Posted By:
Fred-Gillotte
Field Editor
Harford 10-27-2009 05:46
Cloudy, Rain & Thunderstorms – 60-65 Degrees
Have to agree with Cliff. This early season was a notch above the last few. Woodie numbers seemed to peak a little later than usual and the warm temps kept them around the entire week.One has to wonder what our early season would be like if it were not for the Wood Duck!
Posted By:
Cliff-Brown
Field Editor
Maryland 10-26-2009 12:03
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 60-65 Degrees
Final days of the October split went pretty well…bird numbers diminished as we put more pressure on the farm but what we had decoyed well and as long as we chopped hunters faster than birds, the hunt experience stayed high!!….woodies primarily with a few mallards in our Kent Co location. Had a real nice mallard hunt further up county but saw no teal, pintails.
Heard good reports of teal / mixed duck hunts along Upper Choptank,Caroline, Nanticoke and Wicomico Rivers. Good numbers also seen on Pocomoke and Chicamicomico River areas. Not so good around Wye River.
It sure seems like the October season was much better than recent years despite the ususal caveat that success might have been localized and very spotty in many areas.
Friday saw maybe 600-800 scaup migrating in 5 separate flights and one ruddy flight – yes they do fly.
Geese numbers rising in a pretty typical fashion,. Snows also arrving along the Delaware coast especially.
Cliff Brown
Posted By:
cutback
Guest
Still Pond 10-26-2009 07:50
Cloudy, Occassional Rain Showers – Over 70 Degrees
Hunted a pond on Saturday morning. Saw a few woodies and mallards, no teal. Scrathced one pretty hen woody. Decent goose flight. Very warm. 74 degrees at 9:00. Heard one blind with 4-5 good volley’s.
Posted By:
Craig-Emory
Field Editor
anne arundel 10-23-2009 15:11
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 45-50 Degrees
hunted a pond this morning. saw some mallards, some wood ducks, and a fair amount of canadian geese. everthing flew high. tried to call the mallards, but they didn’t show any interest.
Posted By:
Potomacduck
Guest
Mid Maryland 10-21-2009 07:04
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 50-60 Degrees
Woodies cooperated yesterday evening, lots of them.
They will be gone soon. No puddle ducks yet.
Posted By:
LakeCoveFarm
Web Member
Honga River outside Cambridge 10-20-2009 17:15
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 60-65 Degrees
Nothing but blacks here and they had no interest in my decoys or calls (I know they’re not open yet but I still have to try to coax them closer). I expected more after that weekend weather. Will try again this weekend.
Posted By:
cutback
Guest
Kent County 10-19-2009 08:38
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 40-45 Degrees
We had a nice opening day on a pond north of Chestertown. Birds flew well until 10:00. Our bag included 1 Bluewing, 3 Greenwings, 5 Woodies and 4 mallards. Saw a lot of Canadas and Snows late morning.
Some friends shot the afternoon near Centerville and saw good numbers of Wood ducks and teal including Bluewings. They shot 15 woodies and 5 greenwings. Thank you lord, may I have another one.
Posted By:
Fred-Gillotte
Field Editor
Harford County 10-19-2009 07:32
Cloudy, Occassional Rain Showers – 40-45 Degrees
Good opener here. Woodies flew well and limits filled pretty quick. Had darts of Mallards and saw some Blacks and a few Teal. I can’t remember an early season opener with temps and a Noreaster blowin in like we experienced Saturday. One we won’t soon forget.
Posted By:
Craig-Emory
Field Editor
worchester 10-18-2009 19:31
Cloudy, Occassional Rain Showers – 40-45 Degrees
water was way to rough to take my boat out.
my sons hunted a marsh. saw fair amount of blacks and canadian geese. killed six ducks,1 mallard,2 gadwall,and 3 teal.ducks either decoyed real good or flew real high. on the way down on friday, while crossing the bay saw a raft of ducks out in the middle of the bay.
Posted By:
Cliff-Brown
Field Editor
Kent 10-18-2009 14:11
Cloudy, Occassional Rain Showers – 40-45 Degrees
After two years of terrible October hunts, Saturday erased those frustrating memories. It took good pre-season weather, some good wood duck brood survival locally and some great hunt weather but a mixed limit of mallards and woodies was had. Hopefully, we have not used our season allottment of good hunt weather but it was fun while it lasted!
Heard some shooting locally but no reports yet.
Cliff Brown
