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Shawn-Keeton
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Ohio River 12-15-2008 12:05
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
We put the skiff in on Saturday morning to no other boats around. I was kinda surprised by that. We put in at 8:00 and headed upstream into some fog. After about a mile we switched to the Indiana bank. After another mile we spotted a single buffle head. After a long sneak we got her. Turning around we headed downstream and saw 3 mallards sitting on the IN bank. We got within 20 and rolled er’ over and got all three. After another mile or so we spotted three blacks on the IN bank and got within 25 yards before taking our limit of 1 a piece. We snuck several other groups of blacks but already had our limits and there were no mallards or other ducks in with them. We took out at 10:00 with our 6. Not a bad morning.
A couple of things that I’ve noticed: first and foremost the goose numbers are terrible. We haven’t even seen one flying the last 2 times we’ve been on the river (and we’ve covered over 10 miles of river). There are some staying on a local pond but oddly enough they are not moving. All day and all night they are staying on the pond, even sitting on the ice when it froze. The other thing I find odd is the lack of wood ducks. Now I know its been cold but every year (even in big freeze ups) we have seen and killed woodies on the river. I haven’t seen the first one since October. We have been seeing some divers here and there but not any large groups. The river came up a couple feet and had lots of drift. The current was strong and I gotta imagine this rain we are having now will add to it. If you hit the river be careful and use some heavy weights so you don’t end up chasing dekes the whole time.

Posted By:
ohioriverhunter
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East Augusta 12-13-2008 17:51
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
Hunted the blind this morning. Seen lots of ducks this morning but only the small groups would work. Killed 5 between 2 of us, all mallard drakes. Ran around 18 GHG mallards and the mojo. The small groups we had did work relatively well, and sucked right into the hole after about 5 passes. I’ve noticed myself somewhat over calling lately so I tried a new strategy today; less calling, and call only when they turn away, and I believe for the most part it worked. If anyone plans on hunting towards Augusta tomorrow let me know, I’d like to go, everyone in my crew is busy, and I don’t like to hunt the river by myself. Stay safe !

Posted By:
bridgeman
Web Member

Ohio River Brush Creek Mile 388 12-13-2008 13:56
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 10-20 Degrees – Open Water
Duck Hunt 12-13-08

I got up ay 4:30 to try decoying at Brush Creek mile 388 Ohio River. I took the 1954 14’ lonestar with Jewels the chessie. Grabbed a sausage egg sandwich at the Mentor Marathon. Stopped there was the biggest duck boat I have ever seen, it had to be 22’ long. I got to the brush creek ramp at 6:45. The low last nite was 19, and river at 34’ at Cincinnati, I really should have taken the skiff. Ran out to island and set up on the down stream end. I jumped up maybe 3 mallards at the mouth of brush creek. As I was setting decoys a duck swings over in the fog and lands just out from my decoys. I ignored it because I still had to tarp the boat. Got all done and looked up and the duck was a drake Canvasback and he is in my decoys swimming around. I was 90 percent sure they were off limits in Kentucky, but I could not shoot him anyway, he was just too stupid. He swam to within 15 yards of my boat. He got mad when the other ducks would not play with him, so he swam off down stream. That’s all I saw for about 15 minutes, when here he comes back and lands in my decoys, and stuck around for 15 minutes, and then swam back DS. About this time 2 mallards swam by, but were 70 yards out. They would not swim in. about 1 hour later I pulled up and took a boat ride US and DS of the island and saw maybe 15 ducks in groups of 3 and 4, not a lot. Pulled out at about 10:30 and paid Roger my $5.00 ramp fee. I wanted to stop for Breakfast at Browns in Aberdeen, but they were closed. I had a good breakfast at the Dairy Yum Yum. I stopped at the Dam on Route 8 to spot ducks, and saw a few above the dam, but did see 8 deer go over the hill and get knee deep in the River just 200 yards above the Dam. They stood there for 10 minutes and then took off. Home by 2:00, did not fire a shoot.

Posted By:
Wareagle23
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Ohio River 12-12-2008 11:51
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After two weeks of hitting it hard,I am starting to have those mechanical difficulties. Mojo battery shot, mojo bag destroyed, mojo charger dead, gun starting to get really slow,truck smells like soured wet dog and the list goes on. On a positive note the salt caused the lights on my decoy trailer to start working.

Anyway, watched ducks last night not work the cornfield but were staging 1/2 mile down the river. Decided to give it a whirl this morning. Tried to setup where I thought was the G spot but to deep. River has has come up two feet on this section of the river. Ended up 200 yards in the wrong place. At daybreak I had two passing barges, and several hundred ducks working. Once the barges passed the ducks settled downstream and I was SOL. I worked several ducks but they all went down below my spot.

Decided to pickup, move downriver and restart. It worked, flushed the ducks out setup 12 decoys and a mojo and started hunting again. Ended with one hooded merganser, three mallards and one black.

Scout move, scout move and do not become complacent has been my moto this week. Hunting has been very, very good this week. I did see some redheads and goldeneyes this morning. May set some long lines tomorrow and see if we can get them to work.

“I take no prisoners”

Posted By:
ohioriverhunter
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12-11-2008 22:12
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It’s $600 in the book I’ll take $500

Posted By:
KYStrokin
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12-10-2008 22:39
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How much you want for the ruger

Posted By:
ohioriverhunter
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12-10-2008 22:07
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Anyone interested ina Ruger M77 Mark 2 in .300 Win. Mag.? Need money for my trip to Reelfoot in January !

Posted By:
Wareagle23
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Ohio River Corn Field 12-10-2008 08:49
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Warm, Wet,Wild and Quick. No it wasn’t sex, it was this mornings hunt. Since you can’t hardly get dividends from bank stock nowdays, I have adjusted to duck scouting and it paid dividends in a big way this morning. I had Board meetings yesterday, but I still scouted before and after work. I found a sizable group of mallards and blacks working a recently harvested cornfield in a lower bottom next to the river. Five minutes from work! I made a few calls to those who say “call me when it gets good”, like usual, they were all busy. I told myself I wasn’t going to make those calls this year, but I knew it would be good and I wanted to share the experience. At least I tried.

Jethro, my lab, felt like he was back on the priaries. For the first ten minutes we just laid in the blind, watched over 150 ducks land, eat and just be ducks all around us. We were ducked in! Once good shooting light came, I made some moves in the layout blind and the ducks flushed off to the river. I wanted to make sure I could just shoot greenheads and a black.

Small groups began drifting back in and I took advantage of three small sets to harvest my four drake mallards and one black. Within ten minutes it was over. Out of the field by 7:50 and in the office by 8:20. I will give it a day rest and back again if they stay around.

Birds in our area have been roosting on the power plant ponds and are starting to dry feed in the cornfields. Very early for this to be happening. Don’t know how long it will last, but this week has been very good.

“I take no prisoners”

Posted By:
ohioriverhunter
Guest

12-09-2008 21:54
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Ain’t in no big hurry Skee, just whenever you find yourself with nothing to do. I know thats probably almost never though, haha.

Posted By:
Shawn-Keeton
Web Member

12-09-2008 07:57
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Ohio, I still have those blinds and stuff. Been busy as heck. We’ll have to set up a time to get together.

Saw two large groups of sandhills flying over the office yesterday.

Posted By:
ohioriverhunter
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West of Augusta 12-08-2008 15:04
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
Launched the boat at 5:30 A.m. yesterday. We were hunting a new area, so we had to take the “big pole” as we call it and check our depths. We got 6 dozen GHG mallards out and 2 mojos with about a 25 ft. hole in the middle and slight “j” bends at the end of each group. Seen several migrators- ducks and geese both. The puddle ducks didnt want nothing to do with us. Only the divers would work the spread. We killed bluebills, redheads (100% they weren’t Canvasbacks), Buffleheads and Mergansers. Only heard the guys fire down from us one time. We got our mixed bag then headed to the house around noon. Good luck and be safe !

[Edited By ohioriverhunter on 2008-12-08 15:05]

Posted By:
Wareagle23
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Ohio River 12-08-2008 10:42
Cloudy, Snow & Rain Mix – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
Well I made it to the other side from last year and here we are talking about ducks again. I have been fortunate to have been out all but one day since opener and so far hunting has been fare.

Today however, things were a little better than just fare. Setup alone with the new dog Jethro, and within 50 minutes I had harvested four mallards and a black duck. As Jethro made the last retrieve I heard an old friend on the river bank saying hello. He brought along his trusted dog Jim Cooper and we were hunting again. Over the next 1 1/2 hour he had 1 black and three mallards.

The last duck shot was a black mallard so I let his dog make the retrieve. Unfortunately his dog, Jim Cooper, is 11 years old and the black duck did a lot of diving. After somewhat of a chase I sent Jethro on the back command to aid in the chase. Just as Jethro approached, Big Jim made the retrieve and Jethro honored the retrive and thought there must be another duck. Eight minutes later I am watching my dog walking on the Ohio shore. For whatever reason today he decided to take a swim acorss the river. Remind you, we are miles from any bridge and today, I did not have the boat. Thankfully, he quickly decided there was not a duck to be found and back he came. He had gotton so far out on the retrieve I don’t think he could hear me on the whistle and with no collar on today, he just kept going. Amazing the drive and passion of watching a two year old swim the river and an eleven year old chase a diving black mallard.

If not great enough to see the dogs work, I must also mention one of my mallard drakes I shot was banded. Banded in Ontario 9/08/07.

There were several groups of ducks coming out of the north this morning. Many of the ducks I saw were blacks. Just received a call from another hunting partner and he is seeing large numbers of geese on the move today and ducks in a cornfield along the river.

“I take no prisoners”

Posted By:
Shawn-Keeton
Web Member

12-08-2008 08:34
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We didn’t hunt Saturday as I was sick, however we did get out in our duck skiff yesterday (Sunday) and boy was it a hoot.
The wind had layed down some but it was cold. There were no other boats at the ramp so I was wondering if we were the only one’s dumb enough to get out. From the ramp we spotted a small group of buffleheads. We launched at 9:00 (after fueling up and putting on 19 layers of clothes). The sad part is that we had to be out by 10:30 as my brother had an occasion he couldn’t miss without the wife going ballistic. We started up the Indiana bank and ran into a group of sawbills, taking 2 beautiful hoodeds’. After a short jaunt we crossed over to the KY bank and it wasn’t far til we hit a single gadwall. After adding her to the bag we headed on down and paddled up on a group of mallards taking two drakes out of a group of 8. The birds were sitting tight against the banks. In this time e also saw more buffleheads, bluebills, black ducks and some geese that we couldn’t get upon. After going another couple of miles we added two more drake mallards to the bag and it was past time to go. A cold little run but a lot of fun. We saw several groups of ducks in the 15-30 range and plenty of divers if someone wanted to set a layout rig or some longlines. The blacks aren’t here in huge numbers yet, but are beginning to show. Although we saw some geese it wasn’t nearly the numbers I thought we would. Most of the small ponds were frozen solid (we tried busting some ice for a quick hunt to no avail) but with the warm temps and rain coming I suspect it will change a lot.

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Saskentuckewan Hunter
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Ohio River – Meldahl Pool 12-08-2008 07:59
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
My predictions of a mass migration came true Sunday morning. We looked north over the hills of Ohio around 8:00 to see clouds of birds moving in. Only one problem – they weren’t ducks, nor geese. Instead, we witnessed the arrival of hundreds of terns. In my early days of waterfowling I would have said that such a migration meant the ducks would come within the next couple of days. However, I’ve since learned that trying to predict waterfowl movement is like trying to pick lottery numbers.

We did end up bagging two mallards and two black ducks. Our shooting improved dramatically over that of the previous morning. The four we got were the only birds we fired a shot at. The down side is that we only had shots at four birds. We saw a total of around 100 geese and about the same number of ducks.

I guess it was nice not to have to take this weedend off, with the season continued right through from Thanksgiving. But I can’t help but think that the numbers of ducks we saw this weekend won’t compare to the birds we will have during the last week of January, as season closes on the 25th. I’m still having difficulty understanding that decision.

Good luck, and be safe!

[Edited By Saskentuckewan Hunter on 2008-12-08 08:02]

Posted By:
nashua
Web Member

Central Kentucky 12-07-2008 14:50
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Saskentuckywan,
A better decoy would be to place a huge clock outside the blind set 5 minutes past legal shooting hours. That’s when ALL the birds show up!
Enjoyed your entry.

Posted By:
Saskentuckewan Hunter
Guest

Ohio River – Meldahl Pool 12-06-2008 20:33
Cloudy, Snow Flurries – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
What a beautiful morning we had today! A crisp 27 degrees and snow falling. The light winds made it a perfect morning to be on the river. Some days in the outdoors just have that extra special feel about them, and this was one of them.

Frozen ponds and lakes have pretty much forced all of the geese back to the big water. We probably saw 250 this morning. Most of them got up off the water and headed north to feed in Ohio around nine o’clock. Only one single gave us a look. We didn’t have any goose floaters out this morning, but we we able to get him to give us a few looks just by calling to him.

Ducks were pretty scarce. We may have seen 75, but that’s being pretty liberal. I would say many of them were the same ducks over and over again. We did manage to knock down two mallards. The highlight of the morning was watching Jethro and Spirit (both black labs) retrieve them. Both ducks were still swimming and heading to the middle of the river as fast as they could get there. Both dogs were going for the closest duck when, just before they reached it, Jethro broke for the far duck, leaving the close one for Spirit. Both ducks made several diving attempts to escape, but the dogs brought their “A game” this morning and the ducks made a trip to the boat in the mouths of labs.

After that, some dismal shooting allowed three woodies and three mallard to escape over the course of three different sets and volleys of shots. Dogs – 1, hunters – 0. Jethro and Spirit were not impressed with the shooting.

I’m anticipating good things to come tomorrow morning. A little snow to the north along with frozen water and a cold northwest wind could add up to some new birds moving in over night and throughout the morning. It’s time to put out the big migrator spread and a couple of mojos and hope for the best.

On a lighter note: I have an idea for a great waterfowl decoy. I think it could be the hottest thing since the mojo. In twenty years of duck and goose hunting, I don’t think I have ever gotten out of the blind to take a leak without being bombarded by birds, only to have my gun sitting too far away to grab. So I’m thinking about designing a decoy to represent a hunter taking care of business. I’ll bet you could stand him just outside of the blind and kill a limit in no time!

Good luck, and be safe.

[Edited By Saskentuckewan Hunter on 2008-12-06 20:35]

Posted By:
nashua
Web Member

Central KY 12-06-2008 15:17
Cloudy, Snow Flurries – 25-30 Degrees – Ice
Hunted large farm pond Friday.
Totally iced in.
Broke up ice with canoe.
Skimmed over 20 minutes later.
Took one mallard drake and one shoveller.
Saturday morning set up in cornfield for geese.
Saw 6 flocks high and heading elsewhere.
Hope we get a thaw.

Posted By:
woodsman695
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12-05-2008 17:28
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Hey KYStrokn,

It just depends which barrel went off first. One is improved and the other is modified!!!

Posted By:
eville
Web Member

Henderson County 12-05-2008 15:58
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Three of us got out in the ice this morning on an open hole and did really well. We ended up with 18: 5 mallards, 1 wigeon and 12 gadwalls.

So a lot of ducks flying in from high over Ohio River about mid-morning.

Posted By:
KYStrokin
Guest

12-04-2008 21:30
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Hey woods what area did you kill your birds in?

[Edited By KYStrokin on 2008-12-04 21:31]

Posted By:
woodsman695
Guest

Western KY 12-04-2008 16:35
Cloudy, High Winds – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
Finally got into the ducks today! Had a lot of fun! Nothin better than webbed feet in your face!

Posted By:
ohioriverhunter
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East Augusta 12-03-2008 16:29
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
Hunted east of Augusta today, didn’t kill a bird, only seen high flyers. Weakest day of duck hunting I’ve had so far this year. Maybe it’ll get better for this weekend. Stopped and talked to Wareagle23 and his group on the way out, don’t guess they had much luck either. Hey Skee you never did get back to me about the field hunting gear and what not from back in the spring, let me kno somthin’ !

Posted By:
Saskentuckewan Hunter
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Ohio River – Meldahl Pool 12-02-2008 07:39
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
We hunted all four days of the Thanksgiving weekend. As you can see from my earlier post, we had a decent day on Thursday. But the numbers of birds dropped steadily with each passing day. We saw very few ducks over the four days, and the goose numbers pretty much matched the ducks by Sunday morning. I think we ended up with eight geese and seven ducks over the four days. I had been seeing several birds in the area during the few weeks leading up to the season, but noticed them thinning out as the opener approached. That’s what waterfowling in Northern Kentucky is typically all about: hunt ’em while they are here, then wait for the next cold front to push some more in. Hopefully this week’s weather will bring in a few new birds to chase this weekend. And even if that doesn’t happen, our crew will be out on the water or in the field theorizing about when they might show up.

Good luck, and be safe!

Posted By:
AGR 655
Web Member

Talyor Bay 12-01-2008 22:00
Cloudy, Heavy Fog – 50-60 Degrees
Sorry but this is a late report. Fog was so thick we could see about 40 yards at daylight. We came out with 5 but hey that’s always better than being skunked. It was the fewest birds I’ve ever seen on opening day at Taylor Bay. I decided not to hunt the next 3 days and the reports I got showed I made a wise decision. If I could make a suggestion….if you duck hunt in Kentucky everywhere 100 miles east of Ballard you should really take a trip to Ark, MO or IL. Even if its just a weekend. I know that we get our fluke days but everyone should go experience what waterfowl hunting is supposed to be like. GL to all and be safe out there. I love this cold weather.

Posted By:
chasmck3
Guest

11/30 and 21/1 12-01-2008 11:34
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Hunted our beaver pond honey hole that is still down 2 feet adn scratched out 2 woodies atfirst light out of a whopping 4 shots. Had one teal buzz by at the speed of light and no one had a chance to even raise thier guns! Saw 4 flying high that had nothing to do with us. Home by 10 am after scoutng DRY public land.

Monday-much better weather and ducks working!! Out of 5 shots, we dropped 3 mallards, 2 drakes and a hen after much deliberation on whether or not to shoot her. Left after 20 minutes as we had to get to work. lots of other ducks working today and goinback this afternoon.

Also went by Lexington Mall and saw 9 shovellers, 6 ring necks, 2 unknowns, and around 30 mallards with 20 geese. There were also an abundance of hooded mergansers and about 10 bluebills by the water company and many greater Canadas sleeping by Ricmond Road. They gotta move some time, don’t they??

GL to all.

Posted By:
Shawn-Keeton
Web Member

12-01-2008 08:42
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Well fellas, it has started. We hunted Thursday in a spot we had been seeing some geese and only saw a pair of mallards about 9:30. It was fairly cold and a lot of the water locked up as we were sitting there.
Friday I went to Indiana and hunted a pond with my Dad. Again we only saw a pair of mallards and nothing else. Slow, slow and even slower.
On Saturday we set up on a pond close to the house and had a group of bluebills and ringnecks come in. I was back at the truck getting the shells for my sons gun and didn’t get to fire at them The boys got 3 (2 bluebills and a ringneck.) When I got back they had a cripple and when I shot at it the stock on my Browning busted into 3 pieces. I’ve never seen a gun do that (its a wood stock) and still don’t get it as it wasn’t that cold. Gotta call Browning today to get the scoop on what to do. So far I’d fired one shot and broke my gun. That ended up being all we saw.
Yesterday we hunted another pond close by and ended with a pair of mallards having seen about 12 and 8 geese.

My overall impressions were that the water is SUPER low everywhere. Most of the birds that we saw flew late (after 9:00) and there’s not much vegetation in the ponds. We saw very few geese. The lack of woodies really has me scratching my head. Granted its been fairly cold around here for this time of year but not to the extent that some northern woodies shouldn’t be here. We saw very few during the early season and didn’t see a single one in 4 days. I hope everyone had a safe weekend.

Posted By:
bridgeman
Web Member

Ohio River below Dover mile 420 11-29-2008 17:04
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
Duck Hunt 11-29-08
Took the duck skiff to Dover Ky. Mile 420 Ohio River. I had a great breakfast at the General Store Augusta. Got to ramp at 8:30, and no one was there. That says duck hunting must be bad. It was a low of 28 last nite, it was sunny and calm, the river was a sheet of glass. Started up 1958 10 hp Johnson and started down the Ky bank. I was idling the 10 hp and spotting though the binoculars. I passed a boat dock and looked over and there were 3 mallards. Not the best job of spotting. I cut the motor, and started paddling, got right up on them, but did not shoot, I did not like the fact that they were so dumb that they let me motor right up on them. They jumped up and I pretending to shoot them. Continued on down. Spotted decoys ahead of me and ran up to ask how they were doing. They had a big house of a blind up a bit from the water’s edge, and no boat. The guy said they had gotten a few, and had been seeing lots of geese fly over, but they did would not pay attention to them. They had maybe 20 decks and 5 geese decoys out, but they were in close to the bank. They had seen the 3 I had jumped up. I continued on down and spotted mallards at Indian creek about a .5 mile below. They stood out as white in the bright sun though the binoculars. I took my time and paddled down on them just in time for a barge to run up. Just before I got on them the waves bunched me up and down, which the ducks did not like. They swam down to the mouth of Indian creek . I paddled the boat into the mouth as far as I could but hit bottom. They were about 30 yards away, a little further than I like to get. I suspected that ounce they got up they would fly towards me, which is common for ducks up a creek. I jumped up they few back towards the creek, turned and came back over me. I missed the first shot, got the second, and missed the 3rd. I pulled out and then ran over to deeper water to pick up my drake. I paddled the boat in backwards and hit a log just before I got the duck with my long handled net. Paddled back out and started up the 10 hp to get back in main river to have a cup of coffee. As I started forward the motor cavitated at mid rpm, this was strange. Drank a cup of coffee and headed back down. Got across from White Oak creek and decided to head back. On the run up the Ohio side I jumped nothing, and waved to the 3 fishermen at Straight Creek. God do we need cold weather. Motor still cavitated at high rpm. Pulled out and noticed my depth finder transducer was cracked, and pushed down, and this was causing the cavitation. Home by 2:00 I expoxed the depth finder mount good as new.

Posted By:
ohioriverhunter
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East Augusta 11-28-2008 19:23
Cloudy, Heavy Fog – 35-40 Degrees
Glad to hear from everyone! I can’t believe it’s already time to start slaughterin’ ducks again! Hunted Bracken Creek Thursday. Heavy fog held the birds down longer. Had a group of woodies come in early, killed 1 drake, seen several small groups of mallards after that. Deep mud prevented us from using the mojo. If we would’ve had some kind of movement in the spread we might have had better luck. Around 10 when the fog started to lift we had a group of 4 greenheads commit, we took 2, a drake and hen. Seen a dozen or so geese, they didn’t pay any attention to us, we didn’t have any goose decoys out. Today we didn’t see much early in the morning, we hunted out of the blind, one group of a dozen or so flew by and didnt want anything to do with us, didn’t see much after that until 9:30 or 10, had a group of 5 mallards commit, we took 3, 2 drakes and 1 hen. At about 11:oo we seen Wareagle23 come by, shortly after we began to pick up, while we was picking up we seen a nice group of geese heading east, I believe they were residents. Maybe could have dropped one if I had the gun. Hope everyone had a great opener! Stay safe!

Posted By:
Saskentuckewan Hunter
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Ohio River – Meldahl Pool 11-27-2008 19:52
Sunny & Clear, Morning Fog – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
Opening day of the 2008 Kentucky duck season is in the books!
We scouted the river by boat yesterday morning and saw some birds, but not anything to get too excited about. We decided to set up this morning in an area where we saw several geese and a few ducks during the scouting trip. The fog was about as thick as it could have been, and didn’t really begin to burn off until around ten o’clock. Four of us ended up with five geese and three ducks. The two dogs did a great job. It was nice not to have to chase birds in the river current. All in all it was a great morning. We’ll be back at it tomorrow!

Good luck and be safe.

Posted By:
bridgeman
Web Member

Ohio River mile 416 11-27-2008 17:42
Sunny & Clear, Morning Fog – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
Duck Hunt 11-27-08
I decided to take the decoy boat to Straight creek on the Ohio River mile 422 to decoy the bank just below Straight creek. I got up at 4:30, alarm did not go off at 4:00(don’t know why) Loaded up and grabbed a egg and sausage sandwich at the Marathon on the double A at Mentor. Crossed over the new bridge at Maysville and was at Straight Creek at 6:30 just in time to see the gate was locked. On to Ripley. I was 3rd at Ripley. Jewels the dog and I ran up stream and put out 11 duck decoys and 4 geese just above the mouth of Eagle Creek, and sat in dead duck, my 1954 loanstar 14’ aluminum V bottom with the homemade blind. There was a heavy fog. Low that nite 26, though it was going to get up to 52 later. So far no cold weather yet, the lowest may have been 23.
Sat and heard Geese, and about 6 flew right over me going down stream. I called but they did not turn. About .5 hour another group of 8 flew over, same results. I heard a lot of shooting down stream this morning ( perhaps a total of 20 shots) They must be doing better at Augusta. About 9:30 I looked up and a hen and drake mallard are floating down, just on the edge of my decoys. I jumped up and fired two at the drake, who looked hit. He flew US and landed near the bank, perhaps 200 yards up. I fired up the 25 merc. and ran up to look for him. Still very heavy fog. Jewels and I got on the bank, and searched US then DS, but nothing. Just below Eagle creek on the sand bar was a cross with flowers on it -Dave …… drowned here Sept 2007. Ran back to decoys and sat another hour and fog cleared. Pulled up decoys and took a ride down to Dover and back and jumped up a total of 3 mallards above Dover. No decoy hunters at Lees Creek. Ran back to ramp and the two other hunters were gone. Pulled out and wanted to have a good breakfast at the General Store in Augusta, but they were closed. Home by 1:30.

Posted By:
chasmck3
Guest

11-27-2008 16:20
– – 30-34 Degrees – Ice
Water extremely low in our honey hole and mostly frozen. Not much shooting but my buddy got a banded hen woodie from MD. Only one black duck and only a few misses to report. We need rain and weather for the “good” spot to get better as today was not the best, but at least we got out and shot at a few!!

Posted By:
Sean Riley
Web Member

11-27-2008 11:18
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Happy Thanksgiving Skee!!! Hope you and yours have a great day!

Posted By:
woodsman695
Guest

Duck Hole 11-24-2008 14:34
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To everyone a great opening day. Be careful, and come home with birds in hand to your families!!!!
May the sun shine and wind blow!!!!!!!!

Posted By:
Shawn-Keeton
Web Member

11-24-2008 10:01
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I haven’t gotten out yet, but there are good numbers of birds around. I’ve seen several good bunches of ducks including some divers (mostly ringers) and mallards. The geese are in good numbers when you can find them. Most of what I am seeing are feeding in alfalfa and clover. I haven’t seen any in corn yet. I did get reports of a few geese being shot on the river this past weekend. Some of the small ponds froze but I would guess they will thaw out pretty rapidly with this rain.

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mojcar
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NKY 11-24-2008 06:16
Sunny & Clear, Morning Fog – Below Zero
Heavy fog this AM kept the birds sitting tight until later. 3 hunters and 1 flight of geese as the fog burnt off. Killed 3.

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nashua
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central ky 11-23-2008 13:56
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November 23rd, Hunted corn field
23 degrees
East wind
Saw 2 dozen ducks, high
Never heard a honk
Picked up at 10am
Hope you got into ’em

Posted By:
Sean Riley
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11-22-2008 09:35
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SKEE did ya tear em up???

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nashua
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central ky 11-21-2008 16:27
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Water is extremely low in ponds and lakes.
Need hard warm rain.
New Mallards beginning to show up.
Still spotty.
Built two new blinds this year.
Hope I don’t drown in one of them.
Watch the dogs eyes.
He’s better at this than we are.

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wetboot
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Taji Iraq 11-21-2008 06:16
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Hey guys.Hope everyone has a great opener. I usually hunt the north central Ky and Ohio river area. I’ll be missing out on the entire season this year due to other obligations but my buddy will be using my boat and said he’d kill a few for me….LOL. Hey, what are hunting buddies for. Stay safe and keep up the reports…atleast I can read about the action. Later…..Chap

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mojcar
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11-18-2008 08:29
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Getting awful ducky out! wish I could shoot something……counting down the hours till season starts.

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Shawn-Keeton
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11-17-2008 08:02
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Saw a heck of a flock of sandhill cranes this morning. Awesome to watch them and hear them. I didn’t get out this weekend but from all reports the deer are still slow (although that could be because of the full moon and high winds) as much as anything. Goose starts Sunday so we are getting awful close fellas.

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mojcar
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11-14-2008 10:32
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i know what ya mean Keaton! Already seeing some birds around and resident geese are starting to get into large flocks.

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Shawn-Keeton
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11-14-2008 07:01
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Saw 15 ringbills on my pond while deer hunting Wed. Season can’t get here soon enough.

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Shawn-Keeton
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11-11-2008 14:20
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Good to have ya on board wood.

Posted By:
woodsman695
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Western KY 11-10-2008 20:12
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Well, the season is just around the corner. I have not met any fellow insane duck hunters, so if anyone would like to share a hunt, let me know. I moved back to Paducah this year and will be free lancing this year. Have 14 ft boat, decoys, dog, guns, and will travel.
Brian
lablover0929@yahoo.com

Posted By:
Shawn-Keeton
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11-06-2008 09:05
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Awesome AGR!!!!!!

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AGR 655
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Dexter, MO 11-05-2008 20:13
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 60-65 Degrees
We slaughtered the ducks this past weekend in MO. It was awesome to see what opening day should actually be like. 5 of us had out limits in 50 mintues. No one even picked up a call.

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Shawn-Keeton
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11-03-2008 07:58
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I have seen several ringnecks already.

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nashua
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11-01-2008 12:37
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I live on a lake in lexington that is about 30 acres. A large raft of divers flew in two nights ago and rested for one day then resumed migrating. I did not have a chance to put the binoculars on them so I don’t know if they were scaup, but I usually see rafts of scaup show up just about this time each year. A flock of about 30 teal used this lake every day for about a month and then disapeared. Watching and waiting for the opener.

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AGR 655
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10-27-2008 22:15
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Well its starting to feel a lot like duck season. I’m sure that most of you are getting the duck fever like me. I am heading over to Missouri this coming up weekend for their opening day. I will let all of know how thing turn out.

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Shawn-Keeton
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10-12-2008 07:46
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The weather is finally starting to change here in North Dakota. It has been sunny and 60’s, but now the rain and snow is moving in. We have seen birds moving in by the thousands. The geese are here in waves. We are heading back to Kentucky today so we really only got one day in the push but it was awesome. We killed some beautiful can drakes, some redheads, gadwalls and mallards. For the trip we ended with 11 different species of ducks and geese. A great time was had by all. Now its time to look forward to early season in IN and our own season at the end of next month.

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Shawn-Keeton
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10-09-2008 11:40
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We killed our 30 yesterday (6 guys, 5 birds a piece) and had a combination of cans, redheads, bluewings, gadwalls, shovelers and mallards. It was a great day in 50-60 mph winds. We had to take close shots as the wind would blow them away before the dogs could get there. So far today we have 6 including shoveler, bluewing, green wing and gadwall. We found a good bunch of geese in a field for tomorrow morning and will try for some more ducks this afternoon. A front is supposed to move through tomorrow so hopefully these clear skies and warm temps will depart.

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AGR 655
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No hunt 10-08-2008 20:05
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Good luck on the hunt. I’m sure jealous LOL. Just so you and everyone else knows that stuff that fell from the sky yesterday and today, that was wet was officially rain. I know it’s been awhile but thank God we got some. I personally can wait to get the quote hunt information back so I can start planning out my season. I plan on heading to Missouri on November 1st for opening day. I plan on hunting Saturday morning killing a limit and be on the first tee box by 11 am.

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Shawn-Keeton
Web Member

10-08-2008 06:14
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We shot our antelopes. We killed three lopes’ at a combined 1250 yards with the longest shot being 495 (ranged) with a .243, had a great hunt. We are now in NoDak and after scouting lastnight we should be on birds. The water is WAY low but there are still a ton of birds here. We saw everything from cans to mallards and everything in between, Tons of geese, swans, cranes and still a lot of teal, including bluewingers.Hope all is well with y’all back at home.

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Shawn-Keeton
Web Member

10-01-2008 14:51
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Welcome AGR!!!!!!! Good to have ya on board. The early season action seems to have been spotty for woodies and teal. I know several guys who got in on the woodies REAL good and others barely pulled a trigger. I only got out 1 evening and had a pair of woodies come in, shot twice and was done. There are still tons of geese around, hopefully we’ll see the limit go to 3 or more in the next few years. As of Friday I am off to Colorado to hunt antelope for a few days and then to North Dakota to hunt ducks. Stay safe and I’ll report once I get back.

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AGR 655
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09-29-2008 18:02
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Thanks mojcar! I was actually in a vehicle accident about a week and a half before early season so I was able to go. What a bummer. I’m so ready I can’t see straight. I look forward to hearing from you all in November. Remember everyone you got one more day to sign up for quote hunts if you haven’t already.

Posted By:
mojcar
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NKY 09-26-2008 10:01
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Welcome AGR, Yes I am waitin on the opener myself. Early goose and wood duck seasons are over and now we wait for November. Resident goose season here was pretty productive with plenty of birds around, but I should’ve stayed in bed for wood duck and teal season as I never saw a duck in 17 miles of the river.

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AGR 655
Web Member

09-25-2008 23:50
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Hello all of my fellow Kentucky Waterfowler’s. I’m new to waterfowler.com and can’t wait to get on some green heads in a couple of months. I look forward to swapping stories and hearing from you all.

Posted By:
ohioriverhunter
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09-14-2008 00:51
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Well hello everyone ! I hope everyones doing well. It’s been awhile since I’ve posted. Aint done much resident goose hunting, mainly focusing on bow hunting until wood ducks and teal come in. Anyone wanna hunt some woodies and teals ?

Posted By:
Shawn-Keeton
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09-09-2008 07:47
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Sweet moj!!!!!!!!! Keep it up.

Posted By:
mojcar
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northern Ky 09-08-2008 12:12
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – Over 70 Degrees
Good opener this year! 4 man limit by 08:30, can’t beat it. The geese have been everywhere this year, but finally found a good feed field and got on them.

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Shawn-Keeton
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09-08-2008 08:08
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Finally got on some geese. The birds have been moving almost daily but we finally figured them out enough to shoot a few. They are still primarily working clover and alfalfa fields in this area, although a bit of corn is starting to come down, so I suspect they will be in it before long. We got on some doves as well and killed our first collared dove. MAn are those dudes big. It was about twice the size of the regular doves. Pretty to, real light colored with a dark collar around its neck. We had 4 of them come in but only one stayed. Oh well, we’ll get em next time. Anybody else doing any good?

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Shawn-Keeton
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09-03-2008 13:22
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HOT HOT HOT. About the only way to describe the weather. The dove hunting was a little above average on Monday. I talked to a few guys who had bang up shoots. One fella who has been putting out dove fields for longer than I have been here said he had the best shoot EVER. A couple of the guys who shoot with him said there were thousands of birds coming to his field (and its not real big), but several guys shoots didn’t turn out to be much. The geese are pretty well grouped up and should go down in decent numbers this weekend according to how many people get after em. The majority of geese that I am seeing are in clover with a few here and there in alfalfa. We will be hunting ponds though so hopefully they feed before it gets too hot. How did everyone else do on the doves?

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Shawn-Keeton
Web Member

05-05-2008 14:13
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Nope, never been on it. heard a lot about it though.

We finished up season with a blast. Had 3 longbeards at 20 yards. Awesome hunt. The crappie have been biting like crazy. We had several in the 2 lb range lastweek. The bass are biting good to.

Posted By:
Sean Riley
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04-30-2008 22:53
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you fish Kincaid much? Iused to fish the tournaments there on Fri. nights

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Shawn-Keeton
Web Member

04-28-2008 09:25
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I’ve caught a bunch in the past couple of weeks. Crappie have been hot as have the bass. I’ve taken a few redear to so far. Went to Lake Jericho lastweek but not much luck. Mostly farm ponds.

Posted By:
Sean Riley
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04-25-2008 21:26
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Shawn you been fishin much? I kinda miss fishin Kincaid, and Elmer Davis, used to be pretty good this time of year!!

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Shawn-Keeton
Web Member

04-25-2008 08:23
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Its good here. Been calling in some turkeys, catching some crappie and bass and got a row of spinach and mustard reens planted lastnight. The ground is broke for the dove field and the food plots. Life is good.

Posted By:
Sean Riley
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04-24-2008 22:52
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hows my old stompin grounds Shawn, everything good there?

Posted By:
Shawn-Keeton
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04-23-2008 09:06
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The turkeys are gobblin, the fish are biting and the weather is nice. Couldn’t ask for more than that.