Posted By: Kevin J Davidson Web Member Berks 10-15-2011 10:37 Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 45-50 Degrees Opening Day of ducks. Large group of mallards decoy perfect this morning. Shot one mallard (Drake) with a leg band. Others ducks in the Bag !!! Call it a good morning hunt with my friends. Posted By: Col K Field Editor Pymatuning-Hartstown-Geneva Swamp 10-14-2011 19:56 Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 50-60 Degrees Took time to scout today. Action at Hartstown was very slow. Though geese were visible in the Management Area at Pymatuning, numbers were low. The Linesville Spillway was holding a good amount of Mallards and goose activity light. This was the heaviest hunted spot I observed for the day with about 10 trucks in the parking lot. Note that the lake is very high and the westerly wind was kicking white caps up on the open lake. Chop was… Continue reading

Posted By: Kevin J Davidson Web Member Berks 09-13-2011 11:57 – – – Doing my homework, scouting local farms and lakes to ensure that this weekend youth hunt for my nephew is a good one. Hope cooler weather keeps the birds on the move. Ontelaunee lake has lots of wood ducks flying, very little honkers. Time will tell. Will post results. Posted By: Larry-Gausch Field Editor Lancaster County 08-31-2011 12:01 Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees New season starts tomorrow!! Looks like I am the only one around here anymore but I am looking forward to tomorrow. Hopefully we will have a few geese in the bag! “G” Posted By: Larry-Gausch Field Editor Middle Creek 02-24-2011 18:59 Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water Probably 50 or 60 thousand snows in the area.Shot all mature birds on Tuesday. The lake is thawing out… Continue reading

Posted By: Christian-Boyd Field Editor SW PA 09-07-2009 21:29 Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees Hunted Labor Day and took a few birds. Geese were traveling in big groups and we worked to pull small groups out of the main flock. All birds responded well to calling and settled in nicely. Probably saw ~150 birds total in less than one hour of hunting. A few groups came back on the come-back call. Posted By: Christian-Boyd Field Editor Somerset County 09-04-2009 07:41 Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees Small groups were hitting the oats last night. Our group managed to take 8 birds last night. Birds were calm and landed easily in our spread with minimal calling required. Posted By: Christian-Boyd Field Editor Somerset County 09-03-2009 13:02 Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees Local birds are moving around in cut oats. Hunted… Continue reading

Posted By: Larry-Gausch Field Editor Berks 09-19-2008 15:14 Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 60-65 Degrees Not much activity this morning.We called a flock of four in and they stayed with us. Saw a couple of more flocks but none of them were interested. Going to try the river tomorrow with my third born daughter. Hopefully we will get some shooting.Always glad to be out gunnin’. ‘g” Posted By: Larry-Gausch Field Editor Berks/Lancaster 09-09-2008 09:42 Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – Over 70 Degrees Got out this morning with a friend for a few hours before the storm moved in.The birds flew around 7:30-8:00 and we managed to pull a few in.Ended up with three but should have had more. Not a lot of activity as far as the geese were concerned but we did see several hundred ducks at daybreak.Some really large flocks of what looked to me to be… Continue reading

Posted By: Christian-Boyd Field Editor 01-23-2008 13:57 Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 25-30 Degrees – Ice Shuttin’ ‘er down for the season. This will be the last post from the SW PA region. Ducks were a joke this year…..not sure where they all got to. Early season geese was awesome and the regular season was decent. I have one or two more hunts left in me befoe the fat lady sings though. First born came on 12/26 and takes most of of my/our free time. I hope to prepare some decent waterfowl dishes for maple sugar season and get things lined up for next year. This year just kind of slipped by with a new house and baby. Better luck nect year, right? Posted By: Larry-Gausch Field Editor Bally 01-22-2008 19:23 Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water Finished out my AP goose season this… Continue reading

Posted By: Duckman-Dew Guest Lake Arthur, PA 12-25-2007 21:47 Cloudy, High Winds – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water It’s just what I was afraid of, no ducks! Hunted Lake Arthur Christmas eve morning on the backside of a front with a 20 degree temperature drop, snow flurries, overcast, low pressure system, and no ducks. I’m afraid they’ve headed South. We hunted from daylight to 11:00 am, and only saw two ducks, an hour apart. I thought that with the 25 m.p.h. winds, they might be sitting down somewhere, so I ran around the lake trying to see if I could find any sheltered back in a cove or something, and only ran up four more. I hunted late this morning and only saw three. I think we are probably done until next fall. Do the world a favor, teach a kid to hunt. Posted By: water dog bay Guest 12-24-2007… Continue reading

Posted By: Larry-Gausch Field Editor Bally Area 12-15-2007 16:18 Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water A friend of mine was out for geese this morning. He said there were a decent amount of birds around they just di not want anything to do with him.Gonna try for divers again early next week. “g” Posted By: PaBlackDuck Guest Central Pa 12-15-2007 15:27 Cloudy, Winds Calm – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water My son and I hunted the river this morning. Got 2 blacks and 3 mallards. Observed msny large flocks of Canada Geese headed South. Posted By: water dog bay Guest northumberland county 12-15-2007 09:50 – – – shoot 4 mallards. saw to nice sized flocks of divers and a couple mergansers and one green wing teal today Posted By: Larry-Gausch Field Editor Berks County 12-13-2007 10:57 Cloudy, Snow & Rain Mix – 25-30 Degrees –… Continue reading

Posted By: water dog bay Guest nothumberland county 12-02-2007 08:53 – – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water saw lots of ducks all mallards and a couple blackducks and some kind of small duck it was to far to tell what it was.we shoot three mallards yesterday Posted By: KennyW Guest 11-27-2007 07:16 – – – waterdog, i have seen quite a few buffies, I know a guy that killed a goldeneye, and i have heard of other hunters killing common scooter, surf scooter, and redhead this past weekend. they will show in numbers around christmas. Posted By: thefork Guest Pymatuning Area 11-26-2007 15:31 – – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water Shot a goose and bufflehead on Sat. 11/24. Shot a hen old squaw and common merg on Sun. 11/25. Should have been a better day but our shooting let us down just a bit. Real mixed bag around from bills… Continue reading