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[OutdoorAviator]

Being the first year I've hunted duck in the bay area, it wasn't too bad a season. The beginning was brutally slow, but after venturing out and finding a few select spots local, I was able to get out and bring a few ducks home regularly, sometimes even limits (if I was shooting well, of course).. Overall not too bad a season for myself. I have a few pics, but waiting to pick up my fixed laptop tomorrow...

[Augnmike]

This was my seventh year at the duck club I belong to and it wasn't the best year for us or the worst. On a scale of one to ten, ten being best I would give it a six this year. I normally have about 115-130 ducks by the end and 0-10 geese. I was well below average on both but it was the first year my youngest went out with me so that made it a ten across the board.

[bzzrd feedr]

I've been shooting the No. Grasslands for the past 15 yrs. We use to be a Sprig club but with the limit only 1 per day our focus is mainly on Green Wing Teal. This year was not quite as good as 04-05 season, that year we shot 1685 ducks with about 75% being teal. This year we shot 1625 with the ratio about the same. I haven't figured out the shooter days or the average birds per shooter day yet but I'm sure it is over a 5 bird/day average. Overall we had a great season considering that we didn't have much weather and very little fog which helps us. Great times are had at the duck club for sure, I think I gained 5 pounds on the night before dinners.

[Augnmike]

Bzzrd, yeah same with us on the night before dinners. Sometimes when the hunting is bad I go anyway just for the chow and good times hanging out with the boys.

[OutdoorAviator]

Isn't that the truth... and on those especially clear days, I'll bring my thermos and a little chow to the blind with me.. But as Murphy's Law would have it, each time I put the gun down to pour a cup out of the thermos, guess who decides it's a good time to buzz my head???

[Soreloser]

Bzzrd, yeah same with us on the night before dinners. Sometimes when the hunting is bad I go anyway just for the chow and good times hanging out with the boys.

And just think Mike, now you have a predator hunting as an excuse to go the night before...

[Augnmike]

You bet buddy, and if we figure out the coon hunting there's another reason.

[socalpatos]

this duck season was not as good as last your for us.

[bzzrd feedr]

AugnMike We had a guy a few years ago that chased coons around our clubs. He used hounds and from the end of the duck season till the end of coon season which I think is either the 1st or the last of Mar. he got 93. I was amazed how well he did.

[CRITTRGITTR]

I had a decent one, as far as the killin goes I always try to get one of every "common species", which i did this year i only hunted about 12 times this year normally it is around 30+. My schedule was changed at work and i got sundays off which isnt the bet shoot day. I think we would have done better if we had some fog. But all in all duck season is always great. Now I am starting the grieving process, but now i can concentrate on fillin the rest of my cat tags instead of chasin ducks around. Hope you all had a good season. Mike thats what it is all about bein out there and havin fun with friends and family. You hit it square on the nose. Bryan

[socalpatos]

not as good as last year

[Mayhem]

Duck season for me this year Sucked! I got my stamps and never went once. 8(didn't even get a new pair of waiders.

[steven49]

Duck Season in AZ was fair to GOOD..78 Total, 25 in Flagstaff area, the rest here, in Lake Havasu Area..Nothing shot (not 1) in Jan..Too D--M cold, low water..This is all out of a Boat. Stripper fishing is Doing WELL, Though..

[steven49]

Did I mean Striper Fishing??

[ShooterJohn]

Stripper fishing is Doing WELL, Though..

Stripper fishing is best done trolling $ bills.