Posted By:
Bert Holtzman
Field Editor
Around Indy 12-11-2009 12:38
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 10-20 Degrees – Open Water
Had an exceptional hunt this morning. They really poored in at shooting time and we had ten on the water before we knew it! After that pairs came in consistently. We even had three gadwall come in low and got every one of them. We took a four gun limit of mallards and added those gadwall. I’ll post pics when I get home Sunday. We hope to keep shooting this weekend.
[Edited By Bert Holtzman on 2010-01-17 18:20]
Posted By:
kmdenning
Web Member
12-11-2009 10:02
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Are you saying that the ducks are here? I haven’t seen a thing. Have killed only a few so far this season. If they are here, what zone are they concentrated in. Good Luck.
Posted By:
TRM
Web Member
12-10-2009 16:56
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Big concentration of canada’s behing my place of work right now. If u got a field in the area you will smash’em as for ducks I don’t think I need 2 say anything. But I will after it tomorrow. All u can do is try.
Posted By:
Spaniel
Guest
IN South Zone 12-07-2009 07:33
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
Folks – Put in 2 full days this weekend -started out Sat am by killing time spectating on the main lake @ patoka waiting for a buddy to break free and head to Vincennes @ 10 am for the Sat pm hunt
Threw out a small spread and hunkered down @ 19 degrees near the Patoka beach to watch the morning unfold – heard 8-10 volleys from 4 or so other parties on the lake, and never fired a cap, not that near the beach is the place to set up on Patoka… saw a few divers, gulls, grebes and not the first puddle duck. two geese locked up and sat near the beach 5 minutes after I had picked up…not that the beach is the place to set up on patoka!
Dog story – Tank,the american water spaniel (AWS) is now 4 1/2 and in the groove – SAT. his owner, not real interested in getting wet if I didn’t have to with newly patched waders- pitched dekes in the dark from the shore, some near, some far… all around submerged veg. Turned out the far ones had a hat floating ditch between me and them, and the wader patch didn’t – I couldn’t get ’em w/out swimming… After questioning the intelligence of the blockhead that threw the blocks – I looked @ Tank…hmmmmm
Lined him up and sent him to the 1st dekes – told him to FETCH! and he looked to me after winding the blocks – twice – like “you idiot – they are plastic” – i begged and he bit and I was in business… 5 reps later I was outta there and loving my dog. In 17 years of having dogs I had never asked Tank or my first AWS to play pick up dekes.. try it – it’s pretty handy! He had a ball -found a new calling in life!
Rolled to the white river bottoms w/ 3 buddies to be guests in set blinds in flooded corn and beans and had an awesome Sat. afternoon – birds were very active and all the groups took sub limit bags of mallards and woodies -still a lot of woodies around and probably a thousand birds in this immediate part of Indiana.
Hunted an oxbow lake off the white river with a great setup all day Sunday right adjacent to where we thumped ’em the night before and never fired a cap. the flooded fields that were hammerin ’em maybe had three volleys – dead quiet Sunday. Had a mature bald eagle at 40 yards come in feet down and backpedaling thinking our dekes were dinner – awesome sight… had a few woodies shoot by out of range, One group of local geese milling around, a hoodie, and thats it. so it goes…
Those that watch this stuff are expecting a push on the next jet as up north is begining to get snow and lock up -our hosts on the White River for Sat/Sun haven’t seen the real pushes yet -the area they watch will hold 10 to 20X the birds they had this weekend.
Season’s open today in KY, have a few farm spots we’ll try and gettin both sons home for the holidays from college soon, and we’ll be after ’em. Would had posted about the two early season and two main season hunt’s so far on Patoka, Lemon, and Monroe but there was Nuthin Much to report!
Word is some of the boys with private wetlands on the Muscatatuck bottoms are having a Good! season and holding birds. Once we get some winter rains and the White and Muscatatuck get out & flood the corn it should good. Best of the seasons – scout! and be safe…
Oh Yeah – What’s the word on the Patoka Bottoms – Oakland City, etc or Goose Pond?
never tried goose pond – worth the trip?
Posted By:
Sean Riley
Web Member
12-06-2009 21:17
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Its almost over for us north guys…and it hasnt even started yet!!!!!goin after geese in the morning…..it better happen fast if its gonna happen at all….worst I can remember in a long,long time
Posted By:
Bert Holtzman
Field Editor
Ohio River Zone 12-06-2009 13:16
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We sat up in a spot that was holding birds this morning. We didn’t see anything. Absolutely nothing.
I got roasted in the blind again this morning. So at least we had a little fun.
Season Totals
28 ducks
42 Geese
I was told I missed a few early season birds in our totals. I can’t count nor see any ducks. Hopefully this weather brings some birds. Big system coming mid week.
Posted By:
Bert Holtzman
Field Editor
Ohio River Zone 12-05-2009 17:19
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Added another mallard today. Not much seen.
Posted By:
Bert Holtzman
Field Editor
Ohio River Zone 12-04-2009 22:03
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Dad and Randy scratched a drake mallard this afternoon. They didn’t see many ducks at all. Still waiting for them to arrive.
They did see some ring necks, which I’m sure are probably new birds. We didn’t see them last weekend.
Posted By:
Sean Riley
Web Member
11-29-2009 21:19
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dear Santa…I would like some snow for Christmas…and if you could get it here this week,I will leave you extra cookies!!
ps…Forrest needs some new bigfoot decoys!!!
Posted By:
Corey-Cordray
Guest
South Zone 11-29-2009 19:46
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 45-50 Degrees
What a dick punch of a weekend this has been. Hunted two areas on Friday and Saturday that should have produced birds but only produced skunks! Went today for our reserve at Monroe and shot one gadwall.
It’s just pitiful right now and we need some kind of weather to get something started. There are birds around but they know where they are safe.
