Posted By:
jesslab
Web Member
North Central Iowa 10-28-2011 06:52
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Been seeing some GWT and mallards that last few weekends. If the wind is right the mallards wanted to finish and do it right. Very few gadwall and widgeon. Curious as to where the bulk of the birds are at this time. SD, ND, NE, Canada? Any thoughts or information would be appreciated.
Posted By:
pluckaduck
Field Editor
ND 10-27-2011 20:26
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Once again, up and down we go. Tonight, lots of birds and hope they do not get pounded and will be here for a few days, temps are suppose to average for this time of year
Posted By:
pluckaduck
Field Editor
ND 10-26-2011 21:09
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Thanks Trial Lawyer, was glad to have you stay here and hope we can do it again sometime. Yes when you teach and make pitiful money I have to do my best to put meat on the table(hah)
Out again tonight, birds seem to have vamoosed again. Eagles are migrating, ducks usually are close to them. Did get a nice Mallard. Temps should stay moderate for the time being, no measurable snow hit here, and fields should be dry to drive in a day or two. Hope to have better news by the weekend, but there are birds, just got to walk and find them
Posted By:
Trial Lawyer
Web Member
NW ND 10-26-2011 10:46
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Pluckaduck, thank you for all of your postings on this website and your help and hospitality 2 weeks ago. You are a great service to all of us who hunt waterfowl in North Dakota. A darn good shot as well! My best to you and Magoo.
Posted By:
pluckaduck
Field Editor
ND 10-25-2011 18:30
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Stayed in for first night in a long, long time. Temps around 40, light rain and snow coming will make for a couple of wet days. Weekend should be back into 50’s, so don’t look for too much of a migration yet!!
Posted By:
pluckaduck
Field Editor
10-25-2011 10:51
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Yes I will do it different, have many times, just figured they will come back. Weather should be cooler today and tomorrow but back into the 50’s by the weekend and maybe 55 for Halloween! Too late for a trickle migration, will be a mad dash south as per the case the last few years. Anyone hunting the timber down by DL, if so, how is that going?
Posted By:
Mike-Loecker
Guest
ND 10-25-2011 07:29
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Pluck me a duck- would you have done that over differently? Knowing what you know now?? LOL- Been there, done that. Things are pretty slow down here in NE SD— the hunting pressure has things all messed up now and what birds are left are very well conditioned. S O S…. as you call it. We are leaving Sunday and heading North to Jamestown. Probably better stock the cooler by the looks of things, eh. Like adult beverages I mean. LOL….Nice temps and limited wind…. ugh!
Posted By:
pluckaduck
Field Editor
ND 10-24-2011 20:28
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Got a report of good Mallard numbers so after school I headed west. I went to a slough near where the report was, and yes there was maybe 250 ducks in there. So I grabbed some decoys, Magoo and threw on the hip boots, gun and headed after them. Sure they flushed as they always do but I decided not to shoot even though many were within 25 yards. I quickly threw out the blocks, and jumped int he brush with Magoo.
For the next hour we saw nothing within 100 yards, ducks here and there and cranes, cranes and cranes.
So plenty of ducks but SOS with evening hunts and decoys! Hope you all know what SOS is?
Posted By:
DU870
Web Member
10-24-2011 11:58
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I figured I should give a total tally and sum up my old mans hunt. They hunted NW ND for 6 days. Shot a total of 30 some ducks and had about 25 roosters. Hunted hard most days, took a few light days to enjoy the surroundings. On their drive back they did start to see huge flocks of snows and blues and more and more honkers.
From the sounds of it, this could be one of the last good years for roosters and ducks in ND. Locals are saying a million plus acres of CRP is coming out and going back into production- crop land.
Posted By:
pluckaduck
Field Editor
ND 10-23-2011 21:07
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Morning hunt was poor. Few ducks flying, had one small group decoy field and shot mallard. Went perch fishing this afternoon, they certainly are putting the feed bag on, filled the cooler quickly!
Temps are suppose to cool by mid-week, rain mixed with snow. As ABest wrote, seems like lots of WI hunters out here. I met a couple of good guys when going fishing, they had slow hunt. Hope they got into some birds where I sent them, if not maybe the DL spot will pan out
While painting this evening, I did see some snows flying south really high as well as some cranes migrating from the north. Most crops are off and are starting to get tilled under.
