Posted By:
duckin around
Guest
07-09-2007 12:17
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Might be moving to Henderson, wondering what the duck hunting is like? Thanks for info.
Posted By:
GOOSE SLAYER22
Web Member
03-20-2007 14:23
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Posted By:
nvchukar
Supporting Member
02-16-2007 22:41
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Hugh-Carney,
Don’t know how much response you’ll get this time of year from the few Nevada duck hunters that post on this site, but from this Winnemuccan, I can tell you that the area between Lake Tahoe and Reno has some hunting opportunities in the Washoe Valley area. I have never hunted it, but have been told that it can be quite good under the right conditions. You may want to go into the past posts on this site and communicate with one of the hunters that hunt that area. I recall there being postings for Washoe Lake. From friends that I have in central and eastern Washington telling me how impressive their duck hunting is, I doubt you could duplicate that at Washoe Lake.
Posted By:
Hugh-Carney
Field Editor
02-15-2007 10:01
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I took the weekend and flew into Reno and drove to South Lake Tahoe this past weekend. Saw a few geese flying around when I dropped into Carson City. I didn’t have hunting on my mind until I saw the birds. Then I drove along Tahoe and saw what I could imagine as potential good hunting areas. Is there much hunting on the lake or in the area between Reno and Tahoe?
Just curious. I live in a great hunting area in central Washington so I won’t be traveling to northern Nevada any time soon. Just looked interesting.
Posted By:
hunterox
Guest
02-01-2007 22:29
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HuntandFish,
The Carson Sink…
Posted By:
nvchukar
Supporting Member
01-30-2007 22:03
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I agree that more should post on this site, to exchange valuable information regarding where the birds are and what works to bring them into the decoys. I was a regular post until the first of December, when everything froze VERY solid in the northern third of the state. I’m glad you “southerners” around Fallon and Yerington still had some shooting. However, between Lovelock and Wells, finding less than a foot of ice, even on the Humboldt River (which was often completely frozen over), was rare. The good news is that until then, duck hunting was great, with limits most times out.
For Tahoe Teal, I’ve hunted ducks in many western states and hunt Canada every September, and Nevada duck hunting is normally as good as anywhere, if you know where to go. I talk to friends in California on a regular basis, who envy our duck hunting here.
Icing on the cake this year was that when it got cold, the chukar hunting got hot. Shot 57 chukar in December and January (and ate every one – promtly). Nonetheless, dare I say, it is only about 250 days til opening day of duck season. Until then, may our offseason depression be mild.
Posted By:
huntandfish345
Web Member
Carson River 01-29-2007 23:16
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 25-30 Degrees – Ice
I Hunted a stretch of the Carson river that i had scouted the weekend before. There were many geese sleeping on the river overnight and leaving early in the morning to go feed. Me and friend got a late start saturday and decided to jump shoot instead of decoying. The birds were in the some area, were the river was not freezing over. We planned our stock and got about 25-30yds before they took off up stream. We unloaded and only knocked two down in the river. We watched the flock and two birds separated from the rest and went down in an open field. We grabbed the two in the river and found the others in the field dead 30 yds appart. Tough birds! We had a great hunt.
hunterox
Where are the sink areas of northern nevada if you dont mind me asking?
Posted By:
Miamonkey
Guest
Stillwater 01-29-2007 10:35
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Well….its over. This year was a great year for ducks, yet the geese proved to be more difficult for us. Yesterday the three of us shot limits of geese by 9:00am. We set 8 dozen of the sleeper mag shells and 2 dozen bigfoots up on the ice. The birds were a little nervous but worked very nice and almost landed on one of us (exactly 6′ from his head!). Good luck on those of you who hunt turkeys, only 8 more months till’ were back at it!
Posted By:
hunterox
Guest
Northern Nevada 01-29-2007 09:03
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 30-34 Degrees – Ice
Hunted 1/26 and 1/27 in the sink areas of northern nevada. 1/26 we hunted a couple of hours in the afternoon, mostly finding the birds and building our blind. Three of us shot 7 a mix of mallards and gwt and 1 honker. It was the first time behind a gun for one hunter and he actually shot 3 of the 7.
One intereting note was I tricked out my knee on the ice, which made getting around a bit difficult…
Saturday was an amazing day for the last day. It started off really slowly with the cool temps. and no wind, but then the birds began to move between 8 and 2:45. We shot mostly mallards 11, 1 bull sprig, and 5 gwt. We also had a nice flock of about 17 honkers come in (no calling) and dumped 5 of those!
The new hunter is totally hooked. We are excited for him…
It is still disappointing not to see many posting on this site. Share your information. We need more duck hunters not less of them. Every stamp purchase, conservation membership, and so forth help the ducks and ensure our hunting rights. If we don’t add to our number and pass it on to someone new, the next generation will sit around and not know how great waterfowl hunting is.
I hope all of your families have a great 2007.
God Bless you all and stay safe.
Feetdown!
Posted By:
TahoeTeal
Guest
None 01-28-2007 21:59
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What’s a banner year Miamonkey? How about some details? I found duck hunting in Nevada to be kind of a joke when I moved here 5 years ago, but that was probably because of the drought conditions. I haven’t bought a Nevada license since. I imagine it was good this year because many of the wetlands have filled up again.
