Category: Georgia

Posted By:
kevin-roach
Guest

Northeast Ga. / Ark. 07-09-2007 10:37
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
How’s everyones summer going. I’m new to the vfe and will be letting eveyone know whats happen’n in northeast ga. I hunt around carnesville, lavonia, hartwell lake.
Also provide guide service (huntprooutfitters.com) in ne ark. and nw missouri. Right know all swamps in the area are dry as a bone, so doing alot of planting for the season. Have seen some sightings on lake hartwell. Lots of geese with some ducklings also. The doctors place has been planted as well. During the hunting season best hunts are around the darn, and behind it in the river. Lots of coves. When the doc. shots the lake and river become loaded. Feel free to drop me a message if you have any ?. Thanks

Posted By:
Bryan-Fobbus
Field Editor

Houston County 06-07-2007 10:37
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – Over 70 Degrees
No new or malingering migrators. Some resident goslings, about 4-6.

Posted By:
Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor

05-29-2007 05:17
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was on the lake all day memorial day and saw tons of birds. geese everywhere with plenty of youngens in tow. even saw several groups of fresh mallard broods. of course the local osprey and eagle population was already doing their best to thin it down.

Posted By:
Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor

05-14-2007 07:08
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Mr. Wing Master

Funny you should mention it but Lake Windward is where i saw the flock. I love the lake and saw a good bit of waterfowl around. The dozer is hurting us as far as birds go. I have been saying for years that the growth in Atlanta has can’t keep up but have been proved wrong thus far.

As a side note to everyone, saw a wood duck drake paired up with a hen mallard the other day. Saw them for 2 days straight and he was running off other mallard suitors so there was little doubt that they were paired. Should lead to some cool hybrids.

Posted By:
Old Wingmaster
Guest

Lake Windward, Alpharetta 05-06-2007 11:49
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Paul, I have lived in Windward since 1985 and have the pleasure of watching migratory waterfowl come and go from time to time on Lake Windward.

It is not uncommon to see blue winged teal or blue bills from time to time and during winter time black ducks aalong with migratory mallards. There is a huge flooded timber area here that was created when Golf Club of Georgia built the golf course and it is an awsome sight to see the incredible number of ducks pitching into it in the evening. looks like Arkansas.

Big Creek which drains Forsyth & N’Fulton passes through Windward and eventually dumps into the Hooch below Roswell. It has beeb a flyway for eons.Before development encroached on the area I was able to shoot a limit of ducks easily in one of several honey holes within 10 minutes of the house, Woodcock also use it & quail covies could be found off McFarland Rd, nearby. Unfortunately the massive numbers of Wood Ducks that used to call Big Creek home have dwindled down from flocks of 40 to 50 in the late 80’s to flocks of 5 to 10. Tis a sad indictment on developments around the area as both commercial and residential development have devasted lots of the wetlands around this Drainage basin. The Bulldozer is and always has been a predator and when they go through the habitat is gone forever and so it is with Big Creek with a few small potholes and semi flooded ares for the birds left.

We fought it here in Windward as long as we could and luckily made some changes but we couldn’t impact the areas outside of Windward.

[Edited By Old Wingmaster on 2007-05-07 14:30]

Posted By:
Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor

05-04-2007 06:25
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saw a flock of blue wing teal on lake windward this week. Odd but very cool.

Posted By:
Bryan-Fobbus
Field Editor

Houston County 05-02-2007 13:33
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
A fellow hunter reported 5 woodduck ducklings wandered into his backyard without parents and none in sight. Headed to rehab….the ducklings, that is.

Posted By:
Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor

04-18-2007 05:00
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the geese chicks are starting to pop up all over the place now.

Posted By:
Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor

04-12-2007 05:02
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saw my first brood of mallard chicks yesterday. the geese should be right behind them

Posted By:
Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor

03-26-2007 07:43
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saw my first goose on the nest friday. my buddy in bama said his have been on for at least a week.

Posted By:
Bryan-Fobbus
Field Editor

Central Georgia 03-22-2007 11:37
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – Over 70 Degrees
No more ducks/mergansers, no more cranes.

Posted By:
Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor

03-22-2007 05:12
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saw a whole bunch of divers, mostly ringers, up near gainesville yesterday. would have been nice to see them during the season but still cool to sit and watch for a bit. of course the geese area everywhere i go. won’t be long before they start having new little excrement factories following them around. HA!.

Posted By:
Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor

02-23-2007 05:21
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saw a bunch of sandhills the other day. They were pretty low and looked understandably confused. I think our weather patterns have even them messed up.

Posted By:
Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor

02-15-2007 05:29
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Our annual youth hunt was a big success again this year. had 10 or 11 kids and they killed 8 or 9 birds, the most ever. I missed it due to a last minute work change but as always the kids had a blast. If you get a chance to take a kid hunting, trust me you won’t regret it. It is very fun.

Posted By:
Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor

02-13-2007 05:27
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I heard a bunch of sandhills in the griffin area yesterday as well.

Posted By:
Bryan-Fobbus
Field Editor

Houston County 02-09-2007 11:22
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 50-60 Degrees
Friend called yesterday to say he saw approx. 50 Sandhills heading north.

Posted By:
Chris-Hardin
Web Member

Floyd County 01-31-2007 07:23
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 35-40 Degrees
Hunted with Mealer this past weekend. We saw lots of birds and ended up with 12. Saw several pintails at daylight. Pretty good way to go out as well. By-the-way, if you have participated in the discussion of no birds in GA on the Georgia page….this is the place I was referring to…tons of birds!

“I want to dominate every team we play.” Nick Saban on coming to Bama

Posted By:
Bryan-Fobbus
Field Editor

Twiggs & Laurens 01-29-2007 10:48
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 35-40 Degrees
Managed one woodie in two days of hunting. Had reports of GW teal taken in Monroe County.

Posted By:
Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor

western bama 01-29-2007 07:13
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hit aliceville friday mornign and we ended up with a mallard and 3 woodies. ducks were raining into the next hole over though. we should have moved but didn’t want to mess up another group of hunters.

saturday hunted the marsh. me and my partner killed 8. 2 mallards, 2 gadwall, 1 GWT, 1 woody and 2 ringers. Between the 7 guys all together i think we shot 30 birds maybe. could have stayed and shot more but we wanted to save it for the up coming youth hunt. not a bad way to end the season though.

Posted By:
Old Wingmaster
Guest

Arkansas Hunt Cancelled 01-25-2007 14:58
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Well, I’ll be dog goned!
Our guide in Jonesboro advised us not to come to Arkansas as duck hunting is so poor. Flooding is primaary reason, ducks are spread out everywhere.

Looks like we will be spending the end of the season locally in Georgia. In the meantime we are booked in during February at the Skeeter Branch Duck Preserve. My dog is getting some birds, I don’t care what it takes!

Posted By:
dmealer
Guest

NW GA and BAMA 01-24-2007 18:03
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Sat. am
Got to our spot an hour after daylight. That messed up most of our hunt. BUt still seen lots of birds. Ended up with a mallard, 4 teal and a black duck.
Sun am.
HUnted guntersville for the last time for a while. Again it didnt produce.
Tues. am
Hunted lake weiss had a better hunt but still not anything to brag about saw a couple of groups of pintails that surprised me.

“THATS HOW WE ROLL”!

Posted By:
Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor

toona 01-22-2007 05:05
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Hi te lake saturday morning with musket. same story different day. had two mallards work the blocks and we blew it. other than that zip. nada. you can tell it is slim pickens when you see a group of guys set up no more that 200 yards from the boat ramp trying to bust the tame ducks. WEll this is the last week. I’m headed back to bama friday tofinish out. good luck to all.

Posted By:
Chris-Hardin
Web Member

Floyd County 01-16-2007 13:08
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
SAturday morning: had two ducks fly in on which we killed (merganser and ringer) and managed to put the Rambo staulk on a goose and tore it up. This place usually has geese and ducks flying in every direction. These ducks/goose that we shot were the only ones we saw..this is terrible
MLK- hunted what we thought was one of our better places (just by eying it) and we never saw a duck or goose…about to hang it up you guys…

Posted By:
Old Wingmaster
Guest

Lake Lanier 01-15-2007 14:40
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 60-65 Degrees
Hunted and scouted with friend and son last two days at their honey hole. Yesterday Ducks worked, fair numbers. Called in flock of 15 geese and nearby hunters sky busted as they were setting up on us, we Killed one. Saw lots of Geese in area decided to hunt it again on MLK day.
MLK day were set up in right spot this time, but other than early morning woodies flying just out of range, the ducks dissapeared. We did kill three huge Canada Geese early and Tried to backshoot Geese returning from morning feeding at 11:00AM but wind shifted and they came right over top of us too high and think they saw us. Tried Tolling them with dog and got them into range to take one.

Will let area rest for rest of week. Is beautiful spot.

Posted By:
Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor

toona 01-15-2007 05:18
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Went saturday morning. Nothing…Nada….Bumpkiss. I did see one guy that had 2 geese and 3 mallards. not a bad morning. Course i came to find out he was just crusing the lake and spot/stalking these birds. Hey it works. Not as much fun for me but if you’re meat hunting…..

WE need weather and we need it fast.

Posted By:
lbfoster
Guest

west Ala. and Cobb Co. 01-10-2007 08:51
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I don’t post very often but since it is so slow. My Cobb co. goose killing spot is shut down. The owner I hunted with is gone to Jekyl island for Jan. to hunt the coast. I spend most of the season hunting in west Ala. with friends out of Tuscaloosa. Last weekend we shot in the rain came away with 1 teal 3 woodies. The next day the first 0 for the year. New Years weekend we ended up with 18 among 4 guns spread over 3 days. 3 mallards the rest were woodies. For Alabama 18 is a good weekend but it doesn’t hold a dim bulb to all the banging were heard up the river. We also yanked the trip to Arkansas last weekend first time in about 10-12 years I haven’t been to Ark.

Posted By:
dmealer
Guest

NW ga and BAMA 01-08-2007 17:20
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Sat. am huntd a woodie hole with two other guys ended up picking up five out of the six we knocked down.
Sun. am Hit lake Guntersville weather was awful. Rained all morning and was warm. Ended up killing one bull can and a few coots just to give my dog some work.

Posted By:
Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor

western bama 01-08-2007 09:33
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hit the private marsh friday morning. eight hunters killed 38 birds. Had about 6 species also with teal, gadwall, mallard, spoony, ringers and mergs. man was it fun. i must have shot almost 2 boxes of shells. big change from hunting over here. course it still was 65 degrees.

hunted saturday morning and we scratched out 4 woodies between 5 of us. should have done better but still very fun.

Posted By:
Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor

toona 01-02-2007 05:18
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hit the lake new years eve. weather was good. nice stiff breeze and some light rain but no ducks. found them when i came out though as there were at least 60 mallards at the ramp.

Posted By:
Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor

toona 12-28-2006 19:22
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nice morning. not for hunting though. saw very few birds. did scratch out one ringers though.hope the new year brings us someweather and birds or this season may end up being a bust.

Posted By:
Bryan-Fobbus
Field Editor

Dooly County 12-28-2006 13:20
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 40-45 Degrees
A few mallards and 1 or 2 divers. Poor.

Posted By:
Bryan-Fobbus
Field Editor

Greene County 12-28-2006 13:19
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 50-60 Degrees
12-23-06
Saw about 50 big ducks, mallards I presume and few divers. Some geese as well. Ducks were skiddish but did decoy.

Posted By:
Tony-ONeal
Web Member

Flint River 12-25-2006 18:16
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
Hunted on the Flint Sat. morning and only saw 9 woodies, did manage to pull a pair down though. I heard two groups of geese but never saw them. I hope that this weather will cool off and the hunting get better. I am trying Tuesday morning again. Good luck everyone.

Posted By:
Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor

toona 12-24-2006 14:23
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ok guys duck hunting 101 here, for the first group of guys that came up the lake when you show up and someone is already in the hole and they hit you with the Q-beam it means “hey i’m here, you need to move off”. it does not mean come closer and set up. would have liked to have flushed that duck that was on the water (between us) early but it is Xmas and i didn’t think you would like to feel of the 3.5’s. Safety and fair play come first guys.

Lesson 2 to the group that did seem to see either my Q-beam or my hunting partners for the morning. when ducks are working someone’s blocks as they were ours and i say ours because we surely had that section of the lake covered. Don’t go blowing your calls non-stop. it screws everyone.

Now to the report. Not may ducks on the lake. Missed on a pair of mallards that i probably shouldn’t have pulled the trigger on but i needed to vent some frustration. My parnters appeared to miss early but i could be wrong. Also heard a couple of shots from down the lake a bit. saw 15-20 sand hills that were roosted. no geese. no divers that i saw. rather disappointing. Oh well thats georgia.

Posted By:
Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor

toona 12-18-2006 05:06
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what’s the worst thing about this weather???? a little thing called the un-educated bass fisherman or b#@s hole as i like to call them. hit the lake sunday. not much shooting from what i heard. course there was no way i was going to have any thanks to mister fisherman and his buddy that decided to park 75 yards off my blocks and fish all morning (oh yes they saw me). at least they caught one…yes one fish in two hours time or else i would have been mifted that they couldn’t pass up such an obvious honey hole.

Didn’t see many birds. heard some shots arond 9:15 as i was leaving but those were it. we need cold and we need lots of it.

Public service annoucement for those of you that hunt the lake. the cherokee mills ramp is basically done for the year. the corp will probably close it soon anyway but it was a bear getting in and out it was so shallow.

[Edited By Paul-Slovisky on 2006-12-18 05:07]

Posted By:
Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor

12-15-2006 05:41
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did see some buffies on a local pond during work yesterday. so we have had some sort of migration. still not seeing a lot of ducks around though. not many geese in the usual spots either. hopefully santa brings us some snow and ice because it looks like i am gonna have to break out the teal season gear for my hunt this sunday.

Posted By:
Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor

12-14-2006 05:48
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67 degrees at the house last evening. saw a few mallards and geee fling on the way home from work. This weather is killing us. Same story different year. Headed to the lake sunday to try the luck.

Posted By:
dmealer
Guest

NW Georgia 12-13-2006 18:01
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12-13
Went to a swmp/pond that is on the hunting club i am apart of for the first time this year. Got there water was really low but stayed anyways. Ended up shooting one hoodie missing another. I hope the season picks up it is pitiful for me and my group right now.

Posted By:
Old Wingmaster
Guest

NW Georgia 12-11-2006 20:01
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 10-20 Degrees – Open Water
Sent some Young fellers to one of my honey holes on Saturday, was very cold, 16 degrees. Area is Lake with deep water with lots of fluctuation. They Had excellent hunt, saw lots of waterfowl. Brought back 6 mallards, two green wing teal, two Canada Geese. Area required boat.

Posted By:
memberservices
root

12-11-2006 10:33
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We would like to remind all of you that this area is for field reports only, not for any other discussion. If you do not have a field report please post in the state forum.

Memberservices

Posted By:
Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor

cherokee 12-11-2006 05:26
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got a yard pass sunday morning to hit the lake for a short trip. killed one merg. could have killed a second but let him swim in the decoys a bit then head on his way. Surprised at the lack of birds down with this latest cold front. Only saw one group of buffies and one group of gaddies. the rest (mallards)and mergs had to be locals. did get to watch about 1000 sandhill cranes that were roosted on the lake about 300-400 yards from my set up. those things are really big.

Posted By:
dmealer
Guest

Guntersville, Alabama 12-10-2006 18:08
Cloudy, High Winds – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
Worst trip I have took to the lake to date. Sat killed two ringers with a few more opportunities but of course we blew them.
Sun- sunday was a bust had a ringer and a gaddie buzz the outside of our spread but again couldnt bring them down prolly a little to far to shoot anyway.
For anyone heading to the lake soon a little advice DONT i would seriously wait until Jan. when some new birds get down and the birds their now just love the mojos not you could see the birds flare a mile away on them.

Posted By:
Bryan-Fobbus
Field Editor

Houston County/WR 12-07-2006 11:47
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
Spotted 2 new geese with the 71 resident Canadas. One appears to be a GWF goose and the other is in a blue phase of some sorts. Skiddish and didn’t stick around long. Over 20 hoodies now present with the usual mallards.

Posted By:
Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor

toona 12-07-2006 05:11
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saw a fiar amount of birds on the toona as i drove over the bridge. course most were probably local but i did see some coots which have not been there so far. The lake is back to its shallow shallow self since all the rain and high water of opening morning.

hopefully i can make it out this weekend. not looking good at the moment due to family obligations.

Posted By:
dmealer
Guest

Bartow 12-04-2006 17:35
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cold front brought new birds in my area. a local pond this morning was holding around 50 coots and about 100 ringers and other mixed in the bunch also have been seeing more geese.

Posted By:
Bryan-Fobbus
Field Editor

Houston County 12-04-2006 10:16
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 40-45 Degrees
Now 12 Hoodies, 9 mallards, 71 geese and 2 coots.

Posted By:
dmealer
Guest

nw Georgia and BAMA 11-30-2006 10:00
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Sorry ive been gone for a wile but here is how the opening weeks have been for me…

the opener 11/17 am
hunted with FE Chris and a couple more buddies left the field with 6 geese and a couple of hoodies

11/18
Went to the ol woody hole and came out with 4.5 limits never could find that other bird

11/24 Bama’s opener
Got to lake guntersville at 11pm thanksgiving day our boat ramp was packed as well as every other we passed on the way their. Had a pretty eventful morning left with 10 birds 2 cans 1 mallard and 7 gaddies!!

Not a bad opener but could of been better and hopefully it will this weekend.
my first can he is already at the taxidermist

Posted By:
Bryan-Fobbus
Field Editor

Houston County 11-29-2006 10:42
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – Over 70 Degrees
Do Hoodies count as migating waterfowl? I now have six in a nearby pond.

Posted By:
patrick flaherty
Guest

Cordele 11-27-2006 17:48
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Visited a friend’s farm Saturday morning, hunted a swamp on the property and ended up with two woodies. My brother and friend struck out. Finished the afternoon off with 6 dove. First time to hunt with my brother in two years, so it was a blast.

Posted By:
blindbandit
Guest

Gordon County 11-27-2006 13:39
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
We had a slow start on open water on Thanksgiving day, but singles and doubles worked with little or no
calling. We killed mallards, a hooded meraganser, and widgeon, plus several Canada’s that seemed to be intent on suicide and came back three times until we killed all in the flock.

In all, a great day on the water.

[Edited By blindbandit on 2006-11-27 13:40]

Posted By:
Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor

west alabama 11-27-2006 05:21
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Friday morning was kind of a bust. only ended up with one woodie. Saturday morning we busted a drake greenhead, 3 woodies and a merg. not a bad opener for alabama considering it was 75, bluebird days and full of mosquitos.

Posted By:
Chris-Hardin
Web Member

Alabama – Logan Martin 11-26-2006 19:49
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
Friday morning we ended up with 2 hen mallards from Logan Martin- plenty of birds flying and freakin’ boats ripping up and down the river- there was a huge fish tournament which kinda screwed us.
Friday evening we hunted a local swamp and busted 2 mergansers and a woodie…
Some of my buddies went to G’ville for the opener and busted 9 including 2 Canvasbacks!
Sunday- slept in…

[Edited By Chris-Hardin on 2006-11-26 19:49]

Posted By:
lbfoster
Guest

Cobb Co. 11-25-2006 14:26
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 35-40 Degrees
Opening day 18th. My son and I along with 3 others managed to knock down 7 geese lost 1. We teamed up on a mallard drake to start the day. As always it is impossible to have a perfect hunt and we should have dropped more geese and a few more ducks. My friend invited us back tommorrow for another round of resident geese. That one that we wounded last week is swimming around on the pond so we will dispatch him asap. I hate having game running around wounded because we did not do our job.
Let you know how it goes.

Posted By:
TurkeyH90
Guest

Ocmulgee and Flint rivers 11-21-2006 15:30
Cloudy, Heavy Fog – 35-40 Degrees
Saturday morn we only saw about 15 ducks. I was lucky to knock down two woodies. Fog was terrible. Sunday morn fog was thick again I actually missed my spot and had to run back to it as daylight quickly approached however it was all for nothing as I only saw about 7 woodies and they were all out of range.

Posted By:
Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor

toona 11-20-2006 15:59
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saturday morning was a bust. some yahoos set up about 150-200 yards away from us and were busting ducks a bit high i thought. plus one guys walked around a lot chasing a cripp;le i think. we got a chance at one group of woodies and blew it. saw plenty of birds and geese though. Saturday evening saw nothing. Sunday mornign busted a nice geenhead but ruined it by missing on the next pari in. watched a group of 4 and 2 geese for about 45 minutes swimming around about 150 yards off. still was fun.

off to bama for the friday opener. will let you know how it goes.

Chris, sorry i didn’t call you back. i had my phone off all weekend and didn’t know it. good to hear you did well. i told you that dog was coming around.

Posted By:
Bryan-Fobbus
Field Editor

Twiggs County 11-20-2006 14:34
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 35-40 Degrees
Four Blue-winged Teal hanging around the farm pond and about 50 geese.

Posted By:
Chris-Hardin
Web Member

Bartow County 11-19-2006 19:14
Sunny & Clear, Morning Fog – 35-40 Degrees
Saturday morning proved to be very exciting! We saw probably 100+ woodies early. Saw geese flying in every direction mostly away from us. We pulled two small groups of geese in and put the smack down on em’ pretty quickly. Several minutes later we got two Mergansers to come in and we way layed them too. Total of 6 geese and 2 ducks for Saturday. Crash made a superb retrieve across the pond and about 50 yards through some thick briars. I never saw the duck. She made her pops proud.
Sunday morning was the woodie hole- ended up with 8 total.
I posted a picture from Saturday in the Dog gallery- check it out.

Posted By:
patrick flaherty
Guest

Savannah River, Port Wentworth 11-19-2006 08:29
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Saturday three of us went out and only had one group of woodies come within range for a shot. Only dropped one. Not our best performance. Today, we were greeted with fog and could only hear the whistling of wings. Heard guys limited out quickly on woodies over at Fort Stewart.

Posted By:
woody1969
Guest

heard -carroll county 11-17-2006 18:19
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pumped our hole up 1month ago but with all the rain we will have to share the few ducks in area. good luck to all.

Posted By:
TurkeyH90
Guest

Middle Ga 11-17-2006 17:48
Cloudy, Winds Calm – –
If the ride I took up and down the Ocmulgee is any indication of tommorows hunt I will be dissapointed as I saw not one single duck. The river was at the rim of its banks and fast as usual. Saw quite a few large logs floating down which could make tommorows boat ride interesting. I hope everyone else has a better place lined up than me tommorow.

Posted By:
Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor

11-16-2006 05:08
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Well thanks to the flooding weather it looks like we will have a beautiful blue bird day on saturday morning. hope we can hit them early. otherwise it may be bupkiss.

Posted By:
Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor

toona 11-11-2006 12:25
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did a bit of scouting saturday morning. decent ducky weather other than being a bit warm. saw a good amount of mallards. probably locals mostly. did seen some woodies and some geese as well. one more week.

got a chance to meet scott(sorry if i got the name wrong i’m bad like that)a new WFC member at the lake. must be pretty hard core because he is honestly the first other hunter i have seen pre-season scouting at the toona. drop me a PM if you ever want to hunt together. good luck next weekend. hopefully i’ll see you afterwards and we will both have a nice bag.

Posted By:
Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor

11-09-2006 05:17
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These warming trends are starting to tick me off. Too close to the opener for that stuff. Heading to the lake to scout this weekend. then buff up the deeks for next weekend. Hopefully it is nice cold, foggy, rainy…..nasty. just the way we like it.

Posted By:
Chris-Hardin
Web Member

Floyd County 11-05-2006 19:13
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
Went scouting today and saw about 5 geese on one of my ponds, saw several groups flying in the same direction (probably about 60), saw 10-12 mallards heading somewhere about 20 minutes before dark. Can’t wait until the opener…

Posted By:
Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor

10-31-2006 05:00
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saw about 8-10 bigger ducks, probably mallards, in a small mash on the way home from work. seen a couple woodies here during the early season but this has been the first sign that winter is coming.

Can’t wait. come on Nov 18. 2.5 more weeks!

Posted By:
Bryan-Fobbus
Field Editor

10-27-2006 09:30
Cloudy, Occassional Rain Showers – 50-60 Degrees
Plenty of Mallards and remaining BWT in Twiggs County pond.

[Edited By Bryan-Fobbus on 2006-10-27 13:24]

Posted By:
Chris-Hardin
Web Member

Floyd Bartow Counties 10-16-2006 13:28
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 60-65 Degrees
Been seeing tons of geese around here. They are a month late; huh? I am planning on doing some riding this weekend to check out a few of my places to see if they are there. Been seeing lots flying in every direction.

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Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor

cherokee 10-13-2006 05:26
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man the geese seem to be flying everywhere lately and in big numbers. had about 75 come over the office just yesterday.

Posted By:
Bryan-Fobbus
Field Editor

Twiggs County 09-25-2006 14:42
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Approximately 15-20 BWT and 4 Mallards in a farm pond just off the Hwy. Geese too.

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Chris-Hardin
Web Member

Adairsville 09-25-2006 10:49
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Hunted Saturday morning for some geese. Hunted with Mealer and a few others. We managed to kill 1 teal, but no geese. YEs, I’m guilty of the deer hunting and football right now.
I’ll get out more in November during duck season.

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Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor

09-25-2006 05:55
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well the early season has come and gone and i got out a total of one time. Saw plenty of birds around just not when we were hunting. Hopefully the bird numbers stay up for the season.

Not hearing much from some of you guys. I guess early season got over looked due to the football and deer seasons. Marc you not hunting this early season. Usually you are good for making the rest of us look like beginners with some of your bags. How was ocilla?

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Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor

09-22-2006 04:58
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was working on a series of lakes in south fulton yesterday. The gees were literally pouring into the biggest lake. Must have seen about 150 by 11:30.

Another pond i was on up in forsyth county waas covered in mallards. 30+ easy with around 50 geese. the people hated them too. too bad it was in the city limits.

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sixmilestill
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09-18-2006 07:39
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No teal this weekend. Had some geese fly over in range while I was picking up (typical). The swamp I was hunting was were a lot of the resident geese had been roosting. I probably jumped up about 300 when I walked in and I am sure they all flew to the closest golf course because I only saw that one group while picking up after that. Could’ve shot a lot of woodies though including one that I might have been able to take down with a baseball bat. Can’t wait til Nov. Saw one group of big ducks that took a few circles around the swamp. THought I saw another group but it just turned out to be mosquitos in my peripheral vision.

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Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor

09-16-2006 06:19
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was working onnsome ponds up near flowery branch. had a bunch of geese on them but i also bumped some teal off one of the lakes. not a big group but at least some are hear.

six mile, we were hunting the toona.

Posted By:
sixmilestill
Guest

09-15-2006 12:47
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Paul,

Which lake were you hunting? Sounds like it wasn’t too bad of a hunt if you at least had some birds moving around you.

I’ve got a spot in central georgia that we spotted some teal on last weekend. They’re probably long gone but hopefully some more have taken their place for this weekend. I’ll keep you posted.

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Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor

cherokee 09-11-2006 06:06
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Well the table was set. Lots of birds had been seen in the area over labor day so VFE Chris and i hit the lake for a try. What a mistake that was. Now i am going to have to beat him off the lake with a stick. We were covered up in mallards all morning. Even had a group of teal do a fly by. Course the geese failed to make it to the party. Did have one nice pair come in. They avoided the decoys and landed on the water with the mallards. They proceeded to walk into the spread. These are the most blessed birds i have ever seen. We jumped them at 35-40 yards and let them have it. Feathers flew one even messed his shorts we hit them so hard and we watched them fly away. Course as we decide to call it a morning the words had barely left my lips as another pair (possibly the same ones) did a fly by just to taunt us.

Was a fun time. Chris i enjoyed it and we will have to do it again some time. Crash is really coming along. I was impressed.

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09-09-2006 18:21
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Where can I hunt to find the geese, have any of you had any luck.I want to take my daughter but due to work I can’t get away to do the scouting needed.I went by lula park yesterday , there is not much water near the boat ramp , maybe 100 yds away . We had some luck last year on teal there.
Well let my know if any of you guys can help me.
Thanks.

Posted By:
Paul-Slovisky
Field Editor

09-07-2006 07:30
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seen several big groups of geese on local pnds surrounding the lake. hopefully they work towards the big water.

Posted By:
Chris-Hardin
Web Member

Adairsville 09-07-2006 06:49
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Several teal spotted at my buddy’s house. Hope they stick around!

Posted By:
Bryan-Fobbus
Field Editor

Twiggs County 09-05-2006 15:50
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – Over 70 Degrees
Estimated 8-10 BWT in Twiggs County Farm pond.