stale Birds

[FowlHooked]

went out to the river yesterday evening.  low bird numbers still (almost all black ducks and one group of gaddies).  need some kind of weather event it seems to get some good shooting again.  time for the mallards.

[Kype]

I'm not even seeing ducks in my area. Only geese. Every year when the season closes then the ducks show up.

[Tbryant]

In the stand now and all I hear are geese at a spot I figured would be iced up. Going to check some spots when I get down and see what’s around. 

[Buck154]

Rain coming so tomorrow might be good

[rgw]

I said the same thing last weekend. Birds were stale

[Wawryk01]

Ice is starting to melt and I am still not seeing birds. First year duck hunting Jersey, I hope it picks up later in the season.

[FowlHooked]

From the reports I've been reading it seems most mallards are still up in New York.  In my limited experience we don't really see a good push of birds in until the real winter sets in and new york is completely locked up.  There was a great migration report on Team Realtree that seemed very accurate.  The season started off really well with cold weather pushing a lot of the early migrators in.  We were loaded up with wood ducks (both resident and migratory).  I have a feeling things aren't gonna really peak until January with the way the weather reports are looking.  Here's the Realtree Report, good read:   https://www.realtree.com/waterfowl-hunting/flyway-report/atlantic-flyway-waterfowl-hunting-holding-steady

[Tbryant]

Checked the spot I heard the honkers yesterday and was quite surprised. It’s a flooded field/timber hole that’s only about knee to waist eel in spots. Found about 400 honkers, about a 100 or so mallards with a few blacks mixed in, a good group of GWT and a big wad of ring necks. Never seen any ringers in the area before so I guess the ice is really throwing them off. Going to hit it in the am so we’ll see what happens 

[chenrossi]

Most what I've shot up until this point this season have been mallards, even early season... Mallards and teal mostly. Couple black ducks. Couple wigeon. But up until last week most my spots have dried up so I've switched over to honks because I have plenty of them around until we get the next round of quacks.

Edited December 14, 2018 by chenrossi