Posted By:
JS Wilson
Guest
North Eastern AL 12-29-2011 21:43
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 60-65 Degrees
During the next 7 to 10 days it looks to be warm and sunny. We really need more precipitation to fill up our swamps and sloughs when the push does come!!!
Outboard repairs plus balmy days tells me to take a few days and wait for the weather and the ducks. Catch you up after the Christmas Holidays!!!
Merry Christmas,
JSW
Dec 21 2011
Posted By:
JS Wilson
Guest
North Eastern AL 12-29-2011 21:39
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 45-50 Degrees
Two of us hunted a swamp off a large lake that usually holds a mixture of ducks and geese through mid to late season.
We set up on the lakeside of the swamp with very few opportunites to shoot this morning. I took one greenhead that worked early and that was it. We saw a few moew mallards and 20-30 woodies but birds seemed very shy and wary.
We will reat the hole and it again when more birds push down later in the season.
Hoping for cold,
JSW
Nov 15 2011
Posted By:
JS Wilson
Guest
North Eastern AL 12-29-2011 21:34
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 35-40 Degrees
Two of us hunted a beaver pond that had been holding ducks and geese a few days before.
The pond is tight so we knew this would be in your face shooting!! We took a two man limit by 900 am of gw teal, mallards, woodies and a single honker.
A great morning with birds responding very well to calls and in your face action!!! The dog defintely got a good work out this morning.
Most all the birds are big and fat northern birds…heavy down and thick fat layers!!!
Gray skies and whistling wings,
JSW
Dec 13 2011
Posted By:
JS Wilson
Guest
North Eastern AL 12-29-2011 21:29
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 25-30 Degrees – Ice
Two of us hunted a small slough off the river during the morning hours. Killed a mixed bag of 10 birds by 9 am. Birds included 6 gw teal, 1 greenhead and 3 woodies.
Most of the slough was froze over my thin ice…we broke up an area threw out a dozen dekes and set up the mojo’s. The teal and mallards wanted in the hole bad with the woodies all passing shots over dekes.
Good day,
JSW
Dec 11 2011
Posted By:
JS Wilson
Guest
North Eastern AL 12-29-2011 21:20
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
Two of us hunted a small beaver pond during the morning and killed 10 birds by 830 am. The pond is choked with vegetation and surrounded by water oaks…definitely holding some birds when we scouted a few days earlier.
The first flight screamed in just past 6 am and we took several gw teal out of the flock. Later on more gw teal came buzzing in and we took a few more. The birds were literally sitting down on top of us. The woodies were the late comers and we killed 4 woodies before we pulled out.
Seriously thinking about shouldering the o/u 20 gauge in such tight quarters next go around!!
Gray skies and whistling wings,
JSW
Dec 04 2011
Posted By:
JS Wilson
Guest
North Eastern AL 12-29-2011 21:07
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 35-40 Degrees
Did an afternoon hunt in a small swamp off the river. The area usally roosts large numbers of woodies and few puddlers.
Bagged a limit of woodies within 30 minutes of the hunt and pulled out quickly. Over the next 2 hours I watched hundreds of woodies, a few dozen mallards and a few teal come into roost.
A beautiful site to watch especially this early in the season!! Season closes and opens up again in a week…can’t wait!!!
Gray skies and whistling wings,
JSW
Nov 26 2011
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Posted By:
JS Wilson
Guest
North Eastern AL 12-29-2011 21:00
Sunny & Clear, Morning Fog – 40-45 Degrees
Hunted large slough off the river with low water. Moderate fog low on the water during first hour of daylight. Large concentration of puddlers in the area for this time of year. Majority of birds consist of gadwall and some mallards.
I hunted out of an FA Brand marsh gunner and took a limit of birds by 7:45 am. Birds responded well to calls and came right in the dekes. Bag limit consisted of 4 mallards and 2 gadwalls.
Excellent opening morning and the fog helped immensely to break up the layout boat profile!!
Gray skies and whistling wings,
JSW
Nov 25 2011
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Posted By:
coldkiller
Web Member
Sledge,Ms 09-02-2009 16:41
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President
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Posted By:
Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor
youth hunt event 06-30-2009 15:17
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Gentlemen:
Thought i would pass on the link for the info to what we hope will be a huge youth hunting event the end of July. My buddy is the Alabama State DU Greenwing Chair and is putting it on with the NWhat and US Corps of Engineers. It started as a duck event and before we knew it the thing grew into an outdoor event. The sponsorship is definately there. Already have commintments from the likes of QDMA, DU, NWhat, Academy, Bass Pro, several Banks. The list goes on and on. The plan is for every kids to walk away with something hunting related free. All we need are the kids. Heck we are even feeding people for the weekend and having a fishing rodeo. Can’t beat that.
Check it out and hopefully you all can bring a kid.
http://www.ducks.org/states/31/events/event18553.html
Posted By:
JS Wilson
Guest
Northeast and North central Alabama 01-13-2009 21:35
Cloudy, High Winds – 35-40 Degrees
A little catching up is needed giving the date of my last posting…I took a break from hunting over the Christmas holidays for a few reasons…worn out, warm weather and RAIN!!
But I was back at it after the holidays and have been hunting hard the last week. We had a major push of birds over the last week and half with large numbers of mallards, widgeon, gadwall, pintail and a scattering of divers showing up on local waters.
With the heavy rains over the last two weeks the rivers are at flood stage and the rain could not have come at a better time. The mud flats are covered and the waters are flooded back into the timber line. And with the bumper crop of acorns this year the ducks are having a feast!!
Over the last few days we have taken limits of ducks on each outing. This past Sunday three of us killed a three man limit with a total of six species in the bag!
We also hunted a dry corn field on Monday for honkers killing four geese and pass shooting a pair of bonus woodies!!
Now I’m bracing for the Arctic blast coming our way and waiting for more migrators to show up and put a great finish to the season!!
Gray skies and whistlin’ wings,
JSW
