Thread: Game bird diary for all

OMG -I have the child of promise my belly is bigger than yesterday

The air lucky and super pole with results

Nice work pointer . Love to here more on your" brown quails " . Never ever seen one . Pulled the pin on my central South Island today . Farmer says it too wet . Gutted ! Maybe a window of hope Friday , fingers crossed

With abit of a late start, headed off to the river...dog had an ooopsy by leaping into a deep pool with the river pulling him away downstream, only to steady himself and cross over to the other side...he crossed back over some fifty odd metres upstream...all was good and slowly the heart stopped palpitating..off again, dog working ground well but to no avail, then on the way out went on point and flushed a bird...hen bird away!!!!

Would have posted some fotos but the laptop is having a hissy fit and is not accepting the card...

got my first quail of the season im embarassed to say it took 3 coveys and six shots

Originally Posted by gsp follower

got my first quail of the season im embarassed to say it took 3 coveys and six shots

Don't be embarassed, GSP Follower, they can be tricky...and I know I have tended to forget to focus on the one bird

Originally Posted by EeeBees

Don't be embarassed, GSP Follower, they can be tricky...and I know I have tended to forget to focus on the one bird

Continuum...often enough to know better...!!

Headed down to the river tonight,I was armed with Rod & Gun, possom trapper set up down stream with heaps of decoys and electronic caller.

I fished till 1730hrs and caught a small brownReleased much to Mrs D's disgust


At 1730 the farkn digger started up again!
I set up here



One decoy in the river and settled in to the hard right of that pic.

Electronic caller going hard out down stream

We sat and waited,me blowing the wooden callers



And results

Sitting down a mob of parries just drop in but flared up and 2 drakes flew by me so bang bang nothing for the little 20g to drop them down, brother had a couple of shots at a hen she looked tickled up but kept on moving.

Pip done an awesome double retrieve, though one drake as wounded and started biting her so called her back shot it she went out and got it then went out again half way across the river and got the one.

3 greys also came down and I got this one which Pip also retrieved, must of be though coming back through mud up to her guts

Is that the Wairoa river toby ?

Well done Toby.

Originally Posted by EeeBees

Don't be embarassed, GSP Follower, they can be tricky...and I know I have tended to forget to focus on the one bird

bloody dog was was looking at me looking at the departing untouched quail with a ''are you for real boss'' look
right to left and at a slight angle with a climb just to make it a bit more difficult,gets me every time but like mcarthur i shall return with more ammo and a better swing hopefuly

Originally Posted by el borracho

Is that the Wairoa river toby ?

Yup, sure is.

awesome man

we saw a few on the sat but sunday was shithouse man nothing we had a few sky busters in the pond next to us so they scared them off

Spotted some ducks from river bank.


The stalk was on and didn't we do well.


Jess brought two home in one retrieve