Posted By:
Canman OMaddie
Web Member
Carver County 10-16-2011 20:57
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Small movement of birds the past few days. Cans, bills, ringers, and redheads
Posted By:
HonkerHotline
Web Member
Didn’t Hunt 10-16-2011 12:10
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Decided to sleep in this morning.
Very Windy here in the St. Cloud Area, but still quite warm.
I will hopefully get out once during the week and will post up.
How is everyone else doing?
Posted By:
HonkerHotline
Web Member
Central Minnesota 10-15-2011 16:44
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 50-60 Degrees
Well……..
The morning started so promising until I filled my waders up with water while setting decoys 🙁
Hit a small river area where woodies had been working earlier in the week. While setting decoys, I stepped into a deep hole and was soaked from my shoulders down. I am not sure why there was a hole there since the water was less than waist deep everywhere else, but it appeared I stepped off a deep sandbar.
I was amazed at the number of hunters afield this morning. Counted 8 rigs on one WPA???
The morning was Extremely Slow. Only heard roughly 5 barrages and we ended the morning at 8:30am with 2 woodies on 2 shots fired.
Went back to home base and changed into some dry clothes and decided to go on a scounting mission. We had a good idea of where some birds were working, however the problem was how to get to them.
After 2 hours of hard work, WE FOUND THEM!!!!
For anyone down South waiting on the recent Northwest winds (yesterday) to push some birds down they sure didn’t affect the Local wood duck population. Saw over 200 birds while getting back to the spot (conservatively) and have honed in on a spot to setup in the morning that was holing at least 150.
While on our way back we had 2 flocks of woodies buzz us and we ended the day with a 2 man limit of woodies.
Everything around here still seems to be in early season mode……. was 200 yards off a fairly large diver lake this morning and only saw two flocks.
Zero Geese were seen.
Hope everyone is having success!
Posted By:
Paul-Burton
Field Editor
brainerd area 10-13-2011 11:27
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Ringers are starting to show up in this area. Have not been able to hunt but seeing decent numbers on small wild rice sloughs.
Posted By:
1gander
Guest
none 10-13-2011 05:45
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hopin this front coming through pushes some birds in been watchin weather in canada m hopin my 4 days off sun til thursday pans out good luck guys
Posted By:
HonkerHotline
Web Member
Central Minnesota 10-12-2011 19:47
Cloudy, Occassional Rain Showers – 60-65 Degrees
Scouted this evening and still many local Woodies and Teal present. Seemed to be more Mallards around which was encouraging.
Still very warm outside and now a wet weather pattern has set in causing the corn harvest to slow.
Going to hit it Friday morning and will post up following.
Posted By:
knute
Web Member
Wilkin county 10-09-2011 21:26
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 50-60 Degrees
Hunted a flooded WPA on Saturday. Had several flocks of BWT flying over me and into the slough before light. When legal time finally came aflock of ten or so teal came in and one broke off and dropped right in. When I dropped him, about a hundred Bwt got up and started to buzz around. I ended up with four BWT over the next hour. then it got slow. I saw birds, mostly teal, moving around but not very willingly to decoy. An occasional mallard and a flock of about forty mallards flew over high about 10:00, but no takers.
After picking up my decoys I checked a little pothole about a 100 yards away and managed to get one more BWT, so, ended with five teal.
Sunday woke up to a steady rain. I agreed to hunt geese with my brother-in-law’s group.Acting on a misinformed plan we blew how we set-up and only managed a single goose for four guys. Watched several hundred geese to north of us. Should have hit the slough with a mojo for ducks, but it was still fun.
Really, REALLY need some c old weather!!!!!
Posted By:
HonkerHotline
Web Member
Central Minnesota 10-09-2011 11:31
Cloudy, Rain & Thunderstorms – 60-65 Degrees
Woke up this morning to a hard steady rain. After scouting last evening, opted to try a small river system for some pass shooting of woodies and teal. From my observation, most ducks that are around have their minds made up on where they want to go and decoying has been tough.
It was still pretty dark (due to the storm)when legal shooting began and we had steady action throughout the morning.
The highlight of the day was a flock of 8 screaming teal that flew off the water about 10 ft from me.
Ended the day with 1 Drake Mallard, 2 Drake Woodies, and 3 teal.
Will plan to scout a couple nights this week and will report back with my findings.
Posted By:
HonkerHotline
Web Member
Central 10-08-2011 23:39
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CPAMAN
Have you fired a shot yet?
Post up!
Posted By:
Double_Trouble_Golden
Web Member
West Metro 10-08-2011 19:18
Cloudy, High Winds – Over 70 Degrees
Hunted four days straight on different areas. These warm winds making these bugs come alive are not fun. Ducks are becoming fairly shy, we need some pushes now. Woodies and few Mallards are all I am seeing. Always see geese before and after we set up, and that is low too. To top things off, we came back to the lake next to my house, split up and hunted different sides. Mr. Nice DNR my buddy calls him ticketed him 135 dollars for a battery mojo. He was acually a very nice man, who ended up giving my buddy a break with the no life jacket. Any ways I hope he comes back, so he can bust thouse juveniles trash throwing harrasment hunters off the lake. Other than that these 100 woodies I have been seeing, are down to 50-60 very shy birds.
Dang….I knew I should of practiced shooting clays this year.
