antee has a history of being a good duck hunting
area. There is a National Wildlife Refuge there, so you
have to be careful not to trespass. In my younger
days, I used to hunt the upper end, full of standing
timber (dead), or the live timber swamp (Sparkleberry
Swamp) at the very upper end. I like Sparkleberry a lot,
but competition for a spot to sit can be fierce - I
got tired of having to be in place by 3:00AM to
"reserve" my spot. It's an easy place to get lost in, too.
The predominant species of ducks in the upper end
were mallards, wood ducks, and teal. On the lower end,
you could add gadwall and widgeon to the mix, plus
the usual diving birds (bluebills, etc.) I haven't
hunted there since 1989 - it became too much of a young
man's place to hunt - but I may drag my butt out of bed
and do it once or twice this year. The advantage to
Lake Murray is the fact that I have a family house on
the lake that I can crash in, get up at 5:00AM, have
the blocks out and in the blind by first light. Beats
the stew out of getting up at 1:00AM to be in the
blind by 3:00AM in Sparkleberry.

ell once again i didn't get to go but they
slaughters the ducks at tule lake this past weekend mostly
big birds mallards and pintails some wigeon most
everyone had limits by 9:00<br>this weekend is the opener
around here happy hunting everyone

ere in Maryland, duck season opens Saturday.
Everyone get ready! Supposed to be a blue bird day so
we'll see if anything happens. Hey guy from S.C., yall
don't open til Nov.? Too bad, but i've been to Santee
Coper in Dec. before, and saw a lot <br>of ducks. Looks
like a good place.

ook at www.camostore.com

rying to get back into duck hunting after a,
well, 8+ year hiatus. I live near a big, open lake
(Lake Murray) that has a decent resident goose
population and holds a good many ducks. I don't think it
gets much duck hunting pressure. Since the
introduction of goose hunting, I think most go after the big
birds. I still have my old 14 foot jon boat, my
Remington 870, and a dozen decoys (mallard), so I guess
I'll try 'em. We had a short teal season (no kill
reports - sorry) and our next season opens at
Thanksgiving. Any advice?

t has been very dry but last night it<br>rained 6". Lots of water in the
fields,<br>now if it will turn cold it will push<br>the ducks our way.

as anyone seen ducks late in the afternoon
start<br>coming in from thousands of feet making a
large<br>circle and landing next to your pit in one spot<br>and
forming a black spot that spreads out like<br>oil on the
water, with a sound that is so loud,<br>from all those
feet in the water, that a person<br>cannot carry on a
normal conversation? One of<br>the most beautiful sights
I have ever witnessed.<br>It's a shame, most people
will never experience<br>ducks coming in!

i everyone. My buddies and I do most of our duck
hunting either in the Delta above Yazoo City or we go
Onward, Miss. I am hoping for a better season than last
year. Didn't see too many last year. Happy Hunting.

he northern part of california opened duck
season today i have several customers who made the long
trip i'll being getting reports soon i'll let ya'al
know i live in the central part of california not far
from the delta i see lots of local ducks on the delta
and i feel like next weeks opener will be good around
here i won't be going i have to work i'm a
professional retriever trainer i make my living from hunting i
feel lucky to say that take care

ince I was just a little tike I have been
"schooled" in the finer arts of killin mallards. The first
thing that was drilled into my head over and over again
was when "they" would be here. So here is something
you can set your watches by.. In this part of the
country we should receive our first major "flight" of
ducks on the 14 of october sounds funny but I have seen
this for years, on the 13 there is nothing , the 14
damn things are everywhere, Now if they are not here
on the 14-20 we do not receive a major migration
until Jan. so I hope all of you keep your fingers
crossed that we are swamped with birds in a couple of
weeks.

have a gentleman that works for me that has a
daughter that lives in your area. On occasion he has gone
huntin with me, the last time he went was on opening day
of 97. We( the 6 of us killed just a tad over the
limit , we bagged 42, 37 of which were mallards. anyway
he informed me early last week that he would be
making the trip to dallas later this month to paint his
daughters house. There was no real reason for me to send
this email, this story just came to mind when I seen
where you were from

ARDEN VALLEY IS ABOUT TWO HOURS EAST OF DALLAS
ON INTERSTATE 20 NEAR DALLAS. CAPE HATTERAS IS FULL
OF DUCKS BUT YOU HAVE TO BE CAREFULL NOT TO GO ON
PARK SERVICE PROPERTY I GOT IN TROUBLE FOR THAT LAST
YEAR.

'm from NC too, but never duck hunted at
Hatteras. Would love to though. Where is Garden Valley in
comparison to Dallas and Ft. Worth? I lived in Ft. Worth for
4 years at Carswell AFB, and the duck hunting was
great. I used to hunt near a little town just east of
Dallas, called Rockwall Tx. I am stationed in Maryland
now, and the duck hunting sucks around my area. The
eastern shore of Maryland is good, but too far for me to
go. See ya!

EY I WAS WONDERING IF ANY OF YOU HAVE EVER HUNTED <br>DUCKS AT CAPE HATTERAS
NC(THATS WHERE I AM FROM) THE DUCKS ARE PLENTIFUL. LET ME KNOW IF YOU HAVE HEARD
OF IT.

ast year was my first year, I waded into the
Indian River Lagoon opposite Black Point Wildlife Refuge
in Titusville, FL.<br><br>Shot a lot of teal, I made
a blind from 1/4" conduit pipe and some camo burlap
and threw about 12 decoys out and sat in my blind on
a 5 gallon bucket in the water, I say a lot, I got
18 teal total(thats a lot for me) with no prior duck
hunting experience, I missed a lot of the "big ducks"
because I am new to the sport.. I am sure it was my fault
because they flew off before I could get a shot
off...<br><br>I use a Browning BPS 10 gauge.... it gets out, but
I need some practice before the new season opens
up, we are in an experimental season a week long teal
and wood duck are legal to shoot, but the storms here
in Florida kinda screwed life up, and the bugs are
worse than ever!!<br><br>Chris

I ALL YOU WATERFOWLERS! Bet yall are in better
hunting areas than me. I've lived in Maryland at
<br>Andrews AFB for 3 years now and the duck hunting
<br>sucks. So don't make me too jelous with "bag limit"
stories this year.

ey i will keep you posted on hunting in california plus i go on an annual trip
to the klamath basin for goose hunting hope eberyone has a good season

nybody have any good ideas on camoing up a blind that in inexspencive use the
weed method now i want to try somthing different. thanks email them to me or
leave in site goldeneye@...

ont feel like the lone ranger. I think that the
only reason that they had the season in illinois was
to move the birds in the northern part of the state
out so when the migrating flocks came in they would
not hold them up there.<br> well only 30 days till
the real thing

ell early teal season opened here On the 12 it was a major bust the season could
have opened and closed in the same hour.

ent out last night 9/11 got five their here but
hard to find lots of woods and teals also were their
sorry i missed the chat time but had to take care of
the geese email and let me know what the next chat
time will be ok thanks bye all anybody know where i
can get so good waterfawol pictures off the internet
so i can make up a id book thanks

o me you are hunting in the perfect places. I'll
try to give you the top ten ruels of thumb when it
comes to "Drake huntin" if there are any other
questions you have you can just email me.<br>1. Most of
your ducks killed in flooded timber will be killed
from 9 am to 1 pm. The reason for this is because
before 9 they are lookin for feed most of the time this
is in fields.<br>2. Your best days should be when it
is "windy'<br>3. Ducks always work better on sunny
days<br>4. No matter what size of decoy spread you have, the
colder the weather the " tighter" the spread should be"
as it warms spread the decoys out.<br>5. THE KEY
ELEMENT TO MAKING A DUCK "PITCH" YOUR DECOY SPREAD is to
"make" him notice it. the best way to do this is to add
up to 1/3 of your decoy spread with BLACKENED 2
litre Coke Bottles they are light and it takes very
little wind to make them dance on the water.<br>6.Try to
never place your blind facing west. if possible either
east or south, ( will explain if needed)<br>7. You CAN
call to much. Sometimes less is more.<br>8.IF you are
hunting tight spots use a corse sounding plastic reed
call . For wide open feilds I recomend a raspy metal
reed call<br>9. The key is to hide and be still If you
can see a duck it is a good possibility that he can
see you<br>10.You gotta be there to killem you cant
do it running around, or sittin at home!!!!!!

ere in New york state goose is open know going
out friday 9/11 i,ll let you all now how i do lets
set a time to get on line to chat so someone give a
time and day aand email address and hopefully we can
huck up and chat ok bye for know

c - I am hunting in Pennsylvania. Most of my
hunting grounds for duck are creeks and marsh swamps. I
have called a few mallards around and have taken a
gadwell once that really shouldn't have been there. This
will be the third year for duck hunting and you will
notice the growth in the duck population. Seed On!

ell N.time I dont know if I can help you with
all the answers but when in comes to killing a
mallard duck I can give you some pretty darn good advice.
My email add. is kchood@... drop me a line
with whatever questions you have and I will see If I
can help. Remember to tell me the conditions in which
you are hunting. I.E. weather, open water or flooded
timber, deep water or shallow. things of this nature. Be
talkin to you soon and rember "Don't kill em all, save
some for seed"

am glad to have found this site.  Perhaps you veterens of the game will be able
to help me take more ducks this year.  Just bought my stamp today.

ou didn't tell me what state you were from so I
thought I'd ask and see. We have an early Teal season
that opens here next week that runs for 6 days I will
try and get an accurate kill report from different
hunters to find out what is exactly going on. As far as
work goes I am in the process of brushing 2 different
blinds and doing a little work on my goose pit as well..
Well good luck and I hope to talk to you soon and
remember. Don't kill em all save some for seed>

,am here in ny state and love to duck hunt its
good to have a place to chat about hunting with others
me a my budy will be putting our blind up soon on a
lake that i live on its real productice it,s near
their fly way so they us it for a stop over last year
was slow birds did n,t move from up north till late
so we got some but as many as we would have like to
oh well theirs always this season,goose is open up
here know hope to bag a few of them next week well
email me and maybe we can hook up and chat see ya later

f you are looking for some where drop me an
email at kchood@... I can give you the names of
several guides on Reelfoot lake , or if you are
interested in river bottom hunting I can help you out there
also. 60 days and 6 ducks, Its gonna be a good season
here in Tn

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