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Birds are increasing numbers in Eau Claire. The ones flying west of town found the cut corn fields inside the city limits so good luck with them. More ducks are starting to show up finally, so that is good.
Had a short hunt with brother today. Shot 2 mallards and 1 teal. Hunted for one hour as brother got sick and it started to sleet and rain. I posted a picture from our trip to Manitoba where 5 of us shot 216 geese and ducks last week.
Beautiful site Earney! I want to take a trip to Canada next year and that picture has me excited.
Seen plenty of geese around Appleton area. me and a friend shot 6 woodies on the wolf river bottoms today. first 25 minutes is crazy then nothing.
A little push of new birds. Mallards seemed to increase, and definitely starting to see better color on the drakes. Geese seemed to increase in numbers also.
Opted for some salmon fishing this weekend but noticed ALOT of drakes in good plumage. First good colors of the year.
Last weekend was ok, 3 of us shot 4 on Saturday and 15 on Sunday. A lot of BW teal and wood ducks
I’ve been hunting and scouting from Stanley to Eau Claire to Augusta. Working hard for the birds we got, but scouting pays off. Opening was disappointing, guys everywhere around us – tried a new spot, my bad I guess. No migration, just locals flocking up on the refuges that are left.
Had a very slow opener on Pool 4 Mississippi/ Lake Pepin.Five guys and no shots fired. Saw very few ducks. Sunday was much better. We shot (9) with a very mixed bag for (3) guys. All in all we had a great time with family and friends. There is not many ducks in area. Some of my friends on the Minnesota side shot (2) snow geese that came in to their decoys. I didnt believe them till they text me the pics. Yes they were Snow geese.
Super early on those snows. Best part about hunting — no matter how long you’ve been doing it you can get surprised.
Actually we found out they were 2 Ross Geese/ Stranger yet!
Lake Eau Claire, dissapointing hunt,1 wood duck harvested,very few ducks around.
Outagamie County …. somewhere near Shiocton
I was out putting my blind up yesterday and saw a few woodies flying around the area but no mallards to speak of… Water is very low but hopefully I can scrape up a few woodies tomorrow and Sunday morning.
Anybody hunting in this area see any flocks of Mallards?? Any geese??
Have a great opening weekend?
Last Saturday I took a friends son on youth hunt and had a great time. He shot (2) mallards and (1) GW Teal. Should have had a few geese. Not as many ducks as I saw a couple weeks ago. Water is extremely low. Be careful and good luck to everyone.
Took a ride around Pool 4 on the Mississippi today and wow I am happy i invested in a Go Devil surface drive motor for my flat bottom. I have never seen the water this low. But I did see alot of ducks. I will be taken a friends boy tomorrow on the youth hunt. Cant wait for next weekends opener.
AM hunt, warm and sunny, 1 goose, bad shooting on my part, several flocks in the area.
Spent early morning on Fall Creek Pond, 1 lone honker bagged, 1 larger flock seen in the distance. Dissapointing.
Had 2 flocks come over this morning while getting ready for tomorrow morning. So the geese are starting to move a little bit more, watched some go out to fields this morning which they haven’t done lately. Good luck to anybody headed out in the morning.
only one more week tell goose season !!! but one problem I have yet to see a goose has any one seen any in the sky?
Garrett,
Geese have been making limited, short flights in this heat (if they fly at all).
Most are grazing on grass near water and avoiding even avoiding the few wheat fields that have ben harvested.
From what I understand, feeding on grain raises their internal body temperature so I switch up your scouting to first light and grassy feeding areas.
Already getting the itch for this season. Duck season opener with my friend is getting to be more exciting than deer season opener. Let’s get some rain now!
Attached is a pic of last year’s Sunday morning hunt about 30 minutes worth of wood duck action.
Nice pic. Those are some great looking drakes.
We sure can use that rain here along the IL/WI border as well. 3″s would be perfect.
Most of the farmers here are saying bean yields could be way down with the lack of rain this past month.
Hopefully we’ll get that moisture soon.
Spotted my first Loon ever today on a pond in Germantown. It was a beautiful bird but only one of them. I thought they traveled in pairs, especially at this time of year. Saw some canvasbacks yesterday.
Hopefullu this rain fills up the marshes for the spring hatch.
With spring fast approaching we made it out to the march to check our wood duck boxes. We put up 11 houses last spring on some little ponds and the little creek. 4 of the boxes had nest and 1 box had 3 different nest, one on top of another. We had really low water levels last year so we are hoping with the snow cover and some spring rains, the ponds will fill up and we have a little better success rate.
Took the camera out shooting some spring birds a couple weeks ago, it was nice to get out and see some waterfowl. Can’t wait until September!
The Wisconsin season was not all that bad. The ducks never came down in huge numbers but enough to keep a duck hunter busy. Hoping for some spring rains to fill up our pot holes.
Hunted quite a bit in WI this past season since our slough was bone dry in IL. Was nice for the kids to get out and learn how to scout public lands and become young mobile hunters. After a season of packing the decoys into deep, dark, secret spots — they learned how convenient having a private slough is.
Until this season, the kids had never hunted divers — just small slough puddle ducks. Thanks to Wisconsin big water, they got to hear the F-16 sounds of ringers and how easy it is to shoot behind rocketing divers only a foot off the deck.
Good times. Hope to hear everyone else’s season summaries and see the pics (using the new feature).