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11-27-2004, 04:09 AM
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Where are the ducks????
You boys up In NY and PA hoarding all the ducks still??? Or have they not made it down to you guys yet either. Went to Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge yesterday and we had a shot on 1 GW Teal and she proptly died. And Normally just about everyone on the Hook does very well this time of year, but seemed like only a couple of blinds did any kind of shooting.
Just woundering where the ducks are. 
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11-27-2004, 01:30 PM
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Ducks??
Just what I've been saying DD. They be lying about the number of ducks in the count. . Nobody has seemed to be seeing the amount of ducks they say are there
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11-27-2004, 01:58 PM
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well we arent all to blame in PA, we have more mallards than i have seen in the past, but i dont think the ducks have really made the new york border yet, nothing interesting like divers, so i am sticking to geese till i see ducks
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11-27-2004, 07:37 PM
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I went deer hunting today and I saw more geese and goose movement than I saw last week while hunting them. Of course, the season is out right now for a week. However, I only saw two ducks today. Hopefully, things will get better once the season starts up again. The sad thing is that at this time last year I was seeing geese by the thousands and ducks by the hundreds. Somehow, I don't think I am going to get that lucky again this year.
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11-27-2004, 09:07 PM
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Skeet, I was talking to the boys on the hook and they were telling me that there was 80 some odd birds shot the 2nd season and there is normally around 200-250 birds shot
 . Makes you wounder just what the heck is going on. But it has felt good to get back out on the marsh after 2 years of not really being able to go.Oh I got my MD lisc. this year, so if anyone has an extra spot open hint hint 
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11-28-2004, 02:46 AM
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Del,
I probably hunt too far west for you, but you are welcome to come any time. Right now I don't have the birds patterned whatsoever, so it is a crap shoot, but I'll still extend the invite. Not a lot of ducks as I mentioned above, but there are a fair number of geese.
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The pond, waterfowl, and yellow labs...it don't get any better.
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12-02-2004, 07:18 PM
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I told you guys the ducks are here we are covered over with them...see my next post I gotta load pics...
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nothing like the smell of chanel and gunpowder in the morning
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12-02-2004, 07:22 PM
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These are 8 greenwing teal
8 blue wing teal 2 ringnecks Butler Island Altamaha managment area...Darien, Georgia...3 hunters
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nothing like the smell of chanel and gunpowder in the morning
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12-02-2004, 07:25 PM
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Also check out Ayvala Plantation in Tallahassee Florida...this is a nice little hunt...$4500 two hunters...I believe a waiting list...use your search
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nothing like the smell of chanel and gunpowder in the morning
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12-03-2004, 11:26 AM
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Quote:
Sounds like a hunt for that "city boy" that just doesn't get out much! 
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12-03-2004, 01:36 PM
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Ohhh..that makes a little more sense then!
That's more in the realm of ow things are with most duck clubs. I pay $2400 for my 2 seats in the rice at Sacramento Valley. I keep a travel trailer with water and electric hookups there as well and that is included. Now not more than 1/2 mile south of my club sits the Behring Ranch Club. $2.5 million will get you a blind there if you're lucky enough for one to come available. It also includes a house on the ranch!My club is about average for fees. Some will pay a lot more depending on the facilities that come with it, club house, game rooms, picking facility, eating / cooking facility, etc.
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12-08-2004, 03:17 PM
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As of today I have hunted about 25 days of the Illinois waterfowl season, at this point we have a total of 43 ducks. Of that 43 only 8 have been mallards, at this same blind site in 1998 we wre at 154 ducks, with 48 being mallards. In the 15+ years I've been doing this, this is the worst season ever. I shouldn't feel too bad, I talked to a 78 yr old hunter today who says it's the worst in 48 years. We've heard the ducks are already south, that they are in Minn. and Wisc. etc. etc. I personally have just resigned myself to this weekends blackpowder deer season and then getting ready for turkey season in April, then preparing for next year with a goose hunt scattered in here and there.
I hope the rest of you will leave a few for next years crop please.
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12-09-2004, 01:42 AM
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This is my first post, but I have been reading the threads on this sight for about 3 years now. This is not the first time I've seen this subject come up, and it's almost always the same thing, "The count must be wrong!" so I thought it was time I jumped in.
I've been duckn for about 10 years now and hunten for almost 20. Central IL is not known for having lots of duck, or at least it's not where I live, but with the decline in the number of upland game birds I had to find something to hunt other than white tails. Well, duck numbers were on the rise so ducks it was. My father has a blind on a small lake near where we live and he was able to secure on for me, so a duckn we went. Long story short it's now what I live for every fall. Has this year been slow, with out a doubt, but slower than past years. Some but not all. It's my opinion that the duck just are not here yet. Why, 3 reasons. 1. Spoke to some Game Wardens last weekend on the 4TH who said that a fellow warden had just returned from WI who said they were stacked up wuth ducks and geese. 2. My main hunten buddie is a trucker whose route takes him through MO, IL, IN, WI, and MI. He tells me he is just now starting to see duck on the lakes, ponds, and pits he drives past in northern IL and WI. 3. Hunted ducks in South/Central IL over Thanksgiving in some backwater and almost all I shot or saw were teal. Guys, it take two things to move these birds.One, cold, the type of cold that freezes thing up, and two snow, enough snow that the birds can't get to the feed. Neather of witch we have seen yet. Mark my words it going to get bad, and when it does for about 3 day dar the doors because they will be here then be gone. I just hope it dearing season and I can hunt. Well that's my 2cents, I'll get of my box.
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