Posted By:
Duckman-Dew
Guest
Lake Arthur, PA 12-25-2007 21:47
Cloudy, High Winds – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
It’s just what I was afraid of, no ducks! Hunted Lake Arthur Christmas eve morning on the backside of a front with a 20 degree temperature drop, snow flurries, overcast, low pressure system, and no ducks. I’m afraid they’ve headed South. We hunted from daylight to 11:00 am, and only saw two ducks, an hour apart. I thought that with the 25 m.p.h. winds, they might be sitting down somewhere, so I ran around the lake trying to see if I could find any sheltered back in a cove or something, and only ran up four more. I hunted late this morning and only saw three. I think we are probably done until next fall.
Do the world a favor, teach a kid to hunt.
Posted By:
water dog bay
Guest
12-24-2007 18:43
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Posted By:
water dog bay
Guest
12-24-2007 18:42
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Posted By:
Christian-Boyd
Field Editor
SW PA 12-22-2007 13:55
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 30-34 Degrees – Ice
Where are all of the ducks in SW PA? I hope everyone else is seeing waterfowl. Nothing is here.
Posted By:
water dog bay
Guest
northumberland county 12-21-2007 22:15
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limited out on green heads and my godfather shoot a beutiful pintail drake with a 5-6in pin
Posted By:
Duckman-Dew
Guest
Lake Arthur, PA 12-20-2007 22:12
Cloudy, High Winds – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
We hunted the Muddy Creek area of Lake Arthur this past Saturday morning, having to leave about 9am because of family obligations. Hunting out of a boat blind and only putting out a dozen decoys, we saw a few ducks, mostly teal and divers. The lake was frozen over last week, but melted because of a couple of days of 50+ temperatures. We did manage to bag a Gray duck (Gadwall), and a Ring Necked duck. both were shot coming into the decoys. There doesn’t appear to be too many ducks left up here because of the freezing weather we’ve had. I was also shocked to notice most of the big ducks seem to have already moved out. The lake is frozen over again, but it should thaw as a result of the warmer temperatures this week. We do have a small front moving into the area on Sunday night, so I’ll give ’em another try on Christmas eve and day. I’ll keep you posted as to the conditions and the results.
Posted By:
huey-2
Guest
12-20-2007 12:51
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Hey Larry,
Read your report and I live about 5 mins away from every boat launch at the marsh.AM always looking for a die- hard waterfowler since there aren’t many in this area.I will be on the state hill launch about 4:45 am sat morning.I’m hunting on a shore using a lay-down blind. Get back to me if you want to hook up.
Posted By:
Larry-Gausch
Field Editor
Blue Marsh 12-19-2007 07:08
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 30-34 Degrees – Ice
Gunned the marsh yesterday.No luck where we set up but we did some scouting for about two hours and did see quite the variety of birds. About 500 canadas must have roosted on the lake and there were about a hundred black ducks with them.Saw mallards, bluebills,goldeneye,assorted mergansers and dippers.Still learning alot about gunning divers.No other hunters on the lake at all.If anyone is ever interested in hooking up shoot me a PM.Looks like all the old gang here is prety much gone. There was some skim ice on parts of the lake so if you do get out be careful.Lost too many friends over the years during the season!! Hunt safe, “G”
Posted By:
woodyhunter
Guest
pa 12-17-2007 21:00
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[Edited By woodyhunter on 2007-12-17 21:02]
Posted By:
thefork
Guest
Pymatuning Area 12-16-2007 09:35
Cloudy, High Winds – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
Hunted the open water until 1pm yesterday. Four geese, 3 hooded mergs, and a buffle. Not too bad, good action most of the time. Some golden-eyes around,as well as ringers, and of course thousands of geese. Nice front on Saturday, just not coming from a good direction to move alot of birds our way. Good Luck.
