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#1 ·
Good luck to everybody thats hunting tomorrow.Post some results. :thumbsup:
 
#4 ·
We got a bunch of rain this week here in east central ohio. One of the properties we hunt has flooded field/standing corn. This evening there were over 100 geese and a few dozen mallards and woodies in there. Hopefully the water stays around. We are gonna hit 'em hard in the morning!! Got the timer on the coffee pot set
 
#8 ·
Not good not bad,I killed 2 drake Woodies pardner 1 hen. His Browning took a$hit first thing and he had to use my backup 870. First time with a pump short stroked it and jammed it too. Hunted till 11:00. Missed a few Woodies,as always the skybusters kept the mallards on our side of the lake high.I seem to draw em like a magnet (busters not mallards).Gonna hunt private ground (mine) Sunday and some ponds Monday.
 
#9 ·
Sounds like a typical opener Mike! Glad you got a couple.

I took a hen mallard yesterday...woulda been a bit better but had a couple teens with us so that was fun.

This morning's weather was great. Solo'd for 3 green heads and a couple Canada's. I swear...I took the Canada geese as a double along with two of the drakes with my O/U. Yet I get a Suzie hanging in mid air, 20 yards away and miss. :hammer: :huh: :lol3:

 
#11 ·
Craxty said:
That is awesome. Beautiful dog.
Thanks! Saturday wind sucked - Sunday morning cloudy and breezy was great.

It's the little things sometimes that matter. Sunday evening went to a public marsh and nobody was there. Set-up with wind and sun at our backs and were (2 of us) hiding in thin cattails. Perfect one would think...I just hadn't considered that this was as good a Woody spot as anything else. And...where the Woody's would come from (woods with deep creek) was at our back. Soooo...when the woodies did come in - guess what...they came from behind and we were fairly visible, at least if we were 'moving' not realizing birds were behind us as we gleefully looked straight ahead and left/right for incomers.

So the group of seven approached from behind (as I should have thought through before) and didn't commit - probably because they busted us.

Two Canada's dropped in as we expected birds would but I had already shot my limit of them. Even more reason I should have been thinking Woody when we set-up. :lol3:
 
#15 ·
My group (3 hunters) killed the following between Sat and Sun mornings:

9 Mallards
4 Woodies
1 Black Duck
1 Blue Wing Teal
2 Geese

I'd say that's a pretty decent couple mornings for east central Ohio this time of year. Last drake mallard was banded at Pymatuning in 2006!! Gander Valley Homewrecker had 'em cupped and committed.
 
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