waterfowling, sunrise or sunset? whats better?

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if the only time u ever get to go out is either friday evening after work or saturday morning,
which would you choose? and why?

I know everyones gonna say both, but usually thats not an option.
 
For me, morning for sure. The spots I go to are usually passover type spots. They tend to fly more in the morning from what I've seen.
 
Depends where I'd be hunting. If over water and it was a roosting area, evening for sure. If it's a food source, I'd go in the morning. The afternoon flight to the food is never as big as the morning flight. In my area any way.
 
If its a field.....morning for sure...no doubt....scout the night before and then hunt in the AM....

If its just a water shoot, then the evening is a good shoot.....
 
We always call the last 30 minutes at the end of the day "The Witching Hour". The ducks seem to come out of nowhere to settle down for the night.

I'd pick the Friday evening it is was ducks over water.
 
I'm fairly new at it, but I like mornings way better because you get the first rush at daybreak, but depending onthe weather, you can shoot all day.

The night flight is great, but it's over in a half-hour or an hour if you're lucky, and in my case depending on where I go I have to drive back though a tunnel and a major bridge during rush hour to get back home.

A 40-minute drive to the hunting spot turns into a 2-hour drive back.
 
Definately mornings here where I hunt,early season at least.Later when the flight birds arrive(BIG red-legged northern Blacks)evenings can be great too.Tidal marshes can be good anytime depending on the time of tide,hunt the hi-water.
 
Sun up. Get out there and set up before light and wait for the birds.

I've never had much success with the night flight and there's usually more people out because they were too lazy to get up at 5 AM.
 
Both, you just have to know where to go... But, that being said, I like mornings best, it's way easier to retrieve birds, especially cripples...

Cheers
Jay
 
I agree, I prefer the mornings because it doesn't feel like your working against father time...in the evening you can start to get ancy the closer it gets to dark when nothings flying, plus without a dog they're almost impossible to retrieve. In the morning you can get up early and take your time setting up and actually relax a bit before first light...only downside is that its colder and that feeling of the frost leaving your bones.
 
I'll take the "night flight" every time, but - a good retriever is a must.

Friday night ... perfect, everybody's busy doin' something ... Saturday
mornings the marsh is alive with locals & tourists all scrappin' over a
piece of turf.

Do your scouting looking for "night roosts" ... not just daybreak & mid-day
feeding/loafing spots.
 
I remember some great evening hunts... a favorite small slough about 3 feet deep. Chest waders and go out and sit on a patch of reeds with a skeet gun ... when it was almost too dark to shoot the green heads came in... sometimes you needed to use the lighter west view to see them. If they came in from the east they almost hit you on the head... You needed a flashlight to find the dead birds...

...back in Alberta 35 years ago...
 
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