Posted By:
micha
Guest
missori river 12-18-2005 19:44
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 0-10 Degrees – Open Water
hunted the missouri sat. 2 of us got 8 mallards and 2 geese. very cold lots of ice in river This is a place that stays open when everything freezes down stream. public access is about a mile upsteam from where we set up. Have to stay below the high water mark to keep from trespass. hope it warms up this week
HAPPY HUNTING
Posted By:
K-Town
Guest
Kalispell 12-10-2005 19:13
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Had a pretty good shoot on open water today. 5 of us managed 22 mallards (1 band) and a honker and we smacked a couple more on our way back to the truck .Could of had more birds but our shooting was a little shaky. The action was slow but steady, if your willing to hang out a little longer, there is a constent circulation of ducks, its just that they are spread out quite a bit between groups.Most ducks are pretty smart, we did minimal calling wich helped. We mainly shot at singles and pairs, our largest group of ducks was 4. Lets hear some more reports boys!
Posted By:
Bill-Reed
Guest
SW MT-Bitterroot-Metcalf Refuge 12-09-2005 20:04
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 0-10 Degrees – Ice
Haven’t been out for a week, so went to Metcalf. Place is frozen solid. Two places where hot creeks come into the pond were only open for about 10 feet, right next to shore. Only saw 2 birds by 10:00. No reason to go back unless there is a warming trend.
I need to learn to hunt the river!
Posted By:
K-Town
Guest
Kalispell 12-03-2005 16:41
– – 10-20 Degrees – Open Water
Hunted this morning on a spring and only managed 8 mallards with 4 hunters. There was tons of birds before shooting light, but once legal time hit we got a couple groups to come in, then it came to a sudden stop. Talked to a friend who was on the river and he said there was a fair amount of ducks and geese, but way too many hunters and sky busters, wich caused the ducks to scatter and become scitish. Oh well.
Posted By:
K-Town
Guest
Kalispell 12-01-2005 19:18
Cloudy, Snow Flurries – 10-20 Degrees – Open Water
Saw some major goose activity, i.e. migration, while i was hunting after school, saw between 1500 and 2000 honkers comeing in from the north. The first couple groups were high and then they seemed to be getting lower as more flocks arrived with the snow storm right behing them, most looked like they were heading to the lake. Me and a couple friends shot 10 greenheads in about a hour, not to bad. This weekend could be very good.
Posted By:
Rain
Guest
11-28-2005 12:16
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K-town, nice post. Sounds like an awesome hunt…
Posted By:
K-Town
Guest
Kalispell 11-25-2005 19:05
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Finally got time to kill some green, and we let them have it. We found a field with about 2 thousand mallards in a bunch off barley that had been lost in the rain, but it was off limits to hunting. So are only choice was across the road in a dirt field that used to be potatoes (there was nothing on it). This morning we thought it would bust(why would ducks want to land in here). At first light about 100 landed in the barley, so we scared them off.We then turned on the mojos and started to do some loud and aggresive calling. The next group that came was about 200, and once they saw the 2 mojos they poured right into us. From then on, we had hundreds of ducks at a time swarming us, wich made for a quick 5 man limit of 35 mallards, 1 honker, and two bands.
Posted By:
Bill-Reed
Guest
Bitteroot Valley 11-22-2005 15:59
Cloudy, Heavy Fog – 25-30 Degrees – Ice
You know, RainNgn, you are killing me. I live on the East Fork, and I didn’t get my elk. I live by the 7 mile mark, and went up on the hills behind the house. Since it is all private property along the road, I thought I would have the area to myself. Hahahahaha. I saw 5 other hunters. Oh well.
As for duck hunting, today was awsome. My first full limit this season. Fog was VERY thick in the valley, and the birds would just appear on set wings comming into the set. 6 Greenheads and one widgeon (took him early, before I knew how good it would be) The new spinner made all the difference, since there was nothing new about my setup. I don’t like using it, but I gotta say, it sure was great getting 7 birds with 10 shots, including 2 doubles.
Didn’t see many birds, but that was probably the fog. No reason for them to have left the area. 50% of those I saw came into or over the set. I passed on lots of 35+ yard shots, since they weren’t on set wings. Lots of hunters in the area also, but not much shooting I could hear.
Posted By:
phutch30
Guest
Billings,Forsyth 11-22-2005 15:55
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There are thousands and thousands of ducks and geese between Billings and Forsyth. We saw one corn feild that had so many ducks and geese in it we couldnt count them,it was black with birds, and there was a cloud of birds swirling the feild. The further east of billings the more birds we saw. Around Hysham its was crazy,there were ducks and geese flying all day long. I just wish Id brought my shotgun instead of my rifle.
[Edited By phutch30 on 2005-11-22 15:58]
Posted By:
Rain
Guest
11-21-2005 08:57
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No waterfowl hunting for me, went up the Eastfork and helped my Dad and cousing fill their elk tags. It opened up to either sex this last week and they both shot cows Sat. morning first light. Very big bodied girls and 7 1/2 years old each. Neat hunt. So now that everybodys freezers are full I can get back to the ducks. Heading to Billings for the holiday weekend and my buddy says it’s on over there, lots of birds around.
Bill, after thanksgiving I will pm you and we can hook up for a duck hunt. we’re probably going to have to drive an hour and 15 mins from msla but we should be able to get into some crazy green! Happy Thanksgiving boys!
