Posted By: DU870 Web Member 12-03-2012 09:04 – – – Hunted Saturday morning and ended the season on a good note. Shot my 4 green heads and left the river with ducks still flying. Didn’t see a ton of birds but enough to keep us interested. My lab had some great retrieves and reminded me that she has the nose and I need to remember when she takes off and is looking in other places, that is probaly where the bird is. She is starting to really get the game figured out. Overall the season was a bit slower but did have enough birds for several meals and even some jerky was made(geese). If we get rain next year could be really good. These dried up marshes and small ponds are full of weeds and habitat, fill those with water and we will hold birds. Posted By: MallardKingWI Web Member… Continue reading

Posted By: REARNEY Web Member Lake Pepin 11-24-2012 20:08 Arctic Blast – 10-20 Degrees – Ice Yesterday morning the stage was set, 20-30 MPH NW winds, blowing snow. Thought we would need to be at launch to get a good spot and see who the real duck hunters were. We were at launch a 4:00 am. Nobody showed up until 5:00 and only 2 other groups. We took a spot off a point out of wind and absolutely pounded the mallards. We had a 5 hunters in our group with just 2 dozen mallard decoys and one robo. In less than 2 hours we shot (15) Greenheads (5) Hen Mallards (1) Gaddy and (2) teal. They just kept coming in even after we were filled up. I posted a a pic in the memebers photo gallery. We went out this morning and only shot 4 mallards but were fortunate to… Continue reading

Posted By: MallardKingWI Web Member 11-10-2012 15:49 – – – November 10th and I finally got my first bird to take home. Hunted a river this time and saw a lot more ducks than I had recently at Horicon. Also lost a nice drake mallard. It dropped in the water and I couldn’t see it until it just about ran on the top of the water to get a away. Too far to ground swat. Tracked it to some brush and still couldn’t get a shot off. I just made some coyote, fox or racoon happy. Posted By: MallardKingWI Web Member Horicon 11-09-2012 06:44 – – – Hunted yesterday from about 10:30 to 3:00 in one of my favorite spots when the wind come from the south. As we were setting up a nice flock of a dozen went by someone else’s decoys. Oh, Boy, this is gonna be great.… Continue reading

Posted By: Stu-Soper Field Editor Potosi 10-29-2012 11:28 – – – Was out Saturday, seen some good numbers of hi flyers moving down the river. Slow on Sunday. River still down. Posted By: DU870 Web Member 10-29-2012 09:27 – – – Mainly deer hunted this weekend but my tree stand over looks the river. Did see a couple nice groups of green heads working up and down the river. The couple hundred woodies I had been seeing, were gone. Didn’t even see one. Hunted up by green bay on Saturday. saw some birds but they weren’t interested in decoying. Shot 1 bluebill and a gadwall. While deer hunting sunday morning and evening, didn’t hear any shots from the area marshes. I think the ice moved the birds off the smaller ponds in my area. Posted By: REARNEY Web Member Lake Pepin 10-29-2012 06:31 Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 10-20 Degrees… Continue reading

Posted By: stone Web Member Fort Atkinson, Wis 10-15-2012 14:45 Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees Very light wind. Disappointing morning but did not get very cold last night, mid 40’s and not enough to really push anything new in. Just a few smart locals. Hopefully later in the week. Geese have also relocated. Posted By: REARNEY Web Member Lake Pepin 10-14-2012 17:11 Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 40-45 Degrees Hunted this morning with friend, not as many birds today as yesterday. We shot (5) Teal and surprising enough they were all Blue Winged. Heading to Manitoba this week. Farmer friends, said they are loaded up with geese. Alot of Snow geese and Canadians. Posted By: REARNEY Web Member Lake Pepin 10-13-2012 17:40 Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 40-45 Degrees 4 of us had a very good morning. We had our 24 birds in the first hour,… Continue reading

Posted By: Kris-Bertelsen Field Editor Chippewa Valley 10-04-2012 11:17 – – – Not many new birds if any. I heard the mall area in Eau Claire has huntable numbers again. They are flying out south/southwest. Still birds flying west of town. Not much word from Chippewa so I don’t know where the right direction would be there. I haven’t heard anything about the Lake Wissota area so I’m assuming there is birds that people are keeping a secret! My buddy has been hunting Stanley/Boyd. Plenty of birds, but no really patterns. It will take some scouting. Posted By: MallardKingWI Web Member Vernon & Horicon 10-02-2012 19:24 – – – Went to Vernon for the opener on Saturday. We got there about 6:30 to see if birds were flying early in the morning because we had not seen many birds on the previous scout. We saw one flock of teal and… Continue reading

Posted By: MallardKingWI Web Member Horicon 09-26-2012 10:29 – – – Oh yeah, I forgot. the water is a nice shade of green, almost like pea soup. And when we stopped the boat we kept hearing this splashing sound. Turns out the fish are constantly jumping out of the water. Most of the oxygen is out of the water??? Don’t know fish well but they didn’t seem to be carp but they probably were. One guy at the dock said they lost quite a few walleyes earlier this summer. Posted By: REARNEY Web Member Lake Pepin 09-25-2012 21:00 Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 45-50 Degrees Hunted this morning before work in a small slough area and filled out in 1/2 hour with (5)Blue Wings and a nice drake wood duck. Not many BW teal left. My try tomorrow. No hunters around.heard shots way off in distance. Posted By: MallardKingWI Web… Continue reading

Posted By: Kris-Bertelsen Field Editor 12-30-2011 14:10 – – – Still large numbers of geese and mallards around the Chippewa Valley. Came back from Lake Wissota today and saw hundreds of geese in the fields up there. I watched hundreds of mallards flying to the fields last week on the south side of Eau Claire past highway 93. We got birds yet – anywhere there is open water. Posted By: DU870 Web Member 12-19-2011 10:46 – – – John, We stil have a fair amount of ducks around the southern wisco area. Going over the lake today there was a good 100-150 mallards and other ducks. I do think we have lost a majority of our birds when we froze up a couple weeks ago but that ice has left and we now have a lot of open water. Posted By: John-Donelon Field Editor 12-18-2011 10:38 – – – Here… Continue reading