Duck Totals

[eastduck]

OK it's time for the totals of the 2005 season
65 Ducks and 13 geese
22 hunting trips that averages about 3 birds a trip
shot 93 times for a ~70% shooting percentage
Had 2 doubles with one shot.
Had 1 triple with three shots
Took no banded birds but my buddy had 3 during the 2005 season.
Met some great people and had a bunch of fun. Hope everyone else did too? Next year will be 30 years as a duck hunter and every year gets better. Build some wood duck boxes or some mallard flats this spring, kill a fox if you have the chance gear up for next year with good end of the years sales.

Now, let's direct our attention to protecting the yellow perch from a commercial fishery proposal in MD.
Eastduck

[choptank]

Hmmm...lets see

I as well met some realy great guys this season. However this was my first year for waterfowling and moving to Md's Shore did not hurt!

Approx

30 geese...5 snows
30 Scaup
10 Scoters
10 Buffys
1 Old Squaw drake
and my only puddle duck was my drake Widgeon shot with Eastduck!

Oh yeah and a partridge in a pear tree!

Jason

[poon patrol]

Not sure, but it wasn't a great season for bird numbers in the area. It was a fun season as is every year!

[swancaller]

Dont remember the numbers from much of the season but do have the last 6 days. I am a guide and hunt everyday so these numbers are for one boat 6 different hunts.

96 ducks bluebills, teal, gadwall, 2 buffleheads, 2 ruddy's, blackducks, red heads

4 geese-we are allowed 1 per year by permit only
4 swans-we are allowed 1 per year by permit only


the first week of the Nov season had 3 days in which we killed our 6 man limit of 30 ducks mostly mallards, bluebills and teal

[eastduck]

Now that is some shooting. I am impressed.

[BIG EYE]

Did not hunt as much as in years past, but we killed good numbers when we did go, in fact the last shoot produced a limmit of mallards for all three of us. I believe this was the year for the farm pond massacre. Can't wait till next year, but still planing to thin the goose population in these parts!

[crazylegs]

7 duck hunts and 12 goose hunts

3 mallards
8 widgeon
6 gadwall
2 rb mergansers
3 blue bill
1 ringneck
2 black
15 oldsquaw
27 canadas

These don't include the 200+ we shot in Mexico and the 20 Sand Hill Cranes

[swancaller]

Eastduck we have a lot of ducks that winter here. our entire county is filled with personal impoundments. the last week i never even PICKED up a duck call. We had roughly 40,000 bluebills flying the river!!

[eastduck]

That's awesome I used to live in Manteo and hunted several times with Bill Blount at Matamaskeet Ventures over by Englehard and can attest to the amount of birds in that area.
We had a similar situation in N Virginia at our undisclosed location We generally had between 10-20K BB around at any given time. But it still is not like NC where we would see 40-80k per day on the impoundments.
Maybe I'll come down next year aren't you friends with Butch from Matthews county? If so we hunted together last year.

[swancaller]

I dont know Butch. I guide for Stuarts lodge. Bill Blount hunts with us. His boys hunted with Watson this year.