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Post by ukwil on Dec 8, 2018 11:53:07 GMT -5
Anyone seeing any new birds showing up? Antsy to get out, but not seeing many birds in our area.
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Post by featherduster on Dec 8, 2018 12:35:29 GMT -5
This has been the absolute worse season ever for me.
For the past 10 years or so our local bird numbers have gone down to almost nothing.
I have been a life long member, past chairman, and founder of a Ducks Unlimited chapter so I have earned the right to say "I don't believe the numbers".
I think it's time to give the entire waterfowl hunting thing a major overhaul.
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Post by dbd870 on Dec 9, 2018 12:26:12 GMT -5
JDUB called and said he took a goose and 3 ducks. He has been knocking them dead.
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Post by hornzilla on Dec 9, 2018 13:18:38 GMT -5
It's been terrible so far this year.
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Post by ukwil on Dec 9, 2018 15:10:04 GMT -5
I've got a draw hunt at the fish hatchery up at Grand Lake St. Mary's here in Ohio Saturday. Hoping for some good action.
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Post by duff on Dec 9, 2018 15:39:03 GMT -5
Cranes are flying over
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Post by MuzzleLoader on Dec 9, 2018 18:41:30 GMT -5
Over 60+ geese on the pond last 2 days.
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Post by duff on Dec 9, 2018 20:51:09 GMT -5
Scouted monroe this weekend...nothing g special
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Post by medic22 on Dec 9, 2018 21:11:45 GMT -5
Like this many birds.  |
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Post by parrothead on Dec 10, 2018 6:59:47 GMT -5
They have been banging the snot out of them on the Ohio River. I hear them every morning I am down there shooting from where I am deer hunting.
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Post by jman46151 on Dec 10, 2018 10:21:50 GMT -5
Goose Pond was 85-90% frozen on Saturday. Very few birds on the private lake I have permission to hunt but it doesn't typically get good until the smaller ponds start to freeze up. Tried sneaking on some snow geese Saturday but by the time I got close to them they had moved onto another field across the road. It was cool to watch them. They were just constantly up and down, leap-frogging each other. I guess competing for food. They ended up in 4 different fields in less than an hour.
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Post by featherduster on Dec 10, 2018 10:48:51 GMT -5
Friends of mine actually watched a group of guys using 3 cow cutouts come in on a large group of Snow geese from different directions and when they opened up, the geese were caught in a cross fire. Not his or my idea of waterfowl hunting but if you want to put a lot of birds on your tailgate this method works. www.cabelas.com/product/Sneaking-up-on-Snow-Geese/531754.uts |
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Post by jman46151 on Dec 10, 2018 12:54:56 GMT -5
Friends of mine actually watched a group of guys using 3 cow cutouts come in on a large group of Snow geese from different directions and when they opened up, the geese were caught in a cross fire. Not his or my idea of waterfowl hunting but if you want to put a lot of birds on your tailgate this method works. www.cabelas.com/product/Sneaking-up-on-Snow-Geese/531754.utsWhy didn't I think of that...I actually have a cow decoy I made for an antelope hunt. |
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Post by tcsmoke on Dec 10, 2018 18:45:32 GMT -5
Hit goosepond today and there are no birds left out there almost 100% frozen over. Saw about 30 Canada's pass through and that was it
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Post by duff on Dec 10, 2018 23:04:47 GMT -5
The warm up may open some spots but December lull is real...maybe should say December to December lull any more
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Post by jgolba99 on Dec 11, 2018 11:05:49 GMT -5
The geese are around and moving. As far as new though I haven't seen much. I'm not having a good feeling for the last week of duck hunting in a couple weeks because I haven't seen many ducks lately.
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Post by esshup on Dec 12, 2018 1:52:18 GMT -5
I saw a few hundred snows sitting on the shelf ice at the gravel pit @ 35 and 30, Saw a bunch of Sandhills a bit further South and West walking through the picked corn fields..
Quite a few duck hunters in N. Central Arkansas (Wynne) when I was there on Monday. I saw a bunch of birds sitting on the flooded fields, but not many flying. They had about 1/2" ice build up on the trees/bushes from the storm on Friday.
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Post by riverrat77 on Dec 17, 2018 20:12:38 GMT -5
Seen a few. All locals  |
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Post by featherduster on Dec 18, 2018 5:09:29 GMT -5
What part of the state?
Story about the hunt?
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Post by ukwil on Dec 18, 2018 5:29:36 GMT -5
Hunted Grand Lake St. Mary's Saturday and killed a 2 man limit of mallards. Seen several thousand ducks and several thousand geese. Tons of birds in the area.
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