Post by ispfowler on Jan 12, 2008 22:21:56 GMT -5
I didn't have the opportunity to get out and field hunt nearly as much as I wanted after duck season went out, but I'm most of us can say that. Our last hunt of the regular season went picture perfect. You know how you have those days were you think everything is going to go right, and it actually does for once. Well, that was this hunt.
Friday morning I met up with my friend Cory and his dad to hit a flooded field (they are everywhere aren't they?). Our concern was the birds would be so wide spread because of all the flooded fields that we would have to work extra hard at getting them to decoy.
The field we hunted was split right down the middle with beans on one side and corn on the other. It gave the birds a couple options to feed in, and well....they took advantage of it big time. The weather was perfect (mid 30's and overcast with about a 10-15 mph west wind), and before we had time to get loaded and ready....the birds were on us.
We get in our blinds (after spooking a couple small flocks), and the small to medium size flocks roll right in. A couple of clucks to get there attention and that was about it. Every once in awhile I would have to get on the call pretty hard, right as they were getting ready to land, to draw them into a comfortable shooting range. They responded to it awesome.
We had a group of 5 come in to our right and two of them landed about 35 yards from my right (I was the far right blind), and the other 3 landed about 50 yards out. After some quick communication Cory and I get up the pair and drop them both. The other three get up and fly towards us quartering away to the north. It's just my luck a Speck is the last one in the group of three. I never even saw him until it was pretty much too late. I took one shot that I thought might bring him down (with a little luck on my side), and missed. That was my first time seeing a Speck in Northeast Indiana. It was neat to see.
We shot our limit in about an hour, and we let several flocks land into our decoys to watch and enjoy how they react with each other, and with GHG, haha.
Here are a few fair quality pictures. I hope your season ended well for ya. See ya in February!
Friday morning I met up with my friend Cory and his dad to hit a flooded field (they are everywhere aren't they?). Our concern was the birds would be so wide spread because of all the flooded fields that we would have to work extra hard at getting them to decoy.
The field we hunted was split right down the middle with beans on one side and corn on the other. It gave the birds a couple options to feed in, and well....they took advantage of it big time. The weather was perfect (mid 30's and overcast with about a 10-15 mph west wind), and before we had time to get loaded and ready....the birds were on us.
We get in our blinds (after spooking a couple small flocks), and the small to medium size flocks roll right in. A couple of clucks to get there attention and that was about it. Every once in awhile I would have to get on the call pretty hard, right as they were getting ready to land, to draw them into a comfortable shooting range. They responded to it awesome.
We had a group of 5 come in to our right and two of them landed about 35 yards from my right (I was the far right blind), and the other 3 landed about 50 yards out. After some quick communication Cory and I get up the pair and drop them both. The other three get up and fly towards us quartering away to the north. It's just my luck a Speck is the last one in the group of three. I never even saw him until it was pretty much too late. I took one shot that I thought might bring him down (with a little luck on my side), and missed. That was my first time seeing a Speck in Northeast Indiana. It was neat to see.
We shot our limit in about an hour, and we let several flocks land into our decoys to watch and enjoy how they react with each other, and with GHG, haha.
Here are a few fair quality pictures. I hope your season ended well for ya. See ya in February!
