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Date: 9/29/16

Time: Morning/Afternoon

Location: Northern Woodie Hole

Cloud Cover: Scattered

Wind Direction and Velocity: NE 20-25

Temperature: 69

Barometer:

Moon phase:

Special Notes: Mason - my 10 month old Chocolate's 1st hunt

Waterfowl Activity: Poor... Last year we saw 60+ woodies this year I saw fewer then 15. Too much rain... Water all over has birds spread out

Waterfowl Responsiveness: Unresponsive to the call

Hunters: Just me

Guns: Browning A5

Malfunctions: forgot the pole for my spinning wing

Dog(s): Mason

Special Equipment: None

Kudos:

curses: Mason was hesitant to make his first retrieve we didn't work a lot with real birds so I'm ok with it... I picked it up and got him interested in it and tossed it a few times for him to make retrieves on.. I'm still happy with his behavior and his lines

Birds By Species: 1 hen wood duck

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Mason looks a bit like he's thinking, "Enough of this duck, already. Let's get a fresh one." But it's a start...

Good looking chocolate, and he will come around with more experience. Glad you got to get out, and at least you came home with a bird in the bag!

Date:10/1/2016

Time: Morning

Location: The Property

Cloud Cover: Overcast

Wind Direction and Velocity: 5-10 NE

Temperature: 55

Special Notes: Opening day of Southern zone and first duck hunt on our new property.

Waterfowl Activity: Saw 40 ducks this morning and 70+ in the afternoon mostly woodies and a few high flying mallards.

Waterfowl Responsiveness: Typical wood duck hunt a couple buzzing the spinners and the rest just doing what they do... Mallards were on a mission not coming down for anything

Hunters: Me and my wife

Guns: Browning A5 and Browning Maxus

Malfunctions: None

Dog(s): None

Special Equipment: None

Kudos: Wife was a trooper it was a cool misty day... Perfect for duck hunting but not for my wife

curses: Tall grass made it extremely difficult to find down birds and lost one cripple.

Birds By Species: 3 Wood Ducks 2 Drakes and 1 Hen

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Must be rewarding to have sampled the fruits of your labor and blooded the blind.

Date:10/2/2016

Time: Morning

Location: Our Property

Cloud Cover: Overcast

Wind Direction and Velocity: Marginal NE

Temperature: 58

Special Notes: Second day in the new blind on our new property

Waterfowl Activity: Far less flying this morning... More geese however

Waterfowl Responsiveness: What did fly close sucked into the decoys

Hunters: Just Me

Guns: Browning A5

Malfunctions: None

Dog(s): None

Special Equipment: Thermacell - I ought to be buying stock in that company mosquitos went from thick enough to carry you away to gone in 5 minutes

Kudos: To me... I shot well

curses: Still have to get the top of the blind covered the white roof is flaring anything that circles

Birds By Species: One hen Mallard and one hen wood duck

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Date: 10/16/16

Time: Morning

Location: The Property

Cloud Cover: Overcast

Wind Direction and Velocity: Light and Variable

Temperature: 67 degrees

Special Notes: Foggy

Waterfowl Activity: Only a few local wood ducks around. Saw only 10 woodies all morning everything has been shot up and moved out with no migration to speak of yet.

Waterfowl Responsiveness: The only one that came to the decoys never made it out.

Hunters: Just me.

Guns: Browning A-5

Malfunctions: None

Special Equipment: Two spinners

curses: Warm weather and the October lull

Birds By Species: One hen wood duck

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Dang. If Wisconsin doesn't have migrants yet, we may all be screwed.

Date: 10/18/16

Time: Afternoon

Location: My Property

Cloud Cover: Scattered

Wind Direction and Velocity: Light/Variable

Temperature: 68 degrees

Special Notes: MASON'S 1ST RETRIEVE!!!!

Waterfowl Activity: Nothing until 2 minutes before end of shooting hours... woodies are flocked up 40-50 birds flocks and moving South... no northern birds to speak of

Waterfowl Responsiveness: when they showed up they came right in

Hunters: Just me.

Guns: Browning A-5

Malfunctions: None

Dog(s): Mason

Special Equipment: 3 Spinners

Kudos: Mason had a strong retrieve.

curses: Warm weather and no wind.

Birds By Species: Drake Wood Duck

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First working retrieve is always a biggie. Congrats, Mason.

Date: 10/24/16

Time: Morning

Location: The Property

Cloud Cover: Sunny

Wind Direction and Velocity: Calm

Temperature: 51 Degrees

Special Notes: Mason out on his 2nd hunt.

Waterfowl Activity: Quite a few wood ducks still around, saw approximately 30. Nice flock of mallards worked this morning (12 birds). Only saw one high flying group of geese.

Waterfowl Responsiveness: Anything that got in the dekes didn't get out. Having no wind made for a tough go at it but mallards worked well with single quacks.

Hunters: Just me.

Guns: Browning A-5

Malfunctions: None

Dog(s): Mason

Special Equipment: 2 Spinners

Kudos: Mason is finding his groove, made his 2nd,3rd, and 4th retrieves!

curses: No wind.

Birds By Species: Two drake wood ducks and a drake mallard.

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Go, Mason.

Nothin like a few birds in your own honey hole enjoying your blind construction.

Wisconsin duck hunting.
Have heard two versions of it.
1) guys told me they have a one or maybe two-day shoot at the opener then it gets hard. (not sure I believe it)
2) the other guy I know who hunted ducks in wisconsin is a biker. Apparently he somehow got the idea that how you hunt ducks is to ride around on trail bikes looking for rafts of ducks...turn motor off, coast to the lakeside and shoot em. He seems to think we all do it that way.

lol I'd say both are bull... the ducks are here you just have to put in the time... also if you have a honey hole... shooting the hell out of it for a week straight will ruin it... doesn't matter if you're in WI or Arkansas. When it turns cold most weekend warrior sky busters retire for the year and we who don't mind freezing our chestnuts off have a helluva shoot

Here's a picture from Nov. 26th last year on public land where you can walk in.





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johnc wrote:are those mergansers and golden eyes?

Yes, if you're talking about the picture above showing 4 red heads, a weird drake mallad, and 5 black teal.

That weird drake mallard is not a mallard. I'm not going to say what it is so we can watch the peanut gallery guess.
These are drake mallards. See anything different about them like ohhhh the bills, wings, bodies, coloration, and everything?
Hint--- long skinny orange bill, green head, and white chest is a ___________. (C.M.) Look on page #54 in the LeMaster Method waterfowl ID book.

Dang, and I thought DukMan had hit the trifecta.

lol it is a joke... I'd be a couple over my limit otherwise... 5 common mergs, ones a drake, and 5 hen goldeneyes


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johnc wrote:

DukMan wrote:lol it is a joke... I'd be a couple over my limit otherwise... 5 common mergs, ones a drake, and 5 hen goldeneyes


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that is a nice drake for someone needing it for a taxidermy collection,BUT judging by that harvest,that was not the case

trophy merganser hunters LOL!!

Mergs in the jerky bin taste no different than mallards when you're all done.


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DukMan wrote:
Mergs in the jerky bin taste no different than mallards when you're all done.

I'd bet same is true for our sausage pile, though we still don't shoot the mergs down here.

Darren wrote:

DukMan wrote:
Mergs in the jerky bin taste no different than mallards when you're all done.

I'd bet same is true for our sausage pile, though we still don't shoot the mergs down here.

I routinely don't but I'm working on the ultimate waterfowlers challenge and you need to get a merg so if I'm shooting one might as well shoot a limit.

Duck Log


Date: 11/12/16

Time: Morning

Location: The Property

Cloud Cover: Clear Sky

Wind Direction and Velocity: Calm

Temperature: 30 degrees... finally!

Special Notes:

Waterfowl Activity: 400-500 Mallards, 15 Geese, 4 Swans

Waterfowl Responsiveness: They want in but with no wind they circled and circled hesitant to commit.

Hunters: Just me

Guns: Browning A-5

Malfunctions: None

Dog(s): None

Special Equipment: Two spinners.

Kudos: I shot well, 5 shots 4 birds

curses: NO WIND!

Birds By Species: 3 drake mallards and a drake wood duck

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