Ducks

[PorkChop]

Still seeing amazing numbers. We traveled east today and the pintail numbers are absolutely ridiculous. Can’t even wrap my head around it! Tomorrow morning is our opener and it will be myself and three of my girls. Hoping two of them bag their first ducks. There are some honkers using the field as well, but this is shaping up to be mostly a duck hunt.

Saw this today on the book of faces. Obviously plenty of time between now and then but it looks like something is brewing possibly

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[Duck Engr]

Keep all the positives flowing PorkChop! Some are singing the blues of a slow teal season down here. Would love to see some early and often October fronts!

[PorkChop]

Well, opening day is in the books! Florentina and Rosangelia shot their first ducks.

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It was kind of crazy because yesterday we saw an amazing amount of pintails and I think today we saw maybe five or six. We ended up shooting 14 ducks. I shot five Widgeon and one green head. Vincenzia shot a green head with some Widgeon and Florentina just shot Widgeon. Rosangelia shot a Widgeon, what I believe is a Drake Pintail, its head seemed a little short, but it was getting some of its Drake feathers underneath the wings and a hen Mallard.

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We were covered in mallards, but Widgeon were the first birds to fall and then those little girls kept on saying there’s let’s shoot the widgeon, let’s shoot the widgeon so it became a widgeon shoot. I don’t think Vincenzia was very happy about that ha ha

[PorkChop]

God Bless the man that steals her heart! She definitely is not scared to bite heads and get bloody!

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[Duck Engr]

Wow what a great opener!!! Congrats to all involved.

[Darren]

Well that's just flippin wonderful, congrats to you and all of them. I'll take a wigeon shoot any day of the week over about any other bird out there. Haven't had a good one (wigeon shoot) in 20 years.

Re: weather

I've also been watching that storm possibility but overnight and morning model runs have lost some steam on promised chill.

[Ducaholic]

Well Done Chop

[Rick]

Teach that poor girl to snap a duck's neck vertebrae backwards. No fuss, muss or bird flew.

[DComeaux]

Send us some of those wonderful wigeon. Nice hunt.

[PorkChop]

Day 2 as in yesterday Sunday

I told the girls we need to hunt more west in the field. This field is a whole section so it’s a mile long and a mile wide. So we go past the spot where we setup on Saturday, drive around looking for a good flat spot, get set up and when the sun comes up we see we are exactly 15 yards from where we were set up morning before

Ducks worked pretty steady. Initially they came in groups of 10 to 30 but at one point we had hundreds over us so we didn’t pull the trigger. Saw a lot more pintails and less widgeon. Surprised we have not had any green wing teal come in as every year there seems to be more and more hitting the fields.

We had one group of honkers coming in, but they flared when they saw the Luckys. Close enough to shoot though and Florentina got one.

We took today off and tomorrow we’re gonna hunt that field again. The south east wind and the heat is killing us. We found a good field tonight, but the lady typically posts it and always says no when you ask. It hasn’t been posted yet this year, but while we were watching the field, her daughter and son-in-law drove by. So not gonna take the chance of going there in the morning and have it be posted so I will check it out tomorrow night and if it hasn’t been posted, we will hunt it Wednesday morning.

Here is the results of Sunday’s hunt. 10 greenheads, one hen Widgeon and a Honker.

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And no, that’s not how I set my decoy spread although it looks good like they’re eating on a bait pile.

[Duck Engr]

Heck yeah!! You’re off to a great start.

[Darren]

Looks like a blast to me !

[Ducaholic]

Well Done!

[DComeaux]

Wonderful hunt, and you're not full of black, smelly marsh mud from a splashing dog.

[PorkChop]

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[PorkChop]

Well, the three of us went out this morning. We hit the same field, but we actually made it more west in the field today. Ducks would come and get to the coulee area and then blow a U-turn. We had one flock dump in. I head smashed a greenhead second shot missed and third shot I hit a greenhead and it started going down, but it recovered and flew out of sight! The girls did not hit anything. We have what should be a great field in the morning.

[don novicki]

Nice work by everyone esp. the girls. That's got to make you proud for sure. congrats on a job well done.

[Deltaman]

Love seeing you getting your girls in the game, and happy to see that you have ducks......and geese!!!!!!!!

[PorkChop]

Well today our geese did not show up and only 3 flocks of ducks came to us. But on the plus side, Natalina joined us this morning for her first hunt of the year. She is the one on the far right as you look at the picture. I’m guessing we saw a good 20 flocks of ducks, some with 50 plus birds but they were high flying north and to the west. Getting ready to go out and see if I can’t track them down for a hunt tomorrow morning. Yesterday was 88° and today 81°. I believe tomorrow is supposed to be 83° and we’ve had a lot of south and south east wind.

We did have one flock of migrating Canada geese fly over us and there was one Specklebelly in there. Two or three more days of hot temperatures and then the big cool down comes. There’s even still talk of some snow possibly so that’ll get the wimpy ducks out of here. All greenheads today and most of them had some nice color on them. I think I mentioned that this field is typically posted. The owner came and parked on the side of the field for a little bit after the first flock of birds were shot at. It’s an interesting dynamic as the couple is married, but she still goes by her last name and The land is still under separate names. The husband has said that he doesn’t care if we hunt ducks and geese on his property, it’s just a no go for upland birds and coyotes as that’s what they hunt. The wife on the other hand has told my wife that we cannot hunt the land she has posted ha ha. So since it hadn’t been posted yet, we took the opportunity. I’ll be surprised if it isn’t posted when I go by there tonight.

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[Darren]

Those land permissions games can surely be sweet, but man they can probably go sour quick. great hunt !

[Duck Engr]

The hot streak continues and the reaper mug remains undefeated!