Posted By:
TRM
Web Member
north 12-06-2011 20:44
– – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
it sucked! bird watched all day. Saw sandhills all day. hopefully ducks are not far behind, cause we are running out of time. Thanks indiana dnr for starting our seasone so early at least give us till christmas. day 3 tomorrow.
Posted By:
Bert Holtzman
Field Editor
Ohio River flooded corn 12-03-2011 10:22
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Another stinker this morning. Daa and I set up in a cornfield right by the river. We heard pintails and mallards before shooting time. Saw about 15 ducks and 25 geese. Hopefully we get some cold weather. Everything else is in place.
[Edited By Bert Holtzman on 2011-12-03 10:23]
Posted By:
Corey-Cordray
Guest
South Zone 11-27-2011 10:55
Cloudy, High Winds – 45-50 Degrees
It’s been a fun start to the 2011 duck season. We’ve managed to kill a few birds in spite of some really awful shooting. Yesterday we should have killed 18 teal in about an hour but only killed six because we were so awful.
Birds have been plentiful thus far and should get a little bit better in the coming weeks. I’ll be focused on ducks until we freeze up then it will be time put the hammer down on some honkers.
Posted By:
Bert Holtzman
Field Editor
Ohio River: flooded timber 11-26-2011 19:34
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Let me try this again:
Our opener sucked…hard in a nutshell.
I scouted the area last night and had been for the past few weeks as well. I saw quite a few birds on those prior runs but not as many last night. We set up this morning and had wood ducks and mallards all around. They flew out early and most did not return. We ended up with a mallard. We also crippled a few wood ducks.
I set up in another slough this evening and saw thirteen ducks. Pitiful and a hell of a let down.
It’s worth noting that the river is on the rise. The slough jumped up two feet over night.me should have backwater next weekend. Hopefully it brings some ducks. They usually show up when the river creeps up.
Posted By:
oldsilverfox
Web Member
Hamilton County 11-25-2011 09:44
– – 40-45 Degrees
Hunted a new wetland area this morning. Saw 10 to 15 mallards, but they did not want to work. Had two flocks of geese come off the river at the same time. I broke 4 out of the back flock, but at the last minute they returned to their buddies and flew east. That was fun!
I do not believethe ducks have come thorugh her yet. We should have seen more.
Still waiting for the sandhills! LOL
Beautiful sunrise.
Stay Safe Fox
Posted By:
Bert Holtzman
Field Editor
South Zone 11-23-2011 15:37
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We set up in a corn field we had some success in for the first round of the South Zone split. Birds did not want to feed today. We ended up with three geese and two mallards. See you Saturday. It’s finally here!
Posted By:
Bert Holtzman
Field Editor
Ohio River Bottoms 11-19-2011 18:22
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I’ve seen quite a few birds in the flooded timber this past week, a mix of woodies, mallards and a few teal. I’m not sure how much we’ll be able to get into them, as they’re in a lot of buck brush. Nonetheless, it’s all systems go next Saturday.
Two to five inches of rain starting tomorrow.
Posted By:
Lindo
Guest
None 11-16-2011 11:06
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Any reports from North of Indianapolis area? New to lebanon and looking to see if it’s worth a go. Don’t have any gear yet as I just moved here from out of state. Let me know?
Posted By:
fatman300
Web Member
NW Indiana 11-15-2011 23:39
– – 60-65 Degrees
grand kankakee marsh over 1000 birds using property (lot of mallards) kankakee F&W corn opener not as good as I thought it would be (80 birds) but not bad, seems like most were killed in the corn. Heard they did good at the Slough and Lasalle too. But temps up again so harvests go down.
Posted By:
fatman300
Web Member
NW Indiana 11-10-2011 20:47
Cloudy, Snow & Rain Mix – 30-34 Degrees – Ice
Pretty cr ppy out, wish I were going.
The Kank F&W has been killing 30-35 a day out of 20 blinds. Corn opener the 14th should be good!
Grand Kankakee over the past week a total of 152 hunters harvested 69 birds. This brings the season total to 584 hunters harvesting 349 birds.
This week we plan on hunting spots 1-8, 10-19, and little hickory marsh. The shooting schedule for spots 10-19 is variable so please call ahead if you are interested in hunting those spots. Spots 1-8 will continue to be hunted daily. Little Hickory Marsh will be closed on Nov.6-7, 2011
Should be able to get out and give personal observations in the next week or so.(Still not “supposed to drive” for 2 weeks)
