Posted By:
gleasonduck
Web Member
gleason 01-26-2007 11:51
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 40-45 Degrees
Even the Northwest counties have some weak reports-our seasons have been sorry since 1999. Thank God for woodducks or we would have really stunk it up this year. We hunt the Middle fork of the Obion and several groups that hunt east of us are thinking seriously about calling it quits. We have 5 refuges within 12 miles of us and have killed a grand total of 10 mallards this season. We hunt 135 flooded acres with 25 acres of standing corn and all we see are wood ducks. We have put up 15 wood duck boxes just to try a raise some local birds to shoot, cause we sure don’t get migrators anymore.
Posted By:
brandon Bean
Guest
01-25-2007 21:26
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Martin-Hall,
That’s a bad deal about your decoys. It is a shame that people can’t honor the good intentions of people like yourself that are willing to leave a spread for someone to hunt over at a wma. We’ve dealt with this crap in West Tennessee for as long as I can remember. Makes a pretty good case for doing away with our draw system all-together. Can’t leave anything out anymore or someone will thieve it. Might as well tote it in and out the same day. I’ve always pulled my dekes even when my buddies and I have had draw blinds. It’s not like it used to be, especially when the hunting is slow there are thugs that would just as soon ride around and pick-up decoys as try to hunt. As I have commented before about the refuge system I am going to say it again about the etiquette of our sport. It is all about to change. You should all do yourselves a favor and attend the TWRC meeting in August when the seasons are established and topics are discussed. Tennesse is probably going to have a record, or near record, harvest of birds this year. At least it will be comparable to last year. 90% of this harvest will be in a 5 or 6 county region in NorthWest Tennessee. Ask the Biologists why this is. They will tell you that this is just where the habitat is. I say BULL.
I’ve killed my share of birds this year and I do not take this stand to drive my own ambitions of killing more birds. There is a conspiracy going on and you guys in Middle and East Tennessee are getting the shaft. Take a stand. It’s not just the weather that is keeping you from harvesting your share of the birds.
Posted By:
steve68
Guest
Bogata 01-25-2007 17:00
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 35-40 Degrees
My son and I had agreat time at Bogata WMA hunt. The game warden there was as nice as any I have met. We did not kill a lot of ducks but that was mainly our fault. We either set up in the wrong place or we couldn’t have hit the goodyear blimp if it had floated by. My dog made a couple awsome retrieves on the few we did hit and that made it the hunt that much better. As soon as the season is over I am working on getting a camper up at Reelfoot and that is where we plan on hunting and fishing from now on. Thanks to everyone for the advice on the hunt. Steve
A BAD DAY OF HUNTING BEATS WORK ANYDAY
Posted By:
DKA
Web Member
reelfoot 01-25-2007 14:07
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There have been some thieving going on at the lake also. One blind lost everything, stove gas, pots and pans, even dishwashing soap.
Posted By:
TROTRO
Guest
woods 01-25-2007 10:50
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sorry to hear that martin. i guess i need to go and check on our decoys at 14.
Posted By:
DKA
Web Member
reelfoot 01-25-2007 08:14
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 40-45 Degrees
hunted tues. birds didn’t fly much early as was cloudy, sun broke out around 10 am, got some close enough to shoot ended up with 6 and 1 blue goose. Hunted wed. turned cloudy early but the birds flew. Good bunches but all were call shy and decoy shy. Chatter and comeback brought them in great. also did not use use any motion decoys. Guys next to me were calling and had 5 robos and a vortex, Chatter and comeback brought every duck to me. Limited out in 45 minutes. Just me and the dog, so we headed home.
Posted By:
Martin-Hall
Field Editor
AEDC/Woods Reservoir 01-24-2007 13:02
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
I knew that Woods wasn’t a great duck lake, but I didn’t know it was so bad that even my decoys would pull anchor and walk off. It seems like someone hunted our blind this past weekend, blind 44, and liked the looks of our spread. That or they picked up several dozen decoys and a mallard machine for me and they just haven’t called me yet to let me know they’ve done me a favor and will be bringing them by the house later.
We haven’t hunted our blind as much this year as I would have hoped, but I left the decoys and mallard machine out for the folks that didn’t get drawn for a blind. On the days we’ve hunted, we’ve never turned away a hunter looking for an empty blind. I’m a trusting soul who believes that hunters, by nature, are honest folks. I guess I was wrong about these last hunters. This is the first time I’ve ever had anything stolen at Woods, so I hoping it wasn’t one of our local hunters, but just a passing thief. If anyone hunts the blind this weekend, bring your own decoys. Ours will be picked up by then unless the thiefs get the rest of them before we do.
Disappointed in Lynchburg
Martin Hall
Posted By:
Thomas-Quinlen
Field Editor
Bayou DeVew, AR 01-22-2007 09:28
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 35-40 Degrees
LOADS OF DUCKS! Finally, some ducks have showed up! Now, this is in Arkansas, pretty much due west of Memphis, and I hear that there are still low numbers to the south, but from Memphis northward, there are lots of ducks in Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky.
We shot a good number of mallards in the bayou (I had to leave early, so I don’t know the final count), and our guys hunting the surrounding fields did even better. There is lots of water, and the rivers and bayous are flowing.
Nice to finally get a good hunt in.
[Edited By Thomas-Quinlen on 2007-01-22 09:29]
Posted By:
DKA
Web Member
Reelfoot 01-22-2007 08:20
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
Sat.with the sun got 12 Sun one blind in the timber got 2 the open water 13. Sat., couple of holes really hammered, 40-50 birds each. Sun. cloudy, was slow for about everybody. Same old educated ducks!
