Posted By:
Andrew-White
Field Editor
Midcoast 11-16-2006 10:26
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 40-45 Degrees
Hunted new ground yesterday with a coworker about mid morning. Have worked in this area for about 3 years now and haven’t hunted or fished it yet from my boat so I finally gave it a try. Tired a couple of spots. Despite the forecast I was able to get out farther than I thought. Hunted an island and a large ledge. Had a low tide about 1230. Winds and seas picked up towords the end of the day. We shot at some ducks! The newbie I had in the boat just had a hard time letting them come in. Ended up losing one anchor to the bottom gods. Saw lots of squaw, black and surf scoters and eiders. Wasn’t enough lobster boats to keep them moving and due to the low tide the birds found other places to feed and stayed there.
[Edited By Andrew-White on 2006-11-16 15:53]
Posted By:
flylineguide
Guest
Coast 11-13-2006 06:08
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 45-50 Degrees
Went Saturday very frustrating to see as many cripples as I did swimming around near shore. Someone is taking long shots and crippling alot of birds. Second trip in a that particular area that I have seen an overload of cripples. I get out away from shore and shoot ducks outside. It was slow but we got limits by 1030 one hen scoter got dropped. Another group showed up around 8 after the wind settled down and set up right around the point from us. Ignorant. Steel rain for awhile there. It is definatly slower than last year but is an average year. I am told by my cohorts that Bar Harbor area is very poor gunning this year, I also have been told by Maines biologist that Searsport area is very slow as well. I think December is going to pick up as we are still gunning local birds. The Canadian eiders just are not here yet, nor are the birds from even further north. Hoping for an arctic blast and setting up near shore this afternoon to try and clean up those cripples.
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Posted By:
Andrew-White
Field Editor
Saco 11-06-2006 18:05
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 40-45 Degrees
Had a great day of seaducking. 2 limits by 0830. Had a friend with his male lab Wiley who had not hunted out of a boat before and had not been hunting in two years do to his owners work schedule. He retrieved all but 4 birds. I personally was shooting only drakes today to try and make for a longer hunt. My shotgun had a malfunction during the first volly. As I found out later the magezine tube spring had commpressed and jamed when I loaded my 2 shells in and was causing my empty hull in the chamber to not fully eject and the new shell to jam in the feed well. Very frustrating! Also my GPS antenna is fried. I did see a lot of smaller (8 or so) flocks of squaw, common, white wing, and just a few surf scoters. For some reason there seem to be more scoter hens this year than I can remember. It must be from shooting all the drakes! Just kidding, FLG! Out of a flock of say 20 or so scoters there may be 2 drakes. All in all it was a great day…flat calm seas, SW wind overcast with a few sprinkles. Had a few tangles with the spread and had to move the anchors around when the tide changed.
Later
Posted By:
flylineguide
Guest
coast of Maine 11-06-2006 15:17
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 40-45 Degrees
5-10 knot se wind today with 2-4 seas. Bumpy shooting as the 4 swells had 18″ waves crossing them quartering. Lots of White wing scoters around and the eiders are trading good. Saturday was nice but we hunted a sweet spot for bad weather mainly to check the bird locations, and the old squaw where coming in in flights of 30 birds and more. Good gunning so far and just the one juvenile scoter taken so far all others are adult drakes. It takes a couple hours longer to shoot only bull eiders and squaws but is worth it.
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Posted By:
Andrew-White
Field Editor
North Yarmouth 11-05-2006 07:06
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 35-40 Degrees
Went deer hunting in North Yarmouth again from sunup to sundown. Was hunting with 3 others. Saw zero deer between all of us which is odd for this area. Two others in the group shot 3 yotes. Had one pop out in front of me but did not shoot. Beware of deer ticks. I pulled them off me all day. Be carefull and do a tick check at the end of each day.
Posted By:
Andrew-White
Field Editor
Saco 11-03-2006 17:57
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 40-45 Degrees
Hunted out of Saco this afternoon. Met up with a friend about 2ish. We had two limits in about 45 min. Lots of mature eiders and very few drake scoters. We did see a couple surf scoters, white winged and common scoters. Lots of scoter hens. No old squaw! The wind was NE @ 10 kts and then picked up close to 15+. Had a low tide about 1447 or so. Lots of birds!!! Action was fast and furious. No jewlery. Hope to get out there sooner than later.
Posted By:
flylineguide
Guest
Southern Maine 11-03-2006 14:39
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 40-45 Degrees
Went eidering today, Still a ton of Juveniles here. It took from legal gunning until 10 am but I managed 5 drakes zero hens and zero juveniles. I let skunkheads, black scoters go on through. I managed one white wing adult but not prime. Only saw 2 gigglers and missed! Glad to have the missing out of the way. I would say the seaduck gunning is going now just take your time and shoot mature drakes unless collecting or if you see jewlery under mama eider. Still have 2 Saturdays open in December any takers out there give a call.
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Posted By:
flylineguide
Guest
Central Maine 10-30-2006 15:52
Cloudy, High Winds – 40-45 Degrees
Great duck weather on Saturday. Teal where flying like crazy, mallards, blacks and woodduck where decoying good. Quite a few flocks of scaup doing the worm across the lake. Nailed a banded goose around 10 am. Then flushed a raft of skunkheads on the boat ride in to camp.
Went out today extremly high water birds just had to many options and where not in the usual spots. I managed a pair of ringnecks and was pouring coffe heads down when a flight of blacks decoyed. On to seaducking!
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Posted By:
Andrew-White
Field Editor
Southern ME 10-30-2006 10:27
Cloudy, High Winds – 45-50 Degrees
Hunted the opener (resident only) of firearms in North Yarmouth. The rain started around 0515 followed by the wind. Ended the day at 1000. Didn’t see zip. My brotherinlaw jumped a deer on the way to his stand. Among the 8 people I was hunting with, no one saw anything. Hope to get out for some sea ducks later this week. I’d like to know what kind of wind and seas Saco Bay was having on Saturday.
Posted By:
paul-reynolds
Guest
saco bay 10-29-2006 17:29
Cloudy, High Winds – 45-50 Degrees
Hunted Saturday morning. Very high winds and driving rain. Saw the first large flocks of eiders. There was several flocks of white winged and surf scoters. I also saw several flocks of Old Squaw. There was two flocks of mixed mallards and blacks of about 60 birds each. The birds were moving alot trying to find some calm water. When the wind dies down later this week the gunning should improve.
