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Posted: **Sun Sep 22, 2013 8:49 pm**

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?

Posted: **Sun Sep 22, 2013 8:58 pm**

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

Posted: **Sun Sep 22, 2013 8:59 pm**

Migration hasn't gotten into full swing yet.

Posted: **Sun Sep 22, 2013 9:01 pm**

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

Posted: **Sun Sep 22, 2013 9:03 pm**

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

Really? Coots?

Posted: **Sun Sep 22, 2013 9:05 pm**

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

Posted: **Sun Sep 22, 2013 9:11 pm**

AKPirate wrote: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.

Posted: **Sun Sep 22, 2013 9:13 pm**

The Duck Hammer wrote: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.

Posted: **Sun Sep 22, 2013 9:15 pm**

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

Posted: **Sun Sep 22, 2013 9:20 pm**

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?!?!

Posted: **Sun Sep 22, 2013 9:23 pm**

AKPirate wrote: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.

Posted: **Sun Sep 22, 2013 9:25 pm**

R. Chapman wrote:
AKPirate wrote: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.

Posted: **Sun Sep 22, 2013 9:29 pm**

AKPirate wrote:
R. Chapman wrote:
AKPirate wrote: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?

Posted: **Sun Sep 22, 2013 9:29 pm**

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.

Posted: **Sun Sep 22, 2013 9:29 pm**

R. Chapman wrote:
AKPirate wrote:
R. Chapman wrote:
AKPirate wrote: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

Posted: **Sun Sep 22, 2013 9:31 pm**

huntfishnv wrote: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.

Posted: **Sun Sep 22, 2013 9:40 pm**

AKPirate wrote:Most of the birds are in the High Mountains of Wyoming...

Posted: **Sun Sep 22, 2013 9:40 pm**

R. Chapman wrote:
huntfishnv wrote: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.

Posted: **Sun Sep 22, 2013 9:42 pm**

huntfishnv wrote:
R. Chapman wrote:
huntfishnv wrote: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

Posted: **Sun Sep 22, 2013 9:45 pm**

huntfishnv wrote:
huntfishnv wrote:
R. Chapman wrote:
huntfishnv wrote: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.

Posted: **Sun Sep 22, 2013 9:48 pm**

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.

Posted: **Sun Sep 22, 2013 9:49 pm**

huntfishnv wrote: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!

Posted: **Sun Sep 22, 2013 9:54 pm**

Bulldog0156 wrote:
huntfishnv wrote: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!?!

Posted: **Sun Sep 22, 2013 9:58 pm**

Bulldog0156 wrote:
huntfishnv wrote: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.

Posted: **Sun Sep 22, 2013 9:59 pm**

R. Chapman wrote:
Bulldog0156 wrote:
huntfishnv wrote: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!?

Posted: **Sun Sep 22, 2013 10:02 pm**

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

Posted: **Sun Sep 22, 2013 10:31 pm**

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

Posted: **Sun Sep 22, 2013 11:44 pm**

QH's Paw wrote:
AKPirate wrote: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

Posted: **Mon Sep 23, 2013 12:15 pm**

Bulldog0156 wrote: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.

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