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Posted By:
DKA
Web Member

reelfoot 12-04-2007 08:09
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 45-50 Degrees
Sat. picked up 24, big bunches of teal.Sun. picked up 20, headed home by 11 am. No great big bunches yet, but saw some high fliers. This coming week should be pretty good.

Posted By:
qauckhead
Web Member

reelfoot 12-03-2007 03:40
Cloudy, High Winds – 60-65 Degrees
decent day for clouds 18,mostly grays but was fun to say the least.didn’t see the ducks as day before but is not unusal for a timber hole on lake.back again today,it’s tough but somebodies got to do it;might as well be me!!!!

Posted By:
Thomas-Quinlen
Field Editor

Harrisburg, Arkansas 12-02-2007 22:07
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 35-40 Degrees
Wind shifted over the course of the morning on Saturday, from Northeast, to East, to Southeast, and eventually to straight out of the South. Loads of snow geese and decent numbers of ducks.

I hunted with my brother-in-law and 10 year-old nephew. We shot 1 snow, 6 teal, and 2 mallards. Had another teal and what I think was a spoon get away.

Posted By:
qauckhead
Web Member

reelfoot lake 12-02-2007 03:46
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
great opening day for full season.wacked 43 with a wide variety.spoons,mallards,grays,widgeon & teal(GW).WIND WAS CALM MOST OF DAY,clouds off an on early but cleared off later in morn.seems ducks may have been coming off Miss. river wereflying high and would work rather easily,acting like new ducks would in middle of season.had not seen ducks in these #’s while putting out dekes or working on brushing blind.great day sad to say but must go back and try again today!loving every minute of it!!!!!

Posted By:
drewspintails
Web Member

Northwest TN 12-01-2007 15:46
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 45-50 Degrees
Hunted a flooded corn field today with limited success. Two of us killed 3 (One greenhead, one black, and a woodie). There weren’t many new ducks flying today in the bottom. The brief moments that we had sun on the decoys was when we shot what we did.

Posted By:
DKA
Web Member

Jackson 11-27-2007 10:12
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Du dinner tonight if anyone is in the area. The hunt I donated for Sully’s son isgoing back on the auction for DU as a juvenile hunt at Reelfoot. It is at the Holiday Inn at the hwy 45 By-pass and I-40. The Pas Swamp Donkey won the hunt originally but due to health concerns, he asked that I use it in this fashion. See you tonight if you can make it.

Posted By:
flyfish37129
Guest

Woods… 11-26-2007 19:39
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What was Woods like?

Posted By:
flyfish37129
Guest

Old Hickory-Middle Tennessee 11-26-2007 18:59
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
Opening day at the Hick was a woodduck’s nightmare. Guns blasting away from 80+ yards away. It was a zoo and a cold one at that. Saw very few big birds and only a few teal. No geese surprisingly since the season was closed.

The Woodies were in abundance between 100-200 birds roosting on the WMA.

Posted By:
qauckhead
Web Member

11-22-2007 10:19
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poured right at 3in. rain out of gage this morn.rain danced worked once think i’ll try again can’t hurt.hope this weekend turns out for everyone.don’t know if i’ll get a chance to go or not but i’ll be there Dec.1.

Posted By:
JAMIET
Guest

Reelfoot Lake 11-21-2007 15:06
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Any one seen any new ducks coming in on Reelfoot Lake past few days.

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JAMIET
Guest

Timber Hole 11-19-2007 09:40
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 50-60 Degrees
I here you Quackhead we need rain BAD although we did see a few ducks trying to work the hole while working on jerk strings.Maybe Dec. 1st wil be a better opening day & I will be doing some rain dancing also.

Posted By:
Martin-Hall
Field Editor

Arkansas 11-19-2007 08:21
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 60-65 Degrees
If you’re going to Arkansas, put it off for a while. It’s too hot to hunt and the ducks aren’t here yet. Killing a few teal and spoonies but no big ducks. Pray for snow up north.
Later.

Wind at your back and good friends in your blind. MuddyDucker

Posted By:
qauckhead
Web Member

reelfoot lake 11-19-2007 06:58
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first 2 days were a bust for the most part.hunted in timber hole and lack of water is a very big problem.Nov.10 had 12with awide variety from mallard to black jack Nov.11 wound up with 3,1 mallard 2 grays.coots took a pounding opening day!plan on doing rain dance every day this week could’nt hurt anything need all the help we can get!!!!

Posted By:
flyfish37129
Guest

Waterfowl Hunters Party in Murfreesboro 11-18-2007 09:52
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Location: MTSU’s Miller Coliseum
Murfreesboro, TN.

Date: November 27, 2007 @6:00 p.m.

$25.00 cost includes
Ducks Unlimited Membership
Hamburgers and Hot Dogs

Gear to be given away(raffle) includes:
Shotguns
Avery Blinds
Over 60 Dozen Decoys
Avery full body decoys
Wear Camo and get a chance for a Camo Benelli Nova

NO TICKETS SOLD AT THE DOOR!!

Call Travis Moore (423)506-0728 for tickets.

Posted By:
Thomas-Quinlen
Field Editor

Woodruff County, AR 11-17-2007 21:23
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 45-50 Degrees
Nice south wind this morning lead to the death of many ducks within an hour of shooting time. Great opener.

Posted By:
Martin-Hall
Field Editor

Gone to Arkansas 11-15-2007 20:44
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 50-60 Degrees
Left at lunch for the Arkansas opener Saturday. Lots of ducks and geese here in Harrisburg. If you’ve got water, you’ve got waterfowl. Got here just in time to see the flights of birds coming into our fields from Claypool. One of our fields had thousands of ducks and geese at dark. Should be a good opener. I’ll let you know.

Wind at your back and good friends in your blind. MuddyDucker

Posted By:
steve68
Guest

Three Rivers WMA 11-13-2007 16:07
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Does anyone know anything about this new wma. I plan in hunting Gooch unit E this year some but this is closer to my grandmothers house. I will try to check it out Thanksgiving weekend but any info would be greatly appreciated.

Posted By:
flyfish37129
Guest

Middle Tennessee 11-12-2007 16:28
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 50-60 Degrees
I have heard reports of a good number of birds are at Cheatham and Old Hickory. Has anyone heard similiar reports??

Posted By:
Martin-Hall
Field Editor

Harrisburg, AR 11-09-2007 19:36
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 45-50 Degrees
Thomas
Glad to hear about the duck tornados in Harrisburg. I’ll be leaving for there Thursday night or Friday morning. I’m in a club in there that borders Claypool. If you hunt in the Harrisburg area, maybe we can get together and swap lies.
Martin

Posted By:
Thomas-Quinlen
Field Editor

Harrisburg, AR and Charleston, MS 11-07-2007 08:32
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 35-40 Degrees
Have had reports of lots of ducks in both places. Saw some photos from Harrisburg, and it looked like a duck tornado. The opener is coming SOON!

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mstone
Guest

S.E. Montana 11-05-2007 21:08
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
Just got back from our annual trip out to Montana. Spent two weeks in paradise. While this was mostly a trout fishing trip, we spent two of the last three days there hunting ducks. They had warm conditions up there as well too. We hunted some river bottoms and came out with five ducks for two hunters each day. All mallards except for two widgeon. The locals told us they had some good hunts early and then it had slowed down.They are waiting for another push, which they probably got the day or two after we had to leave. We did see fair numbers of ducks. A good warm up for the upcoming season in this
part of the country. Get ready.

mstone

Posted By:
flyfish37129
Guest

Middle Tennessee 11-05-2007 18:06
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Cooler weather is coming our way! Go shoot a deer so you can have plenty of backstrap and tenderloin in the blind!!

Posted By:
Martin-Hall
Field Editor

Coffee County, TN 10-20-2007 09:05
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 45-50 Degrees
Must be some weather up North, I just now had about 50 Whitefront Geese fly over my treestand. I also had some Woodies whistle by about daylight. The season is only about a week away and things are starting to move. Get ready!

Wind at your back and good friends in your blind. MuddyDucker

Posted By:
Kevin-Stewart
Field Editor

NA 10-19-2007 09:38
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An update for you who like to try and read the future:-)

My Dad and Hunting buddy, and others, made a treck to SW corner of Manitoba this last week.

They faired poor to middlin. Plenty of geese, but few ducks compared to years past. According to the locals, the ducks haven’t come south yet into the southern Canada area.

They saw and shot some local birds, but generally it was thin.

Indicates to me, a late migration again. Go figure.

“Have gun, will travel” – Paladin

[Edited By Kevin-Stewart on 2007-10-19 09:39]

Posted By:
Martin-Hall
Field Editor

Southern Middle Tennessee 10-08-2007 10:26
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Another good weekend chasing the local Canada Geese. I had to go watch Moore County beat Columbia Academy Friday night but Hooter put out a small spread and a layout blind in the field we hunted last week and took two birds out of the one small flock that came in to feed.
We joined forces Saturday and Sunday and hit the local farm ponds. Saturday morning,just after daylight, about thirty geese left the pond and flew to a nearby field to feed. When they returned about eight thirty, we were waiting for them. It was short, but sweet.
Sunday we slept in with the intention of hunting a large roost lake. The birds usually fly out to feed early and don’t come back until just before sundown. We had planned to shoot when they came back to roost, but when we got there around four, there was about 200 geese still at the lake. For some reason they hadn’t left the lake. They were spread from one end of the lake to the other and feeding on the Dallas grass in the pasture. After looking the situation over for a while, we decided to try and pull a sneak on them since they didn’t appear to want to leave the lake. Hooter dropped me off at one end then went to the other end to try a sneak/push. Would you believe not a single one of those 200 flew close enough to either one of us to get a shot? It was still an hour till sunset, so we decided to wait and see if any of them would come back.
Sure enough, they started coming back less than 15 minutes latter. The two bird limits didn’ take long. I’m just glad nobody got a pictue of me and Hooter retrieving those geese in that pink paddleboat. Now that was a sight!!!

Still two days left in this segment of the goose season, so get off the couch and get after them.
Until next time…
Martin

Wind at your back and good friends in your blind. MuddyDucker

Posted By:
Martin-Hall
Field Editor

Southern Middle Tennessee 10-08-2007 09:45
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Another good weekend chasing the local Canada Geese. I had to go watch Moore County beat Columbia Academy Friday night but Hooter put out a small spread and a layout blind in the field we hunted last week and took two birds out of the one small flock that came in to feed.
We joined forces Saturday and Sunday and hit the local farm ponds. Saturday morning,just after daylight, about thirty geese left the pond and flew to a nearby field to feed. When they returned about eight thirty, we were waiting for them. It was short, but sweet.
Sunday we slept in with the intention of hunting a large roost lake. The birds usually fly out to feed early and don’t come back until just before sundown. We had planned to shoot when they came back to roost, but when we got there around four, there was about 200 geese still at the lake. For some reason they hadn’t left the lake. They were spread from one end of the lake to the other and feeding on the Dallas grass in the pasture. After looking the situation over for a while, we decided to try and pull a sneak on them since they didn’t appear to want to leave the lake. Hooter dropped me off at one end then went to the other end to try a sneak/push. Would you believe not a single one of those 200 flew close enough to either one of us to get a shot? It was still an hour till sunset, so we decided to wait and see if any of them would come back.
Sure enough, they started coming back less than 15 minutes latter. The two bird limits didn’ take long. I’m just glad nobody got a pictue of me and Hooter retrieving those geese in that pink paddleboat. Now that was a sight!!!

Still two days left in this segment of the goose season, so get off the couch and get after them.
Until next time…
Martin

Wind at your back and good friends in your blind. MuddyDucker

Posted By:
Martin-Hall
Field Editor

Southern Middle Tennessee 10-02-2007 20:32
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Just in case it slipped up on you folks like it did me, the second segment of the Tennessee Canada Goose season opened yesterday. I thought it opend next weekend. Who’s idea was it to open this season on Monday and close it on Tuesday? Looks to me like if we’re going to have a 9 day season, we could open it on Saturday and close it the following Sunday so we could get two weekends into it. Oh well, there’s brighter minds than mine taking care of those details, I guess.

Well, anyway, once we realized it was open, my hunting partner gave one of our landowners a call to see if there were any geese in his area. He said that there were about a hundred feeding in the picked corn field beside his house every afternoon, so we decided to give them a try this afternoon after work. We knew we might not get another chance with both of us working a lot of hours right now.

We set out a couple dozen full-body Bigfoot decoys and a hay bale blind. When we settled in the blind we didn’t have long to wait. The first flight of about 15 birds came in low and silent from the west and locked in on the spread. There didn’t seem to be any reason to call so we just let the birds come in on their own. The geese started to land at the edge of the decoy spread but at the last minute they decided to pick back up and slip to one side. We poped the lids just as they rose up in front of the blind. The flock split, with half going to each side. Two quick shots on each end of the blind put our limit of 4 geese on the ground in less time than it takes to write it. Don’t ya just love it when a plan comes together?

Before we could pick up our birds, another flight flew into the field, circled the spread twice and landed in the field with us still standing out in the field. By the time we got back to the blind, another flock honked in the distance so we decided to get out of the field and let tbem feed with the hope of getting another hunt out of the field before the season closes again.

After the geese left tbe field at dark, we picked up the spread and went by to thank the farmer who had been watching the show from his house at the edge of the field. He told us he’d keep an eye on the field and let us know if the geese came back to the field to feed. It really pays to spend a little time and effort to keep good relations with your land owners.

It was a great hunt; and to really put icing on the cake, the second bird I shot had a band. As thin as the band is, I’m guessing he’s a pretty old bird.

I do wonder though, why the limit during this season is cut back from 5 the first season to 2. There’s never any migratory geese here this time of year. They don’t typically get here until December or January, if at all. We’re still shooting the “nuisance” resident geese. We could help out the situation more if the limit was still 5 during the second season, especially in the southern-middle part of the state where there’s not many people hunting the residents. Especially during the second season when you can spend a couple of hours putting a spread out for three seconds of shooting and a two bird limit. It’s not such a big deal during the third season, because most people are shooting geese in conjunction with duck hunting. Don’t get me wrong, it’s worth every bit of effort when things go right. I’d just like to see the limit raised to 5 during this second pre-migration season.

Well folks, get out and take advantage of the seasons and the local geese while you can. Memories aren’t made sitting on the couch. Till next time….

Martin

[Edited By Martin-Hall on 2007-10-03 04:06]

[Edited By Martin-Hall on 2007-10-03 05:03]

Posted By:
Thomas-Quinlen
Field Editor

Mid-South 09-24-2007 15:45
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
It’s still awfully dry here. I’ve heard of some teal success, but nothing of early goose hunting. Dove season was pretty poor. We need water BADLY.

Posted By:
Martin-Hall
Field Editor

Tennessee Waterfowl 09-23-2007 21:46
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09/06/2007 ~ 2007-08 WATERFOWL HUNTING DATES ESTABLISHED BY TWRC
The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission established its duck and goose hunting dates and limits for the 2007-08 late waterfowl hunting season at its regular August meeting held at the Region II Headquarters.
The statewide duck season is Nov. 24-25 for the opening session and then will run Dec. 1 thru Jan. 27. In the Reelfoot Duck Zone, the dates will be Nov. 10-11 and the same Dec. 1-Jan. 27 session. The youth waterfowl season will be similar to last year with only a calendar shift. For youth ages 6-15, the Statewide Zone is Feb. 2-3 while the Reelfoot Zone will be Feb. 9-10. The daily bag limit of ducks is six and may include no more than four mallards (no more than two of which may be a female), one black duck, one pintail, two canvasbacks, two scaup, and two redheads. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) made the recommendation to increase the hen mallard limit from one to two due to the increase of the mallard population the last three years and excellent breeding conditions.

Federal frameworks for Canada goose season were extended in two of Tennessee’s Canada goose zones and will allow additional days of hunting. The Statewide Canada goose zone will add two more additional days of hunting to the first segment. The Southwest Zone will be allowed 13 more days, increasing from 59 to 72 days. The Statewide and Southwest zones will be the same with Oct. 1-9, Nov. 30-Jan. 31 segments.

The Northwest Zone (72 days) and the Kentucky/Barkley Lakes Zone (59 days) will remain the same from last season with only a slight shift in the calendar dates. The Northwest Zone segments run from Dec. 1-Feb. 10 while the Kentucky-Barkley Lake Zone is Oct. 1-9 and Dec. 9-Jan. 27.

The blue, snow, and Ross geese regular season will run Nov. 25 thru Feb. 10. During the regular snow goose season segment, standard federal regulations apply. Hunters cannot use unplugged guns and electronic calls. The conservation season segment is Feb. 11-March 10. Federal Conservation Order provisions allow the use of electronic calls and unplugged shotguns after all other waterfowl seasons have concluded.

Daily bag limits are 20 for snow, blue, and Ross’ geese, two white-front geese, two Canada geese, and two brant.

The TWRC next meeting is scheduled for Sept. 19-20 at Paris Landing State Park.

Posted By:
John-Cottenham
Field Editor

MI 09-17-2007 11:24
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DKA check your PM!

jacduck 1st a waterfowler! 2nd a decoy carver! 3rd? well, what ever else matters.

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Posted By:
DKA
Web Member

Waterfowl season dates 09-12-2007 13:15
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Reelfoot 11/10&11/07; statewide11/24-25’07; sttewide and Reelfoot-12/1/007-1/27/08; Youth statewide-2/2-3/08; Reelfoot-2/9-10/08;NW Goose-12/01’07-2/10’08 (canadian). This isn’t the complete list for geese in Mid and east have some extra dates. 10/1-9/07. I called yesterday, haven’t seen it in print yet.

Posted By:
Martin-Hall
Field Editor

Southern Middle Tennessee 09-08-2007 21:50
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Another good day in the field. Started the morning with one of our landowners shooting doves in a picked corn field. I couldn’t have gotten any better, the resturant where we ate breakfast at 4:30 a.m. was actually right in the middle of the fields. After eggs, bacon, french toast, western omlets or whatever our choices, we walked out the front door and into the field to shoot. The doves weren’t just blasting us but there were enough that most of us got limits or close to it. By 9:00 a.m. we were back in the resturant for home-made chocolate fried pies that the cook fried for us when we came in. Boys, it don’t get no better than that! Especially with a scoop of ice cream to cool them off a bit.

After lunch, two of my hunting buddies and I decided to try and find the geese for and afternoon hunt. We found about 65 on one farm pond but decided to save them for tomorrow morning. Twenty minutes and half a county later, we found about the same number on another group of ponds that we have permission to hunt on. The problem was, the geese were scattered on two different ponds and scattered along a hillside grazing grass. Thirty minutes later, we’d added 12 more “Nuisance” geese to our tally for the year.

Now, as for tomorrow, more on that later….

If you’re not taking advantage of the early Canada Goose season, you’re missing one of the best seasons of the year. This is the only season that you’re allowed to take 5 geese a day. The geese aren’t wised up yet and you don’t have to freeze your buns off to hunt them. Not to mention the doves. So get out, do some scouting, and take a kid hunting.

Later,
Martin

Posted By:
Martin-Hall
Field Editor

Southern Middle Tennessee 09-03-2007 22:09
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Had a great opening weekend of the early goose and dove seasons. Three of us hunted Saturday, Sunday and Monday and ended up with 32 Canada Geese and a few limits of doves. But boy was it hot. Mid to upper ninties every day and no breeze to speak of. I really liked the 12 ga 3.5 inch Ts on the geese but I didn’t think much of the 7/8 oz 20 ga. loads.

Posted By:
John-Cottenham
Field Editor

Saginaw Bay of MI 08-31-2007 08:35
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DKA we need to start thinking about you coming up. Last few days in Oct or first few in Nov should be right where we want to be. I will be gone for a few days and then I will email you.

jacduck 1st a waterfowler! 2nd a decoy carver! 3rd? well, what ever else matters.

Posted By:
Martin-Hall
Field Editor

Middle Tennessee 08-30-2007 04:44
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Hello Neighbors
It’s that time again.
Two days till the early goose season and corn is hitting the ground left and right since last weekend. The geese have found the fields already so get out and find out which fields they are in. There a plenty of resident geese this year so get out and take advantage of it.

TWRA decided not to take advantage of the expanded Federal regulations on resident geese such as longer season, more liberal limits, unplugged guns, etc. so the season is basicly unchanged from last year. It opens on the 1st of September and closes the 15th with a limit of five Canada geese per day.

Teal season is only a few days later and the Blue Wing Teal are already in the area. I’ve seen more than one flight already while scouting for geese. It should be a good season this year. There was also a good hatch of Wood Ducks so plan on having duck and wild rice later in the month.

Now, where did I put all that waterfowling gear last January? Let’s see here: fat retriever, dirty decoys, duck boat full of leaves, shotgun with turkey tube still in it, waders leaking, goose call with the cork all dried out and loose, temperature in the 90s,ground too hard to put a decoy stake into, lawn needs cutting, no steel shotgun shells of the right size, no Federal Duck Stamp bought yet, camo all faded to almost white, layout blind full of mud and corn shucks and needing mudding, working 7/12s and no time to scout, and a honey-do list a yard long, and less than 48 hours till the opener. Sounds like my typical opening day. Get out and enjoy!

Martin

Posted By:
DKA
Web Member

Reelfoot 08-13-2007 07:57
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Found the draw blind Sat. boy was it hot, got it gps’d exactly 3/10’s of a mile from the corner parking lot at Black Bayou Refuge. Nice big timber hole. Gonna be a bugger getting materials in to build a blind. I’m thinking a practice session for the local TANG helicopter unit located here at Jackson airport. Going to get permission for some millet planting today, hopefully. Talk to TWRA a little later today. Troy, love to get up your way for some geese. We get some locals around Camden they transplant off the golf courses up your way. We haven’t had a good migration of Canadians at Reelfoot since 2000, when that Artic clipper blew down from the north. I will be in Lebanon for Mom’s b’day. It is the 3rd of Sept. Don’t know if they will celebrate on Labor Day weekend or what, I’ll keep you posted. If we get water the draw blind I got will be a killer. If we don’t, I still have the open water blind at Cochran’s we can hunt. Later, Kevin.

Posted By:
TROTRO
Guest

08-10-2007 14:18
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Kevin

we need to get together this year and do some hunting. get in touch with me before goose season i have some places to goose hunt maybe we can get some birds in.

i will call you next week.

Posted By:
Kevin-Stewart
Field Editor

AEDC 08-07-2007 13:34
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Troy,

You have heard of the silver lining right? I didn’t even go this year. Last year was so pitiful out there, I didn’t want to feel like I HAD to hunt a blind out there. I’ll be sticking to the leases and private property’s this year myself.

ALL,

With a little luck, the corn crop in Mid TN will have some yield this year. Most little local showers have had good timing for kernal production anyway. Don’t think the majority of farmers will be bush hogging stalks in late Oct/Nov like last year.

Any corn being cut between now and mid september will be attractive to geese and doves. Do your scouting now, while gas prices are below $3 🙂

Good luck guys!

a.k.a. Paladin
“have gun, will travel”

Posted By:
TROTRO
Guest

woods 08-06-2007 11:49
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didn’t get drawn this year at woods going to have to hunt private land this year i guess…..

Posted By:
steve68
Guest

08-06-2007 11:44
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Missed you up there Kevin. Congrats on the blind. I wasn,t as lucky this year guess I will have to try find a couple spots I can hunt out of my boat. Let me know how good the spot is. Steve

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Posted By:
DKA
Web Member

Reelfoot 08-06-2007 08:08
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Believe it or not, I actually got drawn at Reelfoot Sat. Ended up with 51, timber hole next to Black Bayou, actually the first blind coming to the lake from the refuge. Should be pretty good, going tohave to build a blind but we can walk in to it from the refuge parking area. Cool!

Posted By:
DKA
Web Member

Reelfoot 07-28-2007 09:23
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I will be there selling chances on a shotgun for the Waterfowl Festival the second week in Oct. Stop by. Kevin

Posted By:
steve68
Guest

Reelfoot 07-26-2007 16:21
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Is any one going to the Reelfoot WMA blind drawings. It is time to start getting ready it will be here before you know it. P/m me and I will try to meet you at the drawings.

GOOD LUCK to everyone in all the WMA draws

Posted By:
flyfish37129
Guest

Stones River Chapter of Ducks Unlimited 04-22-2007 08:59
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The Stones River Chapter of Ducks Unlimited is having their annual fund raising banquet Thursday May 31, 2007 at the Middle Tennessee Association of Realtors Building located at 311 Butler Drive in Murfreesboro.

For information shoot me a message or give me a call (615)351-0477. Tickets are $40 for individuals or $55 a couple, $15 for greenwings. It should be our best event yet!!! For the Early Bird drawing tickets must be bought(paid for) by May 16, 2007.

Thank you,

Mike

Posted By:
mstone
Guest

West Tennessee 03-28-2007 12:26
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Would like to know if anyone knows about any hunting leases available for the next season around Kentucky Lake.

mstone

Posted By:
gleasonduck
Web Member

Gleason TN 03-06-2007 14:23
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 40-45 Degrees
Went to our duck hole to pull boards and tidy up-Holy cow were there a lot of birds, est 3-4000. Blue and green wingers, at least 1000 Mallards, 2-300 Shovelers and a mix of Gadwalls, Widgeon and a few Black Ducks. That was the most ducks I have ever seen at our place. Wish it would have been Jan and not March, but it was still cool to see.

Posted By:
DKA
Web Member

02-28-2007 09:18
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Ross, hate to see you getting out of the ED. pos. You have always had good insightful information and have provided everyone a chance to use their noggin for something besides a hat rack. I am sure we will continue to see your post and look forward to getting to hunt with you next year at Reelfoot. You should try and make it up for the spring fling at Reelfoot. Everyone has a large time. Take care.

Posted By:
Ross-Malone
Guest

02-20-2007 21:01
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All,

Wanted to share a report that was forward from TWF, to the Blue Ribbon Panel.
It’s kind a interesting report that I can tell you I did witnessed some of the examples listed toward the end of the season. Sorry for it is kind of long, but good reading.

Also want to add this will be my last year as a Tennessee Editor. I think it been 6 years now and we have many other good editors to keep the reports coming.
I want to thank Waterfowler.com for allowing me this honor to be a part this history making process.
Remember to manage the resource with science base biology and your heart and we will have a legacy to past onto future generations.

Be Blessed.
Ross A. Malone

BIRD’S-EYE VIEW
Research shows mallards are not falling prey to hunters’ tactics

Sunday, February 18, 2007

By Bob Marshall

This just in: Ducks are smarter than hunters.

That’s the major headline developing after a two-year study by two LSU
graduate students on the movements of mallards wintering in Louisiana.

Although many waterfowlers have complained that the recent string of
poor seasons was because of factors beyond their control — a paucity of
ducks, a change to nocturnal habits by the birds and the safe heavens
provided by state and federal refuges being off-limits to hunting —
preliminary results from research by Bruce Davis and Paul Link revealed
something else.

Mallards, at least, have been around in basically the same numbers, have
been using open lands instead of refuges and have been traveling during
hours. They just aren’t falling for hunters’ tricks.

“Many times we would track birds to sites right next to hunters set up
in blinds with (decoy) spreads including spinning wing decoys, and the
hunters never knew they were there,” Link said. “The birds just weren’t
falling for whatever the hunters were trying.”

Working under the direction of LSU professor Al Afton, Davis and Link
placed radio tracking devices in small backpacks on almost 400 mallard
hens trapped in southwest and northeast Louisiana during the winters of
2005 and 2006.
Using laptop computers, they were able to travel across the two regions
tracking the movements of the birds. Similar research will be conducted
on gadwalls and mottled ducks in the next two winters, Afton said.

The research was prompted, in part, by growing frustration of hunters
because of plummeting success the past six years in what has long been
one of the most productive waterfowling grounds on the continent. For
decades Louisiana hunters led the nation in the number of ducks killed,
often topping 3 million birds, more than the entire population of ducks
on the Atlantic Flyway. But that began to wane in the late 1990s.

Biologists and hunters have looked at several theories for the decline,
including the disruption of traditional migration patterns caused by
warming winter weather patterns along the Mississippi Flyway,
degradation of coastal habitats by tropical storms and the impact of
hunting pressure.

The waterfowling community mined some insight into the trend from a
similar tracking study Afton conducted on pintails a decade ago. That
research shed light on the impact of hunting pressure by revealing
pintails quickly changed their habits after opening day. Once started,
the birds became primarily nocturnal, retreating to the safety of
protected refuges during daylight and venturing into hunted areas after
sundown, when hunting had stopped. It also revealed that pintails on the
Louisiana coast often would travel more than 400 miles in a day in
response to weather changes that promised better feeding conditions as
far away as Arkansas.

But the key preliminary findings by Davis and Link on winter movement of
mallards might be even more surprising:

— Mallards traveled in much smaller numbers than pintails, staying in
groups of less than eight birds. Pintails often traveled in flights of
more than a dozen.

— Hunting pressure had little affect on mallards’ activities. The birds
remained primarily diurnal, and continued to primarily use lands open to
hunting.

— In northeast Louisiana, mallards preferred to feed in flooded timber,
avoiding the open water where most hunters tend to set up. The smaller
numbers meant they were more able to land in smaller patches of open
water in the flooded timber. It also meant they were less likely to be
attracted to large decoy spreads.

— In southwest Louisiana, mallards tended to remain in the marsh,
preferring that habitat for foraging over the flooded rice and other
agricultural fields favored by pintails and other species. Mallards
surprised the researchers last year by sticking to the marsh even after
its apparent suitability had been reduced by the saltwater tides from
tropical storms.

— Perhaps most surprising of all, most mallards did not leave Louisiana
until mid-March, and some stayed until the first week of April.

It has been accepted wisdom even among biologists that mallards left the
state by mid-February and made a gradual return to nesting grounds in
the Dakotas and prairie Canada. Link and Davis found them staying later,
and often returning in one hurried flight.

“I followed one back to South Dakota, and I was traveling 70-miles per
hour, but the bird beat me,” Link said.

The findings will be embarrassing to some hunters who have been
demanding that state and federal wildlife agencies open refuges
previously off limits to hunting. They claimed the protected areas were
contributed to the recent poor seasons because birds were crowding onto
the properties in response to hunting pressure.

“That just wasn’t the case,” Afton said. “They didn’t turn nocturnal.
They didn’t use refuges as a way of avoiding hunters. They continued to
use areas open to hunting. In many cases they were very close to groups
of hunters.
But they were moving in small groups. They were very adept at finding
sources of food in areas where hunters just were not located.”

Davis and Link said they often would see birds ignoring hunters’
greatest efforts, including motorized, moving-wing decoys and expert
calling. The ineffectiveness of hunters and the feeding tactics of the
mallards might well be adjustments to hunting pressure, Afton said. When
birds find an effective strategy, they stay with it.

“This could be something that has been developing over the years, and
hunters just haven’t noticed it, and have yet to adapt,” he said.

Link said his education in duck marshes of his native North Dakota
prepared him for the findings.

“I was taught a long time ago that one of two things happens when a gun
goes off in a duck marsh,” said Link. “Either a duck falls out of the
sky , or it flies away a smarter duck.”

The research shows that these bird brains, at least mallards, have been
smarter than Louisiana hunters.

Posted By:
TROTRO
Guest

02-12-2007 12:03
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I’d be in on this but don’t think i can get anytime off for the hunt. Shoot! i love to go. I will just have to quit my jobs,lol.

Posted By:
Thomas-Quinlen
Field Editor

Martin’s Goos Hunt 02-12-2007 11:05
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I’d be interested. Didn’t see many ducks this year, so I’ll be angry if and when I encounter any sky-carp! 🙂

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Posted By:
DKA
Web Member

Reelfoot 02-12-2007 08:03
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
Juvenile hunt Sat. got them 19 birds, Sun. brought out 28. Will try and get pics posted today or tomorrow.

Posted By:
flyfish37129
Guest

Martin’s Snow Goose Hunt… 02-11-2007 16:52
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I’ll send a PM sounds like fun but need more details!! Not sure I can work it into the baseball schedule or not.

Posted By:
Martin-Hall
Field Editor

Arkansas Snow Geese Anyone? 02-06-2007 14:46
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 30-34 Degrees – Ice
Any of you Woods Reservoir guys interested in getting up a free Snow Goose hunt in Arkansas during the Spring Conservations Season? I’ve got the place. I don’t think you even have to have an Ark. license. All it would cost is groceries and gas. If there’s any interest, we might get a group hunt together.

[Edited By Martin-Hall on 2007-02-11 20:49]

Posted By:
TROTRO
Guest

02-05-2007 12:36
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ooohhhhhhhhhhh come on guys!!! i killed some birds this year. it wasn’t all that bad, all i had to do was go to texas to kill some birds. lol

[Edited By TROTRO on 2007-02-05 12:37]

Posted By:
flyfish37129
Guest

Woods Reservoir 02-03-2007 16:04
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We pulled our decoys up early this year in Blind 11. We weren’t down there much and didn’t see much use in taking a chance on getting them stolen. Looks like it was a wise choice.

Posted By:
DKA
Web Member

juvenile hunt 01-30-2007 08:06
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Just realized that the Reelfoot juvenile is the second weekend of Feb. State wide this weekend. If anyone wants to hunt the goose pit with their kids this weekend. let me know. We will do the lake the next weekend.

Posted By:
Kevin-Stewart
Field Editor

AEDC, woods res. 01-29-2007 17:06
Cloudy, High Winds – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
Well Martin,
I wish I had read your report 3 days earlier. The Alli Baba’s (thieves) apparently struck again Sat night. Stole my little flatbottom, and really hit the guys in blind 28 hard. Several Spinners and mallard machines. I haven’t heard from any other upper end blinds, but they came in thru Gum creek – cut the cable.

Otherwise me and mine had an enjoyable, if largely unproductive season. My daughter got her first duck this year – a drake woodie. Got to hunt with several people for the first time, and made some good friends.

Luck to all, hope you can take a kid this weekend!

“Have gun, will travel” – Paladin

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beaver5197561
WFC Sponsor

eastern tn (top secret) 01-29-2007 09:55
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 40-45 Degrees
had a heck of a last weekend of duck season. probabally killed 50 ducks in two days between 6 of us. mallards, woodies, canvasback, redhead, pintail, gadwal, gwt, and a few ring necks. the mergansers dont count. BE CARFUL, DONT DO ANYTHING STUPID, HAPPY HUNTING, BE SAFE, SEE U IN THE FIELD NEXT SEASON. sunday evening also saw probabaly 2000 migraters in v’s about 10000ft up good luck calling them in. we tried they just kept on a truckin. suprisingly they were flying north though.??????????

[Edited By beaver5197561 on 2007-01-29 10:03]

Posted By:
DKA
Web Member

Juvenile hunt 01-29-2007 08:30
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Looking to see if anyone has sosme juveniles who want to hunt next weekend at Reelfoot. send me a pm. The kids will be at Cochran’s Point blind. That is where we hunted in the previous report.

Posted By:
DKA
Web Member

Reelfoot 01-29-2007 08:10
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
We ended the y ear on a good note. Fri. 24, Sat. 28 and Sun 43. Had a great throwdown Sat.cooked a case of babybacks and a cse of tenderloin. um-um!

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Posted By:
gleasonduck
Web Member

gleason 01-26-2007 11:51
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 40-45 Degrees
Even the Northwest counties have some weak reports-our seasons have been sorry since 1999. Thank God for woodducks or we would have really stunk it up this year. We hunt the Middle fork of the Obion and several groups that hunt east of us are thinking seriously about calling it quits. We have 5 refuges within 12 miles of us and have killed a grand total of 10 mallards this season. We hunt 135 flooded acres with 25 acres of standing corn and all we see are wood ducks. We have put up 15 wood duck boxes just to try a raise some local birds to shoot, cause we sure don’t get migrators anymore.

Posted By:
brandon Bean
Guest

01-25-2007 21:26
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Martin-Hall,
That’s a bad deal about your decoys. It is a shame that people can’t honor the good intentions of people like yourself that are willing to leave a spread for someone to hunt over at a wma. We’ve dealt with this crap in West Tennessee for as long as I can remember. Makes a pretty good case for doing away with our draw system all-together. Can’t leave anything out anymore or someone will thieve it. Might as well tote it in and out the same day. I’ve always pulled my dekes even when my buddies and I have had draw blinds. It’s not like it used to be, especially when the hunting is slow there are thugs that would just as soon ride around and pick-up decoys as try to hunt. As I have commented before about the refuge system I am going to say it again about the etiquette of our sport. It is all about to change. You should all do yourselves a favor and attend the TWRC meeting in August when the seasons are established and topics are discussed. Tennesse is probably going to have a record, or near record, harvest of birds this year. At least it will be comparable to last year. 90% of this harvest will be in a 5 or 6 county region in NorthWest Tennessee. Ask the Biologists why this is. They will tell you that this is just where the habitat is. I say BULL.
I’ve killed my share of birds this year and I do not take this stand to drive my own ambitions of killing more birds. There is a conspiracy going on and you guys in Middle and East Tennessee are getting the shaft. Take a stand. It’s not just the weather that is keeping you from harvesting your share of the birds.

Posted By:
steve68
Guest

Bogata 01-25-2007 17:00
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 35-40 Degrees
My son and I had agreat time at Bogata WMA hunt. The game warden there was as nice as any I have met. We did not kill a lot of ducks but that was mainly our fault. We either set up in the wrong place or we couldn’t have hit the goodyear blimp if it had floated by. My dog made a couple awsome retrieves on the few we did hit and that made it the hunt that much better. As soon as the season is over I am working on getting a camper up at Reelfoot and that is where we plan on hunting and fishing from now on. Thanks to everyone for the advice on the hunt. Steve

A BAD DAY OF HUNTING BEATS WORK ANYDAY

Posted By:
DKA
Web Member

reelfoot 01-25-2007 14:07
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There have been some thieving going on at the lake also. One blind lost everything, stove gas, pots and pans, even dishwashing soap.

Posted By:
TROTRO
Guest

woods 01-25-2007 10:50
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sorry to hear that martin. i guess i need to go and check on our decoys at 14.

Posted By:
DKA
Web Member

reelfoot 01-25-2007 08:14
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 40-45 Degrees
hunted tues. birds didn’t fly much early as was cloudy, sun broke out around 10 am, got some close enough to shoot ended up with 6 and 1 blue goose. Hunted wed. turned cloudy early but the birds flew. Good bunches but all were call shy and decoy shy. Chatter and comeback brought them in great. also did not use use any motion decoys. Guys next to me were calling and had 5 robos and a vortex, Chatter and comeback brought every duck to me. Limited out in 45 minutes. Just me and the dog, so we headed home.

Posted By:
Martin-Hall
Field Editor

AEDC/Woods Reservoir 01-24-2007 13:02
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
I knew that Woods wasn’t a great duck lake, but I didn’t know it was so bad that even my decoys would pull anchor and walk off. It seems like someone hunted our blind this past weekend, blind 44, and liked the looks of our spread. That or they picked up several dozen decoys and a mallard machine for me and they just haven’t called me yet to let me know they’ve done me a favor and will be bringing them by the house later.

We haven’t hunted our blind as much this year as I would have hoped, but I left the decoys and mallard machine out for the folks that didn’t get drawn for a blind. On the days we’ve hunted, we’ve never turned away a hunter looking for an empty blind. I’m a trusting soul who believes that hunters, by nature, are honest folks. I guess I was wrong about these last hunters. This is the first time I’ve ever had anything stolen at Woods, so I hoping it wasn’t one of our local hunters, but just a passing thief. If anyone hunts the blind this weekend, bring your own decoys. Ours will be picked up by then unless the thiefs get the rest of them before we do.

Disappointed in Lynchburg
Martin Hall

Posted By:
Thomas-Quinlen
Field Editor

Bayou DeVew, AR 01-22-2007 09:28
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 35-40 Degrees
LOADS OF DUCKS! Finally, some ducks have showed up! Now, this is in Arkansas, pretty much due west of Memphis, and I hear that there are still low numbers to the south, but from Memphis northward, there are lots of ducks in Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky.

We shot a good number of mallards in the bayou (I had to leave early, so I don’t know the final count), and our guys hunting the surrounding fields did even better. There is lots of water, and the rivers and bayous are flowing.

Nice to finally get a good hunt in.

[Edited By Thomas-Quinlen on 2007-01-22 09:29]

Posted By:
DKA
Web Member

Reelfoot 01-22-2007 08:20
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
Sat.with the sun got 12 Sun one blind in the timber got 2 the open water 13. Sat., couple of holes really hammered, 40-50 birds each. Sun. cloudy, was slow for about everybody. Same old educated ducks!

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Posted By:
flyfish37129
Guest

Woods Reservoir 01-19-2007 14:17
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I’ve pulled the decoys up and don’t plan on returning. What a joke of a lake!

Posted By:
davehunter03
Web Member

N.E. Illinois 01-19-2007 07:58
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Martin: Our duck season has been closed for weeks…My son and I are still hunting geese and yesterday while scouting, he saw ‘thousands’ of ducks. I while I was in a totally different area, I too saw one hell of mess of Mallards. Don’t pay too much attention to the Snow cover report, as we have zero, zilch on the ground. My son plows snow in the winter and hasnt started any of the ‘trucks’ yet. Wish I had better news, it is supposed to get down to ‘zero next week. With open water, plenty of feed..well I just don’t know when or if they will be moving.Sr.

Posted By:
Martin-Hall
Field Editor

Woods Reservoir/AEDC 01-18-2007 19:15
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 45-50 Degrees
Drove by the refuge this afternoon to see what the duck numbers looked like. I hope I went by when all the ducks were out feeding. I saw a total of two blacks, a dozen mallards, 20-30 mixed divers mostly hooded mergansers and buffleheads. The only high point of the scouting trip was a bald eagle setting on a snag off the dam road. Prospects look bleak for the rest of this bleak season. I’m not sure this “resting lake” idea is working all that good for Woods. Maybe TWRA should rethink putting in some crops for us and the ducks.

I’m really surprised that the snow and ice up north hasn’t pushed some ducks down to us. The south east is the only place that’s not covered with snow right now. Take a look at the snow cover sight at: http://www.intellicast.com/IcastPage/LoadPage.aspx?loc=usa&seg=Ski&prodgrp=CurrentWeather&product=SnowCover&prodnav=none It looks like we should have the lions share of the ducks.

I hunted last weekend at our club in Arkansas which borders the legendary Claypool and about the only thing we got was wet. Looking into Claypool this time of year I normally expect to see tens-of-thousands of ducks but when I checked it this past weekend I probably saw only a couple of hundred. I did talk to one of the members who is out there hunting and he said two of them killed limits of big ducks this afternoon in a couple of hours so maybe they followed the front in and things are getting better. We duck hunters are the eternal optimist. Things will always be better tomorrow. Even when we know there aren’t any ducks, we have to be in the blind the next morning, just in case.

Ten days left in the season. We can’t kill them sitting on the couch and it’s a long time till next season. Maybe when I checked the refuge this afternoon the 50,000 ducks had just left to go out and feed in the fields in Hillsboro. Ya Think?

Wind at your back and good friends in your blind. MuddyDucker

Posted By:
DKA
Web Member

Reelfoot 01-18-2007 14:00
Cloudy, High Winds – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
Tues. cloudy and windy took down 34, Wed. cloudy early very little action, then the sun popped out around 11 and the birds started flying, got 4 early then ended up with 20.

Posted By:
Ross-Malone
Guest

Reelfoot Lake 01-16-2007 19:52
Cloudy, Occassional Rain Showers – 35-40 Degrees
OK, we had a fun trip to Reelfoot Lake on Sunday and Monday. Bagged 3 GWT’s and one scaup on Sunday in the warm rain. Monday was better. As soon as the rain stopped had some nice mallard action. 5 shooters in the blind of Ducks Deluxe, Steve Worley. 6 ring neck, 2 shovelers, 5 mallards. Had to leave out 1pm to head home in Chattanooga.
The lake is so beautiful. Had several Bald Eagles to hang around in the area.
We stayed at the Acorn Lodge and it’s was the best. Just like Grandmothers. Mrs. Denton was great, prepared our coffee each morning, made brownies, cookies each day it was a delight.
My duck hunting partner Richard Simms arranged the event and it was a fun trip.
Birds seem to be scattered, but they are in the area working so don’t give up.
Hang in there.
RAM

Posted By:
McWatson
Guest

Obion River Bottom, Weakley Co. 01-16-2007 15:03
Cloudy, High Winds – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
Not much action this morning.Saw a few early groups trading West to East on the Obion flying towards Paris. One Green head, breakfast then to work…..

Posted By:
DKA
Web Member

Reelfoot 01-15-2007 14:23
Cloudy, Occassional Rain Showers – 50-60 Degrees
Hunted Tues. the 9th through Sun. the 14th. Tues. had a great shoot. Wed.-Sat. very slow. Rained Sat. and Sun. Sun was another excellent day. New birds from the south headed back to the lake from the fields full of corn and rice.5 of us hunted all day and limited out. If we had more men we could have had another triple digit day. Headed back Wed. the 16th sunny and cold should be prime time. We had big wads of mallards, pintails, blackjacks and gwt. Anywhere from 50 to 200 in a flock. Nice!

Posted By:
steve68
Guest

bogata wma 01-12-2007 18:49
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has anyone hunted any of the bogata hunts this year. If so how was it? My son and I are heading up there 19,20,21. Scouted it Wed and saw quite a few mallards. any info pls post or pm me thanks Steve Sellers

A BAD DAY OF HUNTING BEATS WORK ANYDAY

Posted By:
brandon Bean
Guest

01-09-2007 12:34
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Okay, we shot 3 limits of mallards this morning. All were new ducks because they dropped from the stratosphere in a little tight wad and never made a pass. I assume that the 20mph wind was blowing them off Reelfoot.
Aceman, did you ever hunt the “bottom” before the refuges started leaving corn? If you think you’ve got a little honey-hole now you would have been well impressed 7 or 8 years ago. I’m not against the refuges or even the leaving of a few acres of food. I am against the practice of leaving enough food on the refuge to hold a concentration of waterfowl for the entire season. A refuge should be a place for birds to actually seek “refuge” and rest. Why don’t they just call it a feed trough instead of a refuge. I may sound a little selfish and as though I haven’t killed enough birds. I assure you that I have shot my share and if never another bird fell to my gun I would have to say that God has been good to me and graced me with friends, dogs, and memories from the sport. I’m actually more concerned that by hording the vast amount of waterfowl (probably 85-90%) in the state we are alienating the other waterfowling population that stretches all the way to east Tennessee. The ducks that start here are the same ones that wind-up over there. Granted they may get a few from the Atlantic Flyway but not nearly as many as make the west to east migration in following the Tennessee River and its tributaries.
You guys remember when geese used to be here in January by the thousands? I’m talking about real geese, not our residents that we have to shoot in september to keep them from tearing-up lawns and golf greens. Know where they went? Well the Illinois and Missouri DNR got smart and decided that if they would feed them on refuges in the northern part of their states then they could realize that resource all the way through their hunting season. Greed. I’ll admit that the weather has not been as favorable in years past for geese, but we would see more than at present were they not all held up north. I know all the arguments to this, no-till farming practice, warm water discharge from power plants leaving acres of open water even in bitter cold, and the migrating geese mixing with residents in the north.
We keep manipulating the natural cycle of waterfowl and one day it’s going to bite us in the butt. We’ve already seen the goose migration altered to a point that a goose sighting is somewhat rare in west Tennessee or at least we talk about seeing a flock as though it were a special occassion. We keep giving ducks places to go eat and you will see duck hunting go the same way.

Posted By:
DKA
Web Member

Reelfoot 01-09-2007 10:49
Cloudy, Rain & Thunderstorms – 40-45 Degrees
Had a good daysat. with 14 in the boat. Sun. 8 and mon 4. Same story, old ducks that have ben educated for the last month and a half. Where is the Alberta Clipper when you need it?