For 16 Feb:

I laid a 2- 90  degree L turn track with the first and third legs 100 yrds and the middle leg 50 yrds.

I kept the food drop at 15 steps but continued to bag drag. We began to track. Nimrod had increasing difficulty with finding the scent. Winds were gusting at 40-50 MPH and the field was more or less a continuous inch of standing water. It didn't help that Nimrod doesn't like to get his feet wet. I think Nimrod started sight tracking, diving at every small pale object in his path hoping for chicken. On the last leg, he looked at me and more or less shrugged. I threw chicken over his head, clipped him into his collar and told him he was a good boy.  It was just two hard.  

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