Opening Morning Report

SCOOTER · Postby **SCOOTER** » Mon Dec 03, 2001 7:19 am

3 woodies and one grenn head, a suckey opening day, just no birds.

Doc & Nash · Postby **Doc & Nash** » Mon Dec 03, 2001 7:30 am

not to bad, three greenies, one gad, one woodie on sat, on sunday not one shot was fired, fog was on top of us until 9:30, But no matter how bad it was still worth it all, and always will be.

tsbadb · Postby **tsbadb** » Mon Dec 03, 2001 8:18 am

3-Hunters 12 mallards saw about 200 hundred and two flocks of widgon overall great hunt Sat.

Meeka · Postby **Meeka** » Mon Dec 03, 2001 8:44 am

Public report. Too much water and couldn't get to plan A, got beat to plan B, plan C equaled 1 teal for my group of two. Walking through the cypress and spanish moss in the full moon is worth getting up for. Only had one group of 4 big ducks even take a look at us. Virtually nothing flying.

Went back and grilled burgers then rode and scouted and listened to the game with Mr. Daniels.

Sunday. Got up extra early, made breakfast and got to a new (for me) spot. It was a really pretty spot and morning. By about 8:00, we had a mixed bag of 11 - 3 mallards, 3 "grey ducks" as Jeff and Dos Gris call them, 3 woodies and 2 widgeon. The ducks worked perfect for our setup.

We had one group of 3 hunters come in and set up about 75 yards behind us. I don't know why they bothered. What little wind there was was bad wrong for there. I was stewing, but they wound up never calling and never shooting. Go figure. I couldn't decide if they were VERY courteous, or just green amateurs who stumbled into the spot. I would have at least called to the ducks when they came to look at my spread. Anyway, it was a really good hunt and much more productive than I ever expected given the circumstances.

I've said it before, the only time a slam full parking lot is a good thing is when you are the first one back and you have a string full of ducks!

GENERAL DUCK REPORT - basically, there are no ducks and the forecast sux. I need to get myself a fishing report from Hopedale/Delacroix.

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JNBrown004 · Postby **JNBrown004** » Mon Dec 03, 2001 9:06 am

Greenwood Area:
Opening morning, 3 hunters 13 ducks, greenheads and woodies.
Sunday, 2 hunters 3 greenheads

Need cold weather!

gwall · Postby **gwall** » Mon Dec 03, 2001 10:07 am

Satartia area
didn't even put a shell in my gun, our cornfields were flooded but no ducks whatsoever - we will not have ducks for another coulple of weeks, that the bad thing about the area we hunt -

Coach · Postby **Coach** » Mon Dec 03, 2001 10:14 am

vicksburg area,, saw plenty of ducks mostly gadwalls would not work. rafted up in the middle of the lake.. managed to get 3. water everywhere. come on cold weather

HDC · Postby **HDC** » Mon Dec 03, 2001 10:18 am

Greenwood Area:

Opening morning 7 hunters, 18 ducks. Mostly teal, some Gads and Mallards. my group of 4 saw 1500 to 2000 in the air. Saw a bunch of pintails.

Sun. morning. 5 hunters, 1 blue wing teal. Saw 500 birds in the air. Pintails gone.

Are there any reports of good weekends south of Clarksdale? Sounds like all the good, not great, but good reports are coming from the north part of the state.

jstanard · Postby **jstanard** » Mon Dec 03, 2001 10:25 am

Rotdorn,
from your description of opening day, I'd swear that you were hunting with me.

Actually, I saw quite a few ducks, mostly mallards and gadwalls, but they were hard to work. It didn't help that my blind which WAS sitting behind lots of standing beans on the edge of a field looked more like a sunken pit in the middle of a huge lake.

The good news for me is that out of all of the flooded fields I passed while driving home, the only one with ducks in the area was mine.

HDC · Postby **HDC** » Mon Dec 03, 2001 10:38 am

One more thing. Driving thru Tchula and Greenwood on the way to my camp in the Greenwood area on Friday afternoon, I saw enough water to fill the Atlantic Ocean, and about 6 ducks.

MALLARDBUSTER · Postby **MALLARDBUSTER** » Mon Dec 03, 2001 11:43 am

CENTRAL,MS. 1 MALLARD DRAKE, NO DUCKS IN AREA, AND DOESN'T LOOK GOOD THIS WEEK EITHER.EVERYBODY PRAY FOR COLD WEATHER.

Fast - n - Fetchin · Postby **Fast - n - Fetchin** » Mon Dec 03, 2001 11:52 am

Hunted lake off the Miss River in Fitler.
Kille 1 woody. No ducks! Too much water.
Trip was not total failure killed 5 squirrels off my duck blind!

Unkljohn · Postby **Unkljohn** » Mon Dec 03, 2001 1:09 pm

Pretty good opener in the N. Delta
Saturday
2 hunters
I got 2 Woodies,3 Gadwalls and 1 Greenhead
PArtner got 1 Woodie,3 Gads
Sunday
2 Hunters
I got 2 GWT, 2 Gads, 1 Shoveler [img]images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]
Partner got 2 Woodies, 2 Gads, 1 Shoveler, and a Pintail.
Lots of Ducks and Geese both days. I'm ready to go back next weekend!!!
Only thing that went bad was my equipment!!! 4Wheeler wouldn't start Saturday morning, luckily it was just a fouled plug. BUT then on Sunday on the way home I had a major transmission failure and had to be towed in!!! It can only get better, I hope!!!
JT
JT

Jeff · Postby **Jeff** » Mon Dec 03, 2001 2:03 pm

do none of you all hunt geese or was there just that few of a number flying? If the awnser is no my offer to serve as a goose exterminatior still stands [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

h2o_dog · Postby **h2o_dog** » Mon Dec 03, 2001 2:33 pm

Greenwood-Malmaison area, 1 blind, 4 guns:
Saturday - 10 mallards, 3 gadwalls - did not fire until after 10:00am.
Sunday - 1 malland hen (not me).

I predict better hunting next weekend given that AR will shoot and we won't this week, and hopefully the water will fall some - let's hope anyway.

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