mississippi ducks

Tad slow for us this weekend. It can only get better.

tsk tsk Branter ….

places like this have also ruined hunting and fishing areas. people that complain about playing bumper boats up at everts in march are the same dang people 2 days later who write reports about the amazing pool 4 walleye action… then wonder gee why are there so many people here. this sucks. im just sick of your average lazy duck hunter who cant do anything for themselves. im sick of doing the scouting, building a blind having a good shoot and going back the next daay to see someone sitting in the blind that i built because they heard the shooting and hunt where they see people… not where they see ducks. people dont want to work for anything anymore. they all want it given to them. “hey guys where r the fish biting? i dont want to spend 2 days searching for them like you did i just wabt you to tell me and everyone else where they r and what they are hitting” the common duck hunter has no respect for a fellow hunter. i could never do to people what other people have done to me. i have had people do some insanely stupid things. shooting into the air at nothing because the ducks are coming to me and no you in your yellow boat blind in the green grass. down wind ya at sometimes less than 50 yards. sky bang at ducks 100 plus yards that r flying over your spread cupped coming into mine. i could go on forever. point is lazy people urine me off. something isnt worth doing if it isnt done right. guys on a tough yr like this one are desperate and will do anything for a duck even if it means making someone elses hunt miserable i guess u cant fix stupid. kooty care to share your hunting and fishing hotspots?

Kris,

I’ve watched guys like you complain about the internet for a long time, it’s old and tiresome at best. Our rules are pretty simple, no personal attacks and if you don’t like what someone is posting, ignore it.

Kooty

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Kris,

I’ve watched guys like you complain about the internet for a long time, it’s old and tiresome at best. Our rules are pretty simple, no personal attacks and if you don’t like what someone is posting, ignore it.

Kooty

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thanks for the show ,if it makes you all sleep better tonight i live about 200 miles from your river and will not be hunting there this year…..

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places like this have also ruined hunting and fishing areas. people that complain about playing bumper boats up at everts in march are the same dang people 2 days later who write reports about the amazing pool 4 walleye action… then wonder gee why are there so many people here. this sucks. im just sick of your average lazy duck hunter who cant do anything for themselves. im sick of doing the scouting, building a blind having a good shoot and going back the next daay to see someone sitting in the blind that i built because they heard the shooting and hunt where they see people… not where they see ducks. people dont want to work for anything anymore. they all want it given to them. “hey guys where r the fish biting? i dont want to spend 2 days searching for them like you did i just wabt you to tell me and everyone else where they r and what they are hitting” the common duck hunter has no respect for a fellow hunter. i could never do to people what other people have done to me. i have had people do some insanely stupid things. shooting into the air at nothing because the ducks are coming to me and no you in your yellow boat blind in the green grass. down wind ya at sometimes less than 50 yards. sky bang at ducks 100 plus yards that r flying over your spread cupped coming into mine. i could go on forever. point is lazy people urine me off. something isnt worth doing if it isnt done right. guys on a tough yr like this one are desperate and will do anything for a duck even if it means making someone elses hunt miserable i guess u cant fix stupid. kooty care to share your hunting and fishing hotspots?

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news flash for you Kris, there have been disrespectful hunters and fisherman around long before the internet came along, heck they were around long before YOU came along. if you don’t like the internet stay off it(although i dought your ego will let you). you claim to shoot all these mallards yet i see no pictures, just sounds like talk to me.

Went out this morning and got one hen mallard. Seems to be lots of swans around, must be some new birds around.

Good luck everyone.

moqua:

where in price county are you???

Mark

here ya go here is the last two week or so…i have a hard time finding people to go during the week so i hunt by my self alot. hence the 4 ducks in some pictures. i really dont have an ego i just love to do what i do… i have a job wherei can hunt any and every day of the season. i have only missed like 5 or 6 so far this year. i sacrifice to be able to go. im sitting here on a fresh 2 hours of sleep for the DAY and am geting ready to leave in 15 min for another 10.5 hour shift. people say im crazy? yah a little bit. or just passionate

if you like looking at picture please refer to the other two posts i started about the first week of season and my nodak trip.







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Kris,
very nice, your passion is obvious, and yes i can under stand your frustation. but doen’t blame the internet, it’s been that way as long as i’ve been duck hunting (40+ years)

maybe it sounded like i said that because of the internet, people r like that. i was trying to say that its the same people that do stupid things that are too lazy to scout. anyways, im sorry to hijack the thread, and overshadow the fact that dem deer had a pretty great day. we shot 11 yesterday and 11 today with 2 of us. i very rarely hunt with more than 2 people. some guys like 5 6 8 guys hunting. kill more birds. not me. ide rather shoot 8 12 ducks and get out of there and hunt it again in a few days. anyways… lets hope for some colder weather. thursday morning was right on. we need a good freeze. i love stacking the mallard shells and fb mallards on the edge of the ice and busting a hole!

2 man limit and a goose here. Bagged within an hour this afternoon and then watched “tornadoes” or ducks flood into our deks. The migration is in full swing. we shot ALL canadian birds today, in fact, 2 are going on the wall. Talk about pretty birds, Enjoy.

uh oh… you pulled on another pet peeve of mine… how do ya know there from canada eh?

The color, the size, and the way all the ducks came into the decoys. Pretty sure locals aren’t doin that? At least them ducks aren’t from here to say the least

dont know why it bugs me. just does. the color and size have ntohing to do where they come from. orange feet, yellow bill, and full plummage have nothing to do were they come from. they are just more mature. and the further the season goes on the more mature they obvously get and the better chance they are from the north. i killed a banded mallard a few years ago that was just a tank. was banded in south dakota a few months earlier. now on the other hand, ya can tell they are new birds by how they come in. if we decoying bigger flocks with no trouble, defnitaly newbirds.

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I agree with Kris. Unless they had an accent, or provided a passport, still waiting for someone to show me how they are “Canadians”.

Old wives tale. Probably has some statistical validity since the birds from Canada would probably be the last to migrate, but still waiting for someone to prove, aside from a band, where these birds came from.

We did have bigger flocks work our deks, flocks of 10-15 were common and we’d pick these drakes out of em

Went out this weekend and seen a few birds. Ending up shooting a pintail and canvasback. Ponds up here are starting to freeze up pretty good.

This post could go either way…….I shot one that looked just like your picture but brighter feet and it was banded in Onterio Canada.

You guys complaining, should have been introduced to duck hunting when I was… in the early 80’s. There was a flock of 2 ducks that year and I didn’t see either of them… foreign or otherwise…

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We did have bigger flocks work our deks, flocks of 10-15 were common and we’d pick these drakes out of em

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Just picking on the old “Canadian” thing, not ripping on you at all. Congrats on a great hunt and some nice birds.

Out duck hunting on the opening day of deer season? Maybe you need to change your name to “dem ducks”.

Weather wise, i figured it was a better weekend for ducks… And that it was

I know that when my father finally retires from deer hunting, opening day could find me on the river no matter how good or bad the weather is for ducks, just love them critters!!!

Mark

On the big birds are from canada theme. a buddy of mine has been pounding the ducks for weeks. He has never shot a band from this location. for about a week he was having big flocks of what he kept on calling canada mallards decoy right in. he ends up shooting a big banded greenhead. called it in, and imagine that, banded about 2 months prior, less than 5 miles away….. too young to fly. i have only shot one banded mallard that wanst from the area. banded in fon du lac a month before i shot it.

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Out duck hunting on the opening day of deer season? Maybe you need to change your name to “dem ducks”.

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Some of the best puddle duck hunts I have ever had locally in SC MN have been on slug season weekends. Sloughs produce the ducks around here but come slug season we evacuate. We have had a permanent blind on some bigger water for years. Terrible area of the state to hunt ducks, great for geese, just bad for ducks. Slug season weekends; good birds early with the slugs zinging around wildlife management areas, and mid morning deer drives kick up alot of undisturbed birds. Usually duck and goose limits for multiple hunters by mid afternoon.

P.S. I have to agree about the origin of birds. As the season progresses, birds fill out their plumage and gain weight that we see as fat while breasting them out. Neither have anything to do with original location, but can be indicators. High flying migrator flocks (100-1000+) and big groups of birds (50-200) working a lake or field are indicative of new birds in this area here. Never under estimate a local birds will to stay when food and open water is present. We have shot late season December geese that were banded in S.MN/N.IA.

shot a big giant honker 2nd to last day of duck season 2 y r ago. think i bet was 12 lbs. thought it was pretty cool and was excited to see where it came from. all the banded geese i have ive gotten early season and are usually a few miles from where they are banded. yup turns out this bird was too young to fly when they banded it in i think july. and hadent left the area even the first few days of december. it was banded about 5 miles from where we were hunting. i could have sworn that it was a few years old just by the size. i will say that through out the season as we get colder and colder, the chances that a duck is a “northern mallard” ( i hate that term too) defnitally is more probable for obvious reasons. it just bugs we when a guy in certain because of orange feet, yellow bills, or just the size. heck we have wild ducks that hang around the marinas that are 90% full plummage in june and july… just more mature birds

See PM.