Stringerless! Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 Scouted after work. Back bay of Peltier/Frozen. Mud lake/frozen. Carlos Avery. Frozen. Did see a nice woodie drake standing on ice at pool 9 outlet. Crippled along with a coot. If I had a dog I would have taken him but he slid into cattails on the ice. Even slow moving water was frozen. 15 degrees and dead calm here this morning. Back bay of green/frozen. We bounced rocks off it. saw about 100 geese in the sky and a dozen mallards in 75 miles of driving. Tried to get permission on some fields but no one came to any doors.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordie Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 Even slow moving water was frozen. .. The snake river up here had some long exspanes of sheet ice on it and even saw about 2 dozen honkers sitting on the lunch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GooBack Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 More guns added. Late flight so poor light for pics. Ever wonder if that flock in the distance is ducks or geese? OMG! Where did you get all the beautiful ducks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CANOPY SAM Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 There's a few birds still around up north, but if you're still waiting for the "big push", I'm afraid you may have slept thru it. If you don't have birds in your area now, they likely blew thru on Sunday night. There was a MAJOR migration starting early Sunday evening, that kept going thru most of Sunday night. They had a stiff cold tail wind pushing them hard southeast. Most of our water is frozen over in NW Minnesota. There are still straggling flocks of greater Canadians and big old Greenhead curly tails, but the fat lady has sung, she's tired and sweaty, and she's pulling out her winter wardrobe....at least in our region. Pretty typical migration for the last 20 years. The masses hang tight in Canada until they can no longer, then they blow thru in a couple days with everything freezing up behind em'. Thanks to everyone responsible for ditching, tiling, and draining 85% of our original wetlands during the 70's and 80's! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Breuer Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 I was surprised to see that most if not all of the divers hung in and toughed it out on the bigger bodies of water. Sunday I saw hundreds of birds rafting here, and on Monday they were still here. Again this morning I saw some on Lake Bemidji. I'm going to try for 1-2 more hunts this week/weekend!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishersofmen Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 I tried going out this morning and all 4 lakes I have been hunting were completely locked up. I'm hoping with the warmer weather this next week they will thaw out and stay open over night. Talking lows of 40 early next week........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan z Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 Found the mother load this am. Out decoyed by big ole green heads so more guns and decoys Tommrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordie Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 I need to head south DanZ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan z Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 I need to head south DanZ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan z Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 Great day tipped over 6 and even knocked over 3 honks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stringerless! Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 Blew it this afternoon. Fell asleep in my layout blind and woke up to 100-130 geese screaming in my face. By the time I got my wits about me they had flared and were out of range. Would rather they come in smaller groups ! Saw 7 Tundra swans. No ducks. Not while I was awake anyway ?!?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishersofmen Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 Thats awesome Stringer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrdHunter01 Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 There's a few birds still around up north, but if you're still waiting for the "big push", I'm afraid you may have slept thru it. If you don't have birds in your area now, they likely blew thru on Sunday night. There was a MAJOR migration starting early Sunday evening, that kept going thru most of Sunday night. They had a stiff cold tail wind pushing them hard southeast. Most of our water is frozen over in NW Minnesota. There are still straggling flocks of greater Canadians and big old Greenhead curly tails, but the fat lady has sung, she's tired and sweaty, and she's pulling out her winter wardrobe....at least in our region. Pretty typical migration for the last 20 years. The masses hang tight in Canada until they can no longer, then they blow thru in a couple days with everything freezing up behind em'. Thanks to everyone responsible for ditching, tiling, and draining 85% of our original wetlands during the 70's and 80's! I happened to request Monday and Tuesday off work a month ago. Yes there was a major migration of mallards. Flock after flock coming down Monday morning. Tuesday morning was thick with birds also but I'm sure those were birds that came down on Monday as after 9am it slowed greatly. Plenty of open water, fresh cut corn, and no snow in the area. The birds should stick around for a little while... I'm sure there are plenty yet to come as well! This is just the beginning! Good Luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CANOPY SAM Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 Wish I was there.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonkaBass Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 Dont be bashful about posting up pics. Im laid up right now, post artificial disc surgery, and would love to see them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stringerless! Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 Back to field where I took a nap yesterday. Only bird I saw was a lone seagull. Heard 4 shots. Saw 4 geese flying 20 minutes after shooting closed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClamITup Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 Anyone seeing any birds flying around the St. Cloud area Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordie Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 Have been watching around 600-700 geese west of he Princeton airport and the field they are landing in is a no go for hunting but its still great to see that many birds around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strait-meat Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 I seen some decent numbers of geese on Lake Fremont off the island and the like with mallards mixed in with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordie Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 I seen some decent numbers of geese on Lake Fremont off the island and the like with mallards mixed in with them. HMMM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stringerless! Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 " Big " water. Well 400 acres is big for around here. Had one mallard drake decoy. Missed. saw about 75 ducks total none of divers came in range except the 3 Goldies that burned us. Gonna try leaving mojo home tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icecold Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 Hunted mn river this morning not a duck or goose in the sky, pretty depressing as we normally do real well on river this time of year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srfishin15 Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 One hen mallard today, missed a drake. Probably saw 1500-2000 ducks very high flying onto to the lake that I was hunting a backwater of. No boat to get to them so looks like the season is done for me. Too much ice on the small water I hunt. Godd luck to the rest of you with the last few days of the season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan z Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 Once again mostly mallards in the bag today 12 out 14. 2 geese. The mother load is still content. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jparrucci Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 4 guys, 10 mallards, 2 geese. We had ducks literally land on us in the field blinds ten minutes before shooting time. That flock of about 300 never came back, and we never got a shot at them. My friend had a mallard standing on his face. Pretty funny stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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