2006 Waterfowl Photo Contest

[Dean Schellinger]

Awesome pics buzzsaw! When were those taken?

[Sartell Angler]

here are a couple from my SD trip (pheasant hunt)

[Nova]

my son with a couple nice golden eyes

[Flick]

Some from earlier in the season

Like redneck Foiles would say, "We Won"

[Flick]

"Band Day"

[shae1986]

Very nice Matt

You should have seen the ducks and geese on the lake this past weekend. We found a corn field where they were going and sat there and nothing. Went and checked the lake and they were all gone. Oh well, but i put away the decoys on sunday, so i think i might be done for the season. Time to chase deer and yotes.

A. Shae

[Flick]

Yea stuff is definitely shifting around on some of these cold nights. I saw one roost go from about 3K honks to 100 in like 2 days. Too bad you guys didnt get into any the other day.

Dont put away the decoys yet! Still plenty of open water and birds around. We're not going to SD until the week after Thanksgiving. It might get real ugly in a hurry down there.

Shae-I'll post up our opener pics one of these days. Just haven't gotten around to scanning them. Give me a ring if you guys find a big feed. Later

[Fish&Fowl]

Awesome pics Sartell. Where in SD were you? We'll be going on our annual pheasant hunt near Aberdeen the week after thanksgiving. We saw some tornadoes of mallards and quite a few geese last year, but nothing like that. It's hard to concentrate on roosters when you've got that going on.

This is kind of off topic, but how was the pheasant hunting?

[Sartell Angler]

F&F- thanks for the compliment. We stayed 2 nights in Aberdeen and one in Webster. Our group consisted of 6 guys and 5 dogs and overall we did fairly well considering we only hunted public land--not all of us shot our limits but we had a good time.

I would avoid hunting NW of Aberdeen due to very dry conditions. Also, it seems like the Walk-In areas in this part of the state were all baled and now they are basically just pasture. I would stay south of Aberdeen if I were you.

Watching ducks/geese was half of the reason I went in the first place. My ND trip fell through because of such and early freeze up up there so I was pumped to be able to watch flock after flock of birds come over while out stomping for roosters. Would have been nice to hunt waterfowl out there but I'm going to hit it pretty hard around here for the remainder of the regular and late seasons. I definitely caught the pheasant bug though--considering heading back out to SD Dec.20-23rd for the second part of my license. We'll see though.

Good luck out there and don't spend all your time at The Body Shop in 'deen.

SA/wdw

[Fish&Fowl]

Thanks for the heads up. Glad to hear you had a good time and got some birds. I'll be sure to let the rest of the crew know a little more about what it's like out there. We got some connections for a lot of private land out there near Leola through my uncle. Hopefully we can find some cover holding those big roosters. There will be 6-7 of us and 3 dogs. Should be a great time as always, I'll get some pics and hopefully get 'em on here.

Good luck in the last of the waterfowling, always the saddest time of the year

[Fish&Fowl]

Here's a couple of the better hunts of the season.

The old man and I

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Ontario hunt- 7:30 am limit of geese and even a few ducks

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[hobbydog]

Now that the season is wound down for me and I have had time to go through some pics. My camera was giving me some problems this year so did not get as many pics as I would have liked.

[buzzsaw]

Well we got a pass for a Thanksgiving morning hunt and was it ever foggy in the east metro. We travel a fair distance to get to the area we like to hunt and it was nearly impossible finding our location without following the lansdscape of the land. With that being said, all parties did not agree which direction to go so we waited it out for a bit on a small island... that didn't last to long once the ducks started flying... a few images from the "event"

Waiting and wondering.

Finally getting the dekes out (LATE)

And since we had time to kill, a few images during the downtime.

and if we could have shot straight, I could have shown some pics, that didn't happen.

[ChuckN]

Snapped a few pictures from my final weekend of the '06 season.

Chasing down a cripple

Brrrr...it's cold

Season's over

[Flick]

Hobby, Buzz, and Chuck I know it's been said before but those really are some awesome pics. Someday when I have money I'll get a nice digital.

[Mark Christianson]

Hey Flick, some day when Chuck gets some money, he'll own that motor in those pics! LOL

Inside joke. But I must say, without that motor he woulda been bellied up at a bar somewhere instead of hunting.

Great GREAT pics guys! I just told a buddy tonight that I picked one heck of year to focus on bowhunting versus duck hunting..... NOT!

[Sartell Angler]

here's a purty one from Sunday mornin':

[buzzsaw]

Thanks Flick! The feedback is always nice. More scenes.........

Diver Row on a way too calm morning!

Loki on the Mallard retrieve.

[Flick]

Buzz the reflection in that mallards eye is crazy. It looks like you can see two scenes in it. Pretty cool.

[tyler gilbert]

Now that hunting season is over I decided to get on some fishing forums so here I am in the hunting section. Anyways those are some sweet pics guys. Here's a couple more for you.

[tealitup]

Ok so it should be a rule that you have to show proper gun saftey to post pictures. I can tell who I will not be hunting with.

[mrwalleye_13]

Well i guess i havent figured out how to incorporate this url stuff and even if i do the site requires a password... I have at least 75 pictures of this seasons fun in ND.. Been here for 3 years for college now and it just keeps getting crazier. Seeing 100's of thousands of birds in one horizon becomes even too much for the best of hunters and really paints a permanent picture into a guys mind..

[hattrk4me]

4 guys, 16 Mallards, 8 honks, and a bonus Blue.

Birds still coming in after our limit.

http://www.refugepics.com/members/bigducker/wackandstack2.jpg

[Volare]

Buzzsaw: You must have a heck of nice camera and lens to get close-ups like that! What is your setup?

[buzzsaw]

Thanks Volare. Some of us photo junkies were just talking about that in the photo thread. http://www.fishingminnesota.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=926284&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1