Yesterday Sunday i headed over to Steve's house, he said 2.30 - 3.pm but the clocks went back one hour which meant we would loose an hour of sunlight. I was impatient i have been waiting all week to go out with Steve and his two Harris hawks smash and Charlie. In a very short time its become something that is waited and looked forward to the whole week. So i arrive early well a few minutes to early might be bad manners and late would be unforgivable.

I had a gift for Steve a copy of the US army corps map for lake Texoma. I had my friend Kevin who is the tree stand hunter ( something i could never do) print it up to poster size. When i used to fish in the UK i was not one just to sit there and wait, always changing tactics, bates , depths trying something new till the fish struck.

We headed out to the east side of Hangermans wildlife area. There are two plots of public land almost next to it. We drove down after scouting out the surrounding area and pinpointing the exact spot. We got there we noticed a few trucks so we found a quite spot and smash came out. we sort of did a figure of 8 in the surrounding land but we didn't spot anything till on the way back to the truck. smash was looking at things in the distance . All of a sudden a bird flew up into the air, then another then another, there must have been 30 wild turkey's take flight. We headed off for another spot through the drain off areas of the lake, not much really happened until something rather spectacular happened

I was walking along with the T-Bar , perch or pole. It's kinda of funny cause i wasn't quite sure how to use the thing, Either to use it as a stick to beat brush or just hold it aloft in the air and look rather silly cause there is no bird on it. Then it happened ... the pole got slightly heavier and i look up only to see one Harris hawk sitting on it . i looked at Steve and just grinned what can you say but it was totally amazing ! It seemed lie forever and Smash did actually turn the pole to say hey i want to look this way before he flew off. We think he caught a snake , it looked like a snake to me and im sticking with that.

On the walk back to the car Steve did they public relations thing with some two guys and there three children that had spotted us. Before the trip home the sun set over the lake. All in all a very good day.