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arustyduck
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Hava-Zoo N.W.R./Castle Rock Zone 10-24-2006 20:46
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Well third time is a charm!!! Sunday mornin’ Cuzin Mario shot his 1st limit of 7 ducks and he did it with ONLY 7 shots!!!I harvested 4. Mallards(4), Cinn.(2) and G.W. Teal(2), Spoonies(2), and 1 Widgeon was the harvest. Why do you think I call this place, Hava-Zoo!!! Not alot flying but what did decoyed well. This time we were at the nend of Jude’s Chute. Spoke to 3 other hunters who were scouting around. I was aquainted with one of them, Kevin, they had shot 1 Greenhead for their morning. He also said his pal and him had limited out on opening day at Eric’s Bay. This was our/my all time best, 3 days of an opening wknd., of hunting ever, in 26 years!!! Total: 31 ducks in 3 mornings!!! Happy hunting to all, Rusty and the “Posse”
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Posted By:
arustyduck
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Hava-Zoo N.W.R.- Castle Rock Zone 10-21-2006 17:27
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – Over 70 Degrees
WOW, WOW, WOW WHAT A “ZOO!!!” BEST OPENING DAY I/WE HAVE HAD IN YEARS!!! YESTERDAY BROUGHT CUZIN MARIO AND I HUNTED CATFISH BAY. THE BIG WIND ON TUES. NITE/WEDNESDAY BROUGHT IN A TON OF REDHEADS INTO THE BAY AND A FEW PUDDLERS. WE TOOK OUR 2 REDHEADS APIECE AND 2 (D)MALLARDS EACH!!! TASTY!!! SATURDAY MORNIN’ HAD “POSSE MEMBERS” SON RIO(11), DUCKMAN DAVE, BUST ‘UM UP BOB, CUZIN MARIO, AND I FULLY PACKED AND READY TO SHOOT IT OUT AT THE ENTRANCE TO JUDE’S SHUTE. “CRUNCH CORNER” WAS TURNED ON AND SO WERE DUAL MOJO’S!!! 5 (D)GREENHEADS, 4 (D)WIDGEONS, 2 SPOONIES, & 1 CHUNKY RUDDY AND WAY TO MUCH LAUGHING FROM BUST ‘UM UP BOB’S, “JOKES UNLIMITED!!! WITH LOT’S OF BIRDS ON THE MOVE, “SON RIO DID HIS PART ON HIS CALL FOR DAVE & BOB. HE ALONE SWEET TALKED IN 3 FAT GREENHEADS TO THIER SPASHING END. GREAT JOB RIO AND GOOD SHOOTING BY ALL!!! LET US ALL BE SAFE OUT THERE, GOD BLESS US ALL, AND REMEMBER, “IT’S NOT HOW MANY YOU GET, IT’S HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT THE ONES THAT YOU DO!!!” Rusty Two Crows and the Chemehuevi Valley Waterfowl Posse
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arustyduck
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Havazoo N.W.R. 10-14-2006 11:42
Cloudy, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
THE ELECTRICITY IS IN THE AIR FOR US MEMBERS OF THE CHEMEHUEVI VALLEY WATERFOWL POSSE!!! WE R GETTIN’ READY TO SADDLE UP FOR THE BIG “SHOOT OUT” AT THE “C.R. CORRAL!!!” HOPE U ALL R TOO!!!
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Posted By:
skeeterbait
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alamo lake 10-02-2006 12:59
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
saw about 4 small flights of teal few gaddys while fishing on the east end. bunch of diifrent ducks flying out of the coves as we made our way in there mostly teal. caught a bunch of 1 to 2 pound largemouth my boy caght a 4 pounder off a spook to make us all look bad. topwaters and spinners all day.
Posted By:
AZduckcmder
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Anderson Mesa 09-11-2006 00:35
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – Over 70 Degrees
Did some scouting today. Water levels are really down. Suprising! for all of the monsoons we have had. Did not see many ducks. Only one spot was holding about 250-300. Mallards, gadwell and teal.
Morman Lake is down from last year. Did enjoy the 1000 head of Elk standing in the middle of the almost dry lake. Did see a couple of boomers!!!!!
Also saw four nice muley’s near ashurst.
Posted By:
AZduckcmder
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Arizona Mountain Zone 09-07-2006 12:29
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Going to get started scouting for the upcomming opener Oct 6th. Any of you AZ boys seeing any numbers yet?
Posted By:
Jack on the rocks
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havasu /topok 09-06-2006 01:28
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looks like an earlier migration than expected ,waterfowl are already on the move southward towards mexico ,i was in topok last weekend and black ibis ,pitail and a few teal that are probably locals were already flying in in good numbers in the area
no early geese or mallards bvut sizable flocks of pintail saw 6 flocks from 50 to 200
flying in early morning sunlight ,i wouyld say theat more are passing through there like every year so ,we`ll be a little short on the big flocks again if you want to shoot them go to mexico they` are already moving out fast
jotr
Posted By:
salton sea man
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cibola 03-08-2006 17:08
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
jack on the rocks,…..thanks for your expertise ….it’s interesting also to note about the mallard, widgeon, pintail and honker migration…..there used to be state of california authorized “feed clubs” that allowed for the registered duck clubs to place shelled feed in a 40 acre closed zone for the birds…..this was established to allivate the crop problems that the birds were doing to the lettuce fields….the farmers changed their crops from lettuce, and the lettuce farmers moved south across the border to mexico….but the state still allowed for the feed clubs…the pintail especially flocked to the feed clubs for the barley and shelled corn (the clubs that feed these feeds) and the state and federal government kept “tabs” on the activity…Mass also allowed the feed clubs because california allowed them and the feds jumped to put both out of business…monitoring of the species for five years produced that the feed clubs actually held more birds in the flyway from going down south of the border; and these mexican people, with their 25 pintail limit, demanded california’s closure…the results of the clubs also indicated that the widegeon actually preferred shelled corn (late in the season) to their grassy diet, but early in the season they were insect eaters and rotting potatoes yielded the best for this…pintails liked barley, mallards liked barley early and corn late, and the honkers preferred corn once the weather got below 36 degrees; but they also needed grit and extremely clean water…..the japanese millet that the clubs planted in lue of the feed club status never replaced their diet and the birds overflew into the brawley and mexico area…brawley corn growers had exceptionally great shooting and grew special corn that was short stemmed corn that matures 24 inches from the ground, and is an excellent crop for ponds that would flood 18 inches of water….birds stayed at the salton sea to nest, and went back and forth to cibola in large numbers….once the food cycle was cut, your right, the widgeon, etc. have very little reason to stop at cibola….the large corn fields planted at cibola, without being knocked down to allow the birds to feed, are basically useless until the stems rot and the crop falls to the ground…..a local nesting flock (s) would help solve the hunter’s interest and also the birders that use them for photography, etc……according to some of the old timers that hunted in southern california and cibola…there were days that you could see thousands of honkers trading back and forth all day long….baldwin lake by big bear has a story published in the 1950’s, I believe, that tells of hunters taking about 500 mallards (total number of ducks taken by lots of hunters) per day off of the two lakes almost continually (?) as the influx of migration passed through this area from bishop south, the colorado river west, and los angeles west to east….could these days ever come back?…probably not in huge numbers; but in numbers that would allow for waterfowl hunters to remain interested in hunting and not have such a huge dropoff in numbers each year of many hunters just “hanging it up”…some people would like to see a “push” to bring back waterfowl hunters that have quit because of lack of bird numbers and expense, instead of the fish and game’s push to try and bring in 20 or so new “green wings” into the waterfowl hunting fold at each state hunting refuge…..there’s lots and lots of hunters that have given up; more than can be replaced with new younger greenwings for many years….suggestions?
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Jack on the rocks
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cibola geese 03-04-2006 22:32
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ssm,
what you are saying is probably 100% correct ,and also with the geese that move in from western alberta are getting to where they might be using those same areas and moving east again with the hunting pressure that does move them it might not be enough to steer them from their natural nature ..in response to widgeon delima ,widgeon need grassy ,thick vegetation as i`m sure you already know ,but the colorado river at cibola really only offers them a place to stay while moving south .lets say that the widgeon a hearty bird that can withstand extreme cold but doesn`t like to has an food forage problem in cibola not a food shortage problem as far as the eye could see when i first started hunting down there they had a terrible amount of them also pintails too
but through the years its been alost all of the bags i`ve been havesting are full of widgeon ,and with the mallard population at a slow slope as of last year i think were going to see more geesemigrating south …
have the geese getting into larger flocks on the move down and then breaking up well there you have a creature of habit that finds safety in numbers .fact.i like this converesation salton sea man ,we should talk geese someday,sound like a goose hunter .
Posted By:
salton sea man
Web Member
cibola 03-02-2006 18:01
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 60-65 Degrees
Thank you for your response Jack on the Rocks…..more and more of the geese are also nesting northeast of salt lake too…..all of the areas that the birds molt in have an early honker season and some believe that this has altered their migratory pattern; with the young birds quickly becoming educated in “which way to safety”…and that seems to go into the central flyway and movement of the pacific flyway…..I don’t understand why the hunters and conservation groups in the salton sea and the cibola refuge don’t insist that a local flock be raised there?…there are lots of surplus geese, even the maximum species that are killed each year because there’s not areas to place them into….having a moriturum(spelling) on a nesting species for five years or so would reallly benefit the areas (bringing in the larger species and not hunting them….or just bring them in and limit the hunting on them…there’s plenty of room at both locations for nesting islands and the crop deperdation that used to occur in the late 60’s is gone from the farms; relating to the geese and even the widgeon….comments?
