Posted By:
Bert Holtzman
Field Editor
Ohio River Zone 11-28-2010 14:13
Sunny & Clear, Morning Fog – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
Not much doing this morning. The birds didn’t fly like they did yesterday. We managed to get a goose and that was all she wrote. I’ll be back at it again Sunday. We have our basketball tournament all day Saturday. The boys will hunt. I’ll post how they do.
Posted By:
Corey-Cordray
Guest
SW/NF 11-28-2010 08:09
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 35-40 Degrees
I knew that a good day was there for the taking if only the sun would pop out from behind the clouds. It did. However, our shooting didn’t exactly show up. Managed to scratch out four mallards, two black ducks and a gadwall and lost another black duck and another gadwall.
Ducks worked great after the sun came out with most shots inside 30 yards. Not sure when I will go out next. Possibly some time this week.
Posted By:
Bert Holtzman
Field Editor
Ohio River Zone 11-27-2010 17:58
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
We set up on an island this morning in a creek off of the river. Ducks flew early. We saw about four groups of about 25 total ducks. Randy and Marty got a one of those on the other side of the island. They also got a goose. Tony and I got blanked. Big groups of geese flew around 9 or so. We’re going to set up in a different spot close by with a bigger decoy spread.
After we hunted I scouted and did some jump shooting. I took a limit of wood ducks really quick but didn’t see that many. One of our sloughs is packed full of water with flooded timber. We’re hoping that will stack up with birds for later this season. It is ideal and I’m excited about it if things go right. Not a bad opener. It could have been much worse considering the pitiful conditions/lack of birds.
Posted By:
Bert Holtzman
Field Editor
South Zone 11-26-2010 14:03
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
We didn’t do so well this morning. We set up on a lake and hoped to get some of the ducks we saw there Wednesday. We had about three groups come in and ended up with three mallards. We lost three more. After a while the plan was to pack up and head to the field for some geese. We did and didn’t have much luck. We ended up with one.
Back at home tomorrow for the Ohio River Zone opener. It’s not looking good but we’ll give it a whirl.
Posted By:
Corey-Cordray
Guest
South Zone 11-24-2010 16:58
Cloudy, Rain & Thunderstorms – 35-40 Degrees
It was an interesting way to start the year. Didn’t shoot a bird but we were on the X. Kicked up roughly 1000 birds out of the spot but NOTHING wanted to work in to our spot. It was a bizarre morning for sure. It was almost as if we were hunting ducks that had been shot at for three weeks. I’m not a big fan of hunting in the rain so we bailed around 9:30 when we realized that the ducks were not going to finish.
With five inches of rain projected to fall in the area of our lease, we will likely head there on Friday in hopes of having some water in the timber. We shall see.
Posted By:
Bert Holtzman
Field Editor
South Zone 11-24-2010 16:52
Cloudy, High Winds – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
We endured the wind and cold this morning to have a decent opener in a corn field in central Indiana this morning. Randy drove us up in style. It was ball-busting 101 all the way up and we had a blast. After getting set up we continued to keep our eyes on the radar via my Iphone, in hopes of getting in a limit before the sleet and rain made its way up. Mission accomplished. We saw very little ducks flying but geese started to fly about an hour after sun up. A nice flock snubbed us early, as did a trio of birds. Our third flocked came in on a string and we got all five birds. Several other groups worked us. We got two more groups in, getting seven birds (8 guns) on our second group and filling out our limit on another large group. Eight smiles and sixteen birds later we picked up, shook hands, took pictures and scouted a little for Friday. We hope to get some ducks on a lake then and then go back to the field. I’ll post a full report then.
As far as the Ohio River Zone goes, I scouted this evening. Water levels in the slough are up about six inches or so with more rain coming. I saw some sand hills roosting in a field next to it. I didn’t see any ducks though. I’ll be chasing a nice buck rain or shine tomorrow evening and scout as well. Hopefully some birds will follow the sandhills. Very little ducks in my area of the Ohio River Zone right now. Most of the birds we had early hit the road.
Posted By:
TRM
Web Member
north 11-22-2010 21:02
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shot 4 mallards today with orange feet. maybe new birds. I am hoping it is getting started.
Posted By:
callmaster64
Web Member
n. indiana 11-22-2010 17:14
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Wish i could give ya some good news Bert but i cant. Its been slow on the north end of the state to (no) well low water and no birds. Hunted Rochester on Lake Manitou and seen maybe 20 ducks 6 of them being mallards and the rest were divers. The Geese dont even seem to be around like years past. Maybe we will get lucky and this front will give us some shooting.
Posted By:
Bert Holtzman
Field Editor
Ohio River Zone 11-21-2010 09:32
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I have scouted a bit the last few days and there aren’t very many birds around at all. Water conditions are also still poor. It doesn’t look good at all for our opener Saturday.
Posted By:
TRM
Web Member
11-12-2010 17:56
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To warm up here. That pretty much sums it up right now.
