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Post by featherduster on Dec 8, 2015 7:01:24 GMT -5
What says you Central and Southern zone hunters are you "wackin and stackin" them ducks or are you waiting for fresh birds to arrive from the north zone.
Don't hold your breath It's going to hit 60 degrees this weekend and just yesterday I observed a large flock of approx.200 geese up high heading North out over Lake Michigan.
We have no ducks up here and the goose numbers have declined in the last week.
I am hoping the cold snap coming in the latter half of next week will change things just in time for the second half final week of duck season.
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Post by hornzilla on Dec 8, 2015 9:25:39 GMT -5
Well you just brightened my out look from the central zone. Lol
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Post by chubwub on Dec 8, 2015 12:09:22 GMT -5
Whacked a pintail and a few mallards last go round and that was it. On the plus side, I do appreciate the milder weather allowing us to hunt all of December. Last year around this time we couldn't go because the roads were too dangerous.
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Dec 8, 2015 23:06:06 GMT -5
Post by bullseye69 on Dec 8, 2015 23:06:06 GMT -5
What says you Central and Southern zone hunters are you "wackin and stackin" them ducks or are you waiting for fresh birds to arrive from the north zone. Don't hold your breath It's going to hit 60 degrees this weekend and just yesterday I observed a large flock of approx.200 geese up high heading North out over Lake Michigan. We have no ducks up here and the goose numbers have declined in the last week. I am hoping the cold snap coming in the latter half of next week will change things just in time for the second half final week of duck season. Seen a whole total of six ducks the 6 times I have been out. North zone 5 miles from Lake Michigan. Just local geese flying around right now. Don't think its going to get any better either. |
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Dec 9, 2015 3:36:16 GMT -5
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Post by duff on Dec 9, 2015 3:36:16 GMT -5
It's all you guys private refruges holding the ducks up there keeping me from being able to shoot my limits.
No joke, I heard some lady claim she was going to check her mushroom patches this weekend....it was over 60 yesterday and supposed to stay like that through the weekend
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Post by featherduster on Dec 9, 2015 7:46:54 GMT -5
DUFF SAID:It's all you guys private refuges holding the ducks up there keeping me from being able to shoot my limits.
I am extending a personal invitation to you to come and hunt one of our "PRIVATE REFUGES" that being Pine Lake.
We are currently holding a ship pot full of of some of the finest table fair ducks known to man and the limits on this species is very liberal.
I will even go so far as to provide you with a few proven locations you know those secret "hot spots".
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Post by budd on Dec 9, 2015 8:33:18 GMT -5
All lakes and ponds are froze up around me anyhow, went fishing Sunday. 6 inches of ice.
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Dec 9, 2015 10:48:56 GMT -5
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Post by chubwub on Dec 9, 2015 10:48:56 GMT -5
On the plus side less birds getting killed just means more will be breeding next year. Next year numbers could be very good.
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Dec 9, 2015 19:22:57 GMT -5
Post by bullseye69 on Dec 9, 2015 19:22:57 GMT -5
The only thing sitting on my private pond refuge are decoys when I put them out.
You can shoot em but I think they will be really chewy.
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Post by duff on Dec 10, 2015 6:20:05 GMT -5
If I was in your guys shoes I'd be saying the same stories...DU has put sooo much money into your private spots up there it isn't fair.
FD, I saw those birds on Hudson Lake. You guys have it made
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Post by featherduster on Dec 10, 2015 7:52:43 GMT -5
True story, back in the seventies I was the head of a newly formed Ducks Unlimited chapter and one of the guys on our committee was a DNR property manager.
This fellow along with another committee member hunted Pine Lake as it was freezing and just for for the fun of it or because they were tired of being annoyed by them they shot a Coot.
at the end of the hunt they recovered the bird and to their surprise not only was it banded it also had a red collar around it's neck.
It was later learned the bird had been banded by a college group studying the possibility of domesticating coots as a food source.
This guy had the bird mounted with it sticking it's leg out as if it was showing off it's band.
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Post by duff on Dec 10, 2015 9:35:49 GMT -5
I knew it total conspiracy :-)
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Dec 11, 2015 11:37:15 GMT -5
Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Dec 11, 2015 11:37:15 GMT -5
If a person wanted to go on a guided trip for them, where would be a good place to go?
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Post by hornzilla on Dec 11, 2015 16:45:30 GMT -5
North my friend go north
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Dec 14, 2015 16:22:49 GMT -5
Post by featherduster on Dec 14, 2015 16:22:49 GMT -5
Yesterday the Kankakee fish and wildlife area allowed hunting from legal to legal, the total take was 11 ducks.
We have 9 days left starting next Saturday to make a miracle happen................NOT.
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