2013-2014 Duck season Prep thread

[goodkarmarising]

I turned about 200 duck floaters into snow goose floaters since I was too cheap to actually pay for snow goose floaters. Wasn't too bad of a process really.

[Feelin' Fowl]

I turned about 200 duck floaters into snow goose floaters since I was too cheap to actually pay for snow goose floaters. Wasn't too bad of a process really.

The shells I bought were originally snows that the guy turned into Canadas. Now they are part snow, and part Canada. Those will probably take more time to prep than paint.

[jarbo03]

Time to get busy, had a present waiting when I got home today.

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[Goldfish]

You guys are doing too much. I get my stuff ready about 4 days before opener. Although I suppose at some point I want to paint some storm fronts into divers this summer.

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[NuffDaddy]

Flock some decoys.
Fix up my boat blind.
Make a small long tail and get a little Jon boat because I'm sick of walking the shallows.
Make a ducktoon.
Get a diver spread started.
Figure out how to use my new shotshell loader and get some shells loaded.
And I'm sure there is more.

[NuffDaddy]

...and I want to Texas rig all my decoys.

[jehler]

I'm with Olly- I need to scout. There is one big marsh that I've been meaning to hunt ever since I built my hybrid, but haven't done more than take a couple quick runs through it in the boat. It's about 300 acres, and nothing bigger than the hybrid is going to get into most of it. I can't help but think it'll be a mecca, just haven't found the time to get in there yet. Honestly, I've been waiting for a dog, too. It's so full of phragmites surrounding the narrow shallow guts that until it snows or we have a couple good winter storms, I'd be hard put to find any duck that fell out of the water. I need that to smash down the reeds, but the last two winters, we just haven't had that. Maybe I'll load up a couple thermacells in the hybrid and go mark out a couple spots next month. I really want to get in there.

get in their in July and round up yourself a pond

[assateague]

There's actually two big open areas, about 100'x300' that are inaccessible by anything but canoe or kayak. Or hybrid, and that's iffy a couple spots- I'm pushing pretty hard to squeeze through some of the banks. If I tried it at low tide, I don't think it'd work. But if I could get back in there, I'd be surrounded about 200 yards away by a private woodline, and wider deeper water cuts. I could see those bigger guts getting filled up with hunters blasting, and my little "sanctuaries" being filled to the gills with escapees looking for a safe haven. And there's no way greenjeans could walk in, or get there in one of his Boston Whalers. No way, no how.

[Feelin' Fowl]

Sounds like a Sunday spot

I think this is where something clever about tapatalk should go.

[rebelp74]

Ha!

[flight control]

I started building a layout boat around December, and never touched it since. We sold the one we were using and bought the materials to build three new and improved ones. I need to get on that. Or I'll be body booting for divers this year.

[Bootlipkiller]

I started building a layout boat around December, and never touched it since. We sold the one we were using and bought the materials to build three new and improved ones. I need to get on that. Or I'll be body booting for divers this year.

That shit looks cold!

[assateague]

It will come as a surprise to absolutely nobody that I recently found out that is illegal in MD. Add another one to the list.

[Tomkat]

Season prep, KKK style!

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Thanks Jerry! The antelope was really good.


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[Tiler_J]

Nothing! A day or two before the season I will throw all my stuff together in a pile. Gun, shells, cammo, calls, alcohol, and waders. Haul it all to the club the night before opener. Blinds will already be brushed, decoys sitting in the blind. It's pricey but sure makes things easy.

[Bulldog0156]

I need to get a layout blind and field decoys. On the plus side, I'm pretty sure I will have 2500 acres of wheat locked down by the end of summer.

[jarbo03]

I need to get a layout blind and field decoys. On the plus side, I'm pretty sure I will have 2500 acres of wheat locked down by the end of summer.

What town did you say you'd be living in?

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[flight control]

It will come as a surprise to absolutely nobody that I recently found out that is illegal in MD. Add another one to the list.

Body booting? I saw it on a tv show, I think it was ducks unlimited, and I could have swore they were in Maryland. They were hunting the Chessapeake.

[flight control]

I started building a layout boat around December, and never touched it since. We sold the one we were using and bought the materials to build three new and improved ones. I need to get on that. Or I'll be body booting for divers this year.

That shit looks cold!

Looks fun too. I will be doing it this year for geese. For late season divers, I would much rather be in the layout.

[assateague]

It will come as a surprise to absolutely nobody that I recently found out that is illegal in MD. Add another one to the list.

Body booting? I saw it on a tv show, I think it was ducks unlimited, and I could have swore they were in Maryland. They were hunting the Chessapeake.

There are two places you can do it, I think the Susquehanna Flats (northern Chesapeake) and somewhere around the Potomac (southeastern Chesapeake). Everywhere else, it's against the law to hunt off the bottom. Gotta be in a boat, or on the shore.

[Bootlipkiller]

It will come as a surprise to absolutely nobody that I recently found out that is illegal in MD. Add another one to the list.

Body booting? I saw it on a tv show, I think it was ducks unlimited, and I could have swore they were in Maryland. They were hunting the Chessapeake.

There are two places you can do it, I think the Susquehanna Flats (northern Chesapeake) and somewhere around the Potomac (southeastern Chesapeake). Everywhere else, it's against the law to hunt off the bottom. Gotta be in a boat, or on the shore.

Well that's just fucking stupid.

[flight control]

It will come as a surprise to absolutely nobody that I recently found out that is illegal in MD. Add another one to the list.

Body booting? I saw it on a tv show, I think it was ducks unlimited, and I could have swore they were in Maryland. They were hunting the Chessapeake.

There are two places you can do it, I think the Susquehanna Flats (northern Chesapeake) and somewhere around the Potomac (southeastern Chesapeake). Everywhere else, it's against the law to hunt off the bottom. Gotta be in a boat, or on the shore.

Well that's just fucking stupid.

Well said boot

[assateague]

Those are the EXACT words that come out of my mouth at least twice, every time I actually read the regs.

[rebelp74]

What is body booting?

[jehler]

What is body booting?

http://youtu.be/d-nrg7Ag9Eg

[Flightstopper]

What is body booting?

From what I saw its just standing in water off the shore. Must fall into the diver hunter elite group that make up a clever name for it to make up for their short cranks.

[Goldfish]

It's a fancy term for walking your ass out and standing in the decoys in the open to hunt

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[rebelp74]

Gotcha, thanks for that. Only in diver hunting!

[jehler]

Gotcha, thanks for that. Only in diver hunting!

nope, mostly for geese as far as I know

[rebelp74]

I've done that for snow geese, put on a white parka and lay down in a field.