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| Posted: 23 Jun 2006 9:01 PM | ||
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| Hey guys, all you waterfowlers out there, when do you start scouting for the season? I'm in a relatively new area to me and have been checking some places out with some decent success (i.e. birds) and I'm wondering when I can start to get an accurate reading of the consistency of the birds there. I know summer is just starting but I'm so ansy for the season to start I wanna get out and do something. Any info appreciated! Thanks!!! | ||
| Posted: 23 Jun 2006 9:48 PM | ||
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i already started but i'm no expert. __________________ Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for the house in Blackjack.
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| Posted: 23 Jun 2006 9:51 PM | ||
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I'm so ansy for the season to start i second that man __________________ Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for the house in Blackjack.
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| Posted: 23 Jun 2006 10:17 PM | ||
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Locate spots to hunt first. Then worry about the birds come Sept.. It comes down to water levels & when fields are cut if the birds will be there. Take last year most every place was washed out from the floods. We had to move to flooded fields & timber for ducks first season.
1st day water was at least 2 to 3' higher then normal. nobody could scout for that LOL |
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| Posted: 23 Jun 2006 10:25 PM | ||
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Scouting doesn't always mean fowl in the area, you also have to look at conditions for hi tide and low tide (how will your boat handle the conditions) type of area, what will hold the type of fowl in the area, if you didn't scout areas in the season lasst year its hard to know where the fowl will be this year, look for places you can hunt safely and things ducks or geese will like in the area( food sources ).
Its easy to adjust during the season, for ducks, hard to adjust if your boat can't handle the tides or area |
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| Posted: 23 Jun 2006 10:26 PM | ||
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bob r types fasster, or hasn't drank as much
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| Posted: 23 Jun 2006 10:30 PM | ||
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LOL
Don't drink & no way can I type fast LOL |
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| Posted: 23 Jun 2006 10:49 PM | ||
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| Where do you guys hunt waterfowl in NJ and what kind of birds do you hunt??? I hope you all shoot geese because there are too damn many of them around!!! | ||
| Posted: 24 Jun 2006 6:02 AM | ||
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I only hunt on the bays raritan and barnegat,
I usually get Bufflehead,old squaw, mallards bluebills, whatever falls in. I've had geese drop buy... but I don't shoot, I don't like em, maybe this year I'll try some goose jerky |
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| Posted: 24 Jun 2006 10:17 AM | ||
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I pretty much set up for goose and mallards. Gonna grab some more decoys this year and hopefully have some better luck.
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| Posted: 24 Jun 2006 10:47 AM | ||
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I hunt swamps/beaver flows, open water & land. Most all the ducks we take are puddle ducks.
Jeff old squaws? Want some company? You can take the ALL brant LOL |
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| Posted: 24 Jun 2006 12:38 PM | ||
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Look up in the air,see any ducks? Ok...Time to hunt __________________ "I do not know of a greater good that an individual can render humankind
than to break the chains of political superstition." -- Tom Paine IF YOU DON'T STAND BEHIND OUR TROOPS, PLEASE, FEEL FREE TO STAND IN FRONT OF THEM !!! |
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| Posted: 24 Jun 2006 8:43 PM Last Edited By: Gooseman | ||
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| I hunt the Delaware bay and I always try to do some scoutin when I go fishing in the summer. Mostly I try to see what has changed in meadow mostly due to the snow geese eat outs and what has silted in. I start lookin for ducks in early Oct when it cools down a bit and the bugs settle down. For geese I sometimes try to find fields and secure premission before the season starts. | ||
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