no wind this morning at broadlands. Very few shots / shooters I think. However I managed 2 mallard, 2 parries and 1 canada so pretty happy, all things considered.

Quiet morning here near Hamilton, I shoot on a public lake, no other shooters on the lake so took my young GWP for a walk around the edges, She ended up getting 4 wounded birds only 1 required a finishing shot from me, all the rest she caught and retrieved, including one she had to put her head completely under the water to get. I was really impressed with this dog who up until last Saturday had never been duck hunting.

Where wad your gwp bred?

I got my GWP from a guy in the Waikato as a 12 month old , the guy that bred her is from up in the Kaimais, she has a beautiful nature and a nice calm temperament. This is the third GWP I have had, I had the first one more than 30 years ago from Jack Dawson, she was a hunting machine. When she passed I had another from Jack but she was hopeless. After that I went to Curly Coat retrievers and the 3 of those I had were awesome, but I have a soft spot for the GWP.

Public lake in Huntly,no mallards even seen,shot 1 parry and 5 canadas this morning.only 1 other hunter on the lake.

I have never shot a Canada it’s on my bucket list, there was a mob of about 40 on the lake where I was this morning just sitting in the middle, no chance of getting a shot,

Could have shot a heap more but had a little outboard trouble so headed back earlier than planned.also not having a dog this year I was leaving the birds I didn’t think I could retrieve due to them probably falling in the stumps and not being able to get the boat in to get them.

Could have had a lot more tonight if someone could sit still and be quiet

Bet you were like that once upon a time eh

One parry while a fish was on!

Multi tasking at its best @Dundee nice fish too

No ducks seen tonight but he looked the part and enjoyed himself all the same.

Two fat drakes and a hen tonight. Right on last light.

Set my decoys at another location on the Manawatu River its flooded and flowing fast will get a better pic at daybreak.

Had the moonlight upstream from my spread and two swans came straight in.Both heavy birds were retrieived by Bo.
The second one had floated almost 200mtres before he caught up.Very strong dog.

One drake parry drake near creek.

River dropped since last night nothing came in tonight and never heard a shot in the district.