fishinwrench Posted November 25, 2023 Share Posted November 25, 2023 41 minutes ago, BilletHead said: You will never know. goes all the way back to hunter gatherers. Anything was fair game. Anything so as not to starve. Well $#!t, you'd starve to death trying to find a woodcock. Might as well eat a woodpecker. 👍 Hawg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjm Posted November 25, 2023 Share Posted November 25, 2023 They seem to be a lot more common in the New England states. Not too hard to find at all, if you walk in the right kind of woods. And there is a lot more moist dirt there than here. In the 14 years I spent there, I don't recall ever seeing completely dry dirt. BilletHead 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishinwrench Posted November 25, 2023 Share Posted November 25, 2023 16 minutes ago, tjm said: They seem to be a lot more common in the New England states. Not too hard to find at all, if you walk to New England. 🙄 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BilletHead Posted November 25, 2023 Share Posted November 25, 2023 1 hour ago, tjm said: They seem to be a lot more common in the New England states. Not too hard to find at all, if you walk in the right kind of woods. And there is a lot more moist dirt there than here. In the 14 years I spent there, I don't recall ever seeing completely dry dirt. Habitat is everything. "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdmidwest Posted November 26, 2023 Share Posted November 26, 2023 1 hour ago, BilletHead said: Habat is everything. You need a quell specker tjm and BilletHead 1 1 "Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously." — Hunter S. Thompson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjm Posted November 26, 2023 Share Posted November 26, 2023 Any place you can dig fishing worms with a sharp pencil and the brush is too thick to swing a shotgun should be good habitat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members slabstacker Posted November 27, 2023 Author Members Share Posted November 27, 2023 Went out to a different spot this morning and hit them again. Just to darn much fun! I am going to try them one more time tomorrow, it’s the last day the season is open for them. We had a blast this morning, same as it was last Friday, worked just inside the draws around creek beds. Terrible picture but was in a bit of a hurry to get things loaded and head back towards the house. bfishn, snagged in outlet 3, tjm and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfishn Posted November 28, 2023 Share Posted November 28, 2023 Cool! I remember kicking up 2 or 3 of them as a kid. First one scared the devil out of me. I think that was the same trip my dog pointed 3 turkeys in a little patch of cemetery grass. Seems they have a cult following at woodcockmigration.org . Here's a GPS track of 6 that were tagged in Canada. tjm, snagged in outlet 3 and BilletHead 3 I can't dance like I used to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdmidwest Posted November 28, 2023 Share Posted November 28, 2023 2018-3 got turned around in Louisana and ended up back in Illinois. They are erratic flyers. His gps must have been using Apple maps. bfishn and snagged in outlet 3 1 1 "Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously." — Hunter S. Thompson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjm Posted November 28, 2023 Share Posted November 28, 2023 No dates on the map, it was maybe an early return to QC. I've seen them headed north in Feb./Mar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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