Duck Hunting in North Bay Area???

Terrible so stop asking. :p

In all reality though it's not bad. It's more of a fly-through but it is very popular with hunters. I recommend getting a "Backwoods Mapbook" and checking out all the Crown in the area. I usually do my mucking about in Port Loring (About 45 min. East of Powassan) and there's plenty to hunt.
 
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Thanks CLydesdale, you don't have to worry about me though as I cant hit *&^% , think of it as moving them around and keeping the ammunition manufacturers in business!

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I lived and hunted there my entire adult life until 3 years ago. The duck hunting is the absolute pits. Resident geese are fairly good if you acquire permission for the limited amount of fields available. There is much better waterfowl hunting two hours north in the New Liskeard area. The abundance of dairy farms, cereal crops and a few good Ducks Unlimited projects draws alot of migrating birds through the area and farmers are much more receptive to giving permission for access to hunt than they are around the North Bay area.
 
the spank said:
I lived and hunted there my entire adult life until 3 years ago. The duck hunting is the absolute pits. Resident geese are fairly good if you acquire permission for the limited amount of fields available. There is much better waterfowl hunting two hours north in the New Liskeard area. The abundance of dairy farms, cereal crops and a few good Ducks Unlimited projects draws alot of migrating birds through the area and farmers are much more receptive to giving permission for access to hunt than they are around the North Bay area.
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Its definitely not on anyones bucket list to visit so they can shoot a limit of ducks, put it that way. Roosts get constantly pounded by the ignorant frenchman that don't seem to learn, and decent shoots are few and far between.
 
And as a matter of interests sake. Back when I was a teenager in the late 70's to early 80's there was good shooting in the area. Beaver ponds were abundant and many were still new and full of green timber. They were magnets for Woodies and Mallards. As time went on the ponds became old and as the Canada Geese started inhabiting the area they took over the ponds for nesting displacing the Woodies which relied on the old dead timber ponds for nesting. Wood duck numbers have dropped to about 5% of what they had been. At one time Woodies often made up the entire bag in the early season. There are still a few spots that produce but nowhere near what they used to.
As well Lake Nipissing used to see some good diver shooting after thanksgiving weekend on until freeze up. We used to get some real good mixed bag shooting. Bluebills, ringnecks, bufflehead, goldeneye and two kinds of scoters. With the invasion of Zebra mussels in the great lakes the birds completely shifted their migration pattern and even the west end of the lake at Cache Bay and Hay Narrows which saw really good shooting in their day are now void of birds. I knew guys from Sudbury who would head east to the west arm of Nipissing to hunt late season divers and puddlers. They changed years ago and started heading west to the North Channel(Lake Huron) for the divers. You can sit on Nip most days now and you may shoot a few goldeneye or mergansers in late season but it will be a dawn to dusk hunt many days to get a half limit and chances are you won't see anyone else out hunting, especially once archery deer opens.
 
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