Posted By:
Bert Holtzman
Field Editor
03-02-2012 22:06
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Please keep those affected by today’s tragic tornado outbreak in your thoughts and prayers.
Posted By:
Bert Holtzman
Field Editor
Ohio River Zone 01-22-2012 12:26
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
We set up in a flooded field/flooded timer this morning for strangely enough, wood ducks. There had been some mallards also using this general area. What a pretty spot. I’m sure we will hunt it every so often next season and in future years as well. There were several small groups of wood ducks flying early. We had one group of four drop in front of Marty and I, but only got one. The other groups of ducks just flew by. The mallards we had been seeing never showed up. I was able to get a green wing drake while trying to jump shoot some wood ducks later in the morning. We ended up with the drake wood duck and drake green wing and called it a season, which was pretty poor overall. I’m already looking forward to next year. My yellow lab will be ready to go then. We hunted yesterday and I took her but we only saw two ducks.
Cheers on another season. I hope yours went well.
Posted By:
Bert Holtzman
Field Editor
Ohio River 01-16-2012 12:03
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Not much flying this morning. We saw ten ducks. No shots. The only other party at the ramp killed two gadwall and saw fifteen ducks.
We did see a flock of 30 geese that gave us a sniff or two before sailing down the creek.
Posted By:
Bert Holtzman
Field Editor
Ohio River 01-15-2012 12:59
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Same spot as yesterday. We had two ducks come in and swim out of range prior to shooting time. Three more sailed out from the decoys fifteen minutes later. A few more birds passed by here and there. That was the extent of our morning. I’ll be out tomorrow morning for whatever reason! One more week left for the ducks to get here.
Posted By:
Bert Holtzman
Field Editor
Ohio River 01-14-2012 10:37
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 10-20 Degrees – Open Water
We hunted off the river this morning and got two mallards. We’re seeing some new birds the past few days and they flew early this morning and not much after that. This clipper might give us a few more.
Last weekend we ended up getting a few around Indy. Pretty slow season so far.
Posted By:
Bert Holtzman
Field Editor
Ohio River Zone 01-02-2012 12:41
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Saturday hunt: zero ducks spotted in our cornfield. Birds are still spotty right now.we might get some with this front.
No problem Dave. Happy New Year to you as well.
Posted By:
davehunter03
Web Member
12-31-2011 20:19
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Bert: I live next door in E. Ill. I want to thank you for all your posts, I really appreciate them. HNY!
Sr.
Posted By:
Bert Holtzman
Field Editor
Ohio River 12-31-2011 10:48
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Dad and I hunted the flooded corn field again this morning. We saw around 30 geese and ZERO ducks.
Happy New Year. Hopefully limits are coming! One can only hope.
Posted By:
Bert Holtzman
Field Editor
Ohio River 12-30-2011 10:36
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Set up in the corn field again this morning. A trio of hunters, one of which I met scouting this season, was already set up but they invited me to hunt so I gladly joined them. What a nice group of guys. We didn’t see many ducks but shot two separate times. Too bad we didn’t touch a feather either time! We saw mostly gadwall but had one mallard and a black duck work us too. Hopefully we can shoot better tomorrow.
Posted By:
Bert Holtzman
Field Editor
Ohio River 12-29-2011 15:12
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Been hunting a little the past few days. Nothing eventful down here. It’s all water with nothing on it. We’ve killed less than ten the past few weeks.
