Hunting Report 2008 Waterfowl Reports - Page 17

Sorny · 11-19-2008, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by gooseh8r

Why does my hat look like a camo turbin?

Because it is? You should change you name to "goose terrorist"

fishman34 · 11-19-2008, 12:47 PM

so have you rigged up a suicide bomber goose?

James Watson · 11-19-2008, 04:16 PM

After 8 days of not hunting and a day of frustration on no birds, it sure felt good to shoot something again. Hunted a warm water creek that Dan has been watching. Was holding a few mallards the last couple days, nothing crazy, but a few anyways. Birds came out EARLY. Too bad too. Had mallards in the decoys ALL OVER us before legal. We opted to just bump them out at legal and hope they came back rather than shoot. Ended up a few short of a two man. Whiffed on two nice woodrows. Today would have been a better day for the camera than anything. Birds that did it, DID IT. Hens wouldnt leave us alone.

ajj16 · 11-19-2008, 10:12 PM

Migration/ Wildlife: Waterfowl estimates for Sand Lake NWR: Canada geese, 4,000; snow geese, 120,000; ducks, 55,000; swans, 25. It appears that the peak of the waterfowl migration in this area occurred last Thursday and Friday.

The Duck numbers are way down this week at Sand Lake, last week they were 150,000, this week 55,000?

bigquackattack · 11-19-2008, 10:25 PM

Going down in some other areas in SoDak as well. South Dakota Fall Waterfowl Counts - Flight 3

Chasin 'eyes · 11-20-2008, 03:40 PM

Just drove through Fergus Falls MN yesterday on my way to SD and ND. Tons of birds there, canadas were so bunched up I thought they were snows at first. Saw lots of birds in Southern ND and around Sisseton. Still have birds to come and there was open water around on the bigger waters and rivers. From what I hear from a buddy there is still quite a few birds in canada, open water and plenty of food. One thing I did see surprising was the amount of corn still in the fields in the dakotas, most I have ever seen this late in the year up there. The rain /snow must have pushed them back, no snow on the ground right now though - it was 78 in Rapid just the other day!

flatcoats · 11-20-2008, 04:16 PM

Fergus Falls.....good place..many a walleye to catch!

fowlfoolr1979 · 11-20-2008, 08:34 PM

Honkers were hitting the fields hard tonight!

Layne

James Watson · 11-20-2008, 09:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fowlfoolr1979

Honkers were hitting the fields hard tonight!

Layne

ha you shoulda seen the mallards!

Alex T. · 11-20-2008, 10:31 PM

7 canadas this evening.If they would of gave us 5-10 more minutes of shooting time,it would of been the 4-man limit we were looking for easily. Geese all over right at the end of legal.

Alex

kaiserduckhelm · 11-21-2008, 11:28 AM

Finally got my little brother out in the boatblind yesterday morning. He hasn't been out hunting fowl for least 4 years (he dosen't like getting up at 3 am). Pretty slow until noon, had a few flocks of migrators decoy from the heavens.

Patrick Olson · 11-21-2008, 12:14 PM

Watched Radar last evening and saw some disturbing things. The birds I have been on the past few weeks you can see plainly on Radar every morning when they leave and evening when they come back. Last night watched them pick up, but instead of setting back down, the blob kept heading S until they were off the Radar screen. Watched one other bird concentration which I knew was there do the same thing.

Went for a drive this morning through the basins to follow up. Confirmed exactly what I thought. Bird numbers have been cut to a fraction. Every single body of water I checked was locked solid, little under an inch of ice. Saw very, very few birds sitting on the ice. Out of probably 20 places I checked, two had ducks. Both were nothing to get excited about. Only one place had birds barely keeping open a little hole.

Weather man said it would only get down to upper teens. My truck read 9-10 degrees before sunrise. It was downright chilly. Saw two groups of hunters on all of the basins public/private I checked. Neither had open water, although they were trying.

Found one last out for tomorrow with a few hundred birds on it, but that was it. Still a lot of pins, so be careful if you go out tomorrow. Saw next to nothing flying around from 6:30-9. Saw more geese, mostly Canadas, in the air than ducks. And that wasn't many.

This time of year always blows. Spent 3/4s of a tank of gas and 200 some miles only to get down on myself. Hopefully this warm up and wind unlocks some water and brings some birds back. Squeeze one more out tomorrow hopefully and then see what this warm up does. Been a phenomenal year out there with the birds that were there and the water.

PO

boos1906 · 11-21-2008, 12:25 PM

Just looked at the weather for South dakota for the next 10 days. It looks like some of the smaller stuff will begin to freeze up now. Hopefully that will push down some new birds. I am going out to jump shoot ducks this afternoon off some drainage ditches. I scouted them out last night. It should be a easy limit.

**Chad** · 11-21-2008, 03:48 PM

Discouraging day for John and me... after investing a lot of time finding and following a BIG roost of mallards out to feed and getting permission along the flight path, the stupid things decided to go west instead of south to feed.

Over here!

Hard to watch several thousand birds never look your way and remain too far off to call when just a day ago they would have come right for us.

Maybe the change in wind direction should have told us they'd go a different direction...

Maybe next time they'll head our way and the field will be perfect...

Maybe I'll just give up and focus on shovelers...

boos1906 · 11-21-2008, 05:36 PM

Well guys I went out this afternoon. I was done in 8 minutes. I told you it was gonna be a easy limit. I proablly jumped 300 ducks off of it. All the marshes and everything here are all frozen so all the ducks are on the drainage ditches. I only hunted one ditch. I looked at some of my other ditches and they are pretty loaded to. I drove another one of my ditches after I shot the ones and proablly jumped 200-300 off of it. I know this isnt much fun compared to decoying them in but its what i do when everything else freezes up. Chad what part of nebraska were you hunting today? Were you down in the basins?

BPbowhunter · 11-21-2008, 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Chad

Maybe I'll just give up and focus on shovelers...

Sounds like a good idea to me. If a bootlip comes in with a flock of gads or mallards or anything like that, I always pimp him out the flock. It was my fist duck by the way...

Nothing eats better than bootlip!

**Chad** · 11-21-2008, 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by boos1906

Chad what part of nebraska were you hunting today? Were you down in the basins?

No, I was hunting those Coco Key Mallards again. Less miles scouting, but they're all city miles, so it's a trade off.

boos1906 · 11-21-2008, 07:18 PM

Got geese hitting a field of mine. should hopefully be a good shoot

Kenny Fischer · 11-21-2008, 08:58 PM

went from work straight to the river to try and squeeze in an hour and a half hunt before the sun went down, got out set up 12 fullbody mallards on the bar, and a couple floaters in the water, got in the laydown, saw an absolute TON OF CANS!!!!!! did see HIGH i mean HIGH flying ducks about 20 groups flying straight south........managed to wack two mallots ten minutes before sunset, no camera since i came straight from work.
i might have to squeeze in a can hunt tomorrow before work at 1.

Patrick Olson · 11-21-2008, 09:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kenny Fischer

TON OF CANS!!!!!!

Cans = Canvasbacks = a duck

Canadas = Honkers = Canucks, not cans.

Just a little pet peeve of mine.

PO

11-19-2008, 12:47 PM	#322 (permalink)
fishman34 Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Broken Bow/Lincoln Certified Youth Fishing Instructor Posts: 591 Thanks: 10 Thanked 14 Times in 10 Posts	so have you rigged up a suicide bomber goose? __________________ Whackin' Woodies Waterfowl Crew On the road again Goin' places that I've never been Seein' things that I may never see again, And I can't wait to get on the road again.

11-20-2008, 03:40 PM	#326 (permalink)
Chasin 'eyes Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Cortland Posts: 274 Thanks: 2 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Just drove through Fergus Falls MN yesterday on my way to SD and ND. Tons of birds there, canadas were so bunched up I thought they were snows at first. Saw lots of birds in Southern ND and around Sisseton. Still have birds to come and there was open water around on the bigger waters and rivers. From what I hear from a buddy there is still quite a few birds in canada, open water and plenty of food. One thing I did see surprising was the amount of corn still in the fields in the dakotas, most I have ever seen this late in the year up there. The rain /snow must have pushed them back, no snow on the ground right now though - it was 78 in Rapid just the other day! __________________ "Life's too short to drink cheap beer"

11-20-2008, 10:31 PM	#330 (permalink)
Alex T. Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: under the lids of a laydown blind Certified Youth Fishing Instructor Posts: 3,419 Thanks: 0 Thanked 62 Times in 35 Posts	7 canadas this evening.If they would of gave us 5-10 more minutes of shooting time,it would of been the 4-man limit we were looking for easily. Geese all over right at the end of legal. Alex __________________ Listening to an e-caller daily to help pass the time until they come back

11-21-2008, 11:28 AM	#331 (permalink)
kaiserduckhelm Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 269 Thanks: 1 Thanked 9 Times in 5 Posts	Finally got my little brother out in the boatblind yesterday morning. He hasn't been out hunting fowl for least 4 years (he dosen't like getting up at 3 am). Pretty slow until noon, had a few flocks of migrators decoy from the heavens. __________________ Out-the-Window Outfitters. "Our drinking team has a hunting problem."

11-21-2008, 03:48 PM	#334 (permalink)
Chad Director Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Gone Fishin' Posts: 6,474 Thanks: 60 Thanked 70 Times in 43 Posts	Discouraging day for John and me... after investing a lot of time finding and following a BIG roost of mallards out to feed and getting permission along the flight path, the stupid things decided to go west instead of south to feed. Over here! Hard to watch several thousand birds never look your way and remain too far off to call when just a day ago they would have come right for us. Maybe the change in wind direction should have told us they'd go a different direction... Maybe next time they'll head our way and the field will be perfect... Maybe I'll just give up and focus on shovelers... __________________ *To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.*

11-19-2008, 04:16 PM	#323 (permalink)
James Watson Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: NE Posts: 321 Thanks: 10 Thanked 7 Times in 4 Posts	After 8 days of not hunting and a day of frustration on no birds, it sure felt good to shoot something again. Hunted a warm water creek that Dan has been watching. Was holding a few mallards the last couple days, nothing crazy, but a few anyways. Birds came out EARLY. Too bad too. Had mallards in the decoys ALL OVER us before legal. We opted to just bump them out at legal and hope they came back rather than shoot. Ended up a few short of a two man. Whiffed on two nice woodrows. Today would have been a better day for the camera than anything. Birds that did it, DID IT. Hens wouldnt leave us alone.

11-19-2008, 10:12 PM	#324 (permalink)
ajj16 Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Stanton/Lincoln Posts: 30 Thanks: 2 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	*Migration/ Wildlife:* Waterfowl estimates for Sand Lake NWR: Canada geese, 4,000; snow geese, 120,000; ducks, 55,000; swans, 25. It appears that the peak of the waterfowl migration in this area occurred last Thursday and Friday. The Duck numbers are way down this week at Sand Lake, last week they were 150,000, this week 55,000?

11-19-2008, 10:25 PM	#325 (permalink)
bigquackattack Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Close to the creek Posts: 128 Thanks: 4 Thanked 8 Times in 6 Posts	Going down in some other areas in SoDak as well. South Dakota Fall Waterfowl Counts - Flight 3

11-20-2008, 04:16 PM	#327 (permalink)
flatcoats Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: omaha Posts: 1,329 Thanks: 15 Thanked 39 Times in 29 Posts	Fergus Falls.....good place..many a walleye to catch!

11-20-2008, 08:34 PM	#328 (permalink)
fowlfoolr1979 Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Lincoln, NE Posts: 608 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	Honkers were hitting the fields hard tonight! Layne

11-21-2008, 12:14 PM	#332 (permalink)
Patrick Olson Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Omaha/Lincoln Posts: 338 Thanks: 3 Thanked 21 Times in 11 Posts	Watched Radar last evening and saw some disturbing things. The birds I have been on the past few weeks you can see plainly on Radar every morning when they leave and evening when they come back. Last night watched them pick up, but instead of setting back down, the blob kept heading S until they were off the Radar screen. Watched one other bird concentration which I knew was there do the same thing. Went for a drive this morning through the basins to follow up. Confirmed exactly what I thought. Bird numbers have been cut to a fraction. Every single body of water I checked was locked solid, little under an inch of ice. Saw very, very few birds sitting on the ice. Out of probably 20 places I checked, two had ducks. Both were nothing to get excited about. Only one place had birds barely keeping open a little hole. Weather man said it would only get down to upper teens. My truck read 9-10 degrees before sunrise. It was downright chilly. Saw two groups of hunters on all of the basins public/private I checked. Neither had open water, although they were trying. Found one last out for tomorrow with a few hundred birds on it, but that was it. Still a lot of pins, so be careful if you go out tomorrow. Saw next to nothing flying around from 6:30-9. Saw more geese, mostly Canadas, in the air than ducks. And that wasn't many. This time of year always blows. Spent 3/4s of a tank of gas and 200 some miles only to get down on myself. Hopefully this warm up and wind unlocks some water and brings some birds back. Squeeze one more out tomorrow hopefully and then see what this warm up does. Been a phenomenal year out there with the birds that were there and the water. PO

11-21-2008, 12:25 PM	#333 (permalink)
boos1906 Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 44 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Just looked at the weather for South dakota for the next 10 days. It looks like some of the smaller stuff will begin to freeze up now. Hopefully that will push down some new birds. I am going out to jump shoot ducks this afternoon off some drainage ditches. I scouted them out last night. It should be a easy limit.

11-21-2008, 05:36 PM	#335 (permalink)
boos1906 Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 44 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Well guys I went out this afternoon. I was done in 8 minutes. I told you it was gonna be a easy limit. I proablly jumped 300 ducks off of it. All the marshes and everything here are all frozen so all the ducks are on the drainage ditches. I only hunted one ditch. I looked at some of my other ditches and they are pretty loaded to. I drove another one of my ditches after I shot the ones and proablly jumped 200-300 off of it. I know this isnt much fun compared to decoying them in but its what i do when everything else freezes up. Chad what part of nebraska were you hunting today? Were you down in the basins?

11-21-2008, 07:18 PM	#338 (permalink)
boos1906 Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 44 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Got geese hitting a field of mine. should hopefully be a good shoot

11-21-2008, 08:58 PM	#339 (permalink)
Kenny Fischer Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: nebraksa Posts: 239 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	went from work straight to the river to try and squeeze in an hour and a half hunt before the sun went down, got out set up 12 fullbody mallards on the bar, and a couple floaters in the water, got in the laydown, saw an absolute TON OF CANS!!!!!! did see HIGH i mean HIGH flying ducks about 20 groups flying straight south........managed to wack two mallots ten minutes before sunset, no camera since i came straight from work. i might have to squeeze in a can hunt tomorrow before work at 1.

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