Posted By:
Kris-Bertelsen
Field Editor
Chippewa Valley 11-08-2010 12:48
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Got out this weekend and did some scouting and actually got a hunt in!
Fall Creek has a pile of geese using the pond in town. Augusta has birds but rather scattered. Eau Claire has flights leaving morning and night west and northwest of town. I got a report that Chippewa Falls has birds flying north, but take that as second hand knowledge. Menomonie had geese east of town, but it took some scouting to find them. I haven’t been to Stanley yet this year, but going this week to scout. Any one been over there, shoot me a PM please! I’d like to get a good couple hunts in before the crazies in orange get loose.
As far as my hunt, I pulled off a double on blue geese. Yes, that was blue geese, and beautiful eagle-heads to boot!
Posted By:
REARNEY
Web Member
Pool 4 Mississipi River 11-08-2010 10:09
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 25-30 Degrees – Ice
Hunted last Saturday and Sunday-Had 15 Wegion and a handful of Gadwalls land in the middle of pond I was hunting and were to far to shoot at-Never fired a shot. Did see a small area in the flooded woods where some mallards were landing. Hunted this spot on Sunday and had two Kids move in at shooting time at 50 yards from me and cut me off. they got all the shooting and even some geese-Oh well, again I never fired a shot. Went bow hunting and will wait for colder weather.
[Edited By REARNEY on 2010-11-08 10:10]
Posted By:
MallardKingWI
Web Member
horicon 11-07-2010 17:24
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Hunting this morning and Thursday morning. Thursday was cloudy windy and cool. We got one duck. Today there was a south wind with bright sunshine and we got 4 ducks. Of course we could have shot better to get a few more birds but today was a lot of fun with 4 birds in the boat. On was a huge Drake Mallard. In some of the smaller porholes there was still some skim ice.
Yesterday we were at Vernon marsh and it had a good layer of ice on it. Half inch where we checked. Guys we still getting out Frog alley but had to bust some ice. Didn’t hear many shots.
Horicon seems to keep holding enough birds to make the day interesting but the birds definitely are getting harder to decoy.
Posted By:
pipewrench
Web Member
Mississippi River (Pool 4) Nelson 11-05-2010 19:28
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
Hunting was very slow this morning! Saw a couple of small flocks of mallards and were very wary. Saw a few small flocks of divers also. Packed up at 9:30 and did a little scouting. Found a pothole off the river and walked in and jumped about 75 northern mallards. 3 of us decided to grab a dozen decoys and the mojo from the boat and set up in the trees on the edge of the pothole. We shot 9 greenheads, 2 susies, and a greenwing teal in 2 hours. Not bad, figuring we were skunked for the day! The day was beautiful clear skies and the sun in our face because of the wind direction for our set-up. The ducks liked this spot for some reason. Good luck to all this weekend. By the way there was no hunting pressure today, but tomorrow will probably be different.
Posted By:
stone
Web Member
Jefferson 11-05-2010 13:54
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 40-45 Degrees
Very slow yesterday and especially today. No mallards, no migration. Where are they?
Posted By:
REARNEY
Web Member
Mississipi/ Pool 4 11-01-2010 20:07
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 35-40 Degrees
Hunted with buddy last Saturday on a pond I scouted the prior week. We got our 8 mallards and 4 Gadwalls to limit out. Went back on Sunday morning myself and only shot 2 mallards. Alot of Divers in area-other hunters are getting their cans, bluebills, buffies and redheads. Little to no wind all weekend didnt help. Water is rising again. Mallards are filled with corn and loves the flooded woods.
[Edited By REARNEY on 2010-11-01 20:09]
Posted By:
lund-ducker2
Web Member
horicon 11-01-2010 17:10
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 35-40 Degrees
hunted sat AM. pothole. limit of malards (3 greenhead, 1 hen).
Posted By:
DU870
Web Member
11-01-2010 09:37
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Hunted saturday morning in a corn field of the Wisconsin River. Set up in a flooded part of the field. The scouting the night before had 2-3 mallards in the area and a couple flocks of geese. Set up early sat with 2 dozen honks and 6 duck decoys and a mojo. Had 4 mallards drop in on a string 2 minutes after legal. I got greedy and went for a double with 1 shot, tickeled one bird and gun jammed. My budy shot 3 times and dropped one. The good news it was banded and his first banded bird!
Rest of the morning was SLOW. Did hear some shooting from the river and an area marsh. Not much came over us. We filled in the slow times with taking out some crows.
Not sure where the birds went from the night before. It seems the wind from last week either pushed out the locals or moved them around a bit. Not seeing any big numbers of birds.
Posted By:
stumper
Web Member
Appleton 10-31-2010 22:47
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Ransom, the Fox Valley has long had a reputation as an excellent area for water fowling. The Wolf River area from Shawano all the way to Lake Poygan has many very good areas including Shiocton, Navarino, Fremont and many back sloughs, bayous and potholes.
The area lakes including Green Bay, Winnebago and Poygan/Winneconne also offer good hunting for divers and mallards.
I prefer to hunt cut corn fields for geese and mallards and the entire area from Horicon north to Green Bay along and within 10 miles either side of Hwy 41offers good field hunting opportunities with decent access to private lands if you take the time to meet with farmers and offer to help control goose numbers.
Of course scouting is key and it’ll take you some time to
figure out the patterns, but with some time and a strong desire, you’ll find lots of good waterfowling opportunities within an hour of Appleton.
I’ve lived here my whole life and would be happy to chat with you more if it would help. PM me. Stumper
Posted By:
Ransom1
Web Member
10-30-2010 10:42
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Tommymac18
Thank you for the information. Our season started today without much a do. Very few ducks around. I appreciate your response. Hopefully the move work out.
