Posted By:
bherb33
Web Member
Corn Field tween Valley&Waterloo 11-15-2010 00:57
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
There was pleny of geese but they have a little refuge, should eat it out in a couple of days. Saw a tornado of mallards over same, looked at us but pretty high. Heard shootin early over the Platte, and later over the Elkhorn.
Posted By:
jdgreen402
Web Member
Farm pond near Valley, Ne 11-14-2010 13:27
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 30-34 Degrees – Ice
Wandered-out to the blind this morning. Glad that I did! Finally started to see some activity. Had a pair of gaddies working a creek nearby. Had a pair of mallards work the pond well (thanks to a misfire shell, I didn’t get them). Had a really high (guessing 150 yards up) flock of 30 or so mallards work the pond. Circling multiple times – just couldn’t get them in before they lost interest. Worked my tail-off to get a triple of blue-bills in ( I took my two). Had a woodie drop in to sit with the teal decoys. He decided to stay, too. Saddened about the mallards, but thrilled to finally see some ducks again.
Side note: WF.com have you thought of offering some south Dakota folks free subscriptions to get some reports? It sucks not getting some timely reports from their fine state.
Posted By:
jdgreen402
Web Member
Farm pond near Vally, NE 11-13-2010 18:53
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 35-40 Degrees
Hit the blind today expecting a lot of activity from deer hunters rousting ducks off of the river and creeks. Somewhat disappointing. We did have a couple of woodies work us repeatedly (allowing us to finally get them close enough to take). We had a flock of five mallards work us very high, but would not commit. We wereusing spinners and it makes me wonder if they were already shy to them. This evening, I did see a couple of bigger teal flocks flying high and moving fast south. Unless they held at the Platte, they would have been in Mound City in an hour with the NW tail wind. Finally looking a bit more promising.
One more note: drove to Norfolk for tractor parts this afternoon and came back via Columbus and Fremont. Didn’t see anything in the fields or creeks. Finally saw a flock of local Canadas at the Fremont State Lakes. (sigh)
Posted By:
bherb33
Web Member
Ne. City 11-13-2010 14:55
Cloudy, High Winds – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
Early morning was breezy and cold, 3 sets of teal that were shootable, with some mallards, speckled, and cans higher overhead. Seemed there was more shooting on the Missourri river, but not a flurry.
Posted By:
kpsriverdice
Web Member
Central Nebraska 11-12-2010 14:42
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I just received a call from my brother-in-law and he has seen a lot of ducks and geese migrating along I-80!
Posted By:
bherb33
Web Member
columbus 11-11-2010 22:00
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Was not hunting but out of town on business, at sleep inn columbus stood outside for 10-15 minutes and listened to a constant overhead night goose migration from 9:45-10:00pm.
Posted By:
Larry-Olson
Field Editor
Northern Panhandle 11-11-2010 21:46
Cloudy, Snow Flurries – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
Well the phone has been ringing and e mails singing of flights of snows and lessers moving south over the northern panhandle tonight! The southern panhandle recieved alot more snow than we did so it might stop the birds up here for a short time. i ran around the grasslands for a couple hours before sunset tonight and quite a few ponds were holding ducks. Temperatures are supposed to drop into the lower teens tonight so it could force birds to the bigger water. I have to work every day but Sunday and I told my little brother I would help him shoot his first deer Sunday so I will just have to suck it up!! Hope some of you guys can get some while you can.LO
Posted By:
Brian-Peters
Web Member
central panhandle 11-11-2010 13:32
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This mourning the snow fell right at day break went to the local sra for a drive around there were alot of divers both on the water and working the area also heard a group of small geese but could not see them this weekend could be good Brian
Posted By:
Larry-Olson
Field Editor
Northern Panhandle 11-11-2010 11:05
Cloudy, Snow Flurries – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
Well I couldn’t find anyone to do the boat thing with me today so i made my mind up to finish some windows that I have been promising to do. But my kid texted me that he heard geese migrating over chadron before sunrise. So I ran around here jumping ponds and found a nice push of northern Mallards. (only shot two drakes) and saw a couple big bunches of geese high and heading into the snow south of here. I just cant seem to get it right this year!! I am going to try to get the windows done and get back out there, Later LO
Posted By:
Larry-Olson
Field Editor
Western Sanhills, panhandle 11-10-2010 23:21
Cloudy, Snow Flurries – 40-45 Degrees
Well I made it to the Sandhills yesterday thinking that the strong NW winds coupled with precip up north would bring those little Canadas and snows with them but it was not to be. We never saw a goose and no migrating ducks either. There was maybe a hundred ducks on the lake but most were shovelers and they avoided us like the plague. I finally slipped through some cattails on the island we were hunting and shot a drake but that was our total for the day. The reports were similar from everyone but some guys had better luck than i did,(wouldn’t be hard). We checked a couple other lakes on the way home and the pickings were pretty slim there too. We hauled most of our decoys to the North Platte river blind Sunday and tried hunting a couple hours but it was very slow there too with temps reaching the upper seventies in the afternoon. I think we probably saw a couple hundred ducks while were there but only one decoyed and we were all working at the time so she flew away.(suzzie anyway) Our channel looks good, maybe? Time will tell. I thought about taking the boat out tommorrow again but it is alot of work for one guy especially when the success is so poor and I have some windows to finish here in the house. I will get out in the morning for a couple hours anyway and it’s only ten minutes to a lake if there is any migration going on. hmmmmmmmm. LO
