hunt for ducks using falconry
hunt snipe till febr 14th
hunt rabbits
go scout west texas and shoot white geese till end of march
shoot mothachuckars,quail and pheasants till late march
scout and cut contracts with landowners while the ducks are still here, in october way hardr to scout since all you gonna see is 3 teal.
buy wintergear 50-70% at cabellas and other stores
buy 2 cases of black cloud number 4's on sale
go to lonestarpark and win a trifecta twice in order to pay your guide next year

and i saved the best part for last

GET ' ER DONE, she's been lonely since oct first,....

You do falconry??? If so post pics. Had an ER doc that lived down the street from me about 5 years ago that had a big [censored] falcon. He showed it to me but I never got to see it in action. That would be badass. I hear there are all kinds of rules and hoops you have to jump through even to own one.

+1 on the falconry pics. Heck I would be willing to take you somewhere I've been seeing tons of birds just so I could watch!! PM me if interested.

Find the fish, and start ripping lips, going after reds this weekend !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Scout a lease for next season, Turkey hunting in march and bass fishin once this sheety wehather clears up

Well, I have always been well rounded with my hunting and fishing even during duck season, but in the coming days and weeks....things I will do or would like to do.

Sandhill Crane hunt. A last ditch try on Saturday. Maybe.
Snipe till the 28th. A two day run to NW Louisiana for Snipe.
Conservation Geese. Not seeing them this year, but if anyone wants a tag along, I have around 150 nice decoys to bring.
Oklahoma Crow Season till March 4. I go every year at least once.
Hog hunting on my Deer Lease till the end of Turkey Season.
Predator control on the lease, calling and trapping.
Spring Turkey hunts. I have all my tags still.
Stock the freezer with Whites and Hybrids during the upcoming spawning runs.
Do a Paddlefish Snagging day in OK.
Work the Catfish on the DFW lakes as well as via kayak creek and river fishing. Target all three species. R&R & Juglines.
Yo Yo trips on the Red!
Chase some non traditional fish like Gator Gar and Choupique for the fun of it.
Go after some record fish with my son including reclaiming our two IGFA world records that fell last year.
Find an Okie willing to teach me how to Noodle! I will always regret not taking my Grandfather up on it.
Kayak the Red for Stripers as well as a goal of one freezer filling 50-100 fish spotted bass day.
Get the wife out kayaking and canoeing with me more.
Spring Squirrel hunt if I ever find a worthwhile place to hunt them again.
And maybe some Skeet and Sporting Clay shooting.

I can't fit it all in, but those options should get me through the Spring.

That paddlefish snaggin is awesome. I'll have to post the pic of one I got last summer when I get home.

I have never successfuly done it, don't or did not know know when, where, or all the hows, but is something I have been figuring out. I failed the only two times I tried, but I have learned a lot, so this may be the year. Like duck hunters, it seems OK paddlefish snaggers in the less traditional locations are real protective of the info. Especially to Texans. But with OK now making a profit with the caviar sales in supporting the stocking program, they have become very helpful to anyone that asks.

You can watch them snaggin from my parent's back porch. I could get 4-5 pretty much anytime. Often on the first cast I'd be hooked up.

amen brotha

I want to do a fish smackdown, the last couple of years I've had fishing-related "projects" and they have got in the way of me just having fun...

looking forward to shooting some tilapia in the face,
catching some reds,
sight casting to some alligator gar,
sight casting to 20+ longnose gar,
poling flats for little spotted gars,
sight fishing for carp and buffalo,
and maybe catch a pickerel and bass or two.

In addition I am feeling hungry for the meat of fish with stripes on it so maybe some blitz fishin or night fishin. Not gonna probably get to the coast this year, at least if I do not more than once, so I'll have to spend more time chasing the carp and pretending they're redfish or sheepshead.

i sold my falcon to this company 4 yrs ago to an italian company, he put a film of him on youtube, here is the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVgSWwPNRyo

sorry, could not import the bird to the us, plus he was aged as well. cool stuff though

sniper john, i'm amazed about your web site and your adventures up north. any plans this year?

I had planned to spend two weeks or more bouncing around the Trans Pecos Big Bend area "last month", but I cancelled due to my Father having heart surgery that was scheduled right in the middle of my hunt dates. Might take a second try at that next year, but who knows what I will do.

Here's what lives below the dam.

Maybe I'm just old, but the biggest thing I'm doing for the two weeks after the season is sleeping 9 hours a night.

Then in order it's:
- Quail
- Blue cats
- Black bass
- Turkey
- White and Hybrid bass
- Crappie

Hog and squirrel, when and where I can find 'em. Maybe conservation goose if I'm lucky.

Big Bend Texas area is my favorite spot, i love to stay in Marathon at tge gage motel.

what dam if you dont mind me asking, i would be interested in trying that out. it sounds like alot of fun.

Lake Ft. Gibson. It's a blast! Gotta get some specialized equipement tho, isn't something you can do with just any old rod. Fishing off the wall, and there's alot of people. Took me a month just to learn the culture and etiquitte.

I am the king of YOYO's I have perfected the art on the red river. That and how to catch 15 fish off one package of 1.19 Bar S Weanies

You have done well grasshopper. You have taken the pebble from my hand. So you gonna invite me for some of that yo yo fishing this year. I will be there with you or without you anyway.

now is the time for spotlighting them while on the roost and using a 22

I went to scout for pigs the other day and found what would have been my money spot if it was still season. I have never seen so many pintail before. Thousands of birds. I just sat down on a log and watched as the ducks and geese continued to pour in.

So the Haggerman has plenty of birds right now I take it.