Posted By:
naustin
Guest
Tampa 01-19-2004 07:43
Cloudy, Rain & Thunderstorms – 50-60 Degrees
Hunted yesterday very slow in the morning due to the heavy rain. After the rain passed around 8:00 a.m. the birds started to move. My hunting party and I put 5 Ringers on the deck, had more opportunities but did not capitalize on them. I did have a Pintail skirt our decoys, but they are out of season. Saw numerous rafts of ducks 3-4 hundred per raft. We pulled the plug around 12:00 p.m. I have a feeling that the late after noon would have been good.
Posted By:
Straygator
Guest
Mulberry 01-18-2004 19:42
Cloudy, Rain & Thunderstorms – 50-60 Degrees
Went out for the last Hurrah of the season, the boys all meet @5 am. Hunt master Bo tried some Duck Carma Songs before the hunt and made everyone sing them. Out we go, the front is coming, the wind is picking up and we are getting spritzed… I hear ducks buzzing the blind and now I see ducks swimming around the dekes, the cloud cover is keeping it dark so we are well past legal shooting when someone drives in late and a bunch of ducks start getting up, the shooting starts and if it was not for the poor shooting we all should have been done in 30 minutes. My hunting buddy and I shot 6 Blue wing teal (still the major bag and duck flying), 2 ringies, 2 shovelers and 2 mallards. That was my first limit ever! When the front came through there were so many ducks coming in it was unreal. had them land 20 feet away picking up decoys, never would beleive it if it didn’t happen to me!
Saw lots of mallards late.9-10 am and during the rain
teal in single to triples all morning, ringies in doubles
shovelers in groups of 4
When the weather broke and cleared the birds stopped flying!
Only one weekend left, good luck
[Edited By Straygator on 2004-01-18 19:44]
Posted By:
Straygator
Guest
01-17-2004 10:40
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If you have not been reading every other states reports you should.
Serious changes are in order.
Lets get rid of the early teal season. Sure we all like it but how many ducks do you actually see and is it really worth it.
Our Season should run January 1 to January 31 or Jan 7 to Feb 7.
Lets be realistic, We are wholly dependant on the ducks migrating to us. If the season starts later when we could reasonably expect hard winter conditions up north we would all expect better duck hunting.
Here it is late January and I still do not see significant numbers of ducks anywere on my honeyholes. The phosphate ponds are not holding their large rafts either. Several people have been out flying looking for them and cannot find large populations. I do not beleive it is a numbers problem but more habitat weather related.
Posted By:
Sloan-Howard
Guest
01-07-2004 19:21
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Blindhog, how you been? Seminole has some ringers but you have to scout hard for them. I have not heard any reports form the Tally lakes in a couple of weeks, but the reports I have heard have ben very poor.
GaDuckman58, yes you can hunt the Apalachicola Bay. Many of the locals down there do. But it takes some scouting and some careful consideration of the tides to figure it out.
Posted By:
gaduckman58
Magazine Subscriber
01-05-2004 19:13
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does anybody hunt apalach bay?if no why not,or is it legal.w/ the weather we’re havin need to be sight fishin reds anyway!have seen a good many teal on the bay in early oct.while fishing
Posted By:
BlindHog
Guest
N Fla in General 01-05-2004 11:33
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 60-65 Degrees
Anybody seeing any ringnecks anywhere in N Fl, particularly Tallahassee area? (Lakes Iamonia/Miccosukee/Talquin/Seminole)
Whats the deal with the ringers? Seems like Everglades has em but they’re not in the panhandle that I know of.
Posted By:
BlindHog
Guest
PCS 01-05-2004 11:30
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 60-65 Degrees
12/31/03 Hunted PCS Phosphate WMA – Pond 8B s.e. end – Lots of teal decoying readily, along with shovellers. Got limit.
1/3/04 Hunted PCS, saw no teal from my position in 8B middle, bagged one hoodie merg and one bluebill, had to shoot some blackbellied whistlers to get any action, but felt bad, they are so dumb. Lots of ruddies around but cant stomach em.
Posted By:
iluvlabs
Guest
12-30-2003 16:32
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Hey guys,
I dont want to get too much off of the subject, but I am a hunter of all animals. I am in the Navy, and I was wondering if anyone had any info on land that I can lease or that I can hopefully hunt on for free. I would like to hunt for deer and turkey both. I know that there is public land out there, but I would really like to find some good private land, thanks in advance for your help.
DROP EM HARD!!!!
[Edited By iluvlabs on 2003-12-30 16:34]
Posted By:
Straygator
Guest
Everglades 12-29-2003 17:28
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Hunted Saturday 12/27 and Sunday 12/28
Small flocks of Ringnecks, shooting over by 7:30 for the groups, stragglers and singles until 9:30. Not much fat on the ducks.
Can anyone explain the hydrilla turning brown and the hydrilla floating on the surface turning white? I noticed the ducks landed in the areas where the hydrilla was brown and not white. The white stuff collapses on the underlying brown hydrilla and collapses it.
Posted By:
naustin
Guest
Tampa 12-22-2003 08:11
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 40-45 Degrees
Spent a full day in the blind, Saw thousands of birds mostly ringers. Hard to get them to work our decoys due to the large amounts of birds rafting around us. We did most of our shooting towards the later part of the day.
