Rate your duck season

**shell waster** · 12-05-2004, 02:12 PM

Was your duck season better or worse than last year?

**tucker301** · 12-05-2004, 02:31 PM

In VA, we still have a long way to go before it's over, but so far this year has sucked. The warm weather has kept the swamps and ponds full, while our river and lake blinds have been useless.

**Avon Raven** · 12-05-2004, 08:38 PM

Birds in Mn seriously down this year,even in the western part of the state closest to the flyway thier down

**bluedavis** · 12-07-2004, 08:50 PM

It has been a very spotty season in western NY. My buddy and I limited twice but got skunked four times. If you just add the numbers (40-45 ducks for the two of us) then it was a pretty fair season. But the four skunkers were a surprise (and not a good one).

**birddog** · 12-08-2004, 06:28 PM

luck of the draw here .. but still down in comparison...

I think we all need to start trapping and hunting varmints when we can to lessen predation..

Canadians are going crazy yet .. good #'s for guys that like Goose hunting!

we have the habitat ... just need to lessen the predation and the results of it.

**surfscotter** · 12-09-2004, 11:20 AM

I have noticed that every field here in nc is full of soy beans during the migration season. A couple months ago Wildfowl magazine had a good article about how bad soy beans were for the waterfowl pop. Wonder what P.E.T.A. has to say about that?

**sprigsss** · 12-09-2004, 11:36 AM

I've killed 12 ducks in 6 hunts our first split. I killed 10 of those the first weekend, and hunted the last two weekends for 2 ducks.

I killed 2 mottled ducks, 3 Teal, 3 Grayducks, and 4 Scaup.

Last year during the first split we almost always shot our 4 mallards. Many hunts we went home with 4 mallards only. During our entire first split, I shot at 1 mallard, and of course I missed. We averaged right at 4 ducks per hunter, per hunt last year during the first split. I've hunted with 1 other buddy on all 6 hunts and our total was only 16 ducks.

I've been skunked on many occaissions but usually always see ducks, especially lots of high flyers. I saw less ducks this first split than any other split I've hunted. Hopefully the cold weather this week will bring some more down before the second split opener next weekend.