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Posted By:
Double_Trouble_Golden
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McLeod County 09-24-2011 18:50
Sunny & Clear, Morning Fog – 50-60 Degrees
First day was a blast. Out of all 4 of us we got 13 ducks. Had one other party on the lake with 60 decoys. We played it smart and only put out 10 Woodies. Lots of them still flying around. Morning fog was the best!!! Good dog action too, almost lost my golden. Shot a duck landed 30 yards in deep deep water. Kept swimming out before my dog could get it. As soon as she did the duck dove six times. It was like wack a mole! Swam for 6 mins before finally getting it. Too late for me since I was running to my boat and paddling my little heart to reach her. Just got to remember shes a lot fitter and better swimmer. Good Luck Y’all.

Posted By:
Paul-Burton
Field Editor

pillager/gull river area 09-24-2011 10:22
Sunny & Clear, Morning Fog – 40-45 Degrees
Day 1 of 60 complete. Funnest opener I have experienced in a while. All three members of the Golden Eye D.C. were together to start the season.
I secured our spot at 4:30 am due to tons of pressure on the river near us. No threats presented themselves before we hit the water at 5. We hunted a small land locked piece of water that was fairly small with a good crop of wild rice.
Took 2 trips with the jon boat to get all 3 guys, the dog and decoys out to the blind. SUPER thick fog. We could hear the whistling of wings many times after 6:30 this morning but could not see a thing!
1st woodie of the morn was brought down by Trave about 6:50. When birds wanted in, they were right on top of us. I missed a woody at about 5 yards i swear.
Did sight a few teal and a few mallards but mainly had woodies working us.
It got very quiet about 7:50, We peeled out about 8:15 to get to work. Left with 6 woodies for the 3 of us. Only thing i would have changed was hiding the dog better. Muskrat houses are nice dog platforms but always seem to be out in the open some what.
Not sure what tomorrows hunt will be. Thinkin maybe slipper blind. Keep ya posted

Paul Burton

Posted By:
Double_Trouble_Golden
Web Member

McLeod County 09-13-2011 10:23
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
Seen a lot of Bluewing, Woodies, and Mallards.I personally believe that the local Blues and Woodies will be gone before opener with this cold front slowly coming in. BUT I will try to stay positive.

Dang….I knew I should of practiced shooting clays this year.

Posted By:
Peter-Brown
Field Editor

Orr, Northern St Louis County 09-06-2011 08:00
– – 50-60 Degrees
Hunted Pelican river north of Orr. We were out 2 of the first three days. Not a lot of action, but enough to keep it interesting. All over water. 4-5 Blacks havested.

Great to be out.

Posted By:
Double_Trouble_Golden
Web Member

Western MN 09-03-2011 21:57
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – Over 70 Degrees
Counted around 300 Candian Geese within the area. Each person in my party (5) shot their limit. Still they keep coming! Best Goose Year Since 2003.

Dang….I knew I should of practiced shooting clays this year.

Posted By:
Paul-Burton
Field Editor

Brainerd area 08-24-2011 13:03
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Seeing good numbers of woodies, teal and mallards. Some groups of mallards are very large.
Plan to start scouting next week.

Get out on your local sporting clays course to get that shotgun warmed up! Helps me a ton every season.

Posted By:
Peter-Brown
Field Editor

Sandstone 08-24-2011 07:21
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Saw my first flock of geese in a field for this year.

Better pick up my scouting.

Posted By:
Double_Trouble_Golden
Web Member

McLeod County 08-21-2011 16:10
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
I have been seeing a lot of geese in the surrounding area. It hasn’t been this packed since 2003. It seemed like a big (20-30) non-local flock came in a couple days ago. Beautiful sight and sound at dusk on my lake when they come off the fields to roost. Getting PUMPED up, started refreshment retrieving training for my girls two weeks ago. So far everything is on track for a excellent year. Praying for a little bit more rain, but hopefully not a monsoon like last year. I’ll keep y’all updated in the next couple weeks.

Dang….I knew I should of practiced shooting clays this year.

Posted By:
dstohlberg08
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western mn 08-13-2011 21:30
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 60-65 Degrees
Well the scouting game has begun, took a look in an area that i hunt for opening weekend of early goose season and was somewhat disappointed. Locals say theres lots of geese around but could not find them.finally saw some birds in town but not the usual numbers weve seen in the past. One bright spot was on the way home we stopped at a friends cabin and decided to scout there. Found two nice groups of birds in cut wheat fields less than half amile from his cabin.

Posted By:
Canman OMaddie
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Carver County 04-04-2011 08:14
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Bills, Redheads, Buffies, Mallards, Mergies, Geese and swans all sighted this weekend. fun to watch

Posted By:
Peter-Brown
Field Editor

Did Not Hunt 03-31-2011 16:45
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 35-40 Degrees
I’m finally getting situated in my new home north of Askov. We moved last November.

It’s going to take a ton of scouting and talking to get some hunting spots around here. It will be interesting.

That said, I’m seeing signs of Spring and birds. Canadas moving in , Sandhills this morning, a bunch of Turkeys in my road last week. (I missed out on a license)

The reports I’m getting from SoDak White Goose hunters are “no shortage of birds, just tough to get”.

Life is good !!!!!! Only about 6 months until the 2011 Fall season.

[Edited By Peter-Brown on 2011-04-03 10:50]

Posted By:
CPAMAN
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Did Not Hunt 03-20-2011 13:52
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 40-45 Degrees
Driving back from West Central MN on Friday, March 28th was pretty exciting to say the least. In the morning, not much wildlife seen at all. No deer, saw only one pair of Canada geese, and nothing else to speak of. Coming back around 4:30 pm was an entirely different story.

I saw four large herds of deer grazing over about a six-mile area. 15-25 deer in each herd. I saw three fields and/or wooded areas with 12-25 wild turkeys. Five flooded fields had 150-500 Canada geese and saw at least three dozen nesting pairs of Canada geese. No ducks seen yet but they should be here soon. A little discouraging was no sightings of pheasants. This winter was likely very hard on pheasants as much of their natural vegetation cover was entirely blanketed in snow for the past several months.

Posted By:
Canman OMaddie
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12-03-2010 08:18
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Post them in the Photo forum. easy to do

Posted By:
dstohlberg08
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south central mn 12-01-2010 10:05
Arctic Blast – –
Hunted a cut corn field for ducks and geese yesterday,in twenty five minutes had a six man limit of geese.we waited onother hour or so for ducks and scratched out four fat daddy mallards. The whole time we had geese lighting in the decoys. One of the best hunts I’ve been on. I have pictures but don’t know how to add them, any help would be great.

Posted By:
Peter-Brown
Field Editor

North Metro, Anoka County 11-28-2010 05:05
Cloudy, High Winds – 10-20 Degrees – Ice
As one can imagine things are pretty much over for ducks on the chain of lakes in Lino Lakes. It was a decent season, certainly better than 2009

Some open water may remain in portions of Rice Creek, but I haven’t a chance to check it out.

I’m still seeing a some geese in the area.

This probably be my last report from the North Metro area. I am moving on Monday.

Next fall I’ll be scouting up new spots in the Askov area. I wiil continue to hunt from my cabin near Orr and report accordingly.

I’ve hunted near my home in Lino for 25 years so looking for new areas will be interesting for sure.

I plan to hang with this site as long as it remains viable ??????

Posted By:
Paul-Burton
Field Editor

11-23-2010 12:09
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Finally had migrating birds thru the brainerd area last week with the weather change. There wasnt so many that you could go any ol place, you had to scout but it was worth it.

Hunted big water on saturday on a prominant point midway on a lake that runs North/south. Thru the week it had been slow with a few divers here and there and the remaining dock mallards.
Large diver set with long line and 3 dzn loose.
7:30 it started, groups of golden eyes ranging in numbers of 15- 40 poured RIGHT in the pocket and had no hesitation. by the 4th or 5th flock, all within an hour we had 18 golden eyes for 3 guys. As I remember the best shoot we have EVER had on this lake and we hunt it a ton.

Went back on sunday and didnt pull the trigger. there was heavy fog and i speculate that the birds didnt want to fly.

This lake since sunday has started making ice but there is still at least 200 golden eyes still on it but virtually no way to get to them due to shore ice.

Its over i think, another season done. I will start a season overview in the MN forum later today to see how everyone feels about their season

Posted By:
Peter-Brown
Field Editor

North Metro, Anoka County 11-22-2010 05:42
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 10-20 Degrees – Open Water
There are still birds in the Centerville area. Mostly divers and geese.

Geo. Watch was iced up Sat.

Although I haven’t been out every day we have taken a few birds.

My partner and I shot a 12 bird limit(all divers) on Centerville last week.

There seems to be a bunch of guys still getting after it. Saturday there was fair amount of shoting on Peltier Lake.

I will get out a few more times before it’s over.

Posted By:
Canman OMaddie
Web Member

West Metro 11-21-2010 21:43
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Buddies and I decided to do an afternoon hunt this afternoon. Very slow. Didn’t see a single bird until 3:45. Shot to bills and that was it. With this weather coming, Ice is sure to come. Busting out the Ice fishing gear.

Posted By:
knute
Web Member

wilkin county/ottertail county 11-20-2010 16:55
Cloudy, High Winds – 25-30 Degrees – Ice
Hunted Thursday near Rothsay. Little slough, covered in thin ice. Broke ice and set out a dozen and a half decoys and 1 roboduck.
About 9:00 finally, in came a pair of drake mallards. As they got close, they must have figured out that my dekes were all frozen in the ice. They flared up, and I dropped both with one shot. Wow!
An hour later a flock of 15 mallards were flyting in the north. Literally one quack from me and they made a 90 degree turn and came right in like the first two. Dropped two more drakes from that flock. Stayed another hour but saw nothing( other than high flying flocks of geese).
Scouted the afternoon and decided to hunt closer to Fergus falls the next day

Found more than 5000 mallards and several thousand geese at orwell. Asked permission to hunt a couple different cornfeilds for the next day but both already had people hunting them.
Settled on a small lake/large slough in the area.

Friday morning the wind was blowing 20-30 mph out of the wnw. Temp was 22 degrees. Took the boat out with the trolling motor. Set up on the quiet side of a point with a little hill on it blocking the wind. Really wasn’t too bad out of the wind. Saw a few flying around early then nothing more until a flock of four mallards flew in about 9:00 again. Dropped two nice drakes. Both apparently had only broken wings and Both made it into the cattails about forty to fifty yards away in a hail of shots across the water, but couldn’t get a head shot in the waves. Went across to them and searched for about forty minutes. Couldn’t find them anywhere. I hate losing birds!!!!!!!!
Notning else flying so I picked up about 11:30. that’s when the fun started. As I came back around the point I realized the wind had really picked up and there were good sized whitecaps. The spray from the waves was icing up on impact with my cold aluminum boat. The trolling motor bracket froze up and wouldn’t lock into positon when I put it down. Wet gloves froze solid and It made for an interesting ride back across the lake into the wind.
Really glad to get the heat going in the truck when I got back!

Drove around a bit to see where all the geese were going that I had been seeing. Found several hundred in a plowed corn feild bordering a wpa. Parked the truck and walked about half way across until the land leveled out with the cornfeild. Then crawled another hundred yards up to within about seventy yards of all the geese.

My hope was when they got up they would fly over me for a shot. Well the first few groups that moved out went the other way, but after about a half hour a group of a hundred got up and came right over me. An absolute gimme shot. Soooo…. I picked out the closest goose and preceded to miss three straight shots at it. I got no Idea!

Ton of ducks and geese all around the orwell area but securing permission hasn,t been easy and the lakes have divers on them but alot of ice and wind. Saturday The temp dropped to 10 degrees all night and the wind dropped which created a thick layer of ice across everything I saw Saturday. Almost everything along the way home along 94 was completely covered in ice and NO ducks.
I’d say the season is done!

Posted By:
dstohlberg08
Web Member

south central mn 11-14-2010 21:42
Cloudy, Snow Flurries – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
Scouted Friday and Saturday for geese and ducks in the fields, Friday saw lots of ducks and geese hitting corn fields that had been plowed. Saturday we found a field that had several hundred geese in it and were able to get permission to hunt it Sunday. Set up in the dark after walking in the spread only to find out we were set up to close to the road. Had one Flock work us but landed behind us. So we decided to to move the whole spread further in the field onyx to have the sky on the horizon fill up with geese coming right for the field when were not set yet. Still got shots on groups as we layed there there. Finally set up and had a single come in and my buddy shot it above me but wouldn’t drop. A few more flocks come in with more poor shooting. Ended up with a couple of geese for two guys. Saw thousands of geese in the area.

Posted By:
CPAMAN
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Rice/Skunk Lakes-Central MN 11-13-2010 17:59
Cloudy, Accumulating Snow – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
Perfect weather in Central MN for duck hunting. Not the heavy snow here that the Twin Cities is getting. Just a steady snowfall with winds at 15 mph. Problem. No ducks! Saw six birds on the two lakes-total! Two mallards and four divers. I shot a crippled goose on Skunk lake as I scouted the two lakes. Had to chase him around for several hundred yards. The only goose left in the area. Frustrating to say the least.

P.S. Discovered when cleaning the goose that it was banded!

[Edited By CPAMAN on 2010-11-14 10:58]

Posted By:
Paul-Burton
Field Editor

Brainerd area 11-13-2010 11:06
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Hunted big water 5 days in the last week and a half. Not much happening in this part of the state. Have bagged a few birds each time but not seeing much in the mornings, weather outlook doesn’t look like it is gonna get too cold over the next week. Still gonna hit it hard and hope for birds to come down
I am guessing it’s quiet other places but would like to see some other reports!

Posted By:
kobear
Web Member

Otter Tail County 11-10-2010 10:45
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 35-40 Degrees
News birds around past few days. Kind of a trickle of migration? Mallards and Geese using bigger lakes to stage out to fields. Some divers around too but nothing major. Should get some shooting if out and about this weekend.

Posted By:
CPAMAN
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Did Not Hunt 11-08-2010 09:49
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On my way back from deer hunting in North Dakota Sunday PM my son and I saw a lot of ducks and geese along the I-94 corridor from Fergus Falls area through Alexandria. Over three dozen sloughs were holding 15-400 ducks and geese. As usual, the peak migration appears to have hit during the deer opener.

[Edited By CPAMAN on 2010-11-08 17:53]

Posted By:
knute
Web Member

Breckenridge/rothsay/Fergus Falls 11-03-2010 21:45
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 35-40 Degrees
Hunted this past Sat/Sunday/monday.

Saturday set up on the same slough/wpa as last week and took only one ringer. I did see several hundred mallards fly over looking for cornfeilds though. Packed up and decided to go scouting. Put on about a hundred and fifty mile in the above mentioned area scouting. Picked up a couple ruddy ducks in a little lake in the afternnoon.
After the snow they got last week there is water vertually everywhere. Found a flooded cornfeild with about three hundred mallards in it and three hundred sandhill cranes between the corn and the hayfeild across the road. Found the owner and asked permission to hunt, but was turned down. He said his cousin hunts it.

Sunday set up in backwaters of the river. Had a good day. Got a 14 pound goose and three two curl mallards, and dropped a leg on another, although he flew away.

Monday hit a slightly different area of the river and managed two more mallards(although one was a hen) and a really nice drake woodie before I had to pack up and head for home.

I saw a lot more birds than last week. Definitely starting to migrate, although not in full swing yet by any means.
If your planning to hunt that area you better plan on spending some time scouting becuase there is just so much water that even when they really start flying there are jsut so many place for them to hide, and the feilds are really muddy right now.

Posted By:
Peter-Brown
Field Editor

North Metro, Anoka Cty 11-03-2010 13:39
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 35-40 Degrees
Things have slowed in the Lino Lakes area.

Not a lot to be seen, less to shoot at.

I did notice a few more Mallards hanging around the “safe” areas. Centerville city limits and the golf course.

Some of them will screw up and fall to the gun before things end.

Although I have nothing to show for my last few mornings, the word I get from others is that a duck or two are being taken by some.

I did a drive about yesterday AM, very few rigs parked at the various boat landings.

I’m after Bambi this weekend, I’ll report again later next week.

Posted By:
CPAMAN
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West Central Minnesota 11-01-2010 11:57
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 40-45 Degrees
Hunted out in the Morris area Saturday AM. Two reasons, report earlier in the week indicated birds had moved into this area. Second reason was we gained permission to hunt several cut fields in the area. We were set up for dark geese but the fields were incredibly muddy. Had to set up closer to the farm area as walking in that mud was a disaster and travel via truck or 4-wheeler was impossible.

Ended up not firing a shot! The geese were moving in the AM but nothing came closer than 100 yards of our spread. A few smaller flocks took a look but shied away. We needed to be more out in the middle of the section-wide field in order to get more attention. The most disturbing factor was that we did not see one duck that morning. After we picked up around 10:30, we drove around and did not see a single bird in any of the WPA around the Morris, Hancock, or Glenwood areas. This is even more surprising given that some hunters had success in Central MN the previous Friday or Saturday as posted in the field reports.

Another report from the Herman area was a complete bust as well. Only one duck taken by a group of three hunters with very few birds seen on Saturday AM. One would have thought that October 30th would have been a prime day to hunt after the wind storm and snow storm the previous Monday-Wednesday.

Posted By:
Mendota Go-Devil
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Central MN 11-01-2010 10:45
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 40-45 Degrees
Finally had a great Minnesota mallard hunt this weekend. Got out with my brother for the last 2 hours of hunting time on Friday. It was a nice sunny afternoon with south winds. Our set up was perfect as both the sun and wind was to our back which made identifying the drakes very easy. We shot 6 nice greenheads that evening and could have easily taken a hen each if we wanted to.

Saturday morning three of us went back to the same area. There were lots of mallards but we had a north wind so our morning set up had the sun in our eyes which made identifying the drakes very difficult for the first few hours. Shot a couple of hens early so had to play the “is it or isn’t it a drake?” game for a long time. By 1:00 p.m. we finally shot our last drake for a 12 mallard (9 drakes and 3 hens) limit plus a nice female Pintail. We could have shot some Greenwing Teal and Ringnecks as there were some of them around too but decided to hold out for the Mallards.

Water is very high in this area and the mallards were in the flooded grass.

Posted By:
dstohlberg08
Web Member

central MN 10-29-2010 21:07
Cloudy, Snow & Rain Mix – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
Just got back from the cabin, hunted the last couple of days in the area with great success. Lots of ringers around more than I’ve ever seen Wednesday the sky was thick with them. Killed a limit both Wed and Thurs. Less birds seen on thursday. Headed back up on Sunday.

Posted By:
nafd54
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10-29-2010 19:12
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CPMAN, I SAW THE SAME THING LAST YEAR WITH THE FLOCKS OF BLACKBIRDS. IT WAS AMAZING. WORDS CAN NOT DESCRIBE IT. THAT IS SOME OF THE GREATEST THINGS ABOUT DUCK HUNTING. YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU WILL SEE. GLAD TO HEAR YOU HAD A GOOD SHOOT.

Posted By:
CPAMAN
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Central MN 10-29-2010 12:44
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 25-30 Degrees – Ice
Hunted this AM after the lowest barometric pressure system EVER recorded in the USA this past week on Tuesday. Yesterday may have been the day to be out as winds were out of the NW at 20-30 mph and overcast until late morning. Hard freeze overnight with temps down to around 23 degrees. Ice on the bays of the lake and the more shallow areas. Water levels extremely high-as high as I ever seen for this late in October.

I got to the landing early at around 5:50 am. That is a full 1.5 hrs before legal shooting. To my surprise, two vehicles were already there, and one vehicle was parked with the hunters already on the lake 20 minutes prior according to he other guy there who was just launching. Hardly a duck seen on my way in, however, it was still very dark. I got flashed off one point on the lake and chose to go the other side. Had plenty of time to set up, so I put out 18 diver decoys with a half dozen mallards just off to the side.

As a little twilight shown in the east, I saw a few small flocks of ducks moving around. Shortly thereafter, two other groups on the lake opened up with a volley apiece, and then another. I had a bluebill fly right into my decoy spread and took him right in the decoys. He drifted nicely to a clump of slough grass so I stayed in my boat blind. Five minutes later, two geese came in from behind me and I made a nice shot on both of them at around 40 yards. Unfortunately, both glided about 250 yards so I had to put the chase on them. I got one of them and the other one managed to get enough lift to just barely get off the water. It was shot by another hunter on the lake, so it was put in the bag.

A fairly decent number of migratory ducks showed up on the lake the first hour. Probably ten flocks of mallards ranging from 25-80 birds and about 15 diver flocks, primarily goldeneyes, ranging from 15-25 birds. I had a couple of goldeneyes pass through my decoys that came out of nowhere with no shots fired.

About ten minutes after sunrise, the most incredible blackbird swarm I have ever seen busted out across the lake. In my forty years of waterfowling, I have never seen a bigger swarm of blackbirds. I kid you not there must have been several million. The flock was at least a half-mile wide and it took half an hour to pass by and it was thick! The noise was so loud it almost hurt your ears. During this disturbance, several flocks of divers and mallards got literally buried within the swarm. It was nearly impossible to pick them out of the blackbird swarm as they moved about.

Despite seeing a fair number of ducks, the decoy shooting was very poor. Most of the birds swung around the lake at 100 yards up but never came to rest. This was surprising to say the least. I ended up with only the one duck and goose. At least I saw some birds today, however. That was encouraging.

Posted By:
kobear
Web Member

Alex-Fargo 10-29-2010 09:57
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 30-34 Degrees – Ice
Small ponds and lakes are skimmed with ice this am. Some new birds but just a few I’ve seen. Some nice mallards. A few Redheads. Head to Nodak.

Posted By:
Paul-Burton
Field Editor

brainerd area 10-28-2010 15:18
Cloudy, High Winds – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
Hunted same water and point as yesterday. Not alot of bird activity, if anything less than yesterday- birds left? no new ones in yet?
ran a diver set tweaked a bit from yesterday due to wind being more north than west. Only shooting we had was at one group of buffles that came right in the pocket, dropped 4. That was the only real opportunity of the morning.
Did recieve word that new birds have arrived in western minnesota near Morris.

Still gonna hit her hard tomorrow and thru the weekend, keep ya’ll updated!

Posted By:
knute
Web Member

Breckenridge/ Rothsay 10-27-2010 21:49
Cloudy, Occassional Rain Showers – 45-50 Degrees
Scouted last Saturday afternoon for about five hours and put on ninety miles. Very few ducks around. Very high water around the area. Finally found a promising spot on a wpa. A slough that was way over its normal edges up in to the grass.

Walked in Sunday morning with a dozen duck decoys and 1 goose. Set up in a foot of water in the grass. Had a few mallards working it early but I think they were seeing me in the tall grass so I moved into the cattails on the edges of the slough and dtood in the waist deep water.

Bingo!
Within ten minutes, in comes a big four curl drake. Dropped him at about 30 yards dead on impact!
Then about twenty minutes later I saw two mallards, started calling, and heard a quack above my head and looked up to see twenty big mallards over head. Dropped probalby the biggest hen I’ve ever seen. It was raining so hard and was so gray that I couldn’t see any colors at all between the hens and drakes.

Then a half hour later another huge drake comes over solo. Shot him and broke a wing. he dropped 15 yards away in open water, but very much alive. I peppered him with two more shots but couldn’t kill him, so I ran out to grab him and he dove under. Searched for 45 minutes for him but he never came back up! He looked even bigger than the first drake i got, which was huge! Bummer!!!

That was it and I picked up. Not a lot of birds but at least they were big ones.

Going back up this weekend. This weather should drastically improve things!

Posted By:
Paul-Burton
Field Editor

brainerd area 10-27-2010 12:00
Cloudy, Snow & Rain Mix – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
hunted close to home this morning. The nastiest weather I have ever hunted in. 20+ mph winds and blowing snow.
Setting dekes was a bit of a challange in the wind.
Hope was that the corner/point we set up on would be more protected than it was. Side set with 24+ loose decoys, didnt want to mess with the long line.

Didnt seem to have any new birds in the area i was, but did have movement from birds after 8am.

Had some cans and ringers decoy perfectly right up the string, left the lake with 2 cans and 3 ringers.

Planning on hunting rest of the week with the hope that birds are still coming in, keep you posted

Posted By:
crowwing hunter
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detroit lakes park rapids area 10-27-2010 07:26
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My friend and I hunted hard for 9 days straight in the park rapids area. Should have waited a week later though. It’s always a crap shoot here in minnesota. Ended up harvesting 14 ducks. Saw very few birds. Hopefully this week will be better with this low pressure coming in. I might have to sneek up north for a day here. Good hunting. Crowwing hunter

Posted By:
Mendota Go-Devil
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Big Fork River 10-26-2010 15:15
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 40-45 Degrees
Three days, seven guys, four dogs and two ducks! I’ve been hunting the Big Fork River annually for 35 years and it was by far the most discouraging duck hunting I have ever experienced there. We “maybe” saw 3 or 4 mallards and a few flocks of Rignecks but that was it. There weren’t even any coots hanging around! We had heard the hunting was slow in this area of the State but we didn’t think it would be that slow…especially when we had cooling weather and mostly north winds. The Big Fork’s water is very high this year and this probably has something to do with the lack of ducks but boy, when a bunch of good hunters with well trained dogs can’t even scratch out one limit between them after 3 days of hunting it tells me something is wrong! No wonder people are quiting duck hunting!

I’ll be heading up to central MN this weekend and will report back on Monday.

I hope this current storm pushes some good flocks of birds into MN this week and that everyone can get out and have some good hunting.

Posted By:
Paul-Burton
Field Editor

statewide 10-26-2010 14:46
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HERE WE GO!!!!!!!
WE GOT SOME WEATHER AND IF ANYONE CAN GET OUT, DO IT. THIS SHOULD DEFINATELY BRING NEW BIRDS TO THE STATE THRU THE DAY AND NIGHT

GOOD LUCK, SHOOT STRAIGHT, BE SAFE!

Posted By:
Paul-Burton
Field Editor

skime/nw minnesota 10-25-2010 15:03
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 40-45 Degrees
Hunted large public water saturday and sunday. I believe that this water has held the same birds since opener, with fewer every week due to birds taken and pressure pushing them off the lake.
bluebills, bluebills, bluebills. Few buffles and even fewer golden eyes.
Ducks on this water had very specific flight/excersise patterns.
Saturday morning we were NOT on the “x” saw flock after group take the same flight pattern with no change, cover and decoy shy. 3 of us left with only two bluebills.

Sunday morn moved in to where the birds wanted to be after morning excersise and we WERE on the X! Great shoot with 4 bills in the boat for 2 of us in under 2 hours. Waited to get some buffs with no avail. We could have easily killed 12 bills for how flocks of 5-15 came right in the pocket, feet down. our other group of 2 killed 8, 4 bills and 4 buffs. My buddy trav pulled the ultimate shot, saw it from a distance, 3 bills with one shot, all deader than a door nail when they hit the water.

Summary: We need weather, I believe that i have been hunting and shooting at the same birds on this lake since opener. Other note- been loving doing a side set with the decoys, the covers i have been hunting have been thin, the side set doesnt have the hunter in the birds sights as they come up the string.
I believe bird numbers and activity is the same other places in the state, maybe all birds have left your area due to pressure and better food down the road for them. KEEP AN EYE ON THE WEATHER!

I will be hunting local water around the brainerd area this week and weekend, reports in the last week of good numbers of ringers and a few small flocks of cans! keep ya’ll posted!

[Edited By Paul-Burton on 2010-10-25 15:11]

Posted By:
CPAMAN
Guest

West Central Minnesota 10-25-2010 13:02
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
On Saturday my son and his buddies did OK. They ended up with ten variety species birds but could have taken a limit with better shooting and not having been totally surprised by a couple of small flocks that suddenly buzzed the decoys out of nowhere. The wetland fog was a little dense early on making it difficult to be ready for those kind of opportunities. Mostly diver ducks seen with a mallard, wigeon and gadwall tossed in the bag.

Posted By:
kobear
Web Member

Douglas County 10-25-2010 08:42
Cloudy, Occassional Rain Showers – 40-45 Degrees
Wet. Real wet. Thunder before legal shooting Saturday. Shotgun thunder after. Didn’t sound like alot of guys out but there sure were ducks. Ringbills and a gadwall. Never got the drop on any mallards, other ducks swung thru interfereing twice and they got me by suprise once.
Sunday they were later but had some big flocks swirl right in. First ones caught me sitting them came so quick. Half were on the water before I stood up. Pulled down on the passers not landing, bang, bang, switched to the lifting off birds, bang. No ducks three clean misses dog not impressed. Ended with five ringbills.

Posted By:
kobear
Web Member

West central 10-22-2010 21:02
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 45-50 Degrees
Lots of birds bagged in the past week. Mallards and woodies in some spots. Ringbills in others. Field shooting like it’s ND. Good to see guys who haven’t been out in years get stamps and bag birds. Not sure why but I’m headed to ND next week. Tomorrow, there are new birds out back. A pintail even.

Posted By:
Peter-Brown
Field Editor

North Metro, Anoka County 10-22-2010 08:44
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
Things have been pretty slow in the Geo.Watch area. A few birds seen and a few taken, but not much to report.

I skipped this morning after striking out yesterday. Almost no shooting heard in AM.

I’m headed back to St Louis County. I did OK there last week on Ducks and super on Grouse.

I plan on hunting the Pelican River (north of Orr Sat. AM ) The local guys say there are a few new birds around.

Although, I’ve done very well chasing Grouse my duck numbers are still a little better. A great Improvement over 2009.

[Edited By Peter-Brown on 2010-10-22 08:45]

Posted By:
Paul-Burton
Field Editor

brainerd area 10-19-2010 16:36
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slow start to the season…..
The least amount that i have hunted early in the season in many years, guess turning 30 I have started putting more time into working the family business and house projects.
There have been about the same amount of local ducks as previous years, decent number of woodies and mallards, some ringers and bluebills earlier than usual.

I havent scouted a ton or even hunted to warrant many reports, dont want to BS anyone on here, start weekend traveling friday, hopefully with some insight as to what ducks are doing in the northern part of the state.

Posted By:
dstohlberg08
Web Member

north metro 10-19-2010 14:59
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 40-45 Degrees
Hunted the metro this mourning and did OK, wasn’t expecting much. First flock was canvasbacks decoying, we each killed one. Then blue bills followed by ringers. Then nothing it lasted about 30 minutes or so. Headed north west the rest of the week.

Posted By:
Peter-Brown
Field Editor

North Metro, Anoka Cty 10-13-2010 11:38
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
There has been steady early shooting in the area (Geo. Watch) for the last 4 to 5 days. Shots fired drop off big time after the first 30/45 minutes.

I have averaged couple ducks/geese each day between Geo.watch and Reshanu, mostly Woodies. I have not tried Centerville.

I’ve seen a fair number of birds , but they are pretty wary. Usually headed to closed areas

My poor shooting has reduced my take.

It’s hard to tell how others are doing as I actually encounter few hunters. If shots fired means anything the guys working the south end of G.W. (Sat. Sun.& Mon.)should be cleaning a bunch of birds. However high flyers and emptied guns doen’t always mean birds in the freezer.

My total birds taken is better this year than last.

I’m headed north for about a week.

[Edited By Peter-Brown on 2010-10-13 11:39]

[Edited By Peter-Brown on 2010-10-13 11:40]

Posted By:
3Times
Web Member

10-11-2010 23:08
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This was the worst opening day of my life, pulled the trigger 3Times missed each time and almost fell out of the boat on the 3rd shot. There was some bird movement prior to 9:00 but nothing after. The upside being that the walleyes, crappies and sunnies we on Fire

Sunday morning was a Ringer shoot and we ended with 15 for 3 guys. Not a fraction of the birds that were there last year.

Monday I relocated to a small rice lake at shooting time and went out and watched the 2 other groups on it. I moved to the north end after watching for an hour, not on the X but shot a nice Greenhead a Drake Woody and a Honker.

Tuesday I brought a friend along and set up on a shore line that looked like it was getting worked by the birds on Monday. We did alright we got 5 Mallards, 3 Woodys This lake is awesome for the amount of birds, we could have killed more of them but we don’t have a dog and just can’t shoot at about a 1/3 of the birds that come into range because a man can’t travel on the bogs behind us.

Wednesday the wind blew hard the spinner worked and we were able to decoy most of the birds right into the kill zone we took a limit including Mallards, Redheads, Ringers, Gadwall and Woody

Thursday I went by myself and got 2 Mallards a Woody and a Ringer

Back to work Friday Saturday and Sunday.

Today I went out with 2 Friends and we got 2 Mallards, 2 Green wing Teal, 1 Pintail and 2 Ringers.

Photos in Grip and Grin

Posted By:
crowwing hunter
Guest

hubbard badoura area 10-11-2010 18:11
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Hunted sat on a area lake…. saw a few geese… trumpeter swans and absolutely no ducks. Ended up with one mallard. Looking forward to those migrating ducks. I’ll be at the duck schaack for 9 days straight starting 0ct. 16. Hopefully I’ll have something to report on.

Posted By:
dstohlberg08
Web Member

thief lake 10-09-2010 22:12
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
Lots of ringers around, I think the dnr counted on wedsnesday and said there were about 7900 ringers,400 cans, 400 bills,600 redheads and very few puddle ducks. I also saw a nice flock of wood ducks in a ditch near the moose river. Mostly ringers in the bag with a few redheads, three mallards,and one widgeon for the week. Weather way to nice. The walleyes are biting

Posted By:
knute
Web Member

Mahnomen 10-08-2010 22:50
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Hunted the opener on a large WFPA that has been really good in the past. Saw a few on it Friday afternoon. Well, come Saturday, they were no where to be found.
Never saw a single duck on Saturday. Stayed out all day and never even saw one!!!!! Pulled the boat and moved over to a near by lake where Two of my buddies hunted Saturday.

Sunday was much better, shot my limit of six by 8:30. Alot of birds moving early. The surprising thing was we shot no mallards or woodies, and only three teal.
It was all divers. My limit consisted of two redheads, two ringbills, one bluebill, and one bufflehead.
The other two guys also got their limits of similar birds on Sunday, but by 9:30 the skies were empty again.

Went out Monday morning for one last try before heading back to the cities. About two minutes to legal, I was loading up and getting everything set in the boat when I looked up and what to my eyes did appear, but about thirty ringers bearing straight for me. They obviously saw me floundering around and off they went. Ten minutes later, a pair of redheads came in and I dropped one. That was it! Saw a couple small flocks moving about, but not interested in my decoys.

WAY TOO nice for ducks. No wind at all one Sat. or Monday. Still it was great to be out on the lake again. Going to wait for a little cooler weather before going out again.

Good luck everyone.

Posted By:
Peter-Brown
Field Editor

North Metro, Anoka Cty 10-07-2010 09:41
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 45-50 Degrees
Sorry I’m so late with this report, but it’s taken some time to get caught up after Saskatchewan trip.

I’ve hunted the last few days on Geo.watch and today Reshanu. It’s been pretty slow. I did get three ducks this AM.

I’m seeing mostly Woodies with the odd Teal and Mallards.

A bunch of shooting right at legal each day, then it realy drops off.

There seems to be a fair numbers of hunters out, with access seemingly easy with high water.

The high water is screwing up some of my best spots, but I’ll adjust.

Hunting for both ducks and geese is always better in this area with low water rather than high.

I’ll keep after then and report again after the weekend.

I’m headed north( Orr area) next week.

Posted By:
dstohlberg08
Web Member

thief lake 10-06-2010 17:47
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 40-45 Degrees
Hunted thief this mourning,it was a bit slow. Me and a buddy got eight. The majority of ducks around are ringers. Tally for the day was five ringers,two mallards and one blue bill. Also saw quite a few Canada geese and snows in the fields around the lake. Got two more days to hunt and ducks to cook.

Posted By:
CPAMAN
Guest

North Dakota 10-05-2010 16:49
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 60-65 Degrees
See my depressing report on the North Dakota field reports. Yuck!

Posted By:
jasonmn24
Web Member

west central mn 10-04-2010 21:58
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lots of woodies around. a couple hundred today flying around. buddy and i shot 3 drakes

Posted By:
duckyboymn
Guest

Southern MN 10-04-2010 21:53
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – –
Four of us were out this morning on our private slough that we hunt after opening weekend. The birds continued to stack from Early goose to Take a kid and then after this weekend. There were roughly 200-250 ducks using it..mainly mallards, then woodies, teal, and even a few gads and pintails. And the Honkers recently came back.

We had a 4 man limit by 8:15. We were fortunate to get 12 drake mallards and stay at our 4 Hen limit. Three of the hens were taken early. Then a gad, woodies, GW and BW teal filled out our bag. Kicked out about 40 roosting honkers and ducks galore upon entry. By far a hunt that is isolated to that area. We didn’t hear any other shots other than our own. We were lucky to get them to commit like they did near the end as we had zero wind, which usually is the driving force to bring them down.

[Edited By duckyboymn on 2010-10-04 21:57]

Posted By:
Mendota Go-Devil
Guest

Rice and Skunk Lake Central MN 10-04-2010 19:01
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
We hunted the Rice and Skunk area for opener. These lakes have lots of wild rice this year but the water level is higher than I’ve ever seen it in the fall. Our party did OK. Six of us shot 11 ducks on Saturday and four of us shot seven on Sunday (6 mallards, 8 teal, 2 pintails, 1 woodie and one spoonbill…ooops!).

Very few woodies were around. Both days large flocks of teal would periodically migrate through which would result in increased shooting around the two lakes for a half hour or so afterward.

We did not see very many mallards but shot well when some came in within range.

I do think there were more birds in the area this opener compared to last year.

Posted By:
kobear
Web Member

Douglas County 10-04-2010 09:35
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 35-40 Degrees
Lots of birds around. Ringers moved in, teal still here. LOTS of shooting. More guys out than past years, good to see as most were very well mannered with little sky busting. Near limits for 5 guys Sat and 3 each Sun. Definitely need to shoot some Clays.
Seems the Youth that we had out there two weeks ago didn’t bother em too much.

Posted By:
Canman OMaddie
Web Member

Sibley 10-04-2010 09:04
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Birds around just not in the right spot either day. find a flooded feild and you are golden!!

Posted By:
webmaster
root

MN DNR REPORT 09-30-2010 18:06
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Most managers across the state are predicting a duck season similar to last year, which by most accounts was poor to fair. The number of breeding ducks in the state was unchanged from 2009; continental breeding duck numbers were also unchanged from last year for all species. The distribution of continental ducks once again showed large numbers of breeding ducks present in the eastern Dakotas in response to record spring wetland conditions. Most anecdotal reports indicate that production (number of young) was fair to good in most regions, including Minnesota.

Habitat conditions are generally very wet across most of the state. In southern Minnesota, many rivers remain under flood warnings with the excessive rainfall experienced last week. Lake levels also rose last week throughout much of the state. Extensive areas of sheet water and flooded fields are present and will likely disperse ducks early in the season. Wild rice crops were below average but highly variable across the state this year; stands have started to deteriorate on many rice lakes.

Waterfowl surveys conducted this week indicated that duck numbers in most locations were lower than last year at this time. Many blue-winged teal and wood ducks have already migrated out of the state. Fair numbers of migrant ring-necked ducks have moved into northern Minnesota but birds are fairly concentrated on a few lakes and numbers are near average for this time of year. In the northern 1/3 of the state, ring-necked ducks should dominate opening weekend bags. In other areas, mallards, blue-winged teal, and wood ducks will be more common.

Canada goose hunting should be good statewide; goose numbers have increased in many areas since mid September as flocks of molt migrant giant Canada geese have moved back into the state starting in mid-September. A few snow geese are present in extreme NW Minnesota.

Duck hunter numbers in 2009 were the 2nd lowest recorded since 1977 and likely to be similar or lower than that this season. Hunters can expect slightly below normal temperatures on opening weekend across the state, with daytime highs in the 50s to low 60s and lows in the upper 30s to the low 40s across most of the state. A mild cold front should move through the state Friday and Saturday with light north winds and a low chance of precipitation. Winds are expected to shift to the south by Sunday. Temperatures are forecast to be near normal most of next week with little chance of precipitation expected. Duck hunter numbers in 2009 were the 2nd lowest recorded since 1977 and likely to be similar or lower than that this season.

Hunters can expect slightly below normal temperatures on opening weekend across the state, with daytime highs in the 50s to low 60s and lows in the upper 30s to the low 40s across most of the state. A mild cold front should move through the state Friday and Saturday with light north winds and a low chance of precipitation. Winds are expected to shift to the south by Sunday. Temperatures are forecast to be near normal most of next week with little chance of precipitation expected.

Reminder:
Hunters should note that the duck season opens at 9 a.m. on Saturday October 2 and runs through Tuesday November 30. Shooting hours end at 4 p.m. through Saturday Oct. 9 and sunset the remainder of the season. Bag limits are 6 ducks/day. The bag limit for hen mallards, canvasbacks, and black ducks is 1/day. The bag limit for pintails, wood ducks, redheads, and scaup is 2/day. The daily bag limit for mergansers is 5/day, with no more than 2 hooded mergansers. The daily bag limit for coots is 15/day.

The regular Canada goose season opens statewide on Saturday October 2 and runs through December 25, except in the Rochester goose zone, where the season runs from Oct. 2 to Dec. 7 and Dec. 16 to Jan. 2. The bag limit is 3 Canada geese/day statewide for the entire season.

Motorized decoys are prohibited statewide through Saturday October 9th and on state wildlife management areas the entire season. Hunters should consult the 2010 Waterfowl Hunting regulations (available from license vendors or online at:

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/regulations/hunting/index.html

for additional details and regulations. Be aware that the new drain plug law is in effect and hunters must remove drain plugs from boats before transporting them on public roads.

Safety Never Takes A Holiday: treat every gun as if it were loaded, be 100% certain of your target before pulling the trigger, wear your life vest, pay attention to other hunters and your hunting partners, and watch the weather.

[Edited By webmaster on 2010-09-30 18:09]

Posted By:
skankyringer
Web Member

central mn 09-30-2010 15:08
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Our youth hunt went pretty good. Both of our youths got plenty of shooting in, need to work a little on it, but they had a great time, as did their fathers watching. Neither shot a limit but both kids did manage to shoot four ducks. I think both kids will be hooked for life, fathers, not sure yet. I know they could see the excitement in their kids eyes. This weekend we will be trying our luck in the same area. Hope some of the teal and wood ducks have stuck around. Good luck everyone.

Posted By:
dstohlberg08
Web Member

glenwood 09-19-2010 20:02
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 45-50 Degrees
Hunted a small lake near a friends cabin in glenwood this mourning,we shot 2 geese and missed a third. Very few geese seen in the area. Also saw very few ducks flying. So far in five hunts my group has killed 31 geese with 0 banded

Posted By:
CPAMAN
Guest

West Central Minnesota 09-19-2010 19:50
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 50-60 Degrees
My brother Andy and a friend took three youths including my nephew Tommy on their first waterfowl hunt Saturday AM. Andy and Tommy arrived at the spot, one they had never hunted, just before sunrise, but did not get set up until almost one hour after legal shooting. No matter as Tommy shot five BWT, a drake mallard, and a Canada goose in less than 30 minutes! Even more impressive was that it took him only fifteen shells to get a duck limit and a goose with a 20 gauge shotgun. The other two boys each shot a goose and a total of three more teal from a different boat. That is a fine hunt for two 12 year olds and 10 year old on their first waterfowl hunts.

My brother Andy said that Tommy could have shot another limit of ducks in the next half hour before they picked up the decoys. Not a tremendous amount of ducks, but the birds that came in were right in the decoys. Approximately 100 teal, and a dozen wood ducks and mallards that came into the slough in addition to about two dozen geese.

A great YWD hunt!

Posted By:
Joe-Weber
Field Editor

se metro 09-19-2010 10:45
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
slow hunting saw aprox 100 birds few would even look…….most were heading to the river….one shot one goose…..

Posted By:
dstohlberg08
Web Member

western mn 09-19-2010 07:55
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 40-45 Degrees
Hunted Saturday in western Mn, saw a good number of geese in the area. My three man crew shot 7, should have been a few more but poor shooting.

Posted By:
skankyringer
Web Member

se metro 09-15-2010 14:35
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We saw our first group of cacklers these last couple of days. They seem to be about two weeks ahead of their norm, at least for our area. More mallards have also drifted in and started to use area ponds more. This weekend we will be in central mn. for youth hunt,the two kids we have for this should have a blast,,,,,, we have been watching lots of ducks in the area.

Posted By:
dstohlberg08
Web Member

swamprat 09-13-2010 21:49
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
I think those anoka geese are hold up off highway 10 across from coon rapids high school, yesterday I saw about 200 in the ponds and scrub fields. There is quite a few geese around town as well as the huntable out- skirts. Going westward this weekend,will post report then.

Posted By:
swamprat177
Web Member

Same as Peter 09-13-2010 15:53
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I agree with Peter — for time of year, seems to be less geese. Can tell they are getting some hunting pressure as seeing more in town but overall, numbers lower than last year. For example, coner of Anoka 18 and 14 — the sod farms — many fewer geese.

Posted By:
Peter-Brown
Field Editor

North Metro 09-13-2010 15:45
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 50-60 Degrees
Things are pretty slow. Went out Sat & Sun. no action.

Posted for pass shooting south end of Geo.Watch. Only stayed out until about 8:00 AM

Some shooting at the north end Sat. by the sounds of follow up shots, some birds must have been taken.

My observations show there to be a lower than normal number of geese in the area.

Will try again Wednesday.

Posted By:
Peter-Brown
Field Editor

St Louis cty.(Orr) North Metro (Geo. Watch) 09-10-2010 09:49
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 50-60 Degrees
My hunting was a little limited during the first week.

I did get out Three mornings and have but one goose to show for it.

Hunted Monday and Wednesday near Elephant lake. A good number of geese seen. Poor early season shooting resulted in just one on Wed. The guys I regularly hunt with took seven on Sunday( I missed that shoot). Decoys in smaller water areas. Saw hundereds of ducks, mostly Woodies. Wild Rice was the attraction for both geese and ducks.

I hunted George Watch this morning. Nothing!! Saw no geese. A concern was that there were hardly and ducks either. I don’t know about hunting pressure earlier in the week, but saw no one else and heard no shooting this morning.

We walk in to Geo.Watch and set up for pass shooting. No deks this time of year.

Posted By:
Peter-Brown
Field Editor

Skankyringer 09-10-2010 09:25
Arctic Blast – Froze Out
What the “H” are you talking about ????

It is my understanding that field reports are actual hunting reports!!!!! Birds seen, birds shot, hunting presure ect. DURING THE SEASON !!!!!

The BSing and out of season stuff goes in our “state discussion forum”

I’ll admit things have been real slow in the forum, but that has nothing to do with the field editors.

Oh yes !!! everthing I’ve written above should be in the forum, not a field report.

Posted By:
CPAMAN
Guest

St. Cloud Area 09-09-2010 23:19
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Lots of geese in the city limits of St. Cloud and that is where they are staying. They are feeding on grass clippings equivalent to hay resulting from the heavy rains we had in the month of August and thus far in September. You know, those areas along roadsides, highways, parks, etc. My brother shot two on Sunday am. Tons of geese but not many that came into the field he was hunting. He estimated about five hundred geese using the area he was hunting.

Posted By:
skankyringer
Web Member

09-09-2010 22:21
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I wondered why i left this sight a year ago. Lets talk about our field editors. Do some people just like to see there picture on a web site. Joe piscitiello last scribe 10-6-08, tom jes 9-7-09, mike sidders 10-11-09, paul burton 12=4=09, peter brown 11=30-09, joe weber, 11-15-09, and ole, the only one who deserves to be an editor, 4-11-10. If a new hunter ever came to this site for some help, — for bid. So much happens during the off season and during hatching, does anyone even notice. I paid the twenty dollars just so I could sound off. There are alot of real hunters out there, with no agenda , hope they get posted as they can probally help the normal hunter. This site should allow outsiders to post up, your mill of the run hunter, cause the editors are sure dropping the ball. I dont know if anyone hunts out of state on a regular basis, but if you do, you will normally find help from editors and other hunters to be quite helpful. Lets wake up or get people on board that want to help, right now i dont see anything that will help the normal hunter.

Posted By:
skankyringer
Web Member

09-09-2010 22:21
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I wondered why i left this sight a year ago. Lets talk about our field editors. Do some people just like to see there picture on a web site. Joe piscitiello last scribe 10-6-08, tom jes 9-7-09, mike sidders 10-11-09, paul burton 12=4=09, peter brown 11=30-09, joe weber, 11-15-09, and ole, the only one who deserves to be an editor, 4-11-10. If a new hunter ever came to this site for some help, — for bid. So much happens during the off season and during hatching, does anyone even notice. I paid the twenty dollars just so I could sound off. There are alot of real hunters out there, with no agenda , hope they get posted as they can probally help the normal hunter. This site should allow outsiders to post up, your mill of the run hunter, cause the editors are sure dropping the ball. I dont know if anyone hunts out of state on a regular basis, but if you do, you will normally find help from editors and other hunters to be quite helpful. Lets wake up or get people on board that want to help, right now i dont see anything that will help the normal hunter.

Posted By:
skankyringer
Web Member

09-09-2010 22:09
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I wondered why i left this sight a year ago. Lets talk about our field editors. Do some people just like to see there picture on a web site. Joe piscitiello last scribe 10-6-08, tom jes 9-7-09, mike sidders 10-11-09, paul burton 12=4=09, peter brown 11=30-09, joe weber, 11-15-09, and ole, the only one who deserves to be an editor, 4-11-10. If a new hunter ever came to this site for some help, — for bid. So much happens during the off season and during hatching, does anyone even notice. I paid the twenty dollars just so I could sound off. There are alot of real hunters out there, with no agenda , hope they get posted as they can probally help the normal hunter. This site should allow outsiders to post up, your mill of the run hunter, cause the editors are sure dropping the ball. I dont know if anyone hunts out of state on a regular basis, but if you do, you will normally find help from editors and other hunters to be quite helpful. Lets wake up or get people on board that want to help, right now i dont see anything that will help the normal hunter.

Posted By:
bpalbers
Guest

Weaver Bottoms 09-09-2010 15:24
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Rough opener due to an overpopulation of groups in the one spot barely big enough for two or three groups. A lot of sky bustin kept the geese way to high (not for some people i guess), and not willing to decoy. Managed to squeek out 2. Theres alot of people out there that shouldn’t be able to call themselves waterfowlers. Just gonna have to wait until SD duck season to do some real huntin.

Posted By:
dstohlberg08
Web Member

nowthen, 09-09-2010 11:55
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
Well, here I go again. Hunted a lake in nowthen this mourning and didn’t see a whole lot of geese but did have one come feet down in the spread and killed-em, I also missed another one that was locked up and commited, I blame the gun.

Posted By:
dstohlberg08
Web Member

western,mn 09-08-2010 08:14
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 45-50 Degrees
Where is everybody,there’s a bunch of geese to be killed and it looks like I’m the only one doing it.didn’t anybody else hunt or what. Where’s the reports.

Posted By:
dstohlberg08
Web Member

western,mn 09-07-2010 20:10
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
Hunted western,Mn on Saturday killing a three man limit in an hour. Well earned after a long pack in but well worth it. also hunted the west metro on Monday killing another five.

Posted By:
bpalbers
Guest

Miss. River 08-31-2010 19:07
Cloudy, Rain & Thunderstorms – Over 70 Degrees
Time for some goose killin. Waterfowl season is finally here. Good luck to everyone this year.

Posted By:
Hot Sauce
Guest

Northwest Mn 07-19-2010 16:50
Sunny & Clear, Morning Fog – Over 70 Degrees

Crane hunting returns to Minnesota after 94 years