SpinnerMan 2022-2023 Log

[Rick]

Neat experience, eiders or not.

[Duck Engr]

Cool deal on the long tailed ducks!

[DComeaux]

Neat experience, eiders or not.

What he said..... Really neat.

[Rick]

Cool deal on the long tailed ducks!

He said "long tailed ducks".

[Ricky Spanish]

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Cool deal on the long tailed ducks!

He said "long tailed ducks".

Ok I'll bite.
What page of the duck ID book are the long tailed ducks on?
I've never shot one and am completely clueless.
Oic...for political correctness we've renamed some species.
I'm using this book til I die no matter what miss chucky thinks.
You'll know that Bill when u see one.
I HAVE shot these b4.

[Deltaman]

Glad the weather held up for your hunt ocean Spinner, and that's a cool looking bird!

[Duck Engr]

Cool deal on the long tailed ducks!

He said "long tailed ducks".

Shows my youth I reckon. Pretty soon I’ll be calling squaw creek refuge loess bluffs too.

[Ricky Spanish]

Cool deal on the long tailed ducks!

He said "long tailed ducks".

Shows my youth I reckon. Pretty soon I’ll be calling squaw creek refuge loess bluffs too.

I won't be satisfied with renaming things until we quit calling "crisps" crackers.
It might offend some white dude you know.

[SpinnerMan]

Date: December 13

Hunters: Jeff, John, & Myself (Anthony and Shane hunted separate from us)

Guides:Rod, Mike, and Jay

Time: All day

Location: Sullivan Falls, Maine

This was a really cool location to hunt from a ledge in Maine.

There's a narrow point with an island. The tide rips through on either side. The birds funnel through. It's their pretty much go to spot to get eiders. All that island where John is sitting is under water at high tide.

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Weather Conditions: Maybe 20 at sunrise, moderate wind, sunny early going to cloudy by late morning.

Waterfowl Activity: never seen so many mergansers in my life, decent numbers of bufflehead and goldeneye, saw some mallards, and 3 eider.

It was all pass shooting as we just had a string of eider out. We did a lot of shooting. A lot less hitting We also lost 4 birds. I whiffed on a nice drake eider passing by

I did bag my first drake and hen red breasted mergansers.

At just before time to pack up. Near high tide with all of us sitting close on about the 20% of the island still above water. A single hen eider decoyed in as beautiful as you could ask. We showed her no mercy. All three of us lit her up. She hit the water. Head popped up. All three of us whacked her on the water. She was NOT getting away.

Birds By Species: 1 common eider, 1 bufflehead, 1 goldeneye, 1 mallard, 3 Red breasted mergansers

Curses: Lack of our primary target and tough shooting that we didn't rise to

Photo Ops:

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The outfitter has his house set up for his hunters. His wife and daughter fed us extremely well.

Dinner the last night was two of the biggest lobsters I ever had for each of us.

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[SpinnerMan]

Date: December 14

Hunters: Jeff, John, & Myself (Anthony and Shane hunted separate from us)

Guides:Rod, Mike, and Jay

Time: All day

Location: Addison River, Maine

The winds blew us off the ocean for the last day. So we went to the sure thing black duck spot up a small river surrounded with fresh water marshes.

Weather Conditions: About 16 at sunrise, windy, snowing changing to rain.

Waterfowl Activity: dead. We saw a few mergansers, about 10 black ducks, and one flock of high flying Canada geese.

We were dropped off on the shore and set just inside the brush. The tender boat had barely left and two suicidal hen metgansers decoyed and we dropped them. We took one crack at a black duck that was probably too far and that was it

Birds By Species: 2 hooded mergansers

Curses: We set a first for the outfitter. The first time he hunted that spot and nobody got a black duck

Photo Ops:

Nice weather for a boat ride.

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Lagniappe: Despite not having the success we hoped for. We had a good time and the outfitter couldn't have taken better care of us and everything but the hunting was great. We're thinking of going back in two years and hope the weather and luck is a little better.

[Ricky Spanish]

It's weird but I've shot a handful of black ducks at Shelbyville. What happens is I drop a suzi, pick it up, and not one bit of white on it.
It's very rare.