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First ducks of the year
#931847
09/28/09 11:26 PM
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I found THF a few months ago while researching my fall out of Texas deer hunt with my son. I will typically see more deer in a week of hunting in Texas than I will all season down here. I've been on THF ever since....sure wish we had a forum like this down here in Florida. I've been enjoying everyone's pics of your teal hunts, so I thought I'd share one of my own. Our early season is only five days, and we can shoot four ducks total (teal and wood ducks), only two of which may be woodies. I can assure you that the teal are not down here in force, as we only saw one small flock all weekend. We did hunt woodies, but not pass shooting like most people do. We put out a few decoys and a mojo teal and they came right to us. I sure wish we had the longer early season like Texas does.
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Re: First ducks of the year
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09/28/09 11:41 PM
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Folsom1
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Nice woody! We've got plenty of em over in east Tx
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Re: First ducks of the year
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09/28/09 11:52 PM
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Threecurl
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I wish they would open up wood ducks during our teal season. You guys in the southeast and up in the Midwest are lucky.
If brilliant men are roses then I'm just a field of daisies.
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Re: First ducks of the year
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09/28/09 11:55 PM
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Yegua lab
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Nice woodies. Did you see any gators? I hunted ducks one time in Florida, and I saw a ton of gators. I was real picky on my shots!
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Re: First ducks of the year
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09/29/09 12:07 AM
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My hunting buddy lost his two woodies. They both were dead and not crippled, so we either assume gators or turtles. This area is loaded with gators. During the spring and summer, we did some frog gigging and the lakes would light up with gator eyes.
During regular season, what types of ducks are in Texas? I know it's a huge state, so I would assume that there are big fluctuations in the types of birds based on the area. I'm in North Florida and we get some woodies, lots of ringnecks, way too many mergansers (it's bad when you can't wrap something in bacon and make it edible), and a few others mixed in. If you're hunting divers with decoys, the majority of your bag will be ringnecks, though.
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Re: First ducks of the year
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#931944
09/29/09 12:11 AM
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Redirt Drifter
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you can shoot anything from mallards to canvsbacks to tree ducks in texas and everything in between.
"Ya Were Texas Country Made, Got shiner Bock and Lonestar Runnin in Our Veins."
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Re: First ducks of the year
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#931976
09/29/09 12:37 AM
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Threecurl
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Yeah, the short list is what we DON'T have, which is basically sea ducks. We get pretty much everything else.
If brilliant men are roses then I'm just a field of daisies.
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Re: First ducks of the year
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09/29/09 01:05 AM
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kdub
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I saw lots of woodies during teal season. Those are some good looking birds.
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Re: First ducks of the year
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09/29/09 01:09 AM
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What is that duck with the white circle around its eye?
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Re: First ducks of the year
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09/29/09 01:32 AM
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What is that duck with the white circle around its eye? Dinner tomorrow night. Hen wood duck. We fileted the breasts and will rub them down in dijon mustard, worchestershire sauce, fresh ground black pepper, then wrap in bacon.....grill on low heat until medium rare....doesn't get any better than that.
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Re: First ducks of the year
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09/29/09 02:07 AM
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Threecurl
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What is that duck with the white circle around its eye?
If brilliant men are roses then I'm just a field of daisies.
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Re: First ducks of the year
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09/29/09 02:28 AM
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cable
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Glad you found a home on the THF. Be sure to post some of those Florida black ducks this season.
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Re: First ducks of the year
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09/29/09 02:31 AM
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What is that duck with the white circle around its eye? Its not a wood duck. i know my wood ducks
I like spoonie, his humor is dryer than my duck lease.
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Re: First ducks of the year
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#932320
09/29/09 03:24 AM
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What is that duck with the white circle around its eye? Its not a wood duck. i know my wood ducks Hate to break it to you, but that is a hen wood duck for sure. Notice the crest on her head. Female wood ducks are the only female puddle ducks with crested heads. Also, the white around the eye along with a drooped bill (also edged in white) is a pretty good giveaway. I think the picture is just playin' some tricks on you...
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Re: First ducks of the year
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09/29/09 03:59 AM
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That sure was a long cast to get them all the way from Florida. Now that you have them, have fun reeling them in.
If you can't lick your own, you can't sit on the dog stand!
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Re: First ducks of the year
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09/29/09 04:08 AM
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The September 20 - 24, 2008 early season daily duck limit is 4 per hunter. This duck limit shall consist (in any combination) of blue-winged teal, green-winged teal and no more than 2 wood duck. No other species of duck may be taken during the September early season phase. http://www.duck-hunting-florida-lake-okeechobee-guide-service.com/season.htm
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Re: First ducks of the year
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09/29/09 11:32 AM
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Duck Em' Woodie!
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I got a woodie! Whoo Hoo
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Re: First ducks of the year
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09/29/09 02:44 PM
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What is that duck with the white circle around its eye? Lots of em' floating or stomped in Texas right now, haven't had any one post a photo of any yet, but you know several hundred died in the last 3 weeks in Texas!!!!
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Re: First ducks of the year
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09/29/09 03:50 PM
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cable
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Not sure what all the hullabaloo is about. That is a damn nice pair of woodies. He knows his regs and I am jealous that he whacked those and we can't. I am not jealous however of the gator situation.
How many black ducks will you shoot this year?
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Re: First ducks of the year
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#933143
09/29/09 04:19 PM
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RockinR
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Re: First ducks of the year
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09/29/09 08:09 PM
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Not sure what all the hullabaloo is about. That is a damn nice pair of woodies. He knows his regs and I am jealous that he whacked those and we can't. I am not jealous however of the gator situation.
How many black ducks will you shoot this year? I think you must be referring to the Florida Mottled Duck. I had not heard that term here, so I looked on Wikipedia and it looked and sounded like the mottled. Those are much more prominent in central and south Florida. My son and I actually fed some of them fish food at the pond in front of the Bass Pro in Orlando. We don't have too many of them up here in North Florida. During regular season, we can shoot six birds per person, with a typical bag on the local lakes will consist of ringnecks and maybe a blue bill, teal, or woodie mixed in along the way. Every now and then someone will kill a pintail, mallard, or shoveler, but the majority of the killing is on the ringnecks. I've got a wood duck hole that we hunt that is fairly consistent, but the woodies seem to get scarce when the mergansers start coming in.
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Re: First ducks of the year
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#933821
09/29/09 09:06 PM
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FowlDreams
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What is that duck with the white circle around its eye? Its not a wood duck. i know my wood ducks obviously you don't...
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Re: First ducks of the year
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09/29/09 09:14 PM
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Threecurl
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What is that duck with the white circle around its eye? Its not a wood duck. i know my wood ducks obviously you don't... You guys are missing the joke...
If brilliant men are roses then I'm just a field of daisies.
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Re: First ducks of the year
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09/29/09 09:16 PM
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FowlDreams
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What is that duck with the white circle around its eye? Its not a wood duck. i know my wood ducks obviously you don't... You guys are missing the joke... Nope I got it... just
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