Waterfowl Reports

[Brocster]

Hunted in Polk county on a small beaver pond. Two of us limited out quickly on Candian Mallards. Must have seen about 100+. Some small amount of Bluebills and 2 Canvasbacks were seen as well.

Fun hunt.

[FBMH]

Ducks here on pool 8 and areas around here. Had good morning shoots saturday and sunday morning, with 14 saturday and 12 sunday. Headed out again in the AM, snow/rain and wind predicted, should be good!

[dan z]

Best hunt of the year this morning! limit of green before 7 and added the filler ducks by 8

[cat-man]

we did well also this morning, 6 greenwing teal,plus some ringnecks/golden eyes to fill the bag. done before 7

[sartellangler05]

Hunted sunday and monday 8 miles south of Alberta and also scouted are 15 miles west of there. Managed 1 mallard and 4 teal for both days. Not hardly any birds were flying. There were a few bigger bodies of water holding some birds, but again, nothing was flying. Did manage to have 2 flocks of mallards fly over decoys and give a look. This morning there were more canadian geese flying in the the area. Also saw 2 flocks of blue geese containing snows. This area probably won't get hot until after freeze.

[Stringerless!]

Skim ice. Confirmed my guess that there are no birds in Carlos Avery. Went to pool 8 this morning and did not see one duck ! Heard 2 deer shots . No waterfowl shots. No wings heard in the dark !! Ruined. Wrapped it and tried to salvage morning at another big lake. Saw a few flocks of geese far off. One flock of mallards but would not come near. Nothing else seen but 2 grebes. Sounds like there are pockets of birds around but all mine are empty !

[Roosterslayer05]

The birds are here boys. Hunted a loafing spot sunday evning over 8 decoys and limited on mallards with a bonus gadwall. Witnessed several good size flocks of mallards migrating south into the heavy south wind. Got my 4th greenhead with about 15 minutes left of shooting time and watched as mutiple flocks came into the spread. Very call responsive birds. Had a greenhead land in the decoys while I was out in the water picking up my last bird and he dident pay any attention to me, just started swiming around and feeding. This is the best season iv ever had for honkers and ducks, and its only going to get better from here.

[BrdHunter01]

U got ur 4th greenhead w 15 mins left of shooting time? Were u out there all day to get those 4 greenheads?

[strait-meat]

I think he just hunted the evening "Sunday evening". What county or part of MN were you in Roosterslayer? I am going out tomorrow out west near Alex. I'll report when I get back.

[FBMH]

Got out this morning before school. Limited by 830am. New puddle ducks and divers in the area. very call and decoy responsive so they are for sure new birds, along with them being veeery big canadian birds! Get out there, its game on!

[BrdHunter01]

Very few ducks on a metro lake this morning. Heard the same thing from a party that was down there mon morning....

[dan z]

went out yesterday same lake a 10th of the birds still managed 12 and add to that 4 Wanton wastes could tell they were day old birds a little more leary of finishing off. Still a great day out in the boat for being public water

[icecold]

Hunted minnesota river this morning 2 small flocks of teal and 2 flocks of wooducks, missed wooducks, below tree line and didnt see them in low light conditons until to late

[Stringerless!]

North metro. Nothing. Geese flared.Mojo. One small flock of ducks seen. Tundra swans migrating all morning

[luckycrank]

do you ever work? lol watched huge numbers monday as you said probally a tenth remain

[strait-meat]

Limited out this morning on a solo hunt out West. Plenty of mallards in the area and GWT. Fun hunt and the birds worked well and had all shots with feet down and cupped up in the decoys. Passed on many divers (ringbills, cans and buffs) Geese were moving in big flocks too. Ice starting to form on some of the small pole holes. Tomorrow should be good too. I felt like I was hunting in ND.

[Maxxed Out]

Full Moon and NW winds are usually an exciting combo this time of year. I'll be out on Lac tomorrow. It was too windy for a count but I'm hearing good things. There were reports of a big number of snow geese on Marsh lake earlier in the week.

[H0LE HOPPER]

Definately a big push of ducks clouds were black up here seemed like the push started sunday got a limit for 6 on a lake north of bemidji then went monday night cooked some duck in the duck blind with a few buds didnt reeally focus on shooting birds but shotten and [PoorWordUsage] the whole time went out this mornig and shot abunch of mallards even got one with a band... might try tommorrow depending if we eat duck tonight hopefully it will still be snowing tommorrow morn though

[dan z]

do you ever work? lol watched huge numbers monday as you said probally a tenth remain

Laid off

[RumRiverRat]

Did some scouting this morning.

Found some divers.

Hope they are still there in the morning.

Expect new arrivals today with the wind the last couple.

[WallyGader]

Just got back from my first nodak trip of the year, LOTS of juvie snows, this spring should be another blood bath. 4 days of hunting we shot 246 snows, wich one the days we only shot 24, 16 lesser canadas, 1 greater, and with the mallards the thickest i have seen limits came quick. Met some of nodaks finest and shared a hunt with a father and 2 sons which in turn lead to dinner and bird cleaning at there house and hopefully some life long friends!

[HugoBox]

Was out for a bit this AM. You'd think this wind would have help. Not where I was in the north metro. Very few birds seen, but I was only out for the first hour or so. Hoping for something to improve by the weekend.

[albino_polarbear]

Went out today, got 3 ducks. But really it only counts as 1 because 2 of them were coots. The other was a hen mallard. Saw a good amount of ducks, just couldn't get them to come in. Ice is starting to form a little bit. At the boat access there was some skim ice.

[Arago]

Why are you shooting coots? Do you eat them??!!

[strait-meat]

Went out west again to the same spot and maybe about 50 or so ducks on the water. It was night and day difference. It was very slow. Did manage to get a nice drake mallard though. Passed on two solo hen mallards that landed 10 yds from me. Scouted around and found a whole wad of ducks. Hunted them in the mid morning and filled out on 5 GWT. Fun hunt. Most mallards and teal I've seen so far this year in one spot--would guess close to 500--fun to watch. Also found 3 large rafts (150-200) of ringbills. Geese were on the move as well.