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Posted By:
maverick21
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NW Delta 12-02-2008 13:27
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good opener from all that I have talked to. Most of the bags consist of gadwalls and teal with some greenheads mixed in. Lots of shooting and hopefully a good follow up this weekend. If you have water, you should have birds.

Posted By:
coldkiller
Web Member

SLEDGE,MS 11-12-2008 09:42
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I HAVE A 70ACRE BEAN FIELD AND 40 ACRE CYPRESS LAKE THAT ARE BESIDE EACH OTHER THAT LESSEE CANT PAY REMAINDING BALANCE DUE TO A DIVORCE.IT HAS A PIT THAT WILL HUNT 9 GUYS.IT IS HUGE. HE PAID DEPOSIT AND YOU WILL RECIVE CREDIT FOR THAT.I WILL TAKE $4500 FOR BOTH PIT AND LAKE.EASY ACCESS TO BOTH.

CHARLES MORRISON
931-224-0700
MAUTOSUN@AOL.COM
BORDERS THE COLDWATER RIVER

Posted By:
Dabble
Gold Sponsor

ND 11-08-2008 18:11
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You guys should be piling up the ducks that blew by ND in record speed… Enjoy www.waterfowljunkie.com

Posted By:
Kent-Lacina
Field Editor

mississippi delta 11-06-2008 10:56
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Well it’s about time again, just a few short weeks away. I’ve had reports of the first flights of specks and snows to be showing up in the delta. A few early migratory ducks have also been showing up. Although not many are staying unless they find water. Most of the farmers are still in the fields due to the dry conditions. Most area’s have yet to start pumping but i’ve had some tell me they are going to be starting next weekend. As for south and central mississippi i’ve heard of some good flights of woodducks and some ringnecks are starting to show up. We need some good rains in the next couple of weeks along with some cold fronts up north. It looks like we are a couple of weeks ahead of last year but we need some good cold weather to hit.

Good luck to all in this coming year.

KL

Remember it’s what we do today that will tell what happens tomorrow.

Posted By:
coldkiller
Web Member

SLEDGE 09-10-2008 10:59
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I STILL HAVE 4 SPOTS AVAILABLE FOR LEASING IN THE 08/09 WATERFOWL SEASON.I HAVE A COUPLE OF PITS AND SOME FIELDS THAT ARE AVAILABLE FOR A BLIND ALSO.I WILL FURNISH WATER AND BLIND AS WELL AT NO-EXTRA COST.

FOR MORE INFORMATION
CHARLES MORRISON
931-224-0700
EMAIL MAUTOSUN@AOL.COM

Posted By:
MKGF
Web Member

09-04-2008 11:39
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Looking for a guided teal hunt near Tunica 24th or 25th of Sept. 3 guys
thanks

Posted By:
DeltaDuckHunts
Web Member

North Delta 02-20-2008 07:02
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Had a father and son’s come over and do a sneack on some snow’s.

They used cow silouette’s to get with in 20 yards of the snow’s. I got the whole thing on video. It’s funny!!

Posted By:
Kent-Lacina
Field Editor

south delta 02-11-2008 10:05
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 60-65 Degrees
Hunted the conservation season sunday for the last time this season. We did manage to scratch a few but saw very few geese. About half of what we did see did decoy decent. All the birds shot were juv.’s. I did hear of some decent pockets of sob’s around just north and east of us. Belzoni to midnight is holding good birds and so is the yazoo management area at grace. Although they are moving out daily.

Looking forward to next fall and hopefully the geese will move to our area like a couple of years ago.

All in all we had a decent year thanks to a good december.

Look forward to everyone’s posts next year.

KL

Remember it’s what we do today that will tell what happens tomorrow.

Posted By:
DeltaDuckHunts
Web Member

North Delta 02-02-2008 07:08
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Well fellows we had a record harvest. We never held large number of birds. The snows would move in and out in matter of a few days.

Each morning you never knew what to expect.
We had success over large decoy spreads and just “GRINDING” the ducks out each morning.

Mallards were off by 30% Teal were up by 60%.
The youths should do well this morning!!!

We did take a picture of each hunt everyday and up load it to the website. Under 2007-2008 Gallery. www.deltaducks.com

Get the dekes picked up and start getting ready for anther season!!

Posted By:
Kent-Lacina
Field Editor

south delta 01-31-2008 12:25
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 40-45 Degrees
Well hunted the last weekend after a couple weeks off due to very few ducks. Hunted thursday with a mixed bag of woodducks and shovelers very few ducks moving and no geese around.

Friday turned out great with a mixed bag of mallards, teal, pintail and gadwall. Three hunters filled a limit by 10:00 with a bonus canada goose. Still very few birds moving and no geese to speak of. What we did see worked excellent.

Saturday we had a full blind and the ducks totally turned back to their normal. We still harvested a few with a mixed bag of gadwall, shovelers, and teal. Hardly any mallards to be seen and a few geese flying by.

Sunday we still had a full blind and shot six birds. Very few ducks to be seen. More geese did show up but they are not in the numbers we should have for the last weekend of the season.

Monday we tried our luck at goose hunting and ended up with a few. We hunted a flock of 75k+ but they gave us very few chances because of the number of birds. Very large flocks and not wanting to land with 750 birds(decoys).

All in all we had a decent year but not up to average like years past. Most of the ducks in the south delta didn’t stay or moved south. We just seemed to miss all the fronts and most big ducks stayed just north of our area. Hopefully we will have a good hatch this year.

Hope everyone had a good season and look forward to next years posts and hunts.

Remember it’s what we do today that will tell what happens tomorrow.

Posted By:
DeltaDuckHunts
Web Member

North Delta 01-15-2008 05:51
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Having nice hunts in the fields. Kind of strange, One morning teal and widgeons, next morning Mallards. Still taken the 40 plus yard shots at the Sprigs!

Mississippi river is risen. Should pull birds from the fields later this week.

Posted By:
maverick21
Web Member

panola/tallahatchie county 01-14-2008 08:49
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Hunted over the weekend with better results than previous weekends, limits but mixed bag. Tons of teal and gadwall still around, mixed in with some greenheads.

This last cold push should help wind the season up, hopefully there will be a continued push of new birds. Plenty of shooting though

Posted By:
CARPDUCK
Guest

SUNFLOWER COUNTY 01-09-2008 11:27
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LAST WEEKEND SHOT 1 SPOONIE!!!!!!!!! ONE OF THE WORST SEASONS I’VE HAD!!!!!!!!!

Posted By:
Kent-Lacina
Field Editor

south delta 01-07-2008 11:26
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 25-30 Degrees – Ice
Hunted thursday till sunday morning.

Thursday had cold temps and frozen water. Opened a good hole in the ice and saw no ducks. We saw a few geese and shot two. Thursday afternoon we saw a few more birds and ended up with mainly smiling mallards 10 ducks, 2 geese.

Friday tried to hunt geese. We watched as the geese in our area went southeast and never returned. We decided to check out some catfish ponds and then return for a afternoon hunt. We saw a few birds on the catfish ponds mainly scaup. We drove back to our blind and shot a couple more smiling mallards along with 2 greenheads. Decided to give the goose spread a chance so we hunted from 3 till sunset with only one flock giving us a chance which we decided to let make one more turn and they left.

Saturday hunted the blind again. We got a mixed bag of smiling mallards to ring necks. What has happened to all the birds? No geese and a few ducks but nothing like 2-3 weeks ago.

Sunday tried to hunt our main blind again, same results.

Hopefully we will get some birds into mississippi before the close of the season. Very few mallards for this time of year and only seeing a small amount of pintails but a ton of smiling mallards. Don’t know what to think should have good numbers of ducks by now. Hopefully the next 3 weekends will bring some birds.

Hope everyone else is having better luck than us.

Remember it’s what we do today that will tell what happens tomorrow.

Posted By:
rls23617
Web Member

Ruleville MS 12-17-2007 19:26
Cloudy, Rain & Thunderstorms – 40-45 Degrees
Fri. 12/14 to Sun. 12/16 – Worked hard Fri (cloudy)to get ducks in (specks early AM, mallards, gadwall, teal, and pintail) 17 total. Saturday work hard until wind and rain, 7 man limit in less than an hour after rain. Sunday (Sunny) – 7 man mixed bag limit by 9:00!
Nice harvest for three days!

Posted By:
Kent-Lacina
Field Editor

south delta 12-17-2007 11:07
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 45-50 Degrees
Well saturday morning started with a few ducks at shooting time then the rains started in. It rained and rained but it also rained ducks. We ended up with a four man limit and a blue goose.

Sunday was very much the same except no rain.

The ducks consisted of a mixed bag. A few mallards and teal along with a few others. The high light of the day was my son shooting a canvasback on our lease, which is a flooded bean field.

Other reports that i’ve heard is that howard miller has a large number of ducks, mahanna has been picking up a few, reports out of greenville of large numbers and limits, the belzoni area has a few ducks but not like the west delta.

If you have been drawn at howard miller you need to be hunting there. Estimates friday was 25k+ with 50% mallards. With 5K new birds. Very little hunting pressure has been seen so far this year.

Quite a few geese in between greenville and cary between hwy 1 and hwy 61. Saw lots of medium sized flocks feeding all along the area.

If the weather stays cool and missouri and arkansas keeps getting hit with storms we should continue to get ducks into mississippi.

Hope the weather holds!!!!!

Look forward to everyone’s postings

Remember it’s what we do today that will tell what happens tomorrow.

Posted By:
maverick21
Web Member

tallahatchie county 12-17-2007 10:48
Cloudy, Occassional Rain Showers – 35-40 Degrees
I don’t know if the ducks will stay but they are here. Large number of working mallards, gadwalls, and teal. Some great hunting over the weekend

Posted By:
Kent-Lacina
Field Editor

south delta 12-03-2007 11:06
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Well we had a good number of ducks and geese in our area this last weekend. We were able to enjoy a good goose hunt friday, we had alot of snows and blues moving in. Although we didn’t have the numbers of years past at this time. But i guess harvesting over 20 birds a day is still decent.

As for ducks we saw alot of new birds moving into the south delta. We shot a few mallards and woodducks but we still don’t have the birds. I think another 2 weeks we should be picking up birds and should have some decent shooting.

As for the delta region wma’s. There is still some good hunting coming our of mahanna although you have to work to have good shoots. Howard miller is still doing fair but not up to expectations. Shipland is picking up a few birds along with sunflower and the delta national forrest. I would look into sunflower and delta national as birds continue to move into our area.

Until my next post

Remember it’s what we do today that will tell what happens tomorrow.

Posted By:
maverick21
Web Member

Crowder 12-03-2007 10:58
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Swatted a few wood ducks. Very few big ducks working, a few high flyers but tons of snows.

Posted By:
CARPDUCK
Guest

sunflower county 12-03-2007 07:02
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just swatted mosquitos!!!!!!!

Posted By:
CARPDUCK
Guest

sunflower county 10-29-2007 11:24
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lots of specs,specs and more specs!!!!!!!

Posted By:
DeltaDuckHunts
Web Member

Mississippi North Delta 10-25-2007 07:36
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Seeing Specks flying the River. Did see a few snows in a wheat field Monday.

Posted By:
Kent-Lacina
Field Editor

delta 10-24-2007 11:16
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 50-60 Degrees
Well just got a call from our area in the south delta, specks are arriving along with a few ducks. This cold front is just the first to hit. Hopefully we will continue to pile the birds into the delta with the next fronts. Water conditions are rising and should continue with each rain.

For those of you hunting the public wma’s make sure you check you area most are doing draw hunts this year.

Also the snow goose conservation order is in effect make sure when hunting them that you get your conservation #, which can be obtained from the wildlife and fisheries.

This cooler weather gets one to start thinking about the upcoming season.

Keep um coming

KL

Remember it’s what we do today that will tell what happens tomorrow.

Posted By:
CARPDUCK
Guest

SUNFLOWER COUNTY 10-23-2007 11:35
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FARMER EMAIL ME THIS MORNING THEY GOT 2 INCHES OF RAIN YESTERDAY!!!!!!!!! MORE COMING TODAY!!!!!!

Posted By:
DeltaDuckHunts
Web Member

Mississippi North Delta 10-18-2007 06:52
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Got hammered with rain last night!

Will help on the Cypress Breaks and the pumping cost of the fields.

Posted By:
DeltaDuckHunts
Web Member

North Delta 10-10-2007 07:18
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Had a cold front that brought about 2″ of rain on the North Delta.

Needed rain to get some moisture in the ground!

Posted By:
DeltaDuckHunts
Web Member

North Delta 10-06-2007 20:45
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Second season opened with out a bang!

few doves in organized fields!

Posted By:
maverick21
Web Member

Panola / Tallahatchie County 10-01-2007 11:44
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1st season for doves is over but the 2nd season starts up this weekend. I didn’t see but a couple birds while driving around and only a handful in our field. We had a great first season but I don’t know if we’ll be doing much damage on the second season. We need to be out brushing up blinds anyways

Posted By:
coldkiller
Web Member

SLEDGE,MS. 10-01-2007 08:21
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We will also be guiding again this year and due to so much success from last year we are quickly filling up.

The price is $125.00 per day per gun.We can hunt up to a group of 5 in pits.All guides are great callers plus use labs.

We have millet.rice,beans and corn this year to hunt over.I pray we get some weather.

Charles Morrison
931-224-0700
maunlimited@aol.com

Posted By:
DeltaDuckHunts
Web Member

North Delta 09-26-2007 06:54
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Dove season closed last weekend up here.

Only Teal I’ve heard of are on the big lakes!

Posted By:
Kent-Lacina
Field Editor

hattiesburg area 09-24-2007 11:46
Cloudy, Occassional Rain Showers – Over 70 Degrees
Well the dove season opened this weekend for our zone. My son and i hunted saturday and ended up with a limit fairly easy. My son managed to kill one dove that was banded. It looked young so it probably was a local bird. I will update later when he gets his certificate back. It was a 1800- bird band. As for ducks i did see some teal flying around early saturday morning but nothing trying to land on our holes. Did see a fair amount of woodducks also. Hope the weather cools off quickly. Looking forward to a great waterfowl season. Hope everyone has a great season and looking forward to reading everyone’s posts.

Remember it’s what we do today that will tell what happens tomorrow.

Posted By:
Kent-Lacina
Field Editor

south mississippi/ south delta 08-28-2007 11:11
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Blue winged teal are starting to filter into the delta and i’ve allready seen a few around hattiesburg. Dove season is to open within the next few days in the north zone and the southern zone later on in sept. The Waterfowl seasons are set and can be found on the MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES WEB SITE. For those of you hunting doves within the next few days be sure to watch the snakes!!!! Looking forward to everyone’s reports.

KL

Remember it’s what we do today that will tell what happens tomorrow.

Posted By:
coldkiller
Web Member

SLEDGE 08-23-2007 09:09
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I still have some areas available for the 2007 and 2008 duck season.I have some pits and blinds available that are top producers.These fields are land formed with water at no cextra cost to you.Prices range from $3800.00 to $ 6800.00,Call Charles Morrison at 931-224-0700. We had a great 06/07 season.

[Edited By coldkiller on 2007-08-23 09:12]

Posted By:
da-ducks
Guest

04-12-2007 17:31
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coming down to your state to help in the rebuilding from hurricane katrina on the 14th. thru the 22nd. just wandering if there are any places I might be able to buy alocal carvers decoy or two my collection I live in Penna. and I make and collect decoys . thanks for the help if any.

Posted By:
Kent-Lacina
Field Editor

east central delta 02-12-2007 09:32
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 45-50 Degrees
Hunted for one last time saturday for sob’s. Took caleb and todd a couple of great guys from mississippi state. We set up on a wheat field and watched a ton of geese fly by to a wheat field 1 mile away. The field we were in held the same geese friday but they didn’t seem to want to come back into the same field on saturday. We did manage to scratch out a few and ended up with 13. Only 1 adult bird. Most of the birds acted like they had been hunted for years. We did make a few errors and should have ended up with more but that’s the way snow goose hunting is. I hope some day we can use e-callers during the regular season. If you have a chance to hunt these birds i hope you take advantage of it. They keep increasing in population every year. I have heard that if the population doesn’t get under control that they might end up spraying the birds with a chemical or allowing the locals to harvest more eggs in order to control them. I just hope before they go to those drastic measures that they give us a chance to use e-callers over all white decoys like they do in canada. Then they can see if the population come’s under control before they use other means of control.

Remember it’s what we do today that will tell what happens tomorrow.

Posted By:
maverick21
Web Member

None 01-31-2007 16:50
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 30-34 Degrees – Ice
Our season is over, cue the cold weather…

Posted By:
Kent-Lacina
Field Editor

south delta 01-30-2007 09:22
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 40-45 Degrees
well ended the season on a couple of good hunts. Saturday 4 of us bagged 4 mallards and 7 smiling mallards and 7 teal. We also killed 4 scaup and 1 hen canvasback. We had one juv. blue goose fly too close and finished the bag with him.

Sunday brought promise with a ton of new birds moving into our area. We killed 8 mallards, 1 gadwall and 7 teal, 8 scaup. Not bad to end the last day with a mixture limit. When we got ready to leave we had a couple of mallards give us a high swing and killed the greenhead out of it. He ended up being banded. Which gave us a total of 2 bands this year.

Monday we tried to film the mississippi outdoors and ended up shooting a 9 snows and blues. We have not had many geese on our lease or even around us this year. We did have a couple of small bunches moving early yesterday and ended up with a few.

The snow and blue goose conservation season runs from january 29th till febuary 2nd. It then closes for the youth waterfowl weekend hunt. Then it re-opens monday febuary 5th till march 10th. You need to call in for a conservation # from the wildlife and fisheries. You can use unplugged shotguns during this season and also have the aid of electronic callers during these seasons.
Help save the tundra by reducing the numbers of these birds if your able.

Also doug and drew the alabama boys had a couple of good shoots also at our lease on another hole the shot close to their limits on 3 out of the 4 days.

All in all it was a decent year but not by any means a banner year, which we had hoped for. Next year brings promise as the birds are just arriving to our state. Help out in any way possible to help promote our waterfowl hunting.

Hope all had a good and safe year.

Till my next post.

KL

Remember it’s what we do today that will tell what happens tomorrow.

[Edited By Kent-Lacina on 2007-01-30 09:24]

Posted By:
maverick21
Web Member

Tallahatchie/Panola County 01-29-2007 14:22
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 35-40 Degrees
Season ended strong, got in a ton more shooting with more birds in the area. Finished up with what I liked to say was a strong finish to a schitty season.

All and all, our kill numbers were way down for the year. I would give up 2 weeks on the front end of duck season for an extra 7 days in the South. Cold weather alone can’t get the ducks down here, we need 3 feet of snow to cover up the food north. Weather is calling for wintery mix mid week for north MS. Wish we had it in December

Posted By:
maverick21
Web Member

Tallahatchie/Panola County 01-29-2007 14:22
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 35-40 Degrees
Season ended strong, got in a ton more shooting with more birds in the area. Finished up with what I liked to say was a strong finish to a sugarty season.

All and all, our kill numbers were way down for the year. I would give up 2 weeks on the front end of duck season for an extra 7 days in the South. Cold weather alone can’t get the ducks down here, we need 3 feet of snow to cover up the food north. Weather is calling for wintery mix mid week for north MS. Wish we had it in December

Posted By:
coldkiller
Web Member

Sledge 01-29-2007 08:38
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 35-40 Degrees
All in all the last 5 days were very good!We limited out thursday by 8.15am.All Mallards with 5 gadwalls.

Friday was good also killed limit of mallards early with 6 specks.The bonus were the 2 Canadians that came into decoys as well.

Saturday was good also.Yesterday didn’t limit out but shot 8 mallards at 20-25 yds early before the winds were howling.

The weather will put ducks everywhere now.I hear that Delta Waterfowl is proposing a new later season for us in the south.

That would really help alot.

CIM

I also have some pits and fields available for next year also.Prices range from $3250-$5250 depending on what you are looking for.

Leases deposits are due by March 31st and we close them by Oct 1st.

Water is put in your field at no extra cost whether we pump or catch rain water.

Thanks,
Charles Morrison
931-224-0700

Posted By:
duckhunterkidd
Guest

at work 01-26-2007 08:44
Arctic Blast – Over 70 Degrees
well im so glad we have field editors. they will wait till after the season and do a report. thanks

[Edited By duckhunterkidd on 2007-01-26 08:45]

Posted By:
Kent-Lacina
Field Editor

south mississippi 01-22-2007 08:42
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 50-60 Degrees
sorry haven’t been posting lately. Lost my father in law a couple of days ago. Anyways we have been hunting some woodducks and have been doing fair the last few days. We also have been shooting a few hoodeds. Reports from our lease in the delta is a few geese and some ducks around. Doug and drew have had a couple of decent shoots and deadly danny shot a few geese during the last week. It is hot one day and cold the next which leads a person to wonder if we are getting new birds with the fronts. All in all this has been a fair year. We need this kind of weather early to mid december with it holding throughout the month of january. Most of the birds are holding in missouri and northern arkansas from reports that i’ve gotten. I hope we can get in one last push before the season ends. Maybe this cold front will push some much needed birds into mississippi for this last weekend.

good luck to all

Remember it’s what we do today that will tell what happens tomorrow.

Posted By:
SoggyJoe
Web Member

South Delta 01-19-2007 19:06
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 35-40 Degrees
5 limits of fats this morning. Found them in a little slough we found last weekend. Held back the urge to bull rush them last weekend, glad we waited. 20 greenheads the rest Greys and Woodies, all killed by 9 a.m.

Found a new hole where they were pouring in late this morning, we got a surprise for them in the morning.

This is the HUGE flight of new birds we saw last Sunday. Last couple of weekends should be great if we can stay on them and find there hinding spots.

Pics to follow…..

SJ

Posted By:
Shuedaddy
Web Member

Delta – Tunica to Shelby 01-19-2007 11:02
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Any new ducks in the area yet? Going to be in the area to finish the season, hope to get in some good shooting.

Posted By:
maverick21
Web Member

MS Delta 01-18-2007 08:56
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 40-45 Degrees
We are seeing a few more ducks since this cold weather snaps, but not in the numbers we need to close out the season to meet expectations. My guess is that every field in the delta will be full of ducks…. around Feb. 1st.

Last weekend we saw better hunts and started reaching limits but we shouldn’t be killing teal in Jan. but when it’s in the 60’s, we’ll shoot what we can get. Fingers crossed for this last cold front to push new ducks, we are holding ducks but they are the same ones that have been here a month and they are getting smarter by the day.

Posted By:
coldkiller
Web Member

NW Delta 01-17-2007 09:49
Cloudy, Occassional Rain Showers – 60-65 Degrees
I hunted from last thursday till yesterday morning.Im glad someone has seen some new ducks we haven’t.I stayed over till yesterday morning and I watched the same birds do the same things for the last several weeks.They were sitting in a newly flooded green wheat field.About 2.5 inches of rain water in it.This time last year I was hammering the birds.Why?Because there were new birds in our area.

We continue to not have a major migration since before Christmas.Which we killed 137 birds in 5 days.

I usally hunt my big rice field with 450 decoys and I am now down to 20.They still flair won’t work the hole.These birds have been there along time.This same rice field was totally eaten out by Jan 10th last year still stubble and rice everywhere this year.

I have several fields that have not had a bird in it all year and have not even been hunted.We need to face it we just don’t get the Migration that we used to get.

In the future I may start looking to the North…My buddies in Illonois and Missouri have hammered them all year long.

I pick up my decys every week and it still doesn’t help.

Time for some changes in my Duck Hunting strategies..

Posted By:
SoggyJoe
Web Member

Delta National 01-17-2007 08:43
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 60-65 Degrees
Hunted DNF on Saturday, limits of greenheads and Greyducks. A little slower on Sunday as we tried to hunt the same hole twice. I knew better but we were tired from the walk in on Saturday and did not go scout a new hole for Sunday.

We did see hundreds and hundreds of new birds arriving on Sunday. All Mallards and all hitting DNF. Should be a good last two weeks.

Check out pictures in the gallery.

SJ

Posted By:
coldkiller
Web Member

NW delta 01-10-2007 11:08
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It looks like we are finally going to get some weather to bring us some new birds.The ones we have are stagnant.

Posted By:
steve68
Guest

LAKEVIEW/MUDLAKE 01-08-2007 16:27
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
Sorry I have not posted in a while. I have been a slave to my job lately and quail hunting with new bird dog. Went out Sat PM with my son and we set up in Mudlake and did not see alot of ducks. We did get the occasional bufflehead and managed to scratch out two. One fullplumage male that is going to the taxidermist. It doesnt look like I have been missing much.

A BAD DAY OF HUNTING BEATS WORK ANYDAY

Posted By:
coldkiller
Web Member

NORTH DELTA 01-08-2007 10:22
Cloudy, Occassional Rain Showers – 50-60 Degrees
I believe the major migration is way behind this year.It is a very tough season.There are some birds but they are spread out everywhere.To much rain and to many warm days.The ducks are just not where they need to be.

I hope that the last 3 weeks improve.Im sick of warm,rainy hot days.We have to get some weather North of us to get a push.The birds in our area (know the game).You find a spot where they are holding and they dont come back when you pressure them.I hope it improves.

Bad weather,bad migration and way to much water have not helped.

Posted By:
SoggyJoe
Web Member

Delta 01-07-2007 22:41
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 45-50 Degrees
Hunted the Delta on Friday and Saturday a.m. 3 limits of greenheads by 9:30. Rained out on Sunday. Back at it next weekend. New birds showing up daily.

Posted By:
crmsontyde
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Marks 01-02-2007 21:23
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 45-50 Degrees
Christmas day and the day after saw a bunch of Mallards. Could have limited out if we were a little better at shooting. Hunted the last few days and not much going on at all. Seen a bunch of high flyers, but none workable. Today, 2 Jan, didn’t see much at all until about 8.00am. Only had two groups actually work and come in the hole. It is too freakin warm to be in the pit. Had mosquitos tearing us up the other day. So far this season is kinda blowing. Really do need a big artic blast to push these jokers down. The few mallards we killed were new birds. Feet were bright orange. Sure hope it gets better. Only four weeks left.

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coldkiller
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DELTA 01-02-2007 08:28
Cloudy, Rain & Thunderstorms – 50-60 Degrees
I hunted friday,saturday,sunday,monday.Friday the big rains started killed 3 greenheads before rain.When it started pouring we left.Saturday wasn’t any better either.Sunday when skies cleared went to timber after over sleeping and killed 2 limits of mallards and gadwalls.Monday 1 greenhead and snow goose.

We need weather up north these birds are educated to the max.We have been shooting the same birds for weeks now.

They never post an accurate migration report here.All I have heard all spring and early fall was we have 15% more ducks this year than last year.This time last year was much better than this year.

Thre refuges up North pour out grain for the ducks and geese to eat so they want come south.Believe me when I say that USFWS (DON’T) want you to kill any ducks.They screw us southern guys every year.They are our ducks not theirs!!! Im sick and tired of spending thousands for duck season and not seeing any new birds for weeks.

Its time for all of us to stand up and speak out or this will continue for seasons to come.

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The Big Drake
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Curtis Station 01-02-2007 06:04
Cloudy, Rain & Thunderstorms – 60-65 Degrees
Hunted Wednesday thru Saturday morning until we were blown off the field by wind and heavy rain. Hunting was fair to good as most of these ducks have seen every spread pattern, robo duck, vortex, jerk cord rig in Mississippi. Not to mention they have been called to death. Killed quality mixed-bag limit on Thursday and Friday. Killed two ducks at first light on Saturday and hauled butt after rain hit.

It is that time of year when they even flare to live ducks.

We are seeing plenty of birds but need a good artic blue front BAD!!! Hopefully we will get more favorable weather this month.
I was swatting flies and bugs this weekend and heard frogs baying and quail whistling.
We have a camillia buch in front of our lodge in full bloom!

Snows, blues, and speck number continue to increase by the minute.

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SoggyJoe
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Delta 12-27-2006 00:04
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 45-50 Degrees
Saturday hunted Panther, did ok. Greys and Mallards. Lots of shooting in the distance though. Scouted for a place to hunt on Sunday. Almost sank the three wheeler but found the birds. 6 hunters limited on Greenheads, Woodies and Greyducks. Lots of new birds flying high and numbers picked up on the refuge. Last 3-4 weeks should get better if you know where to go.

To the Alabama boys with the fancy DU stickers all over their truck. When someone says good morning you might not want to blow him off. I know you guys have been enjoying beating everyone into the hole. That game is over, we know where you’ve been. See ya on Saturday morning at about 2 am.

SJ

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coldkiller
Web Member

12-26-2006 12:42
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coldkiller
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SLEDGE 12-26-2006 11:32
Cloudy, Rain & Thunderstorms – 40-45 Degrees
I hunted friday,saturday,sunday.I was going to hunt Monday but it was raining its but off.I pulled boards on my fields and moved decoys around to some new locations.Friday morning was an average hunt.Saturday was awful.Sunday morning was slow also.There were severe thunderstorms thursday night and sunday night was a downpour.It rained all day yesterday.Fields were over flowing and ducks were in the new splash water.

We need weather up North to help the migration.

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crmsontyde
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Marks 12-26-2006 00:27
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 40-45 Degrees
Pretty nasty day, but gave it a shot anyway. Probably the most ducks I have seen all year. Hunting in a flooded rice field and had over 50 on the hole when I arrived. After settling in the blind, had some mallards working the hole, but while my attention was on them, 5 Mergansers plopped down in the middle. Took one of them out, then two spoon bills and stirred up and hornets nest of ducks with the shots. Lots of low flyers but they seem to be working a hole about 100 yards from me. Probably the most ducks and variety I have seen all year. It was very windy by the way.

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g lipscomb
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Chickasaw County 12-24-2006 14:52
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 35-40 Degrees
Clear morning, light fog. But the ducks showed up, woodies and mallards. Hard to believe you can kill more ducks in the hills than in the delta. Rain is coming for the next two days. Merry Christmas.

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g lipscomb
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Tunica, Ms. 12-24-2006 14:47
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 35-40 Degrees
Not as many ducks in the Delta as yesterday. Lots of high ducks, but they don’t seem to want to work. Killed seven mixed bag.

[Edited By g lipscomb on 2006-12-24 14:48]

Posted By:
Kent-Lacina
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south delta and south mississippi 12-22-2006 08:41
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 50-60 Degrees
Well the reports from our lease in the south delta where rather dismal. Most of the geese have moved north along with a the majority of the ducks. The hot weather we have had along with the fog the last week has limited the birds in our area. Reports from a week and a half ago we have lost most of our birds due to a reverse migration. We do have a few ducks around with a scattering of geese. If we don’t have a strong cold front within the next two weeks our bird numbers shouldn’t rise. Reports that i’ve heard from mahanna and sunflower is a few ducks around but not in any huge numbers. With a small cold front moving in sunday and x-mas we will see if any new birds arrive.

South mississippi has been holding a few ducks but the warm weather has limited birds also. We tried a woodduck hole saturday and shot 5 and a hooded. We had over 200 birds two weeks ago but most have moved out. I hope january brings them back!!!!

Hope all are having better hunting than us!!

Until next week good luck and have a great X-mas

Remember it’s what we do today that will tell what happens tomorrow.

Posted By:
Kent-Lacina
Field Editor

south delta and south mississippi 12-22-2006 08:40
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 50-60 Degrees
Well the reports from our lease in the south delta where rather dismal. Most of the geese have moved north along with a the majority of the ducks. The hot weather we have had along with the fog the last week has limited the birds in our area. Reports from a week and a half ago we have lost most of our birds due to a reverse migration. We do have a few ducks around with a scattering of geese. If we don’t have a strong cold front within the next two weeks our bird numbers shouldn’t rise. Reports that i’ve heard from mahanna and sunflower is a few ducks around but not in any huge numbers. With a small cold front moving in sunday and x-mas we will see if any new birds arrive.

South mississippi has been holding a few ducks but the warm weather has limited birds also. We tried a woodduck hole saturday and shot 5 and a hooded. We had over 200 birds two weeks ago but most have moved out. I hope january brings them back!!!!

Hope all are having better hunting than us!!

Until next week good luck and have a great X-mas

Remember it’s what we do today that will tell what happens tomorrow.

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g lipscomb
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desoto, county 12-21-2006 13:49
Cloudy, Rain & Thunderstorms – 60-65 Degrees
Awesome hunt, 6 limits of mallards before 8am. Lots of new ducks flying. To and from the river.

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SoggyJoe
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Delta 12-20-2006 09:06
Sunny & Clear, Morning Fog – 60-65 Degrees
Did well in the Delta timber limiting on Mallards and Woodies the first morning, second morning was much slower in the same hole. Moral of that story is: Don’t hunt the same hole twice. We walk and find where the birds go that didn’t come to our spread and bushwhack ’em the next day.

Gotta move your feet this year.

SJ

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CARPDUCK
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SUNFLOWER COUNTY 12-20-2006 08:12
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GOT A CALL FROM A FRIEND THAT HASN’T GONE HUNTING YET BECAUSE HE HAD COLON SURGERY!!!! HE SAID HE WAS READY NOW,SAID HE COULDN’T STAND IT ANY MORE,GOTTA GO!!!! SO I’M LEAVING TODAY AT NOON!!!! HUNT THRU SAT MORN AND THEN BACK FOR XMAS AND THEN LEAVE AGAIN XMAS DAY AFTERNOON THRU NEW YEARS!!!!!!HOPE THE DUCKS GODS WILL SHINE FOR US!!!!

DUCKS FOREVER!!!!!!!!!

[Edited By CARPDUCK on 2006-12-20 08:13]

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crmsontyde
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Marks 12-19-2006 22:33
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 50-60 Degrees
Got to the pit at around 2pm. Had low flying flocks walking in. Group of 4 jumped up out of the hole when walking up. Walked around the decoys and while putting the battery in the mojo, a group of 40 started circling the hole, but I scared them off. Twenty minutes after being in the pit, had a group of 40 cup up and come in. After that, saw a few high flyers with a ton of geese, then at around 3:45pm, not a single thing flying. Even after shooting time, walking out, not the first duck in sight.

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duckhunterkidd
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sledge 12-19-2006 17:15
Cloudy, Heavy Fog – 60-65 Degrees
did pretty good satarday one word say it all spoons

coldkiller if the ducks come down
call me
901 647 8860
see you tuesday

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SoggyJoe
Web Member

Delta 12-18-2006 20:30
Sunny & Clear, Morning Fog – Over 70 Degrees
Maverick,

Good to hear you had birds. I think that the really cold tolerant and hearty Mallards must move according to shorter daylight hours around the first day of winter, which just came. Gotta be something to it. Maybe a pattern to watch…

SJ

[Edited By SoggyJoe on 2006-12-18 20:30]

Posted By:
maverick21
Web Member

delta 12-18-2006 16:53
Sunny & Clear, Morning Fog – Over 70 Degrees
I guess I was a little wrong about the weather and not being any ducks. Got our limits Saturday morning out 3 big groups that worked in perfectly. A little slower on Sunday but at least the fog lifted out. Way more birds than I planned on seeing, most all headed North though.

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coldkiller
Web Member

Sledge 12-18-2006 08:39
Cloudy, Heavy Fog – 60-65 Degrees
Friday we had a great hunt.We limited out on Ducks.We killed over 40 snows,blues.We also had a visit from the Feds on friday checking everybody on our lease.One young kid got a ticket for not signing his federal stamp.The fed wrote him a ticket,took his picture of him.He also took a pic of his gun wrote the serial # down as well.He also took his 3 green heads.

If someone leaves your blind they need to either take their ducks are tag them with name and license information.They also checked several other places in the area.There are 6 USFWS agents in that area at this time.If i were you i would be very careful about everything.Some hunters were still shooting way after 5 pm on Saturday.

Just a warning for everybody….

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SoggyJoe
Web Member

Delta 12-18-2006 06:56
Cloudy, Heavy Fog – Over 70 Degrees
Hey CARPDUCK,

Sent you a PM….check it out.

SJ

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SoggyJoe
Web Member

Morgans Break 12-17-2006 21:09
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Don’t let the warm weather fool ya, there are new birds all over. Right on time according to the log books. I read that birds will migrate based on the decreasing daylight during later winter days. I BWT, Greys and Pintails go first followed by Widgeon. Mallards and divers are usually last. I really do think that regardless of weather, Mallards will migrate after or around Christmas and provide good action the last three weeks of the season, happens all of the time. The birds are more scattered than last year because we have way more water than we had at this time last year so you’ll have to stir your stumps a little more and find them. When you do though you should have pretty good action. Most hunters will not work (walk) enough to find them though. Don’t be one of those guys. Get some exercise, walk around new areas and find some new water! Check the Arkansas reports. For no reason at all, folks are seeing new birds.

I bet if you get out this weekend you’ll be pleasantly surprised. Should be good in the timber.

Good Luck,

SJ

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CARPDUCK
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SUNFLOWER COUNTY 12-15-2006 15:09
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WELL I’M LEAVING THE OFFICE IN A FEW MINUTES.GET TO THE CLUB ABOUT 7 O’CLOCK TONIGHT!!!! GOT PLENTY OF SUNSCREEN FOR TOMORROW ITS GOING TO 70 PLUS DEGREES!!!!! BUT GOTTA GO!!!!!GOOD LUCK TO ALL!!!!

DUCKS FOREVER!!!!!!!

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maverick21
Web Member

Delta 12-15-2006 13:38
Arctic Blast – Froze Out
Man, its freezing here. (Kidding) Saw an endless liine of snows headed North this morning.

This weekend holds little, little promise. What few ducks in our hole today, will no doubt be gone tomorrow. Either North or dead, they’ll be gone.

This blows

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SoggyJoe
Web Member

South Delta 12-11-2006 17:41
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Froze Out
Hunted Saturday morning in the timber. Ice everywhere…just as we knew it would be. Got to the hole no problem. Broke the hole open and got set up. Shot woodies till 8:30. No big ducks seen at all. Packed it in and went back to the camp for hot coffee, bacon, eggs and biscuits. Can’t hunt the greentree after 12 so we were done. After listening to the weather for Sunday we figured it would be iced up again as they were calling for 25 degrees over night. We figured we would hunt a ditch where we saw several hundreds the afternoon before do to it was the only thing not frozen. Woke up to find 40 degrees and no ice. SHould have gone back to the timber! Didn’t hear any shots from that way though so I guess we didn’t miss much.

Here is my thought: I am not sure that the weather has as much to do with migration as we think. After looking at our log books, we kill Mallards after Christmas consistently. We’ll kill a few earlier but not on a consistant basis. I think it has more to do with the calendar than the thermometer. Not sure why but that’s just the observation at our club.

Good luck to all, keep posting.

SJ

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coldkiller
Web Member

Sledge 12-11-2006 16:20
Arctic Blast – 10-20 Degrees – Ice
I hunted friday saturday and sunday.I put out 3 trolling motors Thursday night trying to keep hole open.It still froze about 1.5–2.0 inches thick.We didn’t even see a duck friday morning.It took us until about 11.30am to get a decent hole open.Did manage 4 mallards,2 teal,1 pintail drake late that afternoon.

There were ducks everywhere thursday but I believe most went south or east to the river for the weekend.Decent in the afternoons but the mornings are horrible.Ducks are feeding all night long and sitting on the big water during the daylight hours.

I have never seen as many Snow geese in my life they are thick as thiefs.

Im also looking for the individual that (Stole) 1 Dozen GH Snow floaters and 1 Dozen GH magnum Mallard decoys from my Barn.If anyone hears of it please let me know.They got those plus A dozen more Green head Gear Mallard field decoys also.Plus to stand-up Drake bags.It want happen again because all decoys are under lock and key.These were all Brand New and slightly used my son bought these for my birthday..If I catch you I will make you wish you had never stole anything….REWARD OFFERED!!!! For Information

Call Charles Morrison
931-224-0700

Posted By:
duckhunterkidd
Guest

12-08-2006 08:33
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the birds are moving at night I seat in my hole in tn they are move in and out heading south when they leave lots of mallards

thank you maverick. i just felt like he wouldn’t just say it to me I well keep it off here

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maverick21
Web Member

south of tunica 12-07-2006 14:15
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Starting to see new birds daily. More and more of a mixed bag starting to show up, should lead to a good weekend

dhkid, I think big drake is referring to using PM’s or a message board if you two want to converse back and forth. No hard feeling or anything, just keeping the field reports for ducks

Posted By:
SoggyJoe
Web Member

Lower Delta 12-06-2006 20:14
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 50-60 Degrees
New birds continue to filter in to the Delta. Best concentration continues to be Morgan’s and Matthew’s Brake. Three limits of Fats and a few Greys thrown in as good measure last weekend.

SJ

[Edited By SoggyJoe on 2006-12-06 20:15]