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Re: Season

Postby Ericdc » Wed Jan 02, 2019 9:40 pm

Duck Engr wrote:About an hour and a half west northwest of Memphis.


Cool, nearest town?


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Re: Season

Postby Duck Engr » Wed Jan 02, 2019 9:52 pm

Wynne is closest town with more than a gas station.
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Re: Season

Postby Ericdc » Wed Jan 02, 2019 9:56 pm

Cool I haven’t been quite far up into Arkansas but I’ve been north of Brinkley around Hunter and I liked what I saw.


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Re: Season

Postby Duck Engr » Wed Jan 02, 2019 10:36 pm

Man it’s been beautiful to my eye this year. Water and food everywhere. Just what I dream of every summer when I’m daydreaming. Ducks haven’t looked at it quite as fondly as I have unfortunately. We had a good opener and some club members did ok on the second opener, but it’s been bad since. I postponed my trip i had initially planned for this Saturday thru Tuesday. Can’t justify going that far for 60 degree temps. Gonna hold out hope old man winter fires up sometime in the next two weeks.
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Re: Season

Postby Ericdc » Sat Jan 05, 2019 6:21 pm

Date: 1/5/18

Time: left at noon

Location: pit blind

Cloud Cover: clear with dense fog west of us

Wind Direction and Velocity: SSW 5 or enough to move water and decoys

Temperature: 36 and warming up

Barometer:

Moon phase:

Special Notes: we have water everywhere now in our area and on our farm. Our water is really deep for field hunting and we had to move all the sunk speck decoys to the levee.

Waterfowl Activity: most teal I’ve seen since 2nd split opener with lots of pintail along with some mallards and gadwall. A lot more geese than Tuesday but not working.

Waterfowl Responsiveness: teal came perfect, spoons did better than usual and big ducks were tough

Hunters: Eric David Joseph and a friend

Guns:

Malfunctions: Joseph and his friend had a UTV breakdown that caused them to miss an early teal flight and safety was jammed on loaner I gave to David so he missed out on the first big bunch of teal.

Dog(s): charter

Special Equipment: 2 mojos on remote

Kudos: we have ducks of all kinds in area

curses: water everywherec

Birds By Species:
4 green winged teal
2 shovelers
1 gadwall

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Re: Season

Postby Darren » Mon Jan 07, 2019 8:13 am

Ericdc wrote:
Kudos: we have ducks of all kinds in area



Glad to hear it; holding hope that a few show in Avoyelles Parish before its over at end of the month.

Stooopppppp raining please!
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Re: Season

Postby DComeaux » Mon Jan 07, 2019 9:14 am

Darren wrote:
Ericdc wrote:
Kudos: we have ducks of all kinds in area



Glad to hear it; holding hope that a few show in Avoyelles Parish before its over at end of the month.

Stooopppppp raining please!



Check back there in mid February and March.
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Re: Season

Postby Ericdc » Wed Jan 09, 2019 7:47 pm

Date: 1-9-19

Time: packed up at 1:20

Location: pit blind

Cloud Cover: clear

Wind Direction and Velocity: NW to NE 5 to 10 then 10 to 20 by about 9

Temperature: 40’s

Barometer:

Moon phase:

Special Notes: broke the jinx of bad hunts for my cousin John at my place. Reliable weather conditions in January produced like it always does

Waterfowl Activity: biggest lowest goose flight of the season. Loads of ducks outta the south till about 9:30 then here and there till noon then new geese from north

Waterfowl Responsiveness: mallard pairs are super quirky, pintails and gadwall worked great. Low specks did good, lost all higher specks I broke to big body north and west of me.

Hunters: lance John and I

Guns:

Malfunctions: none

Dog(s): us

Special Equipment: 2 mojos on remote

Kudos: we shot really well

curses: just that we haven’t had enough of this weather this year

Birds By Species:

5 pintail
3 gadwall
4 green winged teal
1 mallard
2 wigeon
4 specks


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Re: Season

Postby Duck Engr » Wed Jan 09, 2019 7:53 pm

Wooooo wee very nice!! One to be proud of, especially this year!
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Re: Season

Postby Rick » Thu Jan 10, 2019 4:46 am

Much too rare sight there. Glad you had a sweet one.
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Re: Season

Postby Deltaman » Thu Jan 10, 2019 8:03 am

Congrats on a fine hunt Eric, and hope this is a sign of change in the right direction :thumbsup:
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Re: Season

Postby DComeaux » Thu Jan 10, 2019 8:04 am

Awesome Eric. Good to see someone getting a few.
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Re: Season

Postby Ericdc » Thu Jan 10, 2019 9:46 am

Big snow coming across Missouri this weekend should help. I’ll be back at lease Saturday then we leave Sunday at lunch for 3 days of duck and goose hunting in oklahoma. Hoping the last 2 weeks of our season will be good with more winter weather north of us and water levels in our area back to normal.


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Re: Season

Postby Ericdc » Sat Jan 12, 2019 5:40 pm

Date: 1-12-19

Time: left at noon

Location: pit blind

Cloud Cover: low heavy with steady light rain then clearing at 10:40

Wind Direction and Velocity: SE 5-15 mph

Temperature: chilly in rain then warm in sun

Barometer:

Moon phase:

Special Notes: had been on a run 5 of quality hunts until today

Waterfowl Activity: quite a bit of ducks moving in rain but mostly unresponsive pintails. Loads of snows bodying west of us. Saw exactly 1 speck

Waterfowl Responsiveness: mallard worked to the call

Hunters: David and I

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s):

Special Equipment: 2 mojos mostly off

Kudos: 1 shot 1 kill

curses: birds didn’t fly when sun came out.

Birds By Species:
1 mallard

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Re: Season

Postby Ericdc » Thu Jan 17, 2019 2:16 pm

Oklahoma trip summary

We were blessed with clouds and little to no wind the first 2 mornings then spitting fog with a 10 mph SE the last morning.

In 3 days 7 of us killed
12 lesser Canadas and 26 ducks (1 mallard 4 wigeon 12 gadwall 2 ring necks 4 redheads 3 shovelers)

Pretty disappointing trip but the birds weren’t moving much to feed and were scattered.

We shot really well also to get what we got. Mostly singles and doubles with 1 good group of geese)


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Re: Season

Postby Duck Engr » Thu Jan 17, 2019 4:15 pm

That’s a bummer but I’ve heard of folks who have driven farther for a whooooole lot less. I’ve never shot lessers before. I hear it’s fun.
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Re: Season

Postby Ericdc » Thu Jan 17, 2019 4:26 pm

These were lessers not the little cacklers.


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Re: Season

Postby Duck Engr » Thu Jan 17, 2019 7:25 pm

Ericdc wrote:These were lessers not the little cacklers.


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Ah right, that’s what I was thinking of. Shows how much I hunt geese.
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Re: Season

Postby Ericdc » Sat Jan 19, 2019 6:31 pm

Date: 1-19-19

Time: finished around 1 (had 0 birds at 9:30)

Location: pit blind

Cloud Cover: heavy to partly back to heavy with mist

Wind Direction and Velocity: SW 5-10 then W 10-20

Temperature: 64 when we got there 38 when we left

Barometer:

Moon phase:

Special Notes: best hunt David has had in his young waterfowling career. Ducks worked very pretty

Waterfowl Activity:loads of snows feeding in stubble to our west. Loads of pintail coming out of north and east, with a good many gadwall too. Very few mallards and teal. Very few specks until wind shift then had about 100 working the field.

Waterfowl Responsiveness: pretty good. Speck pair worked very pretty to the call

Hunters: David and I

Guns:

Malfunctions: let a hawk get a gadwall that I let drift east of us to the bank because I was Lazy, learned my lesson.

Dog(s):

Special Equipment: 2 mojos on remote

Kudos: we shot really well until the big wind shift then missed a few but rebounded nicely

curses: needed 2 more people

Birds By Species:
4 pintail
2 wigeon
1 mallard
5 gadwall
2 specks


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Re: Season

Postby Rick » Sat Jan 19, 2019 8:05 pm

Sweet hunt.
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Re: Season

Postby Ericdc » Sat Jan 19, 2019 8:06 pm

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Pretty birds

Thanks. Pics wouldn’t post earlier


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Re: Season

Postby DComeaux » Sat Jan 19, 2019 8:09 pm

NICE!!!!!!
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Re: Season

Postby Ericdc » Sun Jan 20, 2019 5:42 pm

Date: 1-20-19

Time: left at noon

Location: pit blind

Cloud Cover: mostly to clear

Wind Direction and Velocity: N and NW 10-15 mph

Temperature: 30’s

Barometer:

Moon phase:

Special Notes: I guess this is the first time a good north wind in January has let me down this year.

Waterfowl Activity: not near as many as yesterday. No real traffic just a few groups here and there. Early bunch of teal came pretty, we didn’t take advantage.

Waterfowl Responsiveness: gadwall would lock hard then get weird. Low specks and an early group of Canada’s worked well just couldn’t get them into comfortable range ( except 1 of a group of 3 specks that separated and snuck in low behind me and got out before I could call shot)

Hunters: ridge Houston David and I

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s): ace

Special Equipment: 2 mojos that were off more than on

Kudos: enjoyed hunting with ridge, he hasn’t hunted much this year.

curses: near perfect conditions and no flight (maybe tomorrow when we are supposed to have clear skies from beginning??)

Birds By Species:
2 gadwall
1 green winged teal

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Re: Season

Postby Darren » Sun Jan 20, 2019 6:33 pm

Looks like we all saw same thing today...little or no flight following the big winds.
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Re: Season

Postby Rick » Mon Jan 21, 2019 6:58 am

Ericdc wrote:(maybe tomorrow when we are supposed to have clear skies from beginning??)


Probably all be sitting in our marsh when I go to button up the mudhole today.
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Re: Season

Postby Ericdc » Mon Jan 21, 2019 8:28 pm

Date: 1-21-19

Time: packed up at 10:15

Location: pit blind

Cloud Cover: clear

Wind Direction and Velocity: light E to 8-10 mph SE

Temperature: 28 had some skim ice in stubble

Barometer:

Moon phase: big

Special Notes: my buddy was given a well trained 10 year old lab that the previous owner wanted to give to someone who would hunt her.

Waterfowl Activity: very slow

Waterfowl Responsiveness: the 5 we killed came very pretty

Hunters: Johnathon and I

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s): Casey

Special Equipment: mojos mostly off

Kudos: killed what came and Casey is a fine dog

curses: we don’t have much of anything but snows and pintails in any kind of numbers.

Birds By Species:
1 mallard
2 shovelers
2 green winged teal

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Re: Season

Postby Duck Engr » Mon Jan 21, 2019 8:55 pm

Booner spooner as we call them amongst my buddies. Pretty one for the wall!
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Re: Season

Postby Ericdc » Wed Jan 23, 2019 5:38 pm

Date: 1-23-19

Time: left at 12:30

Location: pit blind

Cloud Cover: low heavy light to heavy rain all morning

Wind Direction and Velocity: light NW to 10 NW

Temperature: 50’s to 30’s

Barometer:

Moon phase:

Special Notes: my only hunt with Kevin this year. Kevin got me into both forestry and waterfowling.

Waterfowl Activity: big goose feed west of us still going strong, very few specks.

Waterfowl Responsiveness: ducks were very skiddish or calls and decoys but we managed a few.

Hunters: garrison Kevin Johnathon and I

Guns:

Malfunctions:

Dog(s):

Special Equipment: 2 mojos on remote

Kudos: made a decent hunt out of what most wouldn’t attempt

curses: skiddish birds and it appeared the flight was ramping up in the last 30 minutes or so of the hunt before we had to leave.

Birds By Species:
2 pintail
1 wigeon
4 gadwall
2 green winged teal
1 ring necked duck

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Re: Season

Postby Rick » Wed Jan 23, 2019 7:38 pm

Looks like you earned them.
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Re: Season

Postby Darren » Thu Jan 24, 2019 8:09 am

That's my kind of weather to field hunt, your 1/23/19 entry.....and historically has had nice straps like you had, with gloomy pictures like you had. Good work

Likely will try it this weekend in Bunkie one more time, mainly going up to pick up remaining dekes. Will be happy to report back of a ton of birds killed on clear skies day but I highly doubt it. No wind in forecast anywhere all weekend.....thumbs down.
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