Hunting is getting worse!

pintail10 · Postby **pintail10** » Sat Dec 20, 2003 6:37 pm

Well its offical hunting is not just bad, it is TERRIBLE! I have been 2 days in a row & my shot gun told me she was going to leave me. Not 1 Shot In 2 Days Well I hope the rest of you guys & gals are having better luck, sure wish N.E. Ms would be blessed with Ducks for Christmas or Someone would be in a sharing mood And invite this Preacher.

Delta Duck · Postby **Delta Duck** » Sat Dec 20, 2003 7:12 pm

I really don't know what to say! I have never seen mallards feed at night this long after a full moon. The phase seems to of effected all ducks but shovelers.
What in the world is a pintail doing going down in a slough or cypress brake!

The fields are a joke! Unless you want shovelers.

To have any success I think you need to hunt the roost in the morning! :wink:

go24 · Postby **go24** » Sat Dec 20, 2003 7:22 pm

Something's fishy... I can't even kill a woody anymore. I've always been able to go to a beaver slough over here and bust woodies coming in for the roost, BUT not this year. I've set till WAY dark and they ain't coming! You can go back in the morning and there they are. I don't know what time they are getting home, but it's awfully late!!!

NOHERE · Postby **NOHERE** » Sat Dec 20, 2003 7:57 pm

And we thought last year was bad

ducman77 · Postby **ducman77** » Sat Dec 20, 2003 8:19 pm

Delta Duck,
We have had a large number of pintails just falling into the decoys everyday and it is so hard not to take a shot at them.

Stano · Postby **Stano** » Sat Dec 20, 2003 9:31 pm

Yep nobodys shootin them of course there gonna get stupid. Gonna suprise one of them little pointy tail bird real soon!

Wingman · Postby **Wingman** » Sat Dec 20, 2003 10:40 pm

Hunting is slow here too, but some new birds moved in I think. After getting skunked on specks yesterday morning...and watching mallards fall into the duck hole about a 1/4 mile down, we went back to ducks this am. Nothing but singles and pairs in the air early, and hardly any of them would work. Out of the blue at about 7:30 a flock of no less than 200 mallards comes in from the north and bombs us! (Haven't seen that in 3 years). After we volleyed, they all left and never returned.

But we worked specks all morning long with no goose dekes! Go figure.

Wingman

chance · Postby **chance** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 8:54 am

Big cold fronts not coming regularly enough. Every time we get a good blue northerner, we get an influx of new ducks. We shoot em till they disappear. See less and less every morning. Still a better start than the last two years.

mudsucker · Postby **mudsucker** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 9:27 am

For it to be getting worse, implies that it was good earlier. I hunted flooded timber yesterday and we had woodies but only 3-4 mallards of which we took a greenhead. So, 5 hunters only 4 ducks taken. Of course the 'ole mudsucker needs some shooting lessons in timber with wood ducks as this is my first year to hunt timber. Not alot seen on three weekends I have been. Got called in early from camp as my Wife is sick. So I hope you boys have better luck today! :wink:

Model12 · Postby **Model12** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 12:16 pm

Has been kinda slow...But yesterday morning we worked quite a few new ducks, mostly mallards. Same as allways...we need COLD and RAIN.....

Coot · Postby **Coot** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 3:19 pm

Anybody know what size shot works best for mosquitos? I heard they work out OK in gumbo and I might have to take to shooting them.

COME ON WEATHERMAN! Get this right! Repeat after me, "Cold and wet. Freeze warning! Cold and wet..." PLEEEEEASE!!

billjohnson · Postby **billjohnson** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 7:04 pm

a lot of our ducks left last Thursday and a few teal have come in but no big ducks. Sounds like plenty of them in the timber next to our place but the State would really frown on me hunting :evil:

We need some serious hard cold and we will be in them again. Can't really complain. We have killed our share, considering it's not even Christmas yet. It's lack of water boys in the MS Delta. No doubt about it! We are just lucky to have a 69,000 hole of water (Guntersville Lake) to holdem and on flight days if you have the spot you kill them. I hunt the Delta too and am dying for a Blue Norther! Chin up Lads! It'll happen.

The ever optimistic duck hunter......

BoogaBottom · Postby **BoogaBottom** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 8:34 pm

Slow in Bolivar county fields for me too....Lots of grays...Hollywoods and Ringnecks......with a rare greenhead...( As the Duck Commander sez...Dem Gray ducks aint got no bugs !)

Ive seen the press releases that tell us about all the ducks down south....but I will be darn if Ive seen em yet !!

Not as bad as last year so far, but pretty mediocre at best....When is it gonna get cold, and when is it gonna rain...I dont mean 1/2 inch..I mean 4-5 inches !!

There is some good news !!! It an only get better at this point !!

gadwall2 · Postby **gadwall2** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 8:59 am

Delta Duck is making a lot of sense. I have been hunting a flooded milo field the past three hunts and have seen the same thing each time. A couple thousand fatheads are roosting in the milo and then flying to bayous to raft up in the edges during the day.(I followed them yesterday to make sure)

Bankermane · Postby **Bankermane** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 9:43 am

Four limit of mallards, one goose, kids shot 5 bluebills and 3 shovelers for off ducks. (Yeah, right!)

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Hunting is getting worse!

Hunting is getting worse!

Them pintails

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Hunting is getting worse

Hunting over here in North Alabama was good but........

must have been our lucky day!

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