Middle Zone

[moodyfour]

Anyone hunt opening weekend in the Middle Zone? Hunted opening day killing 2 green wings. Should have killed more but poor shooting and and a couple missed opportunities screwed it all up. Only saw two groups of big ducks. Lots of teal around though! Good luck through the rest of the season.

[duckydoty]

Hunted Schell Osage till about noon today and got one green head and one green wing. Had quite a few groups of birds work us but no commitment. Had a fun day with two youngsters among us.

[JohnP]

Hunted Schell yesterday with a buddy, his son, and his dad. Had one of the best hunts I've had up there in a number of years. Buddy's boy had a reservation and pulled pill 10 and ended up picking F11 to hunt out of. Come shooting time it was non stop teal action for about an hour or so and we had our opportunity to easily have a 4 man limit within that hour. Decided before the hunt that no body was shooting till the boy got his shooting in, didn't take long for him to finally tell us to go ahead and start shooting . Ended the day with 21 gwt, 2 mallets, and a pintail. seen very few big ducks, say probably 95% teal. Did see a few fully plumed out blue wingers which was a treat as I've never seen a plumed out drake over the deke as their usually further south by now, unfortunately wasn't quick enough to get the pulled up on moreless get a shot on em. Had 3 pintails working us pretty hard and were just about to commit to the dekes just a red tail hawk decided to be a party crasher and give a fly thru and land in a tree across from us, noticed pretty quick that ducks get near as close while he was around.

[duckydoty]

Sounds like a good hunt. The numbers posted on the board for opening day were impressive. An average of 3.5 birds per hunter.

[BilletHead]

Neat reports gentlemen,

The Mrs. and I did get out Saturday morning for a quick try. Hit a pond just on the West side of I-49 (71) Been seeing a few ducks on it. Got set up early flushing a few off. Just when it was looking good A young dog started walking the dam. It finally spied the decoys and the fiasco started. it would bark and jump forward and back. I sat up in the lay out and said scat. Hahahhaa Then it said friends and ran over and loved us. Not much I could do as we were guests on this place even though it was from another farm. Finally it got tired of playing and rested. Even though it was a light colored dog if it stayed still maybe? Then a flock of ring necks shot by and started working. Up came the dog and barking ensued. Ducks went by by. So I try to lead the dog away. Every time I take a step back towards the blinds the dog does too. Pat was laughing her rear off. We packed it up and was happy to have another sunrise together. I may try again this week as I found a place where there is sheet water on a public area. Not enough water for duck boats but the kayak might be the ticket? Depends on the next two days of rain.

BilletHead