Posted By:
Greg-Haygood
Web Member
Ninnescah River – Sylvia 12-24-2007 15:26
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 25-30 Degrees – Ice
Christmas Eve morning hunt- most all slack water is frozen solid and snow cover on the ground making it tough for the ducks to feed. Bad combination!!!!! We saw several large groups of ducks working an area west of us, but few passed our way and even fewer were interested in what we had to offer. Tried every thing, multiple mojo’s, no mojo’s, nothing seemed to work for us today. Ended the morning with 2 mallards and 1 canada goose. We plan to hunt some more after Christmas Day, I’ll report shortly thereafter. 1st split ends on Sunday and re-opens on the 19th of January for 9 days.
Merry Christmas…..
Posted By:
Greg-Haygood
Web Member
Ninnescah River – Sylvia 12-16-2007 22:09
Cloudy, Accumulating Snow – 10-20 Degrees – Open Water
Friday- Lots of ice remaining from ice storm earlier in the week, all the elec power to this area is still out. Few more ducks in the area, but NO HUNTERS around us and they were piling into some of the bigger duck club marshes around us that are being kept open by rotating waterfowl. Saw a ton of ducks falling just to our west. If the guys in that club would have hunted, they would have had a BIG TIME!! In summary, more ducks in the area and we only got a couple into our spread and onto the stringer.
Saturday- Same place, same time, next day, driving snow in our face, still NO HUNTERS around us, BUT very different day for our river spot. Tons more ducks than Friday and a few dropped in to take a look at our small spread (3 dozen floater, 1 dozen full body motion dekes and mojo’s). We selectivly shot our 3 man limits with all big ‘ole Greenheads except for 1 drake gadwall. Topped it off with a bonus speck that flew a little to low down the river. Conditions were tough (north wind/snow and north facing blind) but the reward was worth it.
Can’t belive no one in the various duck clubs around got out to take advantage of the new influx of birds this weather system as pushed down. Guess the season has been a real dissapointment for most everyone (including us) and many may have thrown in the towel. There are ducks and geese here for now and I hope everyone that can find open water will get out and enjoy this time. I did see a huge number of geese v’d up and heading south on Saturday when we had 12″ of snow on the ground by lunch time. The 1st big pushes of Snows and Blues moved over us all morning. Didn’t see any big groups of ducks heading south, just moving around in the wind and snow.
Things are looking up for the last part of our season. Get out and enjoy it.
[Edited By Greg-Haygood on 2007-12-16 22:10]
Posted By:
cdbryan 2007
Web Member
nebraska 12-09-2007 20:06
Cloudy, Accumulating Snow – 0-10 Degrees – Open Water
hold on to your a–. boys yesterday we where holding a few geese and several thousand ducks. Today went out and they where gone. I seen several flocks of geese heading south this afternoon. We are either getting a good push of birds in or they are going to blow buy and keep heading south. Good luck hunting has sucked up here so far and I wish better luck for you guys down there.
Posted By:
Greg-Haygood
Web Member
E. Quivera & Sylvia 12-09-2007 13:11
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
Friday – E. Quivera – virtually no ducks or geese in the air. Oddly enough, other than the couple of straglers, the one group that we saw was a group of 40-50 mallards and they worked and dropped in perfectly. We dropped 3 mallards…….that was it for the day.
Saturday – Sylvia – a few small groups in the area, only a couple showed interest, 3 mallards and 2 golden eye were bagged.
Summary, no ducks to speak of in this central part of the state. Hype and optimism were really high for us given the summer duck statistics, however, we seemed to have missed out for one reason or another. Either the birds didn’t stop and passed us by or they traveled a different migration path thus far in the season. Cheyenne Bottoms reporting this morning that the harvest to date is 5% of last seasons numbers……5%!!! Unbelievable fact, but certianly consistent with our kill count. I realize there is still some season left and hope like crazy that we will get some of the decent duck numbers still north of us to stop in Kansas on their way south.
I hear “underwater basket weaving” is catching on with waterfowlers across the mid-central flyway. May have to give it a try in a few weeks!!!!!
Posted By:
squancha
Guest
Cedar Bluff Wildlife Area 12-05-2007 13:43
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I spent all of last week Deer Hunting but saw large numbers of ducks. Heard lots of shots from Duck Hunters while I was in the field. While walking one draw I saw my first Albino Duck. He was with a group of mallards…Mostly White with a little tan and yellowish color. Very pretty. Saw lots of mallards and wigeons flying above me while I was hunting for a wallhanger.
Posted By:
Royo
WFC Sponsor
Perry Lake 12-03-2007 21:16
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 10-20 Degrees – Ice
Was out at the Lassiter marsh at Perry Lake. Myself and a friend shot three Gadwalls and three Mallards. All were in full plumage and were big and fat birds. If we both had not had to work today at our real jobs we probabl;y would have gotten two full limits. We saw lots of High Flyers and lots of High Flying geese.
[Edited By Royo on 2007-12-03 21:17]
Posted By:
Bernie-Jones
Field Editor
Northern Reno County 12-03-2007 13:56
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Sat in the deerstand Sat and Sun. Saw tons of geese fightin the wind. Everything goin north toward highway 50. Mostly lesser cans and specks. Didnt see many ducks using the river.
Posted By:
Greg-Haygood
Web Member
East Quivera 12-02-2007 22:49
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
Saturday morning was not that cold (34), but the wind was ripping out of the south sustained at 30mph, but gusting to 35-40. Rain was relatively light, but hard driving with the wind.
Crazy morning to watch mainly geese trying to fly in that wind. Everything sat tight for the 1st hour of LST, but then a FEW ducks and some geese started battling the wind and rain. We hunted till 1:30pm and managed to scratch out 10 ducks and 3 geese (3 mallards, 3 wigeon, 3 gadwall, 1 GW teal and 3 specks). Still very, very few ducks in our area.
Sunday, again strong winds, but this day out of the north. The guys (I didn’t go) went to the River blind and had a much different morning, FINALLY some decent duck numbers in the air. They didn’t hunt too long, but said there was a significant change in the waterfowl numbers in the sky. 1st decent day since teal season, ducks started early and worked until they left with 9 mallards, 1 gadwall and 1 speck. It would seem the 1st migrating groups from the far north are starting to hit our region as the mallards they shot were big, fat and well insulated flight birds.
Hope this is a sign that our State of Kansas is getting ready to produce some really good hunts for those deserving hunters that have been putting in the time and effort to create those great hunt spots that to date, have been “mildly” productive this season. Planning to test the theory several times this week and will report our results.
Keep a close eye out for those LONG shooting rifles thru Sunday!!! Deer hunters are still afield and their scopes may be blurry.
[Edited By Greg-Haygood on 2007-12-02 22:50]
Posted By:
Art-Marshall
Field Editor
12-02-2007 07:00
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Up here in Nebraska we have some birds in the western third of our state , but from there east,,, very little. We are waiting. Most of us haven’t pulled the trigger yet. We have been told the birds are really piled up at Pierre, S.D. . We are watching the weather at Pierre.
Posted By:
Blind retrieve
WFC Sponsor
12-01-2007 20:15
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Check Iowa, they have been consistently tearing em up. If you follow the Arkansas DNR satellite mallard migration, it lends credence to the Iowa reports as true.
