DComeaux wrote:What a nice little spot!
Darren wrote:GFS buying into front late next week too for the weekend
Darren wrote:GFS buying into front late next week too for the weekend
Rick wrote:Drought years have been the only relatively recent ones when mallards topped my parties' species logs. So if we can't have snow the Ferris wheel's axle in Little Rock, I'll settle for drought. 2011 was a mighty fine mallard year at the mudhole.
It is very strange that there are so few birds up here in the boreal forest regions. We are in a producing region that has not changed in the 30 plus years I have lived here. Usually, on any given day, I can travel in the valley and see 5000+ mallards and pintails in various fields, ditches, or flying to and from the roost areas. I haven't seen 500 birds total since Sept 1st. There are NO ducks here. Kind of scary and makes for some hard hunting. I have had 6 zero bird hunts this year, and I probably haven't had that in the previous 30.
Rick wrote:Then there's this cheery news from The Pas, Manitoba:It is very strange that there are so few birds up here in the boreal forest regions. We are in a producing region that has not changed in the 30 plus years I have lived here. Usually, on any given day, I can travel in the valley and see 5000+ mallards and pintails in various fields, ditches, or flying to and from the roost areas. I haven't seen 500 birds total since Sept 1st. There are NO ducks here. Kind of scary and makes for some hard hunting. I have had 6 zero bird hunts this year, and I probably haven't had that in the previous 30.
Rick wrote:Maybe there just aren't any...
Saw a report on the same forum last week that a fellow drove through the Devil's Lake region of ND without seeing much either.
(Managing expectations, so surprises are good ones, is such a big part of my game that regulars think I'm hosing them when I say it's sucked.)
Rick wrote:The bug and I couldn't stay indoors this cool morning and took a hike in Klondike. He loved chasing rails through the shallows, and my goobered knee hated both plowed ground and hairy levees. Moved a handful of spoons and a few more mottleds, but that was it for waterfowl. Still no word of specks from my Thornwell sources as of this morning. But there was a Riceland in pocket, just in case...
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