Posted By:
NELA hunter
Web Member
12-15-2007 07:42
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I don’t think I would matter when u come but i would pick tha days by the weather
Are u gona be hunting on tha lake if so where
Posted By:
Union BA
Guest
12-14-2007 11:00
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NELA,
Good to here that you got into some mallards before the split.
You guys should have some decent hunts as the season opens back up. We’re just about froze to the bottom third of MO.
I’m trying to decide between coming the first week of Jan from 31st-4th or from 10th-15. Does it matter when you go?
Posted By:
NELA hunter
Web Member
saline lake 12-13-2007 08:29
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I hunt on saline lake an we havent done good at all mostly woodys an teal but did kill 12 green heads last day be for tha split i did see some big ducks on the lake last weekend but no telling if they will be there saterday morning
Posted By:
Union BA
Guest
12-11-2007 14:47
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Anyone hunting around Catahoula,Saline Lake, or Jonesville/Ferriday? If so what are the numbers?
Posted By:
Duck enticer
Guest
12-11-2007 13:48
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I am starting to get wound up for second split. Anyone have any news or reports of major influx’s of birds???
Posted By:
cajunsorc
Guest
Pine Island 12-10-2007 07:36
Sunny & Clear, Morning Fog – Over 70 Degrees
Did some work on the blinds on saturday. Really foggy until around 9am. Mouth called 2 lost specks in and they lit. When the fog broke, I noticed we had an infestation of mallards. They were all over the levees in the crawfish ponds and looked big and fat.
Posted By:
Union BA
Guest
Need other Speck Calls 12-09-2007 14:02
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I’m coming from NE Missouri to hunt around Jonesville/Ferriday in Jan and need a good Speck call. Any other suggestions. We have great Canadian Goose hunting around here but not too many specks, any other suggestions for the $25-$30 range would be appreciated.
Posted By:
Duck enticer
Guest
12-07-2007 10:51
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P.S. OLT….
I use that one for specks. It was handed down to me, so I don’t know how much it costs, but I can say it is a very soft blowing call.
I also use a Sure-Shot for specks. It is a 6 dollar call. You get what you pay for with Sure-Shot, so what I do is go to the store and start taking them out of the packages and blowing them until I find one that has the right tone. I know it’s gross! It works though.
Posted By:
Gumbo
Web Member
12-07-2007 09:44
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Cajunsorc,
Thanks for the info and the great advise. For 12 years, I hunted flooded cypress swamp in the basin, so had very little need to blow a speck call. For past couple of years have been in rice fields, so I am hell bent on getting the speck calling down. Had a lease for 1 year up in Pine Island. Had no where near the success you have at your lease. Our Pine Island lease was on the north side of the main road.
about 1/2 mile west of the graveyard.
Gumbo
Posted By:
cajunsorc
Guest
12-07-2007 08:50
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Gumbo
Yes I have used a redbone call–They are easier to blow than the chein callie and because of that you get a bigger range of sound from the call. They are not cheap $75 (a plastic call)is what I paid for mine and the acrylics sell for up to $150. I will tell you that you will need to get it and practice with it during the summer because you have to blow it differently that the Chein Callie and it takes alot of getting used to. I got mine just prior to the season opening and I played with it for a week and put it up until the spring. It just takes an adjustment time period. Now then, Nate (the guy that makes em) is very good with that call. He has been calling specks for over 30 years and nothing takes the place of over 30 years of practice. So don’t get discouraged if you don’t sound like him right away. There are a couple of things people don’t understand about calling specks. You have to be able to pick the call up and make a good “goose” sound from the first note. That will come with practice and is attributed to being able to pick up and hold the call the same every time. Second–You will over call specks 999 times before you will under call em. Some days just a couple of clucks will put em in your face and on the deck. Let the geese tell you what they want to hear. Don’t worry about all of the “fancy” sounds Nate makes on that call. You just need to be able to make 2 sounds with the call to kill em 90% of the time. One is the yodle (2 note Lu-luk) and the other is the cluck. If you are blowing a Chein Callie call you have one of the best. Many a speck has died at the hands of that call.
I have been hunting the Pine Island area north of Welsh since 1992. Before that I guided at some area duck camps (Mallard Lodge & what is now Cameron Praire NWR). I know that in your area the numbers of specks can’t be beat. The Chein Callie call is what I’ve been using for a long time. I have used (and still do on still days to reduce echo) a PS olt fox/coyote call(very easy to blow and very soft and quiet). I just recently picked up a Quack Head speck call that I have been playing with and it sounds surprisingly good and is really easy to blow. It has a good range (not as big a range as the redbone) and has really impressed me to the point that I used it the last week of the first split instead of the chein callie. I’m not an expert by any means, but I do like to talk about callin and killin specks.
[Edited By cajunsorc on 2007-12-07 09:22]
