EP. 124: Three Days. Three Teal Hunts. Three Limits. Trip Recap with Brian Halbleib

Yeah, so there is a lot to cover this past week in the Central Flyway.

Man, it was completely unexpected today.

the way the forecast kept changing, you know, we weren't expecting to be dealing with the kind of heat that we were dealing with early on.

I think it was probably the 10 day forecast or 14 day forecast, whatever the earliest forecast you could get.

We were looking at temperatures in the, you know, eighties and lows in the high sixties, mid sixties, which is tolerable, right? You know, you kind of expect that in the early season when you're hunting doves or geese or early teal.

But as the trip came closer and the forecast got shorter, they started talking about 100 degrees during the day, 75 for a low.

And then when you're dealing with prairie marshes and you're dealing with temperatures like that, you're also talking mosquitoes, which is never fun.

I'm always prepared with the thermosel, but man, it could get bad when the temperatures are that warm.

And anybody that ever hunts in warm climates like that understands that those mosquitoes can be a real problem.

So we were kind of scrambling, trying to figure out, because we like to camp, right? You know, I'm going out to meet Elliot.

We're going to do the scout on Friday, so we're going to meet on Thursday.

which means camping Thursday night somewhere close, right? Because we're kind of out in the middle of nowhere in the Central Flyway.

We want to be away from people.

Elliot talks about that all the time.

I talk about that a lot.

We want to have that, I don't want to say pristine experience.

I guess that's not the best word for it, but if you can have a marsh or at least a large part of a marsh to yourself.

It's just such a more enjoyable experience.

Now, you know, it's opening day.

It's a popular area in the Central Flyway.

You're going to be dealing with people.

You're going to be hearing shots.

You're going to be seeing people around.

That's all part of it.

But the goal is to try to find those little places that you can get to yourself, either by going further than anybody wants to go, walking further, or finding a place where you can strategically kind of lock it down that's kind of limited access.