TOO Waterfowl Chronicles

[bigten05]

I been scouting the last few days but havent seen any birds water just opened back up this afternoon. Gonna hunt a little farm pond this weekend if noboday else is in there.

 

["J"]

Maiden voyage! View attachment 70314

If you don’t have a lock on that spare tire, you may want to get one.

 

[Dustinb80]

Fuckin A man, good luck.

 

[MoonLab]

Good luck

 

["J"]

Well?

 

[bowhunter1023]

We made it to a spot and shots have been fired! We've seen well over 1K geese and a couple hundred ducks.

 

["J"]

How’s the boat handling the river?

 

[bowhunter1023]

Like a dream. Well built boat with plenty of power to cover some ground without running at a high RPM.

 

[jagermeister]

Maiden voyage! View attachment 70314

Hell of a rig right there!

 

[bowhunter1023]

I love adventure and being on a boat exploring the Mighty Ohio is one damn fine adventure! We saw a TON of geese and learned a little something along the way. Plus, the green lights just make you feel badass!

 

[GoetsTalon]

That looks like one hell of a good time!!!

 

[bowhunter1023]

I've done a terrible job of keeping up with this thread this year, but I've also not hunted as much as I have in the past. To say it's been a struggle for most waterfowlers would be an understatement. It's the worst season we have had in our 6-year history as a crew. Terrible weather and river conditions, combined with next to no migration and worn out locals makes for a long season.

On Sunday, one year to the day from our last 5-man limit, we repeated the feat. We set up 150+ decoys in the rain Saturday evening and lucked out that they were easy to clean off on Sunday. We should have had our limit by 11, but we waited too long to adjust our layouts, so we labored for birds #11-15. After a 3 hour stretch of clear skies, I knew it was time to adjust our strategies so I "pretended to pick up decoys" at 2. We killed our last 4 no more than 20 minutes after I started packing up. Works every time! Even ended up with a band in the mix. We worked hard for this limit and it made a great cap to my season. My wife is on call next weekend and I'm ready to shift gears, so I'm calling it quits until September 1.

We had a couple good hunts and now we have a boat, so here's to our 2018-2019 season and let's hope things are better next time!

 

[bigten05]

I havent hunted much at all this year. Water froze early then when it unthawed there were no birds on any of my spots. Not even seeing them in the fields like usual.

 

[jagermeister]

Good shit Jesse. The decoy pickup trick is a good one... Almost as reliable as the "pissing man decoy." Now that one gets em EVERY time!

 

[triple_duece]

Awesome hunts fellas. How many honkers can you kill per person? I hunted Maryland years ago 1 trip and we did good w the greaters. Limit was 2 per person then.


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[Carpn]

We're allowed 3 per person during our regular season . During our early resident goose season in Sept the limit is 5 .

 

[bowhunter1023]

Yep, for whatever reason, it is still set at 3 per man. The bird I shot was banded 2 miles from where I killed it. There's been 4 bands killed in that field over the years and all were local bands. I can only recall one winter in the last 4 where I'd be comfortable saying we actually had a good migration and the locals actually left. With all the industrial development we have along the river here, they don't need to migrate.

 

[triple_duece]

Sounds like a few local birds are being killed during the season. Makes no difference as they are fine eating. The birds we kill, the first thing I look for is jewelry... it’s a waterfowl thing lol.


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[GoetsTalon]

Ice blew to canada! If you zoom in a little you can see a nice size group of bluebills.

 

[bowhunter1023]

We had a bunch of canvasbacks hanging around a couple weeks ago. We were seeing random divers in random places too. Same old story: All the cool birds arrive here 2 weeks after season goes out!