Posted By:
Bumper
Guest
Kansas 12-18-2006 08:39
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
I had a good hunt on Saturday. Had five drakes before 8:00 am. Can’t tell you where as it is public. Lots of birds working and I wasn’t in the best of spots but good enough.
Posted By:
Col4600
Guest
Top secret location somewhere in Central Kansas 12-17-2006 21:09
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 40-45 Degrees
Hit the Arkansas River Saturday morning. 4 of us cleaned up. The ducks were on us heavy from 7 to 8am. Had enough come in after that to keep us interested, had our limits by 10 am. The ducks were working perfectly with minimal effort, just a unbelievable day. 19 Mallards, 1 wigeon.
Wasn’t sure what to expect for Sunday, just knew we had to head back to the River and give it another shot. Picked up another gun and hit it. The duck numbers doubled. Mallards, Mallards, and more Mallards. I’ve had good days hunting and I’ve had bad, this one would fall under the TOP 5 EVER hunt. The dogs would be in the water retrieving and more ducks would come in. I would be in the water retrieving and more ducks would come in. I think I could have had flares on the sandbar and ducks would have come in. We had our limit, picked up our decs and were driving back out of the pasture by 9:15 am. I’ve seen the numbers before, just haven’t seen the willingness to commit this late in the season before. If it keeps this up it could be a memorable Christmas break. No time to look for bands for this cowboy. 25 Mallards today, 20 yesterday, great weekend. Since my location is top secret and I don’t want to let you guys know where I’m hunting, all I can tell you is we were hunting between the Mt. Hope bridge and the Bentley bridge on the Big Arkansas River. GPS cordinates forthcoming…….If it’s private land it doesn’t hurt to give your locations boys……
Posted By:
kux99
Guest
Clinton Lake 12-16-2006 19:36
Cloudy, High Winds – 50-60 Degrees
I went out today to Clinton Lake. I saw many ducks flying. I ended up shooting 4 mallard drakes and 1 drake widgeon.
Posted By:
duxbutt
Guest
Nebraska 12-13-2006 10:38
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Hi Folks, I am trying to contact some Kansas Members in here that want to help with a delta waterfowl Chapter. I originally started tryignto get one going on the south Central Platte around Elm Creek and Kearney area and have gotten the commitment from one other Waterfowler. So I guess I am looking to see if there is anyone around the Phillipsburg area that wnats to join in and get a ne/ks Chapter Started. I have talked to Delta and told them that I would try to get it going bymyself and they said no way that I had to have soem help. I am looking to get three more volunteeers. any help down in kansas? Let me know. thanks All, Dan
Posted By:
Bumper
Guest
12-13-2006 08:44
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Yeah, thats what I’m talking about Greg. Love to hunt the river.
Posted By:
Bernie-Jones
Field Editor
N. Sedgwick county 12-12-2006 20:41
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Congrats on the hunt Greg. Our Sat was not that exciting. Did a little field hunting Sat morning. Had to compete with several thousand geese just down the road. Did manage to pull a few honkers in and take a few home. Hunted another field Sat evening. Someone had jumped the roost. Bad deal for us. We did manage to have fun watchin the mallards hover around. The had another destination in mind though. We did manage to pull a nice group of snows in.
Posted By:
Greg-Haygood
Web Member
S. of Quivera 12-11-2006 13:06
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 30-34 Degrees – Ice
Hunted Sat morning on Ninnescah River due to marshes still be frozen (kind of surprised given the warmer temps during the day out there). In any case, proved to be a good decision, we had the best hunt of the year on any river we’ve hit. Mallards in the dekes (only 18 floaters, 1 mojo used) before shooting time and never quit. We picked up after our limits and they were still wanting in. My gun was not functioning at all (I put the thing back together poorly after cleaning the weekend before) so after my buddies limit and banded grnhead, I used his gun to shoot mine. As soon as he handed me his gun for my round at them, we had a group of 40 lock up on us and they were pulling in other groups in the air at the same time. I put the gun down and we just called my guts out for 10-15 minutes. When we were done calling, I bet we had a couple hundred mallards/widgeon/gadwall down in this tiny river just going crazy. It was an amazing experience, and bet the group hunting just down from us thought we were crazy for not shooting these ducks. For us, the sight and experience was much greater than if we’d shot the 1st group dropping in. A memory I will have for some time. Anyway after that it was selective jewelry hunting. I wanted a band as well, but didn’t end up getting one. Had to settle for my 4 greenhead 1 widgeon limit. They were all close in single shot opportunities. Way too much fun!!! I’m pretty used to bellyaching about this time after a hard freeze-up, but things have really worked out well for us. Thanks in part, to the several big clubs around us that manage to keep their marsh water open during the lock-up and keep a large number of birds around the area. My buddies Drake Mallard band was from Alberta, Canada banded 08/17/04. As bad as I wanted to, didn’t hunt Sunday. Will report back after this weeks hunts.
Posted By:
jwilson504
Guest
12-09-2006 17:40
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wtrfwlr44 shoot me a personal message. sorry to hear about your bad luck. stay motivated.
Posted By:
wtrfwlr44
Guest
12-09-2006 17:37
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Thanks for the replys. Became a moot point. Finally got my household goods on the 5th. On the 6th i was moving some hunting stuff the grain barn, and on the 4th trip out fell. No it wasn’t ice. The step gave way. Broke my right wrist, both bones. the radius badly into several pieces, the ulna in two. Had emergency surgery got pins put in. Darn bad luck for my 1st season here. 6 weeks with a plate and screws then? Will post up observations around here.
Posted By:
Col4600
Guest
12-06-2006 21:26
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Wtrfwlr44, once the ponds freeze over around these parts the birds move to the rivers. The Arkansas is generally a great river to hunt if you can get on it. When the Mallards pour into Kansas in force, even if the ponds are open, the Ark. River really heats up. If you can stand the cold, somedays literally thousands of Mallards will be using the River. The area from Wichita to Yoder rd seems to be the best in my opinion. There’s large quantities of corn available close to the river around the Haven and Mt. hope areas. This is the meal of choice for Mallards around these parts. Get close to any of these areas and you will generally do good from now till the last Jan. segment is over. Hope this helps you out a bit.
A cattleman buddy called tonight and said the birds that weren’t at the River last weekend are there now. Spotted 4 or 5 large flocks using the river as he was feeding cows yesterday afternoon. My guess is it’s going to be a very nice weekend of hunting……..
