TeamLockedUP
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Ok so went and burned some gas today scouting only seen 2 birds a woodie and a gadwall but with the snow forcasted for saturday I'm thinking the 8th might get interesting for sure
Gotta get cold enough up here first. Lotsa web feet still here
I'm not expecting this 2 day cold spell for us to do anything, need consistent cold up north for any birds to make te push
I have seen duck number change around here with fronts like this regardless if its froze up north been hunting to many years here but were off to a good start with cold lot better than last year
Ok yall act like I said every freaking duck from canada would be here after this little snow storm which it want but it will still put birds moving and location will be the key to any sucess for this opening split and I'm sure some of you are sitting on some new birds in swamps and impoundments due to the cooler weather we have seen no prob not 100s or 1000s but I'm sure there's a few it would be what I call early migrants cause we typically don't get birds in my part till late Dec-Jan sometimes not till after the season but hey a coldfront of any size coming through is better then a heat wave for duck seasonBeen hunting NC for 37 or so years......and can tell you till the freeze line is just to our north, then the ducks will not be here.....got lots and lots of journal entries to prove this........
Teal maybe but the mallards and such are still holding tight. Crops are coming off and we have fields full of ducks and geese. Only supposed to be mid to upper 20s for lows then back to 30s. You may get a small push but we haven't even seen big numbers arriving here yet.
If I had a place you'd sure be welcome..
I've been hunting NC since 1987 and yes some ducks don't move til they're forced to and some do. A whole lot of ducks migrate on a timeframe. I've seen ringnecks for example show by the 1000's with a coldfront and I've seen 'em show by equal numbers without a coldfront. I've seen ringnecks in huntable numbers in Miss. in mid Nov. in the past. Duck hunting aint just about shooting big ducks, it's about shooting ducks. each one having their own qualities. I myself don't get to excited about duck season opening up in early Nov. I wish it came in for only the week of Thanksgiving. Back in the day I never had an issue finding ducks during that week, big ducks medium ducks, small ducks, divers and puddle ducks. I could have just as many good hunts or more in that one week than I expect to have during this whole upcoming 2nd split. But who knows? Surely not any of us. One thing to consider in regards to Justin's post, we don't get all of our ducks from the region he's in. The ducks in the atlantic flyway don't have the vast Ag fields full of waste grain to keep them tight. I'm with TeamlockedUP on this, most all of us are gonna be out on the 8th. I personally will feel better knowing a front came thru and at the least helped to cool things down than being stuck in a stagnate warm spell that sure won't move ducks.
Justin I'm sure i can speak for all of us here in saying we appreciate your info. Keep it coming.While the Atlantic ducks don't all come from this area, majority does. Just checked the 10day. Get ready. Small waters are gettinfrewdy to get hard up here.
Also without a doubt they don't all come from up here, but if I can help be some eyes for what's going on in a relatively ducky place, it's a post I dont mind making.
That said we got some weather over the weekwbs that froze some of the marshes. Coincidentally, seeing less webbed feet. They're not on the big waters either, get ready.
As said, the moon should move a bunch out regardless.
first flock of swan I've seen this season flew over the house last night. About 2 weeks ahead of normal.