Posted By:
Corey-Cordray
Guest
South Zone 12-15-2009 16:38
Cloudy, High Winds – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
Had a nice goose hunt this morning in a disced cornfield. Three of us killed six honkers and I killed one with a band on it from Nunavut, Canada. Looks like we have picked up a few migrating geese in the last few days. NW winds should continue to bring a few birds down.
Posted By:
Aaron-Vogler
Web Member
SW Indiana 12-14-2009 20:44
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Drove around Friday for a few hours and found relief in seeing what appeared to be new birds around plus a few pits holding quite a few geese. Drove around for two hours today, absolutely nothing and I mean nothing. Yea I know where some birds are and always are, but those places just dont count sometimes.
Posted By:
Sean Riley
Web Member
porter co. cornfield 12-13-2009 21:48
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had a great shoot today…12 mallards and 6 geese….it was our best shooting of the year 0 birds made it out of the field!!! the local co made an apperance and got to see us work 6 mallards and kill all 6!!!no one shot at the same birds,and that never seems to work like that….and 6 geese came in and we killed all 6…it was supposed to be a goose hunt,I didnt think there were ducks using the field,so we didnt set the full body ducks,but we did have the mojo….if the last group of geese woulda come 2 min sooner we woulda had our 4 man limit of geese!!!!
Posted By:
TRM
Web Member
12-12-2009 21:59
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last day for me in the north zone. Pretty bad season, but today made up for it. Hunted the big lake and 2 bull cans came and they stayed. My dads first Can in 40 years of hunting kinda cool. Also killed one bluebill. Missed a drake mallard and one other bluebill that was it. Now it is time 2 start hunting the south zone. Maybe but a hurtin on the geese we will see.
Rack’ em
Posted By:
Corey-Cordray
Guest
South Zone 12-12-2009 17:25
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
Hunted a lake today and killed a couple of buffleheads. That wasn’t the real story of the day. The motor did not start but thanks to a couple guys that towed us out to our spot and towed us back in when they were done, we had a fun morning. Back at it on the river in the AM.
Posted By:
shady
Guest
Washington County 12-12-2009 17:11
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 10-20 Degrees – Open Water
Didn’t see many birds at all today with the exception of the sandhills. Did see a few geese though by themselves and flying with the sandhills. Had 2 snows look at us, that’s about it, saw 8 ducks total (mallards, blacks). Did manage to end the morning with 1, had a pair of canadas come into the duck decoys, got my first band of the year. Thus far, really disappointing, just not seeing any birds at all.
Posted By:
Bert Holtzman
Field Editor
Around Indy 12-12-2009 13:16
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 10-20 Degrees – Open Water
We split up this morning and had some success. Randy and Scott took 8 mallards and a goose. Tony and I had limited spots. We got three green but didn’t find one. Ducks were skittish. We worked just a few groups. We did work a group of 30 geese and thought they were going to finish. To no avail.
Not a bad two days. We’ll be back on the big river tomorrow.
Posted By:
Forrest-Eads
Field Editor
Stillwater-Northfork / Merom 12-11-2009 17:05
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 25-30 Degrees – Ice
All the birds around here have picked up and moved on. The marsh is all ice….Northfork is 98% ice ….maybe saw 50 birds all day. And NO Geese at all !! Except for the 200 plus in the Paynetown campground.
As for Merom…they had (keyword HAD) lots of birds. The guys said they had at least a 1000 birds that got up and headed out on Thursday. 4 parties killed 4 ducks on Thursday. I would be willing to bet it will be a madhouse tomorrow morning !! Everyone fighting to get 1st pick and blind 7 !
Time for a mini vacation and some windshield time to see if the geese will find any of my fields. I guess I am going to have to build a neighborhood just to hunt in !!
Posted By:
Sean Riley
Web Member
12-11-2009 16:55
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thanks for the pics Bert!!!!found some field feeding mallards this afternoon…gonna try them sunday…tomorrow is gonna be a scout day
Posted By:
Corey-Cordray
Guest
Home 12-11-2009 14:42
Arctic Blast – Froze Out
Looks like it is a repeat of last year. No birds at any of my spots and no sign of improvement. Bring on the beer!
