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Long Island Sound 12-12-2001 16:01
– – 45-50 Degrees

[Edited By DukDad on 2006-01-22 22:30]

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DukDad
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Marsh 12-12-2001 14:13
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 45-50 Degrees
I’m with you Ray, been on three trips without busting a cap.

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Enter Data Here 12-06-2001 14:27
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 50-60 Degrees
I don’t know about elsewhere but ct/ri
not looking particularly great last week or so…seems some local populations still around but i spent about 6 hours on the river today and saw maybe 25 ducks all day
…maybe….
none came anywhere near
pretty discouraging

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Farm pond 12-03-2001 19:47
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
We agree with that notion of never leaving too early. Started Saturday by taking 4 out of 5 geese in an early flock. My son and I had to leave at 9am. Two other guys stayed behind. Saw no more birds until they started picking up at 10am. After guns were unloaded and only a few dekes still out, flock of 30 geese landed in pond while they were standing in the pasture. OUCH!

We’ll get even this weekend. Plan to hunt a local golf course that has just closed. Bringing suntan lotion,lounge chair, set of clubs, and a golf umbrella. All in camo pattern, of course.

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Wallingford Cut Corn 12-03-2001 15:28
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 60-65 Degrees
Even though Richie was begining to doubt, I did bring in the ducks,if only we could shoot we would have glutted ourselves with game.

The good news is we weren’t skunked and we left some wildlife for next time. Funny how most of the of the birds come in as we are picking up our gear. Hence our new creed…” Never unload, never pick up and never go home.”

Tud

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Marsh 12-02-2001 10:29
Sunny & Clear, Morning Fog – 50-60 Degrees
12/1/01
Saturday morning slowly. We bagged a lone black duck that came in just after legal shooting time. After that, the ducks we saw were high and spooky.
Luckily the Canada geese didn’t disappoint. Two of us took limits from two different flocks that couldn’t resist our spread. Another good morning in the field. Hunt safe.

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n 12-01-2001 04:16
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 60-65 Degrees
Was in Maine last weekend so notin Ct. Did real well on eider. Was good because there isn’t much arround here. Shot teal and woodies which shouldn’t be here in december. I hope when it gets cold the birds bon’t b;ow though

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Stony Creek Marsh 11-28-2001 13:00
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 45-50 Degrees
Dear Santa: All we want for X-Mass is to come home dripping with game. Please send down some ducks from the North Pole to assist us in our quest.

Thank you Mallard Man for ending a long drought by cleaning up that Mallard hen(the only shot taken in two days!).

Tud

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Housatonic River 11-21-2001 16:42
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 35-40 Degrees
Nice start to second half. Decent number of mallards around. Minor cold front may have brought some birds in. Lots of geese in corn fields. Two of us ended up with a limit of 4 geese, as well as 4 mallards and a black duck. Got all four geese out of a flock of 15 that decoyed right in over the water spread. Gave the dog some work! Good way to start the thanksgiving weekend.

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Wallingford Town Owned 11-21-2001 07:15
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 35-40 Degrees
Dear Friends: Another first in a long line of firsts. I had scouted this area for a while and found that Mallars (30) had been coming in from the woods across the corn field into a small pond. I set up a blind at the far edge of the corn field and about five minuets before leagal time a group fo four came right over me at 30 yards. It looks like my scouting has paid off and I’m going to be in for a good day…. but wait,whats this that has just arrived and is wondering around the middle of the field 60 yards in front of my blind wearing BLAZE F’n orange?! Is it a pheasant hunter? Well if it is go hunt your stupid pheasants and get out of the center of the field. If you can’t do that get down and take some cover at the very minimum take your orange vest off as your flaring birds as far away as Massachusetts. I know he knows were I am because I’m screaming and flashing my light but he seems to be oblivious. All of a sudden Mr. Pheasant Hunter decieds to join the Waterfowl Fraternity and begins to blast away at the birds as they come across the field. He must be confident in his marksmanship abilities too because he trying to reach out at targets 60+ yards over his head. Oh, and by the looks of my watch we still have a couple of minuets to go! Thats when I packed it in. PS. Richie I saw your post, seeing how Atky is out after deer give me a call and we’ll go Pheasant(ooops!), I mean duckn’ I know a great spot in Wallingford but you’ll have to keep it on the Q.T. Over and out TUD.

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Enter Data Here 11-17-2001 17:16
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 60-65 Degrees
Three of us went out for opening day of the second half. Shooting was ok, 4 greenwing teal and 1 mallard hen. Mostly teal and black ducks. few mallards before shooting time. Hopefully mother nature will cool it down so the shooting will get better for the rest of the season. Good luck all

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marsh 11-16-2001 17:55
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 60-65 Degrees
Hunted the second half opener today. The 2 of us did pretty good for what was flying. Ended up with 5 teal 2 black ducks and one hooded merg. Not a whole lot of mallards around there anyway. We saw just black ducks and teal and the one merg and a few flocks of high flying geese.

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fields lately 11-11-2001 15:57
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 60-65 Degrees
I’m tired of shooting geese, can’t wait fir the ducks. Since Sept. we killed 96 geese(limits every time out). Havcen’t seen much mallards but seen hoodies, ringnecks(100 in one flock), bufflehead, a few gawall and shovelers, snows(were I can’t gwet at them), and a buch of woodies if the cold doesn’t blow them out. The migration is starting

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cornfield 11-10-2001 19:26
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 35-40 Degrees
Hunted Geese with the guys today seeing as it was last day for couple of weeks. Had a great day, bagged 2 banded birds, my 1 was a first for me. Limited by 8:45. At least my shooting was better than last weekend. Can’t wait till the season opens again.

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– Gray Lodge 10-31-2001 17:45
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 60-65 Degrees
I have hunted Gray Lodge twice this year and keep running into the same problem, “sky-skrapers” or hunters who do not realize the capabilities of their firearms. I have been hunting out of lots 1 and 2 and heading west. There has been plenty of birds, but it is difficult to bring the birds down without other hunters practicing their marksmenship on birds 70+ yards up. Does anyone have any recommendations as to a location at Gray Lodge where the hunting is good, and the number of hunters is less concentrated.

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BEAVERPOND 10-29-2001 03:15
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 60-65 Degrees
BELIEVE I WAS WITH DUKDAD HE SMOKED A BEAUTIFUL DRAKE WOODIE. MALLARD MAN WAS JUST LUCKY. dOG DID EXCELLANT JOB(YELLOW LAB BRASKI) FAST AND FUROIUS ACTION NEED TO BUY MORE SHELLS.

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Farm Pond 10-25-2001 20:41
Sunny & Clear, Morning Fog – 60-65 Degrees
Last goose outing of first half. Not as many birds around as last week. Three of us got 5 birds. Got ’em all from 1 group. Last bird was working our spread until farmer drove up in his tractor. Oh well.

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Corn field 10-23-2001 18:13
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 60-65 Degrees
Since duck is closed, went turkey hunting this eve with my dad, or I should say my dad took me. He has been seeing alot of turkeys while bow hunting (just to give him credit, he got a 6 pointer about 2 weeks ago with the bow). So we sent out for the shotgun tags and decided to give it a try. The turkeys have been coming out into the corn field around 5:30. We set up at 4, put the decoy out (we don’t know how well they work in the fall but put it out anyway) Around 5:15 4 Toms came out into the field. Around 5:35 they walked over towards the end my dad has been seeing them go back into the woods. We called alittle and they walked right in. They got to 12-15 yards and we shot. When the smoke cleared we got 3 out of the 4 Toms.

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Corn feilds 10-22-2001 22:53
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
Another incredible day afeild. Morning was slow couldn’t get the birds to work but the afternoon was a different story. We limited very quickly and had to stop hunting while birds were still pouring in I’ll Try some more this week.

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Cut Corn Field 10-22-2001 09:34
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
Deployed all of my decoys for the first time. 100 geese were in the area and I had my chances but couldn’t get any to drop even though I was using the $2 apiece exotic metas. In between seasons I,m going to do some serious gunning practice.

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Cornfeild 10-17-2001 20:37
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 60-65 Degrees
Geese everywhere!!!!!! Went out Sat a.m. limited. Wed. p.m. same. Will try again on sat am. Not much luck yet in the marsh need to lose the Blue bird days. Good Luck

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Farm Pond 10-17-2001 15:03
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 50-60 Degrees
One for the scrap book today. 3 of us set up on a farm pond in an area that has had lots of geese. We’ve been skunked there twice this year, but today it was good. Called in two geese at 720am out of flock of 12 birds, they landed in the pond and we took them on the rise after the flock circled and left. Saw several hundred birds going elsewhere, then at 8:45am, a group of 4 came in and we dumped ’em all as they tried to land in the pond. 6 bird limit and no witnesses. Quick photo shoot, decoys picked up, headed home and birds were cleaned by noon. If it always worked like this, it wouldn’t be so much fun.

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swamps 10-15-2001 22:27
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 60-65 Degrees
Me and my buddies have been scoring on woodies, couple teal throw in and some mallards. Wasn’t around sat. because NY opened.

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na 10-15-2001 21:42
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 50-60 Degrees
Hi, I was wondering if anyone could give me some information on Waterfowling Connecticut. I just moved here from Iowa and am attending college in Hamden. Most of the places I’ve seen are pretty urban, but I’ve heard there are some rural areas. Just looking for a reason to bring some equipment out for next season. Am starting to notice that hunting isn’t very popular on the east coast. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

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Near Danbury 10-15-2001 18:42
Sunny & Clear, Morning Fog – 50-60 Degrees
Opening Saturday found us in our favorite duck marsh in northern Fairfield Co. I did some scouting on opening day and saw swarms of mallards, woodies and geese. We weren’t disappointed on Saturday, either. We easily got our limit on greenheads (4 apiece) and took 3 Canadas that couldn’t resist our calling. We were graced by a beautiful sunrise and even a rainbow. And ducks too. Couldn’t ask for much more. Hopefully this will be a harbinger of a great season. Hunt safe.

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Branford River 10-15-2001 14:33
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 60-65 Degrees
Made it out Sat. PM saw quite a few Teal but never had on close. A lone Canada came into the marsh looking to make a friend but I was unable to get him to come in ( maybe next time I’ll bring my call with me). Mon. I set out with Mallard Man for some Wood Ducks. I’m not sure if it was because I had a big weekend or lack of sleep or both but somehow I jumped my own decoy at point blank range. I’m going to have whats left of it mounted.

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marsh 10-13-2001 09:23
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 60-65 Degrees
Hunted Thursday and today. Couldn’t make it opening day. Set up thursday, got 3 teal right off the bat, then got a gadwell and around 8:30 got 2 ruddy ducks. Went again today, alot of action first thing then died off, but I was able to get my birds before it died. Got another 3 teal, 1 gadwell, and a hen & drake mallard. So far for missing opening day, things are going well for me so far.

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Quack Attack
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Connecticut River 10-13-2001 08:51
Sunny & Clear, Morning Fog – 50-60 Degrees
I had opening day off so gave it a try. I had an early afternoon dentist appointment and the tide was going to be LOW so I couldn’t afford to get into my favorit spot and ended up on the southern tip of Seldon’s. Had a couple flights pass over head before shooting time, they sounded like big ducks. From all the shooting behind me the guys in the marsh should have done well, I wasn’t getting a shot off. Then around 07:30 four teal appaired in my decoys at about 20 yards. I got set and stood up. One bird jumped, I got it with my first shot, the other three took off fast, I got the first and the last of the group with my other two shots. My dog, Toad, got to make his first multiple retrive which he did fairly well, he brings the birds back to shore but not necessarily back to me. I don’t know who was having more fun, him or me, he would retrive one bird and I would send him out for another and he was acting like “great I get to go again!!” Oh well, I have to work this weekend but I’m off next week. We’ll have to see if I can’t work Toad a couple more times.

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Farmington River 10-12-2001 19:55
Sunny & Clear, Morning Fog – 60-65 Degrees
Got on the scoreboard today! Decided to give it an hour before work. Drake woodie on the first shot. Five minutes later missed a second bird. Quit after 45 min. Water is very low. No big ducks around yet, but plenty of geese. Will hunt geese in a field tomorrow.

DJP

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Beaver Pond 10-11-2001 14:07
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 60-65 Degrees
Early season and we are after resident Wood Ducks. Set out six blocks and at first light the action was fast and furious.I bagged two and the Cops harvested two apiece. Little Brother will have to wait for our next outting.

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any 09-28-2001 17:13
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Well another early season gone. Ended up getting a dozen birds. Not bad for the few places I have available to hunt. Sure were tastey. Ten-CT, One-VT, One-NH. Well no time to rest now, have duck decoys to paint, have to finish the lay-out boat, have to fix up the blind on the big boat. Work, work, work.(all in the name of fun.)See you on the water.

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Housy 09-27-2001 12:03
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starving for blood there are alot of good hunting spots for geese around the Hamden area…..I know a few farms around there and once the corn is down it is like a slaughter…….your best bet might be to head down to the coast or in a major river…i know a lot of good spots if you are interested

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n/a 09-26-2001 18:45
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 50-60 Degrees
Hi, I was wondering if anyone could give me some information on Waterfowling Connecticut. I just moved here from Iowa and am attending college in Hamden. Most of the places I’ve been have been pretty urban, but some have told that there are some rural areas. I can’t believe the goose numbers in the cities. Just scouting around, looking for a reason to bring some equipment out for next season. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Did I misread, is your limit five Canadas a day?

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ducksup
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NA 09-21-2001 06:55
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Waterfoul Assisn,

I believe the AP zone is closed due to the “real” migratory geese using that portion of the state to fly. The NAP does not see as many migratory birds and has a larger domestic population.
AP stands for the area in Canada that the migratory birds fly from.
The “n” in the NAP stands for Non-AP.
Hope this helps, good luck and be safe.

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waterfoul assasin
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bethlahem 09-20-2001 16:23
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 60-65 Degrees
Can’t wait for the regular season to open up. just bought 3 doz carry light shells (1doz 32in, 2doz 22in). this will beef up my spread to 6-7doz shells and siloets. looking forward to having a good season but bummed that the early season doesnt apply to the ap zone. does any one know why that is? had a good season hunitng my pops corn feild last year and hope to do well this year.
good luck to all
dont forget to have fun

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cut corn 09-19-2001 21:23
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 60-65 Degrees
Once you have cut corn the slaughter begins. 2 of us limited in 10 minutes saterday all small flocks.Toay 3 limited in 20 minutes one big flock the rest small. More birds are grouping up. Saw some canadians migrating today just dots in the sky.

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CT River 09-19-2001 13:04
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – Over 70 Degrees
Just a short reminder. Check the regs before you decide on a shot size or type. I know I expound the greatness of Hevi-Shot, but as of this date it is not legal here in CT. Just because it is approved by the Feds doesn’t mean it’s legal here. The state legislature has to write it into law and specify the shot type by name (What it is made out of) to make it legal here. Good luck and I’ll see you in the blind. Mike

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Farm Pond 09-18-2001 19:40
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – Over 70 Degrees
Still no luck! Hunted Farm Pond: goose tracks/feathers all over, still no birds. One big flock of 60-80 birds went by too far out and low to flag. Need some corn cut and hunters to move ’em around. One more chance Saturday.

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CT River 09-18-2001 17:10
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 65-70 Degrees
I haven’t had a chance to get out this year yet. The dog is awfully mad at me over that one. I hear about some guys taking a few birds, but it doesn’t seem to be as good as it was last year. I did get a chance to get out and build up the blind and saw a few birds early on, but not as many flying over as last year in my spot anyway. Hope to have a better report in the very near future. Good luck and I’ll see you in the blind! Mike

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Housatonic 09-13-2001 12:02
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Hey whats up, hows everyone doing so far this year…..Where has everyone been hunting in new haven/fairfield county area? When ducks open up, anyone head down to the coast?

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western slope 12-12-2011 14:08
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I have. Not much in the way of ducks, but I have killed more geese then last year at this time.

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julesburg 12-10-2011 23:27
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There are geese out here. Spotty but we are getting some. Anyone else doing any good?

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biggiesmalls
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julesburg 02-04-2011 09:09
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Still getting into ’em. Yesterday we shot mixed bag. Snows, specks and limits of canadas. Only ten days left.

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biggiesmalls
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julesburg 01-23-2011 21:08
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Been hunting at least every other day last two week. Good numbers of decoying geese. Hard winds have made it tough. Today we really got into them early. Small groups decoyed well. Shot a single greater that when retrieved we found mono fishing line had been wrapped up around one foot. It had cut through the tissue all the way to the bone. Foot was swollen and infected. Didn’t seem to bother him when we flipped the lids he was cupped wings and landing gear down. Wondered if anyone else has seen this?

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s. platte 01-11-2011 10:52
Cloudy, Accumulating Snow – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
Hunted sunday in the snowstorm, very very few ducks were seen, couple groups before shooting time then a few singles and pairs and had one decent flock of wigeon that wouldnt commit, managed to shoot 1 drake mallard. A group down from us shot and absolutely gorgeous pintail. Still lots of geese and they were flying very low in the storm. woulda been a great shoot in the corn where they were headed…. Had to listen to a group just down from us shoot at anything that was within a hundred yards of them, it was hard to even watch. Out of two boxes of shells they ended up sailin’ one goose and they broke the wing on another one but it managed to fly off.
Warm weather is supposed to be back in a couple days, we will see what that does for the birds………

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Julesburg 01-09-2011 06:00
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Hunted friday and saturday. Good numbers of geese. southeast wind makes these birds act funny. Still getting ’em.

[Edited By biggiesmalls on 2011-01-09 06:01]

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greenheadkilla
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platte 01-08-2011 14:42
Cloudy, Heavy Fog – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
Hunted the platte this morning, like matt had said there was quite a bit of ice on the river and any moving water was ragin’! I pulled out my waders to find a 3″ gash in the butt that wasnt there the last time I put them away and thought I forgot my calls, I thought, what a great start already…. Hunted some warm water in a heavy fog this morning. Had 3 seperate groups of mallards light in the decoys and stay for a bit about 15 minutes before shooting time. Legal shooting time ducks flew quite well for the fog, managed 3 smileys, a wigeon and a nice drake gwt. Even after today i can count on one hand how many spoonies i have shot, not that i am too good to shoot them, but that where i lived in MN we never saw them. Kinda hesitant to try em on the grill but i am gonna wrap em in bacon and smother em in a spicy ginger sauce…I’ll let ya know how they turn out. Didnt see that many birds today once the fog lifted, got burnt on 4 different occasions by spoonies, wigeon and gaddies. Should’ve been done on “good” ducks about hour into the morning. Oh well! When i came out i was stopped by the game warden and he said thats the “most ducks he’s seen in a while”, so i guess huntin’ has been pretty poor up there this year.
Also checked a few other spots on my way back to denver and hunting pressure was very heavy for the amount of birds around, i suppose it is saturday.
Gonna give ‘er a go in the morning again, not sure yet where i wanna go, hopefully the birds lose their minds in the snow!

I kinda had to laugh just now thinking to myself that there is only gonna be a couple people that read this, let alone post, before the next time i get on. Come on people, post SOMETHING, even if you dont get the chance to get out. Seeing any birds? got a buddy who has been out? Tell a good story…anything! hahaha!
Good luck to all gettin’ after em during the upcoming front…

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greenheadkilla
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01-07-2011 22:34
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matt,
hey i tried to join that website and it said i had to wait for an email from a web administrator or something and i am yet to receive an “invite”…..I am headed up to the platte tomorrow and we will see for sunday w/ the storm coming in, but if there is no open water then yeah probably not many birds around. Hoping to find something huntable and maybe a pile of birds, concentrated heavy in one spot…

Matt,
If you wanna get after some honkers, i got a enclosed trailer and a pile of full bodies, as do you if i remember reading some of your old posts a long time ago. PM me or shoot me an email @ greenheadkilla@hotmail.com if you wanna get out there…

Unbelievable the lack of people on here, it really could be a great website.

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Matt-Sandersen
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CO 01-06-2011 20:01
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 25-30 Degrees – Ice
Greenhead……The majority of people who waterfowl in this state are on Coloradowaterfowl.com, I don’t use this site anymore because as you have noticed, no one posts anything for this state. check out that site. As for hunting geese are thick in some spots and gone in others. S Platte is iced over east of Greeley and was pretty slushy where is wasn’t froze solid. Not many ducks on it at all.

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greenheadkilla
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01-02-2011 23:23
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Perro, where are you out of, rifle area? Looks to me like we are the only ones that report on here anymore. With as many people that waterfowl in co, you would think that more people would post….? Have you been out since new years? Any birds around for you on the western slope?

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greenheadkilla
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01-01-2011 11:48
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Anyone been hunting the platte, or Arkansas? What came of the storm? I will be coming back from mn tomorrow and will have to do some running around Chasin em,I will report back after I get out there. Wish I woulda been around when this storm came through….. never fails…

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perro
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Western Slope 12-27-2010 19:26
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 35-40 Degrees
Slow start today. I had ducks in the deeks before OST and then nothing. geese didn’t fly until 9. Shot a pair, then picked up.

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Greeley 12-24-2010 18:00
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 35-40 Degrees
Ventured out west from NE Arkansas to hunt rocky mountain waterfowl, an hour north of Denver, contacted Kevin Ayers of Ponderosa Outfitters an experienced caller with all full body goose decoys, in a comfortable pit located in a harvested cornfield. Hunted on Monday the 20th. My son SFC Paul Kopecky and I got 5 geese in a morning of hunting. surprising amount of geese around the Denver area. highly recommend this guide and outfitter. 11 dollars a day for a daily licence for out of state hunters is a deal

[Edited By Tom-Kopecky on 2010-12-24 18:19]

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Western Slope 12-18-2010 18:20
Cloudy, Snow Flurries – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
It’s been slow. Warmed up and all the ponds have reopened.

Today we did good. I shot a limit in Gaddys and widgens. My son got 2 of each. geese didn’t fly until noon, of course we had pulled everything by then. Got buzzed by two flocks of teal as we were leaving.

Merry Christmas all.

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greenheadkilla
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fort morgan 12-14-2010 17:54
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 50-60 Degrees
Snuck away for a quick hunt on the platte…
hiked a 1/2 mile from the truck, set out about 2dz floating mallards, a handful of fullbody mallards and 7 honker floaters. Put the spinner out turned it on, no more than got to shore and killed a hen mallard (oops) Looked up spinner somehow didnt take the charge from the charger last night and died w/in 10 minutes. forgot all my calls in the truck… Had 1 other mallard circle a few minutes later, thats all i saw in the form of mallards ALL DAY! We even sat til 1pm waiting for the honkers to come back to water after being in the fields, they didnt come back til after noon and went straight to the park in fort morgan w/out giving us a look. All the honkers have been there a while it seems, as they head from point A to point B and nowhere else. In need of some cold weather i believe. Heading back to minnesota for the holidays, wont post again probably til after the new year.
Merry Christmas to all!!

Anybody out there hunting in this state!?!?

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greenheadkilla
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platte river 12-11-2010 19:47
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went up for the past 4 days scouted and hunted all over from Greeley all the way to julesberg, shooting a few birds along the way. Lots of birds around but go from there roost spots which cant be hunted to their fields and are tough to get permission on most but most farmers i talked to were very friendly and would allow hunting if not leased up. As of today that whole area from fort morgan to julesberg is absolutely filthy w/ dark geese. Driving back along 76 was pretty hairy pulling my enclosed trailer in all the crazy crazy wind!!! I had to come back for work today, but it will be interesting to see what comes after this storm. Hoping for fresh birds and everything to freeze up to hunt the rivers.
Also, I was very very surprised to see the lack of hunting pressure midweek on public swa’s. That is great!
Get out there and good luck guys!

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greenheadkilla
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12-07-2010 23:52
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well, i will be headed to the platte it looks like tomorrow and maybe all the way through the weekend. Anybody been huntin’ up there!? i came through on 76 2 weeks ago now and there were a ton of birds (mallards, dark geese, w/ a some snows mixed in) headed to the fields to feed. Did not hunt was just passing through.
Most stuff is leased up, up that way i hear, is this true? The days of knocking on a farmers door and getting permission is over…!?!? I guess its just a little tough to chew on, but i will be heading that way to check it out! I may have to learn the hard way.

Also, there has to be more than a couple people on this website from co hunting, yet not a lot of posts..?

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greenheadkilla
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mostly scouted, did little hunting followed the arkansas river from pueblo to kansas border 12-07-2010 18:05
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I scouted from rocky ford swa east all the way to the kansas border over the last few days. Saw many flocks of migrating snows, and quite a few canadas as well. hunted rocky ford on friday had some groups of canadas work (coming off a gravel pit south of the river, going back and forth between there and holbrook) had only one group of 40 or so mallards working when a guy coyote hunting decided to shoot his rifle at the flock that was about 40 yards out coming in on a string….i was so mad.
headed east from there, checked out john marten res. tons and tons of snow geese and a pile of ducks….up until the day i went to hunt it, shallow water froze and the few ducks that were still there wanted nothing to do w/ me.
Put on many miles hiking in the granada swa and saw 4 mallards total. did kick up 3 pheasants.
overall, was kind of disappointed w/ the number of ducks seen. I did have all of my full body goose dekes w/ and pulling the enclosed trailer. How are the farmers in these areas about giving permission to hunters!?

I am in the process of moving to colorado from minnesota and trying to figure out this hunting out here is quite the task.
I will probably be headed to the platte to try and figure out some area up there next, although i didnt wanna have to deal w/ a ton of hunters. I guess i will have to deal w/ it…

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biggiesmalls
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sedgwick county 11-29-2010 18:11
Cloudy, High Winds – –
Got 6 canadas today. Too much wind.

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perro
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western slope 11-28-2010 21:34
Arctic Blast – Below Zero
I haven’t posted here in a while. T-day started out a -1. By sunrise -14. It was painful. A lot of birds first light but with the cold and chasing decoys down the river I’m sad to say I never fired a shot. by 8:30 I had had enough.

Skipped Friday had to work, went Sat and Sun. Actually did fair. 40 degree turn around. Ended up with 6 ducks and the first goose of the season. And pick up someone’s field deek that got away. 6 more and I’ll be even. LOL

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woodey
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JM 11-27-2010 20:23
– – 35-40 Degrees
lots of pintails in the area 5 ducks toal 2 guys

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biggiesmalls
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JULESBURG 11-24-2010 22:44
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First day in the new pit. Lots of wind. Hard to get birds to commit with decoys blowing around. Shot three Canadas. Saw good numbers for early season. Mostly small birds.

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woodey
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rockey ford 11-23-2010 23:00
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 40-45 Degrees
lots snows last weekend some ducks a few darks does anyone else hunt out there

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ne 02-05-2010 00:15
Cloudy, Accumulating Snow – 35-40 Degrees
4 snows 1 blue 2honkers 2 guys

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perro
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West of Rifle 01-27-2010 17:52
Cloudy, Snow & Rain Mix – 10-20 Degrees – Ice
The fat lady is warming up. Not alot going on. The river finally opened up so you can put out decoys but sadly not many ducks or geese around.

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woodey
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arc valley 01-26-2010 14:18
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 50-60 Degrees
two days three guys four snows 22 candas 30 duck 2 pins 6 ring bills 1 woodey 1 redhead and the mallred plus 2 murs

[Edited By woodey on 2010-01-26 14:19]

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woodey
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arc valley 01-19-2010 12:02
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 40-45 Degrees
duck are few and very shy lots sky carp and lesser not many big gesse in the area

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perro
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All quiet on the western front 01-06-2010 16:04
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 0-10 Degrees – Ice
Had a very good week during Xmas and new years. Killed 18 geese and picked up 3 bands. Still very few greenheads. Been whacking the G-eyes and gaddies.

Things have really slowed down. The river has been too iced up and dangerous to risk putting a dog in it.

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biggiesmalls
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ne co 12-30-2009 09:18
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Hunted yesterday morning. Geese are slow coming out and then all at once. Flying high and know where they want to go. Took a 7th grader. Got his first goose. Need new birds from the north.

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arc valley pravite 12-26-2009 12:49
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 40-45 Degrees
out four we shot bad ducks 4 canadas and 4sonws gesse werenot decoying and we shot rellay bad any one else hunt ing in the state how are you doing

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woodey
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arc valley 12-14-2009 18:58
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 10-20 Degrees – Ice
lots of gesse and few ducks got two golden eyes missed one

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arc valley 12-14-2009 18:57
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 30-34 Degrees – Ice
lots of gesse and few ducks got two golden eyes missed one

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perro
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Western colorado 12-13-2009 12:33
Cloudy, Accumulating Snow – Froze Out
Been a tough week. Hunted wednesday in -17. picked up 3 ducks. Hunted yesterday and today, as a group we picked up 10 ducks. No geese. River just too shelfed out to be safe for dog or man.

Saw 4 pintail drakes. Don’t see them alot here.

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Western colorado 11-26-2009 22:29
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 10-20 Degrees – Open Water
It’s picked up on the ducks and dropped off on geese. Not many mallards,shooting mostly gadwalls and widgeon. Weekend we pick up 2 geese ,one of them banded, today only saw one flock headed east no shots.

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perro
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Western colorado 11-11-2009 19:52
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 50-60 Degrees
Not much around yet, still alot of open water. I’ll hit the river on Saturday and then maybe one of the local reservoirs on Sunday.

We did kill some widgeons last Saturday and I saw a few Golden eyes which is about 6 weeks early for them to be showing up.

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biggiesmalls
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northeast 10-11-2009 21:45
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
Went out for first time of year. Cold weather froze up small waterholes. Late afternoon hunt. Flushed birds off and back shoot. Two of us ended up with 3 nice mallards and 6 mixed teal(one sweet green wing drake). Mallards went out to feed and bulk of them came back after we quit. Took two boys too young to shoot had a blast. Best part, hunting budy cleaning the birds while I post. Thanks Mose

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perro
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Arkansas river 01-26-2009 20:26
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 0-10 Degrees – Open Water
Finished up the season with Carpy and 1 Cup. We saw ducks at first light and had chances at geese, but ended up with nothing. Even though a we put a major effort in trying to recover a cripple goose that had enough left in the tank to make it to a gravel pit about a 1/2 mile away.

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perro
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Colorado Springs area 01-22-2009 21:48
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 60-65 Degrees
Did a afternoon hunt with Carpy and his son. What weird weather. January and 60+ degrees. Didn’t see a single duck but did have several large flocks of geese fly by.

We weren’t really set up for geese so the most we could do was get them to look at us as they flew by. Carpy says they we’re laughing so hard at my calling that they were having trouble flying.

It didn’t matter. Time spent in the blind with friends is always time well spent.

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biggiesmalls
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east end of pit 01-15-2009 22:36
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its a late post but we shot some geese last week. poor shooting and poorer pit management cost us alot of birds. more new geese and weather to aid this weekend. hey perro you can post and you can hunt over here any day. let me know only 31 days left here.