Posted By:
Greg-Haygood
Web Member
Quivera 10-19-2007 11:02
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Tomorrow is the big day for our low plains late season Youth opener!! I will have 4 dads and 6 kids (2 of which will be sporting BB guns only)in the blinds tomorrow morning. I hope everyone will try and expose a young one to this great sport as they are the future life blood of waterfowling.
On to what I know…….scouted some late this week after the big rains and found ton’s of water holes everywhere I looked. Surely this will spread the local ducks like crazy after tomorrows 1st pounding. Expect area that are holding ducks today to have good action in the morning, but Sunday will be a challenge and require some Saturday afternoon scouting. Quivera had numerous outlying pockets of ducks, but nothing in real numbers. Surrounding areas were very hit and miss, some had small squadrons of mixed ducks and other that look great were empty. Hard to say how they will fly in the morning, but many of the ducks are flying back to the refuge to roost. Should be a windy blue-bird day on Sat (good shadows) and Sunday may bring some clouds into play.
I’ll report our success or lack there of after the weekend. Hope everyone gets out and enjoys a safe and action packed couple of days.
Posted By:
wtrfwlhunter
Guest
10-14-2007 20:12
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wow guys, opening weekend and no reports?????
Went to the bottoms and saw a small amount of birds compared to what i was expecting. Seemed like the birds flew late, however did fly until approx 930 or so… Ended with a 2 man limit, so not to bad considering the hunting conditions at the bottoms…
From what we heard from the rangers, it was very poor overall around the bottoms with big groups avg. 2-3 birds.
Wait for more cold weather up north
Posted By:
jwilson504
Guest
Waconda Lake South Fork 09-21-2007 11:34
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – Over 70 Degrees
Good number of birds and did manage to knock out a limit, been a while! Another group of hunters with a spinner up got some shooting. I didn’t have any deke’s and only had on high boots. No problems with mud or ducks. Scouted around the North and South forks, looks real good if we get water. As is there are a lot of big ducks too and very ducky conditions a little more water (about a foot or two at most). I’m gonna try the last two days. Anyone wanna go pm me and I’ll see what we can do.
Willie
Posted By:
Greg-Haygood
Web Member
Quivera Area 09-20-2007 16:33
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – Over 70 Degrees
Hot, hot, hot, I mean too hot for Teal hunting, but I did it anyway. Hunted Wednesday morning on east side of the refuge. Totally surprised by the number of big ducks that hit our little spread (dozen dekes and 2 spinners). Didn’t go 5 mins without mallards, gadwall, widgeon and a few pinnies coming to us. Plummage is very poor right now and somewhat difficult to determine species until close in (except for the pintails set back wings of course). Guessing the “local flocks” grew in numbers to start with, then had tremendous brood success. Whatever the case, a crazy number of big ducks for mid September.
Only two of us crazy enough to swat mesquitos and flush out frogs in the blind (snake too, glad he was little) to shoot Teal, but glad we did, limits in short order (all bluewing).
Observations thus far after driving thru the refuge everytime I’m in the area, seems a fair to low number of Teal groups in Little Salt Marsh area and a better concentration of Teal groups in the Big Salt Marsh area. Heard some great reports of opening day on and near the refuge on opening day, but success fell off hard after day one. Scouting is essential if you want to get in them right now. Hot, dry weather to last thru Sundays close, then were off to the races to get everything ready for 1st split opener of the regular duck season. Bird counts overall are up 14% in the North country and if mother-nature cooperates, we should have some big fun this year. Good luck this wknd to those who choose to take on the heat and not long to wait for those sitting this one out.
As always, take care and take a kid with you when you go!!
Posted By:
Tim-Carrigan
Guest
MI County 09-17-2007 11:23
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
Hunted a bit before working on some land this weekend…typically see good numbers of ducks but had only one group of about 5 teal come by and then later on, a single. A few woodies and some big ducks were moving as well, but not many. Had not scouted at all…got a few but was mostly good to dust off the gear and be outside.
good luck on the final days of early teal.
Posted By:
Royo
WFC Sponsor
Clinton Lake 09-11-2007 18:02
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 60-65 Degrees
Went out Morning of 09102007 out at Clinton lake . I saw Pintails and Wood ducks and even saw some Canada Geese. I did not have any teal come into my decoy spread to where I could get a shot at them . I am going to try and go Tomorrow morning and maybe over the weekend .
Posted By:
mdavis3
Guest
09-10-2007 17:55
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Need to correct dates on previous posting
9-7-07 and 9-8-07. I don’t want you guys to think I started the teal a week early.
Posted By:
mdavis3
Guest
Mcpherson County Private 09-10-2007 17:53
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 60-65 Degrees
Had a good hunt on 9-1-07. Three of us limited out in 12 minutes on blue wing teal.
We had 3 nice flocks of 30 to 35 teal per flock.
On 9-2-07, we were only able to get 9 teal before we called it a day. We saw much smaller flocks and not very many birds in our area. We did notice 2 flocks of big ducks riding the jet stream south.
Posted By:
Water SWAT
Guest
Marion County 09-02-2007 07:22
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 60-65 Degrees
Had a good start to the hunting year. 4 of us killed 53 Dove. Would have stuck it out for the limit, but by 1000 my boys were ready to come home. Haven’t seen many Teal down in these parts yet.
Posted By:
Water SWAT
Guest
03-03-2007 14:10
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Bout time Willy. Can’t wait to see you again. Bring me some of your gear!!!!
