Waterfowl Reports

[Stringerless!]

Same lake. Less birds. Nothing in range. Never shouldered gun. Heard about 4 shot volleys . Not much at all. No birds around or no one hunting ?

[walleyewess]

Went out today with a friend, Got 1 nice drake mallard. It was the only duck close enough to shoot. seen about 500 geese other then that nothing much.

[bmc]

Still plenty of birds up here on the bigger waters. Good mix of mallards and divers of assorted varieties!

Can't wait to get out and crush them the next 2 days!!!

Brian

[fishersofmen]

Went out this afternoon and it was completely dead, not 1 single bird in sight. I thought well this is the end of the road for the season for me. Then about 15 minutes before sunset the mallards came out of hiding and were flying everywhere. Got a couple beautiful drakes and missed a couple as well. Will definetely get some more hunts in this week.

[tracker x-2]

4 mallards today didnt see much else flying tho

[Sifty]

Field Hunted a field in Farmington Sat and Sun afternoons.

Lots of geese in the area and a couple nice flocks of mallards.

Ended up with four on Sat. and nothing to show for Sundays hunt.

Not sure what it was but had a couple of flocks coming but they caught the wind and where gone.

Sifty

[Riverratpete]

Was fishing up on Rush this past Saturday..still some birds around...

[rbs]

Hunted out west yesterday and shot a couple mallards and a bunch of spoonies and a goose. Lots of mallards flying but would flair at about 60yds. Was using a mojo...first time ever and I am thinking this might have been the problem. Anyone else having this happen?

[booger]

hunted north metro lake this morning, saw about 16 mallards none of them came close enough to shoot, one group skirted just outside the decoys and just out of range. Still ducks and geese around but it seems like they've found the safe spots. Might venture out again Wednesday but this weather isn't great for hunting.

[BrdHunter01]

Lots of mallards flying but would flair at about 60yds. Was using a mojo...first time ever and I am thinking this might have been the problem. Anyone else having this happen?

Were you hunting in a boat? Do you have a "blind" on the boat?

My guess is they were seeing something or someone they didn't like, not your Mojo

[BoxMN]

North metro this morning. Lots of geese flying, but they knew where they were going and it wasn't to us

Did have two mallards come in perfect, and we got them both. Those were our only shots, and we really didn't see many ducks flying, less than expected. Two flocks buffies, four bills swimming way out, and maybe two other small groups of ducks, that was it!....

Two other groups on lake, saw one goose fall, and the farther group group got a couple birds right after shooting time. Slow morning, but how the ducks did come in made the 7 dozen dekes worth it, hahahaha!!!

[Roosterslayer05]

Hunted out west yesterday and shot a couple mallards and a bunch of spoonies and a goose. Lots of mallards flying but would flair at about 60yds. Was using a mojo...first time ever and I am thinking this might have been the problem. Anyone else having this happen?

Im 90 percent sure it was the mojo. Not sure about other factors like brdhunter stated...because it could be something else, but i would say it was the mojo. Iv been using a mojo for 11 years and in the last 5 years iv almost exclusively stopped using them over water. They arnt as effective. The mallards will see them from a distance and come take a look, then flare at 60 yards. If ducks wont commit the mojo is the first thing to come down.

[bmc]

Hunted the Winnie area this morning.

Not alot of wind and I think stuff that had been iced up is opening up and causing the birds to spread out.

My buddy got 3 goldeneyes and he's putting an awesome drake and a great hen on the wall. All I could hit was a pair of hooded mergansers.

Headed back out in the a.m. to close out the North zone season. Wish we could hunt through the weekend as the weather forecast looks awesome this weekend.

Brian

[Matt Breuer]

Agreed, bmc! This closing SUCKS!!

[Gordie]

Agreed, bmc! This closing SUCKS!!

No doubt and HOLY SANDHILL CRANES batman This area by me is full of them today

[morefishplease]

The refuge outside of town started to fill up with the most mallards I have seen in a few years. Sounds like many hunters are having great success. 3 man limit of mallards on Sat. Watched alot of birds going out to feed. Someone posted earlier that they thought maybe the mojo was flaring the ducks they were hunting, we had 8 spinners going and they were dropping in from way above.

[luckycrank]

water or field ? I had a couple flocks do the same a week ago came from the nose bleed section , circled twice and sailed at the last turn when the where cupped and committed . landed 75-100'yds out.

I'm quite certain it was the 3 mojos and 1 wind decoy . I never called cause they where working perfect ,But if I had picked up the call at the end Im convinced they would have finished.

had a 12 pack of bluebills do the same. next day

Im not sure if ill use them again this year.

[Bryce]

Thought north wind would bring some fresh birds. Maybe a few geese. Mallets fuged up for the most part. Getting beat up.

Still some imatures around though. Contemplating tomorrow.

[morefishplease]

luckycrank we were in the fields all wkend. I forgot to mention that in my post. Not sure how the guys are doing on water, looks as if most to all are having luck in the fields...pig and a poke though, the mallards are changing fields daily, hard to stay on them.

[luckycrank]

to hard for me to give up on divers to hunt feilds ,

never done any feild hunting, plan to get5 into it however

[UMDH20FOWLER]

Decided to giver er one more shot this morning to close out the season in the North Zone. Set up in a shallow, rocky sandbar just north of Duluth with just 8 mallard floaters and a robo. Had 2 flocks and a single decoy without second thought and had 2 limits laid out in 20 minutes!

[Sifty]

Nice pic and a great way to end your season.

Sifty

[rbs]

we were up on shore hidden in some bushes and our boat was about 300yds away. I am planing on going Saturday again and will start with the Mojo and take it down if I have the same problem I guess. Must work better at the beginning of the season I am assuming? Thanks for the help!

[tracker x-2]

Glade to see people getting them..

Im trying to decide if this cold push will have more in my area thurs morn. or fri morn?

What you do you guys think would be best for the lakeville area?

[water rat]

Sounds like the colder weather will coming in while we watch football on Thanksgiving?!?! Might make for an interesting weekend and upcoming week! Supposed to get somewhat normal temps and chances of snow...