Posted By:
qacol
Guest
Desplains River- State Area 11-05-2011 23:35
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 40-45 Degrees
Seen some new ducks today, it looks like the Gad’s and BH have moved into the area. The spoonies are thick but will not decoy.Only 1 mallard today.
Posted By:
Terry Wiseman
Guest
The Shoe 11-05-2011 18:58
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WAs down at the farm today,could here honkers and specks out on the lake. Drove down to look at the hole in the levee and saw a few mallards have showed up.
Posted By:
waterdog trainer
Web Member
Havana 11-05-2011 08:25
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
Finally got a decent day on Thursday. Two of us shot 8 mallards, 3 woodies and 1 ringneck. Quit a few mallards moving. Divers were thick. Grand Island is finally getting water into their feed after getting their pump repaired. That should help the area out.
Posted By:
Scott-Martin
Field Editor
none 11-05-2011 00:28
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 45-50 Degrees
Indian summer doldrums … unless your area is holding ducks – a couple of good spots in IL like Augusta National, and Emiquon — otherwise, we need some weathu! Corn looking better… dented all over and ready for hungry birds – flooding it all next week and watching to the north. if you build it, they will come…
Posted By:
Terry Wiseman
Guest
The shoe 11-02-2011 18:43
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Been workin on the farm over the weekend and today. Very few ducks seen. Seen more geese than ducks. Saw 1 flock of specks come in this morning.
Posted By:
huntorski
Guest
Pool 12 Miss 11-01-2011 17:20
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Hunted Saturday
SHOULD have had a pretty good day. Cans and Gaddies were working me, but I thought the wind was going to be different and set up wrong in the calm of dark.
SHOULD have tried on a flock of cans and a pair of gaddies – too greedy for the perfect shot
Ended up with a greenhead and dropped another greenhead that the dog chased a quarter mile before he realized that the duck was swimming faster than he was and gave up.
Saw some queer ducks. A drake wigeon and drake pintail came in and lit 50 out.
Not the start of the season I was hoping for, but there are still a ton of ducks north of me and hopefully the dry conditions in iowa will keep more on the river
Posted By:
webmaster
root
11-01-2011 14:53
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3 State Parks Set Goose Hunts
Statement issued Monday by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources:
The DNR will conduct controlled Canada goose reduction hunts at Ouabache, Shakamak, and Whitewater Memorial state parks in November.
Similar reductions have occurred since 2007 and are part of a management plan that includes non-lethal methods also.
Goose reductions will take place Nov. 28-29. These dates coincide with goose hunting season and annual deer reduction efforts at Ouabache, Shakamak, Whitewater Memorial and several other state parks. The parks will close to the general public the evening of Nov. 27 and will re-open the morning of Nov. 30.
Large amounts of goose waste at park beaches, picnic areas and in bank-fishing locations have raised health concerns, adversely affected visitor enjoyment, increased erosion, and resulted in increased operating costs.
Reduction hunts are only one aspect of DNR’s approach to managing Canada geese, according to Mike Mycroft, chief of natural resources for DNR State Parks & Reservoirs.
“The high recreational demand on the parks during periods of more optimum goose hunting has caused us to combine the reduction effort with other techniques, including ongoing harassment and nest management,” Mycroft said. “Combining these techniques is beginning to show favorable results and fewer parks needing reductions this year.”
Participation will be allowed on a daily first-come, first-served basis until available spots are taken. Spots will become available again throughout each day as hunters leave. Potential participants can arrive starting 90 minutes before sunrise local time. Shooting hours will be one-half hour before sunrise to 4 p.m. local time. Though hunting parties of two to four are desired, individuals are allowed. Questions should be directed to the park of interest.
Participants must be Indiana residents and 18 years old by Nov. 28, 2011. Hunters must present a valid hunting license, state waterfowl stamp, HIP number, and federal duck stamp on site on the day of the reduction. Apprentice licenses are not applicable. Dogs, boats and temporary blinds are allowed. Though Canada geese are the only harvest permitted, all state and federal laws pertaining to waterfowl hunting apply.
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Park Geese always seem to have an abundance of bands present 🙂
Posted By:
diverhunter50
Guest
nw 10-31-2011 16:20
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Hit the main part of the river Fridy afternoon and Saturday morning. Friday not too bad on the people. Hunted up ner the local refuge, really saw few birds even moving around in the refuge. Few we did see worked very well, feet down in the dekes, ended up with 6 for two of us. Saturday different story, stayed away from the refuge to try and get away from the people, no such luck, people all over on top each other. 3 of us killed 6, hunting could be so much better if all the other hunters weren’t idiots. Set a good decoy spread, call half-ass and shoot em in your face and everybody will kill more ducks, ducks will actually come into people if they don’t shoot at 70 yards every time!!! Haven’t been up that far north since the permanent blind days, prolly won’t go again until all the little boats can’t get out in the ice. Went back to the same old grind on Sunday with a nice wind (even though it was south) and killed a bunch. Long range forecast caling for wind next weekend as well (if you can believe a weatherman). So it will probably be a long week of work before we get out again.
Posted By:
webmaster
root
NW Illinois 10-31-2011 10:21
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Saw our first groups of mallards this weekend. Watched the the abundance of geese fly over on their way to the fields from their roost pond with little interest in heading to water.
After yet another slow day in the blind, decided to head to WI for a day of upland birding. Huge KUDOS to the WI DNR for the excellent public land details on their website (maps, descriptions, directions etc…) Scratched out a few ditch chickens in the rain. Kids, dogs and myself came home tired, muddy and happy.
Posted By:
Michael-PhillipsIL
Field Editor
SW Pike County 10-31-2011 08:49
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Saw lots of pintails, wigeon, woodies, and a few teal. Few would work, though. Also killed some of our first mallards yesterday morning. It seems like there are quite a few smaller ducks around like Scott says but not many are willing to work. I heard from a friend of mine in South Dakota that the mallards were just hitting Northern SD last week. Not much weather to speak of even up north for the next 10 days except a little cool down this weekend.
