2019 Waterfowl thread

They are just showing up here.

Tried hunting after work tonight but knew I was tight for time. Well we got busted setting up as big flock of geese and ducks flew over the field but went wide when they seen us. Just tried packing the blinds as fast as possible and got ready. Must have seen 200 ducks and 300 geese. We limited on ducks and got 4 geese for two guys. This is the first big flock of mallards I have seen this year. The geese havnt been flocked up this hard til now either. Hunting the field across the road in the morning where they all landed after we shot at them tonight. Should be good.
 
It was a absolutely perfect day to be out on the lake today. Warm enough to make it comfortable to be in the water with absolutely no wind. The water was like glass
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Unfortunately my day almost ended before it started. Just as I was getting ready to launch the boat, I realized that the transom clamp on my outboard motor was snapped in two. If it was going to break, better it happened before I got on the water and not when I was motoring along in the dark.
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Luckily I had my trolling motor on the boat which I was able to use to get to my blind and still get a decent hunt in. I ended up coming out with a couple mallards and a goose. Packed up early so that I could slowly troll my way back to the boat launch
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stubblejumper said:
After two days of scouting, I couldn't locate a worthwhile field for the morning, so we are calling the 2019 waterfowl season over for us. There just isn't much for geese in our area the last two days. Four hunters , eight hunts, and 211 geese taken, so it has been a good season. Now it's time to fill some big game tags.
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We are inundated with geese right now, especially Canadas. I have never seen this many here this time of year since moving here 7 years ago. It's mind boggling to see the numbers and watch the flights from roosts to field that are endless from daybreak to dusk the past two weeks. They are hard as hell to pattern right now as they rarely hit the same field twice in a day but we are still scratching a few down. We took 21 Canadas, 9 Snows and 4 Mallards today including one that was banded, my first since the 2012 season which was my first season here.
 
the spank said:
We are inundated with geese right now, especially Canadas. I have never seen this many here this time of year since moving here 7 years ago. It's mind boggling to see the numbers and watch the flights from roosts to field that are endless from daybreak to dusk the past two weeks. They are hard as hell to pattern right now as they rarely hit the same field twice in a day but we are still scratching a few down. We took 21 Canadas, 9 Snows and 4 Mallards today including one that was banded, my first since the 2012 season which was my first season here.
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I got a call yesterday, because 5000 were back on the field we hunted Monday, so I went out in the evening to scout, and we are giving it one more shot this morning, before switching to big game next weekend.
 
Watched 150 ducks pile into a field last night with about 200 geese already there.

Bunch of black ducks with the mallards making me think these are migrating birds.(dont see black ducks here often) have permission to hunt this field.

Perfect heavy winds and light rain this morning, got there at daylight and watched them all pile in same spot, likely more ducks than I seen last night...


But guess what! Its Sunday and no Sunday gun hunting here. Absolutely blows my mind that there is a no Sunday hunting law in this day and age . Rant over lol
 
That no hunting Sunday rule in southern ontario sucks big time but its also the reason you have the winter nuisance goose season. It was brought in as those sunday closures took away from the 107 total days allowed federally under the Migratory Bird Convention Act. Instead those lost days were "exchanged" in a manner of speaking to extend the season to be able to provide a period of time to deal with resident nuisance geese when the majority of James and Hudson Bay migrating geese had already passed theough to their wintering areas.
 
Yes I agree but the township west and north of us have sunday gun hunting but I havnt seen as many geese there they seem to know where they cant be shot lol

I cant remember the last time I seen geese in the late season. Usually everything is froze over.
 
Boy. I got three Canadas opening day here in BC and I gave one away because plucking two when I got home was all I could face.
 
the spank said:
Skin them....keep the breast and legs.
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They roast so much nicer with the skin on and with no permission in fields where I live I have never shot geese in the volume you do so it's manageable to do two or three if I'm that lucky. That's usually all I get in a season.
 
I got out on the lake again today as the weather was beautiful. I tried for some early morning mallards and geese and saw lots of birds, but nothing was flying in close enough. Only managed to come out of the early morning hunt with a single goose. Packed up the mallard and goose dekes and dropped them off at the truck and headed back out with my Bufflehead decoys. The bufflehead hunt didn't last very long but the shooting was fast and furious in that half hour or so I was out. Wrapped up the day with a limit of ducks and the single goose. Today may have been the last real nice day to be out on the lake. Im afraid the nice weather will head south real fast moving forward
 
DFarmer said:
Nice job spank.

Hopefully the young lad enjoyed himself and cant wait for next year.
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He had a blast and when I asked him if he liked hunting and wanted to go again a huge smile came across his face with an enthusiastic head nod and "ya". His father and mother both hunt and shoot. This past summer they brought him to the club on shoot nights and he would sit with my gf behind the ranges holding a trailer receiver pin like a pistol and track clay targets as they were thrown from the skeet houses while his parents shot. LOL
 
the spank said:
He had a blast and when I asked him if he liked hunting and wanted to go again a huge smile came across his face with an enthusiastic head nod and "ya". His father and mother both hunt and shoot. This past summer they brought him to the club on shoot nights and he would sit with my gf behind the ranges holding a trailer receiver pin like a pistol and track clay targets as they were thrown from the skeet houses while his parents shot. LOL
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thank you so much to bring kids to hunting ground. whatever is happening they will never forgot that.
 
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