Posted By:
dukscout
Guest
11-15-2007 11:09
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Here, here!
Posted By:
mparma
Guest
11-15-2007 10:26
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 50-60 Degrees
What’s going on with NO reports from Va. Md., and N.C. are giving regularly daily reports. Come on guys, bring some of us working guy up-to-date on ducks and geese.
MP
Posted By:
Richard-Nunnally
Web Member
10-25-2007 20:17
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The much needed rain is good for the grass but not enough to fill up the dry ponds. Lot’s of folks I have talked to do not have any water, and if they do, not enough to get their boat in. Be cautious in the lakes since the water is so low. The stumps you never saw are there. That is a good way to bend a prop or worse.
Posted By:
Bluebill Buster
Web Member
Potomac River – N.VA 10-08-2007 14:09
Cloudy, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Had the opportunity to hunt all four days, not a lot of time spent in the blinds as I only hunted about 45 minutes to 90 minutes a day.
Lots of mallards and teal around, but the woodies seem to have vacated the areas. There was quite a population of them around during the early part of the goose season but those numbers have been cut drastically.
Ended the session with 10 birds total, 9 mallards and a woodie. Mallards flew early and in very large groups during the AM. Evening hunts at my spot were worthless except for shots at doves.
Posted By:
Drew-Hawkins
Field Editor
Tributaries of the Potomac-NVA 10-06-2007 08:08
Sunny & Clear, Morning Fog – Over 70 Degrees
This is vicarious report as I have not made it out as of yet.
2-man limit of Woodducks shot, cover made birds hard to find. Doesn’t appear to be as many Wooduck around as in years past. Might be in part due to drought.
Over all gunning on the river has been fair, with reports of some b/w teal, local mallards, and an occasional Woodduck being taken. Also reported a small group of Pintails were spotted.
So there it is. Good luck out there today and Monday. I hope to finally make it out Monday a.m.
Posted By:
marsh hound
Web Member
Back Bay 10-03-2007 00:37
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Looking for any info on where I can get small pine trees for brushing out my blind. Any info would be appreciated.
Posted By:
Drew-Hawkins
Field Editor
Feds Set Framwork for 07-08 season 08-03-2007 11:39
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A buddy shared this with me so I thought I would share it with everyone. Hopefully VA will follow suit with the Feds.
Highlights of the proposed late-season frameworks are as follows.
Atlantic Flyway: Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia
Ducks: A hunting season is proposed of not more than 60 days between September 22, 2007, and January 27, 2008. The proposed daily bag limit is six and may include no more than four mallards (two hens), two wood ducks, two scaup, two redheads, two hooded mergansers, one black duck, one pintail, one mottled duck, one fulvous whistling duck, two canvasbacks, and four scoters. The season on harlequin ducks is closed.
Geese: For light geese, states would be able to select a 107-day season between October 1, 2007, and March 10, 2008, with a daily bag limit of 15 geese and no possession limit. For Atlantic Population (AP) Canada geese, the proposed season this year will allow portions of Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Vermont and New York to hold a 45-day season with a three-bird daily bag limit. Delaware, Maryland and Virginia (except Back Bay, Virginia) will be allowed to hold a 45-day season with a two-bird bag limit in AP areas. Back Bay, Virginia, and the Northeast Hunt Unit of North Carolina would be able to select a 30-day season with a two-bird daily bag and a one-bird per season respectively. In Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Long Island, New York, a 60-day season on North Atlantic Population Canada geese is proposed with a three-bird daily bag limit. Special or experimental seasons and regular seasons to harvest resident and other populations of migratory Canada geese would be authorized in Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia. For Atlantic brant, the season length may be 50 days with a daily bag limit of two.
Posted By:
Drew-Hawkins
Field Editor
Duck Stamp Legislation 06-19-2007 11:06
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ATER: Bipartisan House bill would divert duck stamp money to wetlands (06/19/2007)
Lucy Kafanov, E&E Daily reporter
Wetland protection efforts would get a big boost under a House bill floated last week that would increase the price of duck stamps to pump more cash into a federal purchasing program.
Behind the effort are Reps. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) and Don Young (R-Alaska), who yesterday reintroduced a bill that would reauthorize the Wetlands Loan Act. Their measure would provide a $400 million advance of federal duck stamp money over the next 10 years for wetlands conservation.
The funding would come from an increase in the cost of duck stamps, decorative stamps the federal government issues each year. Hunters, as well as some stamp collectors and other wildlife enthusiasts, buy the stamps for collections or to gain access to wildlife refuges.
The cost of the loan would be offset by an incremental increase in the price of the federal duck stamp.
Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) introduced the companion measure in the Senate, S. 272, earlier this year.
According to Thompson’s office, the United States continues to lose more than 80,000 acres of wetlands annually. The bill would provide landowners with the option to work with the Fish and Wildlife Service to voluntarily conserve their land through conservation easements, his office said.
“We have lost more than half of our natural wetlands,” Thompson said in a release. “When we lose our wetlands, we lose natural flood protection and critical habitat for fish and wildlife.”
FWS would use the money generated by the bill to buy lands for national wildlife refuges and to assist landowners in protecting existing wetlands and surrounding duck habitat in key breeding grounds and other areas across the country.
Posted By:
Drew-Hawkins
Field Editor
VA- VADGIF PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD THRU JUNE 15th 05-08-2007 23:42
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 60-65 Degrees
VADGIF Public Comment period. Please find below a link to go to the VADGIF website to voice your opinion on hunting issues in our state that having meaning to you. DO this before June 15th!
Here’s the link:
http://www.dgif.state.va.us/regulations/comment/recommendations.asp
Hope everyone is having a good off season.
Drew
[Edited By Drew-Hawkins on 2007-05-08 23:44]
Posted By:
Drew-Hawkins
Field Editor
St. Michaels MD – 10th annual Decoy Buy/Sell/ Swap meet 04-10-2007 00:04
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This is a fun event that helps tide us over until things get going in Sept. a nice place to see and pick up collectible decoys and collectible waterfowling stuff. Any ?’s shoot me a PM. Drew
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EAST COAST DECOY COLLECTORS – Please join us for the 10th annual buy-sell-swap to be held rain or shine April 13th & 14th, 2007 At the Best Western (410-745-3333) in St. Michaels, Maryland. This is an open door room to room event that also includes several parking lots full of decoy vendors.
