Low Numbers?????

[R. Chapman]

Well, just got done with the youth hunt for my last and final year. And I noticed something: it seems like the numbers are substantially low for local ducks this time of year. The last 2 years I have been doing the youth hunt, I limited out on ducks, Canada's, and coots. This year, I only got 5 ducks total and I saw about 20 total. Kinda depressing to say the least. Have any of you folks noticed a drop or rise in your local bird population?

[bill herian]

Haven't gone and looked myself, but DU tells me numbers are up.

[The Duck Hammer]

Migration hasn't gotten into full swing yet.

[AKPirate]

Most of the birds are in the High Mountains of Wyoming...

[3legged_lab]

The last 2 years I have been doing the youth hunt, I limited out on ducks, Canada's, and coots.

Really? Coots?

[R. Chapman]

25 a day, and food share gladly accepts the meat.

[QH's Paw]

Most of the birds are in the High Mountains of Wyoming...

Now, you know you can't fool Chapman on that WY mountain thing. Wyoming is flat, like this.



Or, maybe this.

[R. Chapman]

Migration hasn't gotten into full swing yet.

I understand that, but I'm talking the local birds, that don't migrate till damn near January.

[AKPirate]

I may have to move back there. Too many good memories and longer seasons.

[R. Chapman]

Now, you know you can't fool Chapman on that WY mountain thing. Wyoming is flat, like this.



Or, maybe this.

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Don't you know those are the big damn rocks the Indians put there to stop the Canadian Southward invasion of the white man! Or maybe it was the westward invasion of the japs, or the eastward invasion of the Europeans, or maybe the northward invasion of the drug smuggling Mexicans?!?!

[R. Chapman]

I may have to move back there. Too many good memories and longer seasons.

Yeah gotta love the season from end of September to beginning of January, love long seasons.

[AKPirate]

I may have to move back there. Too many good memories and longer seasons.

Yeah gotta love the season from end of September to beginning of January, love long seasons.

August till freeze up here and we are getting snow now.

[R. Chapman]

I may have to move back there. Too many good memories and longer seasons.

Yeah gotta love the season from end of September to beginning of January, love long seasons.

August till freeze up here and we are getting snow now.

I'm assuming you live in Canada or Alaska, or maybe Greenland?

[huntfishnv]

Sounds like you were hunting canyon ferry chapman. There was tons of ducks there untill like last week I don't know what happened. I took my brother other places and we found birds though.

[AKPirate]

I may have to move back there. Too many good memories and longer seasons.

Yeah gotta love the season from end of September to beginning of January, love long seasons.

August till freeze up here and we are getting snow now.

I'm assuming you live in Canada or Alaska, or maybe Greenland?

One of those three

[R. Chapman]

Sounds like you were hunting canyon ferry chapman. There was tons of ducks there untill like last week I don't know what happened. I took my brother other places and we found birds though.

Fuck you...LOL just kidding, no I was hunting Lake Helena, and damn near drowned in mud.

[Feelin' Fowl]

Most of the birds are in the High Mountains of Wyoming...

[huntfishnv]

Sounds like you were hunting canyon ferry chapman. There was tons of ducks there untill like last week I don't know what happened. I took my brother other places and we found birds though.

**** you...LOL just kidding, no I was hunting Lake Helena, and damn near drowned in mud.

oh yeah the mud sucks donkey dick out there. But are you serious? My bro shot 5 in an hour and a half out there and those rafts out towards the south shore?! You had to have seen those, that's a lot of damn birds.

[huntfishnv]

Sounds like you were hunting canyon ferry chapman. There was tons of ducks there untill like last week I don't know what happened. I took my brother other places and we found birds though.

**** you...LOL just kidding, no I was hunting Lake Helena, and damn near drowned in mud.

oh yeah the mud sucks donkey **** out there. But are you serious? My bro shot 5 in an hour and a half out there and those rafts out towards the south shore?! You had to have seen those, that's a lot of damn birds.

you only saw twenty at lake helena?? Serious? I wa there a little this weekend and saw much much more than 20

[R. Chapman]

Sounds like you were hunting canyon ferry chapman. There was tons of ducks there untill like last week I don't know what happened. I took my brother other places and we found birds though.

**** you...LOL just kidding, no I was hunting Lake Helena, and damn near drowned in mud.

oh yeah the mud sucks donkey **** out there. But are you serious? My bro shot 5 in an hour and a half out there and those rafts out towards the south shore?! You had to have seen those, that's a lot of damn birds.

you only saw twenty at lake helena?? Serious? I wa there a little this weekend and saw much much more than 20

Wrong place at the wrong time, and those that I did see we wary as hell. Yeah I was out retrieving a mallard when all of a sudden I since to my hips in mud. It's a bunch of horse shit to have to deal with.

[huntfishnv]

Yup only bad thing about that place other than being so close to helena. Trying to figure a way to use my canoe there so I don't have to walk in the mud only issue with that is it's bright red.

[Bulldog0156]

Yup only bad thing about that place other than being so close to helena. Trying to figure a way to use my canoe there so I don't have to walk in the mud only issue with that is it's bright red.

Just go find the old wooden boat hidden in the reeds. Might want a few friends though, it's heavy!

[huntfishnv]

Yup only bad thing about that place other than being so close to helena. Trying to figure a way to use my canoe there so I don't have to walk in the mud only issue with that is it's bright red.

Just go find the old wooden boat hidden in the reeds. Might want a few friends though, it's heavy!

say wwwhhhaaattttt. Where is this!?!

[R. Chapman]

Yup only bad thing about that place other than being so close to helena. Trying to figure a way to use my canoe there so I don't have to walk in the mud only issue with that is it's bright red.

Just go find the old wooden boat hidden in the reeds. Might want a few friends though, it's heavy!

I found that think last year frozen solid on top of the ice. And there was a 4 mallards that had been dead for at least 2 weeks. I called FWP and the didn't do anything about it because they said it had been in the lake for years.

[huntfishnv]

Yup only bad thing about that place other than being so close to helena. Trying to figure a way to use my canoe there so I don't have to walk in the mud only issue with that is it's bright red.

Just go find the old wooden boat hidden in the reeds. Might want a few friends though, it's heavy!

I found that think last year frozen solid on top of the ice. And there was a 4 mallards that had been dead for at least 2 weeks. I called FWP and the didn't do anything about it because they said it had been in the lake for years.

dafuq! I spend way to much time there during shuck season how have I not found this gold!?

[R. Chapman]

I'm sure someone tools it, think looked unstable as hell though.

[Bulldog0156]

It moves around throughout the season I've noticed. Heavy as hell and looks like it would sink pretty well!

[one2many]

Most of the birds are in the High Mountains of Wyoming...

Now, you know you can't fool Chapman on that WY mountain thing. Wyoming is flat, like this.



Or, maybe this.

for both of ya

[R. Chapman]

It moves around throughout the season I've noticed. Heavy as hell and looks like it would sink pretty well!

I'll see if I can fin it this hunting season.