Posted By:
sonny32
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Great wide Potomac 12-23-2007 20:04
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 40-45 Degrees
In a shore blind yesterday and the 3 of us pooled our dek’s and had a 250 plus diver spread and half as many mallard with 40 goose dek’s.. AND IT WAS STILL SLOW… Just not many bird down yet and not great conditions… The best for me is 20mph+ Northwest wind . Puts wind at my back..Anyway we fumbled the ball 3 times and were not ready when the surprise small flocks came in. Did not fire a shot. Also worked some 747 geese but did not drop enough altitude…We need more cold weather to bring more critters down from up north and freezeup the ponds and water in the woods…Just plain slow..
Posted By:
quackheadnVA
Web Member
12-23-2007 17:44
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Paul,
Send me a PM and I’ll get up with you. Former Marine, now civilian still in the area.
Posted By:
Paul-Sarg
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Trib off Potomac 12-21-2007 21:09
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 35-40 Degrees
Slow gunning today – except from 7-8am where we managed to get a hooded merganser and woodie. Otherwise the geese were flying way too high and not even attempting to sit down on the narrow creek. Not much wind at all; hard to get the ducks to land. Going to hunt down in King George on monday on the river so we’ll see what happens. Quacknhead, sounds like we probably hunt alot of the same blinds down in Quantico – you stationed there? If you dont mind me asking whats the best strategy to get into divers down there? Thanks and good luck this weekend.
Posted By:
quackheadnVA
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Trib off the Potomac 12-19-2007 13:33
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
Hunted off the Potomac down around Quantico this morning. The brisk East wind was a nice treat…is it me or has NOAA/weather.com just been awful at predictions this year?!?!?!
Anyway, scratched out 4 ducks to include a pintail in about an hour and half of shooting. (Work’s still getting in the way).
Still not the typical volume of birds for this time of year, but I can tell things are picking up just by the types/numbers I saw milling around the bigger water on the way back to the boat ramp. Mostly mallards seen this morning with two flights of pairs of pintail. Suprisingly, the Mallards were extremely “decoy friendly”. There are some bluebills around as well and I saw the first big raft of coots that I’ve seen this year.
Hopefully January will bring better gunning days…
Posted By:
Bluebill Buster
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Potomac River 12-17-2007 09:48
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 35-40 Degrees
Hunted the river Saturday AM – targeting divers and geese.
Divers didn’t pay us much attention as we scratched out 1 bbill and 3 buffies. The geese on the other hand flew better than I have seen the past couple years. Our boat positioning really hurt our ability to get them in close but we got 2 on some long shots.
Lots of bluebills around but not seeing any numbers of geyes, cans, or reds yet. As the winter weather continues up north it can only help us.
Posted By:
quackheadnVA
Web Member
Field in Western VA 12-16-2007 13:09
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 35-40 Degrees
Word I’m hearing is that its still slow everywhere. Hunted a field out west and scratched out 6 Geese between 4 of us. No ducks, very little goose activity.
Guess the reason no one’s posting is because its so slow, it ain’t worth writing about.
Then again, heard that some guys in a back water trib off the Potomac wore ’em out. Shot a 4 man limit of mallards and a few woodies.
If you’ve got private blinds on low pressure water, you’re probably doing good. If you’re a public hunter like most of us, it’s a bad year. Just no birds moved down here that I can find on public access water.
Hopefully all the cold weather up north will help the rest of us down here out.
Posted By:
quackheadnVA
Web Member
Haven’t yet… 12-13-2007 10:20
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Where is everyone?!?!?!?
Haven’t seen anyone post a thing since the season came back in last Saturday!!!
Is nobody hunting?
I haven’t been this week. Work is getting in the way. Going this weekend, will post when I get back in.
Posted By:
quackheadnVA
Web Member
Haven’t yet… 12-13-2007 10:19
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Where is everyone?!?!?!?
Haven’t seen anyone post a thing since the season came back in last Saturday!!!
Is nobody hunting?
I haven’t been this week. Work is getting in the way. Going this weekend, will post when I get back in.
Posted By:
quackheadnVA
Web Member
Creek off the Pototmac 12-09-2007 09:03
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
Did a little diver hunting on the open water in a hope that they had made it down on this first cold weather push. Not so much. 3 Buffleheads in the Dekes and they didn’t make it out. Saw a few other, but it was extremely slow. Tons of Geese moving all morning. The most vocal I;ve heard Canadians in a while.
Although, a couple of guys stopped by us on their way out and they had a great day shooting a 2 man limit of mallard’s, blacks, and teal way in the back of one of the Creeks.
Gonna do some scouting today. There’s birds (big ducks) around, you just gotta find them.
Posted By:
mparma
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Marshes along Rappahannock River 12-06-2007 08:43
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
Lots of activity in the marshes early on.
Mallards, teal, some Woodies, and a few Pintails. A ton of Geese, most feeding in fields that are Posted to hunters.
MP
