anyone got alot of ducks this year ?

[misseda12point]

last year let's just say that we nailed em along with alot of geese, this year would you believe that all we got was one duck. just one. we got about 70 geese this season, but one duck cmon'e now, how have you guyz benn doin this year?

[shoreman]

We did all right this season.... :D

http://www.intercom.net/~shoreman/pa_geese.jpg

[Arkhunter]

By Arkansas standards this has been another terrible year.

Or it has been for ducks anyway.

Im an avid duck hunter but I wouldnt give you a nickel for every goose in the state.

[10 point]

Between my partner and I we managed to bring home 34 ducks and 11 geese. The ducks we killed were mallards, bluebills, pentails, teal, and blacks. This is around an average year for most Ohio hunters. All of us know the hunting is on private land and here in Ohio it gets harder and harder with each passing year to get good spots on private land. Most of the shooting we did this year on ducks and geese were on the state park lakes.

[ChesterGolf]

Great year up here. The ducks were still flying strong on the last day of the season(Jan.1). I managed to bag 63 ducks and 9 Canada Geese.

[shoreman]

ChesterGolf,

Are most of the ducks you take salt water blacks? Hunting up there in Nova Scotia, do you ever get out for eiders and other divers, such as goldeneyes and bluebills?

I take it snow geese are rather uncommon up there?

[ChesterGolf]

Toward the end of the season, all the blacks are salties and are mixed in with mallards and teal(yes I said teal... in Dec!) I do a lot of eider hunting as well because they are all over the place and are the largest thing flying up here except for the geese. I prefer the blacks and mallards on the table though.

[ChesterGolf]

I have never even set my eyes on a snow goose. From what I read they can be more of a pest down in the states because of large numbers.

[chrismickie]

UP HERE IN WA, I MANAGED TO HURT THE PACIFIC FLYWAY POPULATION A LITTLE. SHOT 95 DUCKS GIVE OR TAKE 1. THOSE INCLUDED 4 GAD'S, 2 GWT'S, 1 RINGNECK, 1 HEN MALLARD, AND THE REST GREENHEADS. GREAT YEAR BY ANYONES STANDARDS I THINK. MANAGED A SNOW AND A CANADIAN (DEFINATELY A GREATER WEIGHING IN AT 15 LBS). GOOD YEAR.

[BigBadBooDooDady]

2 drake mallards

I misse a couple more, plus a hen or two. They just werent flying over my spot.

I didnt get out much though.

[DuckyGal]

i shot one bufflehead, two mallards, two teal, and two gadwalls. I guess tahts pretty good, considering it was my first year. My dad got about 30 or so, and about 5 or 6 geese. I cant wait till next year! smile.gif

[shoreman]

Way to go, everyone! smile.gif

That sounds like a varied bag, DuckyGal!

[bluebill man]

H*** ya I got a lotta ducks this year. Between my partner, my dad, and I, we killed 79 ducks. No bull. I got 42 of them. Out of my 42, 33 were bluebills, the rest were gads, teal, redhead, ganser, goldeneye, buffle, and spoonie.......

No, no, no bad year for me at all! :eek:

[Ranger]

A very slow year for the ducking here...there were ducks aplenty, but the weather did not cooperate...we generally get off-shore winds here and it is not a pleasant thing to be sitting in while perched on a rock in the Staright of Belle Isle. I bagged 15 ediers and about 12 scoters in 5 trips...not bad, I guess, but by normal standards, very slow.

[IAgunner]

waterfowl hunting as a whole was down quite a bit this year here in iowa. with the exception of a week on the Mississippi flyway, i didn't hear alot of success stories. i shot 5 geese, along with about 15 ducks, mostly teals and woodies.

[Northhunter]

We did pretty good up here, although it was a weird season. Atleast we made up for 2001 (which was a real stinker - for us anyway).

First flights of ringbills showed up the second week of the season (earliest yet) despite 90 degree weather in Sept. Northern mallards and blacks showed up the week following Canadian Thanksgiving and there seemed to be a steady flow until freeze-up.
We hunted in T-shirts halloween only to get froze out of our spot and freeze our butts off in a snow squall 4 days later (was worth it though - ever have 30 bluebills simoultaneously lock their wings and come in when the snow's coming down so hard they almost appear out of nowhere?). The channel froze over that night - we had to break ice to get out (cabin's on an island). That was one of the earliest free-ups I've seen, but things warmed up enough for a couple more hunts.

We dropped just over 100 birds. But that's between 4 or 5 guys hunting from opener to freeze-up (3 guys hunting any given weekend).
Majority were ringbills but a good number were mallards and woodies. I even took a pintail - never seen one here before. A friend of ours took a Gadwall in the same area and we saw more teal than usual (not locals). Something was up with the migration.

[Mod12]

Dang-: I got one green head. My hunting areas have gone to development and I need to get out and spread my wings. I did shoot 17 quail and eight pheasants this year.

Chrismickey-: Do you hunt the Moses Lake area? give me a shout. I'll buy lunch, make lunch and pay for the gas.

IAhunter-: Where do you hunt? I grew up in Cresco and used to hunt the river from Winona to Lansing. those were shining times.

[misseda12point]

wow i was just looking at my old posts, and diddnt even notice how many replys it all got, the majority did great this year, i am sorry for yall that didnt do so great, youll get em next year ;)