Early trapping appears to be a waste of time, we spent most of Sunday traveling as far as Bartlesvillie and back (even via route 66) to Colbert. We saw a grand total of 6 hags and not one passage bird, by the afternoon the south wind was reaching gusts of 30mph. Frustrating and disappointing to say the least.

For consolation i took Lilly out, i wanted to explore a part of my hunting grounds i haven't been to before.

I found two duck ponds separated from lake texoma by a sand bar that now had trees growing on it, We flushed half a dozen ducks off it.

 The ponds look promising for this coming season and with Lilly being the gun dog she is promptly decided to go for a dip.

Lilly and i then scrambled through some dense brush she would occasionally pick up a scent but the brush was so dense we would quickly loose it. Shes getting better at walking without her lead and not wanting to run off but its been a long a tedious process.

We finished our walk along the beaches flushing a red shouldered hawk that seem to be eating the dead fish along the shores of lake Texoma. There are so many of these right now, the average size must be 3-5lbs