Training pays off.

Just a hunting report and a thank you for all the help training.
We went to a hunt in Brooks Alberta this past weekend. It was a release hunt. They have it every year. It is a fund raiser for youth hunting in Alberta. Team of 6, and you get 40 Roosters. We released the birds and I watched 2 of them go into a Cattail island in a small pond. I wasn't waiding out to get them so we tried the duck search training. I got Sadie at heal, nelt down beside her, got her attention on where I wanted her to go, and said Fetch. She swam straight to where I pointed, smelled the bird and the action was on. The bird actually flushed, but landed on a old dead tree stump in the island of Cattails. It was soaken wet, wasn't going to fly so I shot it. Sadie found it and swam back with it. Good Girl. There was one more in there, so we did it again. She went back in but the bird would not fly. She caught it and brought it back. Thing were not perfect, but I was very happy with the results.
Thanks for the help training Scott. The bucket payed off.