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MakoJJ Member White Shrimper Boot Club

Joined: 13 Aug 2011 Posts: 814 Location: San Antonio
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Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 3:05 pm Post subject: Duck reports ULM? |
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Any good numbers? I've been up in SA and haven't heard many reports. _________________ JJ |
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LopezR3671
Joined: 03 Dec 2012 Posts: 9
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Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Tons of redheads in the Wilson's Cut area. There were a lot of birds flying today in the early/mid afternoon. More ducks were around the packery channel and the humble channel area. I got a nice limit of redheads today. Spotted mainly redheads. Hoping to get back out there next week. |
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Stumpjumper1590 Horse Mullet

Joined: 09 Jun 2013 Posts: 142 Location: The bluff
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Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2013 10:04 am Post subject: |
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Anyone who names spots or skyblasts birds can go to hell. _________________ Bad fisherman blame their bait, or the lack there of. |
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MakoJJ Member White Shrimper Boot Club

Joined: 13 Aug 2011 Posts: 814 Location: San Antonio
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Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2013 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Stumpjumper1590 wrote: | | Anyone who names spots or skyblasts birds can go to hell. |
Relax man, just asking if there are numbers. Because I live in SA, I can't regularly see if good flocks are in the CC area.
I have my own spots and don't need anyone's... _________________ JJ |
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Stumpjumper1590 Horse Mullet

Joined: 09 Jun 2013 Posts: 142 Location: The bluff
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Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 5:00 am Post subject: |
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| MakoJJ wrote: | | Stumpjumper1590 wrote: | | Anyone who names spots or skyblasts birds can go to hell. |
Relax man, just asking if there are numbers. Because I live in SA, I can't regularly see if good flocks are in the CC area.
I have my own spots and don't need anyone's... |
I wasn't talking about you. I understand that you are just looking for general info on duck numbers. That's something others should understand and just say yes there are good numbers of birds or PM you.
Now back to the original post, this is my first year hunting corpus so I have nothing to compare with. However, we have pulled two man limits I would say 70% of our hunts. The hunts we didn't get a full limit we still shot our limit of redheads and pintail. We have also killed 11 different species so far redheads, lesser scaup, greater scaup, canvasback, pintail, wigeon, greenwing teal, bluewing teal, shovlers, gadwall, ringnecks. We have benn hunting both blinds and shorelines and are hunting over 15 dozen decoys. Good luck and hope you can get some action in before the split. _________________ Bad fisherman blame their bait, or the lack there of. |
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SeanHHH Member White Shrimper Boot Club
Joined: 05 May 2006 Posts: 550 Location: San Antonio
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Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, they are here. I hunted the ULM with my kids Wed and Thurs. Was letting them do most of the shooting, well, because they are kids and they need to learn. Dad calls the shots so they learn not to skyblast, etc.
That being said, as I sit on my back porch in Tropic Isles, up until 5:48 I kept hearing shots from some of the spoils we hunt. Did I miss a rule change or are we supposed to empty and put our shells back in the box at sunset? My app tells me sunset was 5:30 here.
GWs could rack up some easy citations out here. Yeah, I'm a bit POed that some weekend hunters don't know when to quit and give the birds a chance to settle for the night. If you need to shoot a redhead that bad spend a few bucks for a mojo and pull the trigger during legal shooting time.
Damn. |
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BIG LONG Member White Shrimper Boot Club

Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 539 Location: deep in the FB
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Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 11:39 am Post subject: |
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Hunted north end of the laguna and ended with 4 red head drakes (2 hunters). Seen hundreds of birds flying real high headed north. _________________ If you dont believe in god, you havent been to Texas. |
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Drake Full Grown Flour Bluffian
Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Posts: 1338 Location: Arkansas
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Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 12:30 pm Post subject: Ducks |
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| 15 dozen decoys.... I would be to tired from tossen, wrapping and sackin to raise my gun. Sounds like it is working though. |
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Stumpjumper1590 Horse Mullet

Joined: 09 Jun 2013 Posts: 142 Location: The bluff
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Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 8:14 pm Post subject: Re: Ducks |
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| Drake wrote: | | 15 dozen decoys.... I would be to tired from tossen, wrapping and sackin to raise my gun. Sounds like it is working though. |
It's not easy that's for sure. If we are walking in then we use two XL jet sleds.
When we hunt out of the boat then we don't worry about bagging them, plus they are all Texas rigged. _________________ Bad fisherman blame their bait, or the lack there of. |
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stexasfisherman Finger Mullet
Joined: 14 Jun 2013 Posts: 19
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Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 4:14 pm Post subject: Number Reports |
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Wilson's Cut - Been seeing really good numbers of redheads (like thousands) every time we go out. Limit on those within an hour. Also been seeing mixed in Widgeon, Scaup, Teal, Mottled, and Pintail with the large groups of redheads.
Nighthawk Bay - Been pulling lots of Scaup, Redheads, Teal here it can be really slow if your not up close to the ICW where they seem to be consistently flying.
Hog's Slough - Got alot of mergs during that big coldfront and your tpyical redheads, pintails.
South Bird Island - Awesome interesting mix of GW and BWT down there for some reason.
Source - Fishing/hunting 5-6 days a week since season opened.
BIRD ARE HERE & BEEN PRETTY CONSISTENT SINCE 2 WEEKS AGO
I never throw more than 4 dozen deeks and been hitting average of 4 birds per trip per person with 3-4 hunts in the blind. Going out on a boat. |
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Drake Full Grown Flour Bluffian
Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Posts: 1338 Location: Arkansas
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Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2013 10:22 am Post subject: Decoys |
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| Only place I have ever used close to that many decoys is late, late seaosn rice fields. If it is working for you and i believe it is keep on keepin on. |
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topdog15 Full Grown Flour Bluffian

Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 4566 Location: Flour Bluff
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Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 12:02 pm Post subject: |
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| SeanHHH wrote: | Yes, they are here. I hunted the ULM with my kids Wed and Thurs. Was letting them do most of the shooting, well, because they are kids and they need to learn. Dad calls the shots so they learn not to skyblast, etc.
That being said, as I sit on my back porch in Tropic Isles, up until 5:48 I kept hearing shots from some of the spoils we hunt. Did I miss a rule change or are we supposed to empty and put our shells back in the box at sunset? My app tells me sunset was 5:30 here.
GWs could rack up some easy citations out here. Yeah, I'm a bit POed that some weekend hunters don't know when to quit and give the birds a chance to settle for the night. If you need to shoot a redhead that bad spend a few bucks for a mojo and pull the trigger during legal shooting time.
Damn. |
I noticed the same thing lately. Lots of late shooting going on. _________________ "Ya'll must eat a lot of fish" |
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Drake Full Grown Flour Bluffian
Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Posts: 1338 Location: Arkansas
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Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 10:04 am Post subject: Shooting hours |
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| The Game and Fish guys were out in the north night hawk area yesterday at sunset. I heard them running the fan boat in the area the guys have been hunting late. |
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Jellyfish Member White Shrimper Boot Club
Joined: 26 Aug 2010 Posts: 520 Location: The Island
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Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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Solid ducks this afternoon of south SPID between Flour Bluff and the Humble Channel. _________________ E Pluribus Unum |
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justletmein Member White Shrimper Boot Club
Joined: 31 Mar 2006 Posts: 909 Location: San Antonio
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Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 6:40 pm Post subject: Re: Shooting hours |
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| Drake wrote: | | The Game and Fish guys were out in the north night hawk area yesterday at sunset. I heard them running the fan boat in the area the guys have been hunting late. |
I hope they got'em. _________________ JJ |
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