As always our dove opener was a good time. Quote of the day though "I'm up earlier than I am for deer season and its raining, must be opening day of dove season". Ours started out with a torrential downpour, then subsided into occasional rounds of rain with lots of doves flying in between. I limited out around 100 or so, my son was having a very bad day, crippled one and killed none. (he freely admits that he comes for the food not so much for the shooting) I had one bird with a band. Left the hunting area and went to a local creek known for big crawdads, cleaned doves, baited crawdad traps with dove carcasses, grilled up some marinated, bacon wrapped dove breasts, warmed up the bacon wrapped cream cheese filled jalapeno peppers and mushrooms, and ate like kings. Caught cradads till late afternoon, then started the water boiling in the big pot, added the zatarans, taters, sausage, corn on the cob, a bag of frog legs and finally the crawdads and turned off the heat. Drained and poured it out on the picnic table on a plastic trash bag, and ate like kings again. Man I love dove season.