Posted By:
dakota31400
Guest
Merritt Island 12-17-2004 17:53
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 50-60 Degrees
Birds moved out sometime between Moday evening and Tuesday Morning. Prevaling North winds have blown the the water in the lagoons south leaving very shallow conditions along the shoreline in Northern areas….Mucho work to hunt the shoreline North of Frontenac…..and no birds. Manatee zones have made navigation impossible to run the flats on a plane, and unless you know the river, choppy conditions in deeper water requires experience mariners. I have lost two friends to this river and mosquito lagoon in the last thirty years trying to hunting this area…If you choose to dare the devil, be prepared,,,especially with children. Small craft aluminum hulls will come apart when this river gets angry…..and it does 5 out of seven days a week.
Posted By:
willdeem
Guest
E. Gator Creek impoundment, Merritt Island 12-16-2004 16:43
Cloudy, High Winds – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
Scouted this area Tuesday, figured it would be a bust due to the lack of birds flying and the heavy winds. There were birds in the catfish creek area, and some in the E. Gator creek. Saw Shovelers, teal, mottle ducks, and some wigeons. The Wednesday hunt was heavy winds, and cold. Very few ducks at all flying until I left at 9:45 All the ducks came out of the refuge, dropped down right over the road adjacent to the cover where you can’t shoot. Got overflown by some teal, and some wigeons, but nothing was buying our dekes or whatever. Shot a teal and male shoveler. Cold and windy day-the game guys said nobody did well. P.s. all the birds were in peacock pocket-but nobody was apparently hunting it. I’ll try somewhere on Saturday, anybody got any ideas.
Posted By:
upduck
Guest
Orlando Highway Ponds DUCKS! 12-15-2004 09:06
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 35-40 Degrees
HERE COME THE RINGERS….saw several hundered along the causeways in Orlando that have not been there all year. Snow from Michigan to Tennesse! A sure sign of good tings to come this week!
Find em! Whack em!! and Stack em!!
Posted By:
willdeem
Guest
meritt island 12-12-2004 18:29
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 60-65 Degrees
watched from the dike at catfish as thousands of pintails and widgeons, mottled ducks, teal etc picked up out of the refuge area, circled and then landed in catfish creek. One of my buds said it was the closest thing he’d ever seen since Louisiana. anyway, the game and fish guys said it was a turkey shoot for about 15 minutes. Scouted peacocks pocket area, saw a few mottled ducks, maybe 20-30 and put in in off of bayou lab rd. busted up several pockets of widgeons and teal. came back the next am and killed 4 teal. all of the ducks were on the permit areas, but someone was banging over in mosquito lagoon. cannot believe all of this beautiful habitat, and yet the ducks are so concentrated. have a permit for peacock for wednesday, so see how I’ll do.
Posted By:
takeem
Guest
St . George island area 12-12-2004 16:12
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Im coming down from maryland around christmas any info about waterfowling would be appricated
Posted By:
naustin
Guest
Lake Okeechobee 11-28-2004 16:10
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – Over 70 Degrees
Hunted the Big O Saturday and Sunday. Lots of action Saturday until noon. limited out on Fl. Mallards and dropped a few teal. Lots of teal and ringers in the distance. High hunting pressure kept the duck moving. Sunday was slow skies to clear, most shooting at sunrise dropped 4 teal. The afternoon was slow for most hunters skies cleared and the ducks stayed grounded. Over all fair hunt bagged nine ducks.
Posted By:
willdeem
Guest
merrit island, mosquito lagoon area 11-28-2004 08:42
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
hunted here wednesday and saturday am. wednesday was pretty much a bust. talked to several hunters, they had 2-3 ducks apiece. one group had gotten 7 for 3 hunters. everybody saying the same thing-the ducks here are resident ducks, or the isolated stragglers. Saturday, I did see more ducks-got overflown several times by mottled ducks-should have gotten several, but we stink at shooting and keeping our eyes open, got one instead. did see some teal and pintails flying, but wouldn’t come down. had a flock of geese(?) across from us, but they didn’t stay long. maybe it will get better after next 2 weeks. talked to some buds in coastal carolina, and they say the same thing, they aren’t coming down yet.
Posted By:
willdeem
Guest
st. johns river – N and S of SR 50 11-25-2004 18:27
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – Over 70 Degrees
Talked to some guys that said they did ok in this area on opening, and decided to check it out. The area S. of the bridge is flooded extensively, and I was running for 5-6 miles outside the channel in about 6″ of water, saw one flight of three teal that I bumped when I came around a corner, but they never came back. Saw an isolated duck or two, but nothing to hunt. Wind was 15-20k from the W/NW. worked both sides of the lake, but nada. I talked to 3 other groups of hunters at the ramp, they took 2 ducks between the three boats. Went north of the bridge up to cane lake-very open, lots of little pockets, but about 5-6′ deep. and no hydrilla of nothing for puddle ducks. Potential for woodies exists because there are numerous hammocks in the lake that are flooded.
Posted By:
willdeem
Guest
merritt island-area 2 11-24-2004 16:28
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Hunted Merritt area 2. didn’t see a single duck, until 7:30, when we had a teal swing by, and saw a flight of about a dozen in the distance. Didn’t hear the first shot till 0730, and it was way off. Picked up and moved, but still very very few ducks. Saw a total of 20 teal, and a mottle duck. Most of the hunters we talked to were amazed at the lack of activity-wind was from S & SW at about 10-15.
Posted By:
Kenneth-Schubel
WFC Sponsor
Newnan\’s 11-23-2004 14:11
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 60-65 Degrees
Hunted Newnan’s opening day. Three woodies came into shooting range. I saw only three Woodies and about five Ringer’s. When we got back to the boat ramp the only bag for 9 hunters was five ducks. A couple of woodies and BWT. I am going to Emeralda in the AM will post later.
