{"id":491,"date":"2011-10-15T11:04:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T18:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/?p=491"},"modified":"2011-10-28T11:06:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T18:06:31","slug":"2011-2012-waterfowl-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/blog\/2011-2012-waterfowl-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"2011\/ 2012 Waterfowl Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The waterfowl season opened with a bang today as the boys and I set out to enjoy the family tradition of hunting local sea ducks. Unlike most of the puddlers that are still in a moult of brown feathers- the surf , whitewing and black scoters have migrated in with full breeding plumage. Well before shooting light we launched the tender boat then after a short run the crab pots were put down to soak while we set a rig of longlines with floating decoy \u201csleds\u201d and custom painted scoter dekes near an offshore shoal. At the first crack of light a few young birds had already lit in the decoys and we knew it was going to be a good morning. More \u201cscotes\u201d followed and after getting some of that early season rusty shooting out of the way we all got some birds down including a triple from a flock of high flying whitewings that dumped in for a closer look. Back to the launch with a bucket of Dungeness crabs and a strap of sea ducks&#8211; what a great start to the season and only a glimpse of what\u2019s to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The waterfowl season opened with a bang today as the boys and I set out to enjoy the family tradition of hunting local sea ducks. Unlike most of the puddlers that are still in a moult of brown feathers- the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/blog\/2011-2012-waterfowl-opener\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-home","tag-waterfowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulasportsman.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}