Kansas Duck Hunting Report Archive

Posted By:
Bernie-Jones
Field Editor

Cheney Res. 11-24-2008 18:19
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 40-45 Degrees
Hunted the Res Friday morning with good, but slow success. We did see some good groups of mallards and teal. Some worked the decoys well and other were a chore. Put out about 8 dozen to start and ended up pulling some to change it up. We thought the bigger spread would be like a magnet. NOPE!!

Posted By:
shepdog
Guest

Fort Riley 11-17-2008 11:58
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
Hunted Saturday November 15th. Saw several flocks of geese, no ducks. Came back to this pond on November 17th and saw a pair of Mallards. Was on Milford lake running the cobwebs out of my boat near the Wakefield area and saw around 50-60 divers. They were too far away and could not distinguish the species.

Posted By:
shepdog
Guest

South of Milford Lake 11-13-2008 07:49
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 40-45 Degrees
Hunted on Monday November 10th. Saw a descent amount of birds for this time of year. Had 15 Pintails come in outside out dekes. Had about a total of 6 Mallards, 10 Gadwall, 3 Widgeon, 3 Redheads, 10 common Mergansers, 3 large flocks of Snow Geese and about 1 dozen Canadian Geese. Between 3 guys we bagged 10. Reading the gentlemans previous post prompted me to add that the Mallard Drakes plummage was beautiful. I wanted to mount one that I shot. They look good right now.

[Edited By darenshepherd on 2008-11-13 07:51]

Posted By:
squancha
Guest

Mcpherson Wetlands 11-10-2008 08:37
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Hunted the Mcpherson wetlands this weekend. The birds are starting to show up. Two great hunts. Three guys on Saturday shot 11. Would have shot our limit, but to many pintails kept buzzing the spread. The mallards showed up late that morning and there were way to many Suzzie’s to take a chance on. Sunday brought better results and an even better hunt. 2 guys…2 limits. Pintails, Mallard Drakes and beautiful fully plummed Green Wing Drakes. Shot the prettiest Green Wing Drake I have ever seen. My taxidermy bill went up this weekend. Fantastic conditions this weekend. They decoyed in perfect and birds were every where.

Posted By:
Dabble
Gold Sponsor

ND 11-08-2008 19:27
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Well if theirs no birds down there, they blew over you because ND is empty for the most part. www.waterfowljunkie.com

Posted By:
spirit
Web Member

North Nebraska 11-07-2008 00:19
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They are on their way tons flew over with out even a look. The state of SD is in a stae of emergency and the ducks got out, Enjoy a great year.

Posted By:
Bernie-Jones
Field Editor

Wichita area 11-05-2008 21:15
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – Over 70 Degrees
This weather bites!! We need some of that cold stuff to blow in. Waders in 70 heat.. No way that works. The duckies are still pretty thin around here. We have managed to get a few teal but havent got in to any big ducks. We have seen some nice groups but they must be sittn on the Zoo.

Posted By:
mdavis3
Guest

10-13-2008 18:20
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Good post Squancha. Have a buddy who was farming by the wetlands this weekend who was able to talk to 4 different groups of hunters who all limited out. Mostly teal but were able to shoot some mallards and pintails around 10:00am. Thanks for posting

Posted By:
squancha
Guest

Cheyenne Bottoms -McPherson 10-13-2008 09:07
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 60-65 Degrees
We went out to Cheyenne Bottoms for Opening Day. Wind was incredible Friday Night and early Saturday morning. We got out to our spot really early because of all the competition for hunting spots. About 5:00 in the morning the wind just shut off and even switched a little bit. There is a ton of water in every pool. We hundted 4A. Put out about 8 dozen decoys and four Mojo’s. There was lots of shooting the entire time we hunted. Should have done better, but early season shooting skill showed through. Between five of us we shot 17 ducks. 1 Gadwall- 1 Shoveler – 1 Ruddy -1 Pintail – The rest Teal…Mostly Blue but a couple Green Wings. The Pintails showed up really late. There is a ton of Teal at Cheyenne. I don’t care what the KDWP website says…You want teal…Cheyenne’s got it. If you’re going to hunt Cheyenne, get a boat. We had one without a motor to load the gear up in and push out there. It was a life saver, but an motor of sorts would have been nice.

We also hunted McPherson this weekend. If you haven’t been there yet make it a point. It has great cover and fantastic feed. Lot of birds flying there. Even some early Mallards. Got Two Teal. Good Luck

Posted By:
FlywayStalker
Guest

Kansas / Nebr 02-05-2008 09:13
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mdavis3
GREAT Job reporting! I wish some of the other Kansas hunters would join in, alot of us would enjoy there stories and thoughts as well. My son in JC said he went to Topeca the other day and saw huge numbers of dark geese in the river vallys starting about 30 miles east of Junction City. Sounds like your seeing good numbers south of JC.could you let me know when they start to move north.
Thanks