Mud-puppy
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Up and gone before the Dawn! Rained pretty much all week....Warm, 45degrees, with more inbound wind bringing rain and rapidly declining temps a few hours out on the radar...Heres my second chance to hit that place I was at last Sunday!....This time, I brought along foul weather gear and popped an aspirin before hand....In and swinging at 7:10 am...
I figured since the primary zones were so stuffed, let me scout around this huge area for the secondary and tertiary drop zones...Very wet clay mud was like stabbing through a sopping wet Angel food cake! In this kind of mess, the trick is to GENTLY probe the target and AVOID at all costs pushing it down deeper or even worse, tipping it on edge...
A stabber has to be very cautious and behave like a Brain Surgeon, very delicately, not optimal conditions for speed, but a VERY good matrix for getting the deeper Q's out of the clay...Consequently, it took a little longer on the retrieve than normal...But I settled down and just went to work steady, I wasnt all weeweed up like I was last week!.
...I got at least 10 2 coin stacks I can remember, always welcome since it helps with the CPH.......Half the time I was standing and hunting with an inch of water over the grass, but hey...at least it was not dry hardpack ...
Anyway, right on schedule, at about 10... here came the big rain, dropping temps and wind...I stopped and put on my gear, put a glove over the head of the F70 for protection, and finally called it quits at 10:50...No aches or pains today....
So lets see what we got here concerning ROI? 252 coins for $62.04..(242 Q's = 3lbs! some bycatch in the tight spills/stacks Including a dollar coin) 68.8 CPH pace, $17,23/Hr pay...!
Big place, lots left in there, zones I have not hit, but I think I got all the easy pickings in the Primary and Secondary zones anyhow....surely jewelry in there, but when the Q's are pinging in this heavily, and a guy needs to buy gas for next weeks hunts... whats a guy to do? Focus on the solid money and Stab them all of course!
I figured since the primary zones were so stuffed, let me scout around this huge area for the secondary and tertiary drop zones...Very wet clay mud was like stabbing through a sopping wet Angel food cake! In this kind of mess, the trick is to GENTLY probe the target and AVOID at all costs pushing it down deeper or even worse, tipping it on edge...
A stabber has to be very cautious and behave like a Brain Surgeon, very delicately, not optimal conditions for speed, but a VERY good matrix for getting the deeper Q's out of the clay...Consequently, it took a little longer on the retrieve than normal...But I settled down and just went to work steady, I wasnt all weeweed up like I was last week!.
...I got at least 10 2 coin stacks I can remember, always welcome since it helps with the CPH.......Half the time I was standing and hunting with an inch of water over the grass, but hey...at least it was not dry hardpack ...Anyway, right on schedule, at about 10... here came the big rain, dropping temps and wind...I stopped and put on my gear, put a glove over the head of the F70 for protection, and finally called it quits at 10:50...No aches or pains today....
So lets see what we got here concerning ROI? 252 coins for $62.04..(242 Q's = 3lbs! some bycatch in the tight spills/stacks Including a dollar coin) 68.8 CPH pace, $17,23/Hr pay...!
Big place, lots left in there, zones I have not hit, but I think I got all the easy pickings in the Primary and Secondary zones anyhow....surely jewelry in there, but when the Q's are pinging in this heavily, and a guy needs to buy gas for next weeks hunts... whats a guy to do? Focus on the solid money and Stab them all of course!
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