Any Northern Ducks?

[Ray Esboldt]

Hour north of the cities produced 9 ducks for us this morning. However, we did not see much beyond those. We wiped out half a flock of ringers right away this morning (ended with 6 of those), 2 mallards, and one goldie.

Came upon what I think was a snowy owl when we were coming in. It was white and quite large (I don't know too much about birds I can't eat). I was standing on the edge of the bog eating something. That made it worth going right there.

[buck 037]

Me and the my boy went out this am. had one drake woodie come into deks and one drake mallard. Got both of them and that is all we seen rest of the morn. We were hunting about hour south of cities.

[LeeMB]

I hunt about 2 hours north of Winnipeg in Manitoba Canada. There are thousands of Ducks still here. Our Interlake region is very wet with lots of grain in the fields. it is also very warm. Don't look for ducks till next weekend. It should get colder by then.

[123fish]

Thanks for the post LeeMB. It's nice to know what's going on up there. Keep them coming.

[tybo]

A friend of mine saw some shovelers and buffle heads in Howard lake a few days ago.

[tealitup]

Went out this afternoon around lakeville and NOTHING to be seen

[LeeMB]

still tons of birds here again today. Another day of "Green heads only" We have a 8 bird limit here and it takes a couple of hours to for 4 guys to shoot a limit. It looks like we have snow coming soon so you guys might get lucky by this weekend.

[Bryce]

Keep the weather reports coming. Looks like we picked the right weekend to be sitting in NoDak from the forecast.

[LeeMB]

Snow in Southern Manitoba on Wed, Thur, and Fri, It is a Colorado low coming from that way.

[Fishhappy1986]

hunted the outing remer area this weekend and didn't do anything in the morning saw a flock of about 200 divers mostly ringies we figured because later sunday night me and my cousin got into ringnecks like no tomarrow, Best shoot me and him have ever had. We had a flock of at least 500 or more come into the lake and they wanted in right where we were. We stopped 10 min. before shooting time ended because we had 8 birds down in 20 min. and though we had too many bluebills but turned out we didn't have one all ringnecks thank god. next time I'm identifing the birds when we get them my cousin thought the first 3 were bills and they weren't. but all and all it was a great shoot. Big rice just outside of remer I heard flocks of 25,000 divers were on were on that lake,Whether or not thats true I don't know.

[Jordyn Kaufer]

fishhappy,

what lake were you on?

my dad and i were out on laura lake sat and sun.

we got 4 birds, 3 ring necks and 1 golden eye...

My cabin is on upper trelipe..

we did hear a ton of shooting on big rice and a lot of duck were flying high and 3 min later we heard tons of shots..

[LeeMB]

Still lots of birds in the interlake region of Manitoba

[RaininFeathers]

Thousands of birds in aitkin area but lots in large staging flocks. Saw a flock of over ten thousand get up in the morning and migrate literly covered horizon. Also saw multiple flocks of 1000-3000 birds migrating.

[quackersmacker]

LeeMB Thanks for the update, it is much appreciated! It is nice to hear what is going on in Canada, from someone who hunts and lives there. Keep the shotgun loaded and the reports coming. Once again, Thanks

[Fishhappy1986]

A lake just outside outing off of 48, sorry don't want the lake to end up full of guys.. The one guy in town heres about it he and his whole family will be out there until they shoot the birds out of there. Really though people don't come out there unless they here ducks are around and then she fills up with hunters and less and less ducks, you guys did alright it sounds on laura I take it we thought about driving up there sunday but man I don't think it mattered we got into em where we were also.

[Jordyn Kaufer]

did you happen to go past outing hardware??

My grandpa owns that. And do you know the trading post in remer? My uncle owns that....

[Gordie]

Jordyn how many guys were out on laura lake I am going to be up there deer hunting and going to try it for ducks on thrusday and friday just wondering how busy it was thanks

[Jordyn Kaufer]

it wasnt too busy but get there around 1.5hrs before shooting time if you want a good spot.

try to get the point to the right of the landing.

there are usually a group of 2 boats out on it.

if you can get out there during the day with light do it.

it will help a lot so you know where you're going.

and good luck!!

[Scouter]

fishhappy I think it hilarious that you claim that:

*** "sorry don't want the lake to end up full of guys.. The one guy in town heres about it he and his whole family will be out there until they shoot the birds out of there"

When you post:

*** "got into ringnecks like no tomarrow"

*** "Best shoot me and him have ever had"

*** "8 birds down in 20 min. and though we had too many bluebills "

*** "next time I'm identifing the birds when we get them my cousin thought the first 3 were bills and they weren't"

*** "Big rice just outside of remer I heard flocks of 25,000 divers were on were on that lake"

Why that's hilarious to me is that YOU ARE FROM BROOKLYN PARK!!!

You admit you can't ID ducks,

Have never gotten into divers very well before,

Send everybody on this site to poor already overhunted Rice Lake,

AND BEST OF ALL YOU BLAME THE LOCALS (I live 35 minutes away)FOR POTENTIALLY OVERHUNTING AND BLABBING TOO MUCH ABOUT "YOUR" SECRET LAKE X!!!!!!!!!

Get a clue. Thanks for helping over crowding the already overhunted Rice Lake accesses though...

[Heartman]

Whoops, Scouter's having a bad day.

[BigTen]

It ain't usually the locals blabbing on the internet.....

[carpshooterdeluxe]

It ain't usually the locals blabbing on the internet.....

man i need to make that my signature. that quote says it all!

[BoxMN]

Just talked to buddies in NE NoDak, and it is blowing about 50-60, no power, and snow/sleet/rain, from NW. About 30 degrees and miserable. They said you can't even open the car window on N or W side without your face getting cut up from the ice/sleet.

Talked to another buddy in WC MN and he said the lake by him is filling up with more ducks every day, and he said what he thinks is probably a couple hundred just today alone, and this is on a small lake.

This could be a great weekend for duck hunters! The wind blew over my deer stand, so after duckin Sat morn, we are going to move my stand to a nicer spot

Good luck everybody, shoot those ducks!

[quackersmacker]

Scouter, I like your style. You hit the nail on the head, that is why we call 'em 612ers.

[Tom7227]

I just got this e-mail from another HSOforum:

November 7, 2008 -- An artic blast moved out of Canada and rolled across the Dakotas yesterday, igniting a major migration event. Blizzard conditions and accumulating snow is chasing birds out of the Prairie Pothole Region and waterfowl are expected to push as far south as Nebraska, Kansas

and into Western Missouri over the next few days. As the storm system

moves into the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys, early migrating waterfowl such as teal, wood ducks and gadwall, are expected to push further south and be replaced by mallards in the northern portions of the Mississippi Flyway.