Dissapointed

[Labby]

I have been watching a few flocks the past week or so. Problem is the landowner where they are feeding will not let us in. He says his wife likes to watch them fly over in the morning. Bummer. It looks like we will be sitting this one out unless something changes tonight. I could pass shoot them but I dont want to get him upset so I will wait until someone else does it and changes their pattern. The boy is gonna be pretty dissapointed tonight. First year he gets to shoot and we dont have any birds to hunt.

[High-ball]

Hey i hear yah and I respect the fact your not gonna even bother with that your teaching your son good ethics by not intrududing on the landowners property......good job

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"keep your line wet and your gun on the shoulder"

[fishface5]

Hey, there's always N. Dak. right? Or Canada... I'm sorry, but MN's pub. hunting areas are too limeted! And the areas we do have are far from duck and goose magnets. Check out Dennis Andersons, (St. Paul Pioneer Press) articles. It's time for MN. waterfowl hunters to do somthing to restore our RICH waterfowl heratige!!

[Dano2]

I agree, but what can realy be done for waterfowl? Its obvious theres things that can be done for our upland birds, but waterfowl, what can you do to make itr better?
I'm not sure how you could make it better for a waterfowl. Their obviously going to settle where there is little to no pressure, which unfortunetly is on private land most of the time, and you certainly cant change their flyway.

Hmmmm, Then again I haven't duck hunted in almost 15 years either because of the same reasons, so what do I know, HEH!

[honker23]

HABITAT, HABITAT, HABITAT.....
You have to have water and cattails, and it would be nice if the 3 places in the county with water and cattails didn't have 20 hunters apiece on them, but we have no where to go.
In my opinion the DNR doesn't ever go through with anything they talk about.
For instance..on a slough I hunt the cattails have all but disappeared, so the dnr decides to drain it to bring back the cattails. Good plan, but they just recently tried to do this, but the water is only 10-20 feet from the old cattails. So they made it impossible to hunt due to all the mud you would have to walk though, and they may only get 10 feet of cattails next year.
Why not drain it all they way down, in the winter move some dirt and make some islands to help breeding, and then let it fill up.
I got a little long winded, but it's frustrating

[Farley]

If you own any land, get a backhoe and build little doughnaut ponds with the islands in the middle. Ducks love these ponds since it gives them a safe place to make babies. We have 1 back in the woods and two more by the houses on our land. The problem (this year at least) is filling them up with water. I'm sure this is hard to do though if you live in the metro.

[fishface5]

The Rush lake portion of lake Lizzie near Pel. Rapids is a good exsample of waterfowl managnent. I'd like to see lakes like Pelican in Wright co., Onaimia near Mille Lacs, and other waterfowl and waterfowl hunter favorites made no motor areas at least during the Duck season. Water levels need to be controled, for the purposes of food. A bad exsample of this is the Mud/Traverse lakes on the western border. These used to be World class hunting spots, Now they are unrecignizable to what they were even in the 70's and there is not even the slightest resemblence to what they looked like before the Army corp. of engeniers worked thier magic. There are things that can be done but with waterfowl it will cost a ton. It cost enough in the first place to drain and ditch the pot-holes, It's almost unreasonably expencive to resore them, unless it is important enough to us as a state. It is up to us as waterfowlers to rally the people of the state and convince them of the importance.

[fishface5]

The Rush lake portion of lake Lizzie near Pel. Rapids is a good exsample of waterfowl managnent. I'd like to see lakes like Pelican in Wright co., Onaimia near Mille Lacs, and other waterfowl and waterfowl hunter favorites made no motor areas at least during the Duck season. Water levels need to be controled, for the purposes of food. A bad exsample of this is the Mud/Traverse lakes on the western border. These used to be World class hunting spots, Now they are unrecignizable to what they were even in the 70's and there is not even the slightest resemblence to what they looked like before the Army corp. of engeniers worked thier magic. There are things that can be done but with waterfowl it will cost a ton. It cost enough in the first place to drain and ditch the pot-holes, It's almost unreasonably expencive to resore them, unless it is important enough to us as a state. It is up to us as waterfowlers to rally the people of the state and convince them of the importance.