Duck Hunting

[marine_man]

Anyone get out this past weekend? Did you have any luck?

marine_man

[Fred_Bear]

Conditions were tough both days. THICK fog didn't lift til 11 on saturday. Never saw birds til they were about 75 yds out and IDing them was all but impossible. Ended with 6 greenies 4 honks and 1 aleutian (hard to believe??).

Sunday we were beat with 40 mph wind. 2 guys ended with 9 mixed bag ducks and 3 honks.

Overall pretty disappointing weekend, and the most frustrating part was trying to ID ducks which all seemed to be brown. 2 redheads and a nice widgeon were the only birds with decent color at all yet.

[marine_man]

It definitley was a tough weekend for hunting... hopefully this weekend will be a little better, but it's sounding like clear skies or partly cloudy at best...

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[Dan189]

Yea, the fog was definetly 'fun' this weekend, 75 yards? we were lucky to see them at 40 yds.

It was an below average bird count from us, 4 of us dropped 18 sat, and 20 sunday a mix bag of mallards, gads, and teal.

After a few early jittery misses i got my stride back after the first hour, while my buddy was on the other side of the slough 4 birds came in, they appeared to be gadwells, and teal, I pulled a quad, the teal was so dumb it landed, and gave me time to reload.

I was so excited that I just went 4-4 then as I picked up my 'gads' 3 of them were smiling at me, 3 shovelers and 1 teal. I knew my buddies weren't going to let me live that one down.

Overall very fun weekend, by far my favorite day of the year!

[BoxMN]

I was talking to a MN CO coupel years ago, just [PoorWordUsage]-ing about duck hunting, and id'ing ducks and how my brother got a scoter , pretty rare in MN where we hunt... how my brother wasn't sure what it was exactly, as it flew like a can, but he thought it was a scoter...

The CO says, "You mean he didn't properly ID it before he shot it?!?!?!?" I stood there not sure what to say.... he laughed and said "I am kidding you " He said, "I hunt in North Dakota, and they have those magically ducks over there, they are nice big greenhead mallards, but when they hit the ground they magically turn into spoonies" hahaha! Was pretty funny listening to him give himself carp over his own id'ing

[Jmnhunter]

definately tuff IDing on Saturday as mentioned, alot of birds to be had though!

[marine_man]

It's monsoon season out here today... been raining pretty hard all day today.

Please keep a couple of things in mind when you head out this way (residents & non-residents alike):

1) It's harvest season, so if you're going to park near an approach, please pull off the approach or into the ditch if at all possible to prevent blocking access to a field that needs to be harvested.

2) If the road looks soupy / muddy please don't rut it up! Farmers depend on these roads to make their money... please try and find a alternative route to your destination.

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