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We used to jump them off ponds, that's fun!!
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Sneaking creeks for wood ducks is a favorite of mine. Stay back enough, go slow, look ahead for ripples on the water, but a move on them.
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We did a bunch of sneak hunting in Alaska too. There was WAY too much water to wait them out in a single spot, mostly.
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John, This is our forth trip and the previous three were all great. In regards to the dogs, it is not a regulation or money issue, I just prefer not to fly my them. Our female is 10 and I think it would be a little stressful for her. On my lease my lease in Louisiana. Hunting in the marsh can be tough. It was a little cold in Canada last year.
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This is sooooo true. Teenage kids around here have their duck calls with them all, the time. They had to ban the calls at a local high school a couple years ago. Since then, the crazed has slowed a bit, likely due to low success rates versus the effort involved.
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jump shooting prairie creeks and sloughs. More than once I've walked up to a dugout slough and killed a limit of flushing mallards with 2 shots. I grew up in central ND doing the same. We essentially hunted ducks like they were upland game. Dugout stock ponds with the mounds on each side were basically murder holes.
I can walk on water.......................but I do stagger a bit on alcohol.
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Kudos to all waterfowl hunters! Just never was my thing.
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
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Haven't waterfowl hunted since 1990 or there abouts. But, being married to an Asian women, she buys and cooks duck on occasion just like that strips recipe. Dang! Damn things are excellent. I'll have to show her this.
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It's not that expensive if you have the right friends!!! I let them buy the boats, dekes, and dogs. They get hard up for a pard they call me and I always go, so they know they have a pard whenever they need one. Works for me.
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Kudos to all waterfowl hunters! Just never was my thing. Thats OK, youre not much in the fishing buddy department either, but you are a darned good cook.
Ecc 10:2 The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but that of a fool to the left.
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You need ducks to have duck hunting, and duck hunters. Too few of the ducks where I can go, and still too many of the hunters. Puddle ducks are delicious if not overcooked.
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Duck Dynasty is a good explanation why my "promotion" of hunting starts and stops with my kids.
Dave A FRICKIN MEN!!! For years I was the only hunter on our part of the river DD comes along and every cousin jumper with a beard buys a boat and is suddenly a duck hunter Can't tell you how many times guys would wait to follow me out of the launch to see where I was hunting. Usually never twice though... They would buy boats with prop drive motors, which don't do well in ankle deep shallows
The government plans these shootings by targeting kids from kindergarten that the government thinks they can control with drugs until the appropriate time--DerbyDude
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John,
This is our forth trip and the previous three were all great. In regards to the dogs, it is not a regulation or money issue, I just prefer not to fly my them. Our female is 10 and I think it would be a little stressful for her. Hi Mike Thanks for taking the time to reply! Ten isn't REALLY old, but it is sure getting up there for a working dog and I understand. I hope you have many more years left with her. Man, those muddy conditions at your lease in Louisiana sure looks like tough work for a dog -- or a hunter! Coming in from a cold late-season hunt that went really well and then relaxing in the evening always gave me a great sense of accomplishment and peace. John
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Those are some big ass mallards! They are the size of our geese!
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After the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box. Italian Proverb
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