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TOP 10 (lower 48)

Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 6:41 pm
by the doctor
Hey guys needing some input. Thinking about a bucket list of sorts for waterfowling experiences in the lower 48. What would be your top 10 (even if you haven't been) experiences, places etc coupled with a species?

Trying to think along the lines of iconic places as well like Beaver Dam, Chesapeake Bay etc.

An example would be Greenheads in the timber Stuttgart AR.

Go!

Thanx in advance,

the doc

Re: TOP 10 (lower 48)

Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 8:19 pm
by Blackduck
River hunting in dead of winter in Montana has always seemed pretty interesting.

California rice fields.

Chesapeake bay divers

Sandhill cranes in Texas.

Re: TOP 10 (lower 48)

Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 9:29 pm
by bigwater
Eastern Washington Pauls Ponds mallards
Klamath basin Oregon widgeons. While out there see if you can find a hunt over flooded barley or hopps.
Snake river Idaho mallards
Ppr regions eastern Montana.. South Dakota, North Dakota
Platte river neberska
Oklahoma peanut fields
Texas panhandle duck and goose combo
Venice la
Cameron parish la
Crowlys ridge area ark
Reel foot lake tn
Kentucky lake
Southern Illinois
Grand pass Missouri
Horicon marsh Wisconsin
Kankakee marsh Indiana
Lost flyway Alabama
Mobile delta
Lake okeechobee Florida ringnecks
Lake Seminole divers ga/fla
Lowlands of South Carolina
Outer banks North Carolina
Lake mattmuskett North Carolina
Lake Champlain/finger lakes Vermont /New York
Gotta try the Great Lakes Michigan
Maine sea ducks.
And lastly
Everybody needs to at least once hunt
Malmaision, the scatters and Matthews brake

Re: TOP 10 (lower 48)

Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 9:32 pm
by Blackduck
And cans at BDDC :shock: :lol:

Re: TOP 10 (lower 48)

Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 10:30 pm
by bigwater
Doc said iconic not infamous

Re: TOP 10 (lower 48)

Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 11:43 pm
by mossyisland
Dang Big! You stepped into that one! 500 ft homerun!

Bigwater named a number of the ones that are on my list.

Re: TOP 10 (lower 48)

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2016 5:16 am
by bigwater
Kansas.. Cheneye bottoms and carters big island
Utah. Great salt lake
Sand hill area of Nebraska

Re: TOP 10 (lower 48)

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2016 5:21 am
by bigwater
Also got to throw in a Columbia river hunt in Washington state

A warm spring hunt in Montana.. Might as well go ahead and plan on hunting a reservoir situated high up in the mountains high altitude ducks.

The dessert of northern Nevada

Re: TOP 10 (lower 48)

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2016 7:01 am
by hntrpat1
Venice, catahoula Lake canvasbacks, real flooded green timber in arkanasas

Re: TOP 10 (lower 48)

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2016 11:15 am
by the doctor
Hey big...isn't Cheyenne Bottoms a porn star?

the doc

Re: TOP 10 (lower 48)

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2016 12:37 pm
by bigwater
The biggest star in Native American porn history.
Her and 10" tonto.?? Have you seen their movie
Head-west

Re: TOP 10 (lower 48)

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2016 8:41 pm
by the doctor
Thanks! Some good suggestions - for places and movies. :D

Turning 40 next year and thinking about making a top 10 list to try and tackle one a year before turning 50.

the doc

Re: TOP 10 (lower 48)

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2016 9:17 pm
by JaMak84

Re: TOP 10 (lower 48)

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2016 4:07 am
by skywalker
In transit to Manitoba for a dry field duck/goose hunt.....one of my top 10......
Paul's Pond is also on the list......

Re: TOP 10 (lower 48)

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2016 10:02 am
by Hambone
Doc, I know you said Lower 48, but I am going to suggest Alaska as an ultimate bucket list waterfowling destination. I have killed black brant, Canada geese, mallards, pintails, teal, widgeon, harlequins, oldsquaw, whitewing scoter, black scoter, bufflehead, common goldeneye, greater scaup and several others up there.