I love hunting ducks as well as turkeys. Our early teal is in now. I went with a buddy Thursday and we shot our two man limit, but lost two without the dog. We met three other buddies for today. 5 of us shot 15, only lost one. Brought the dog this time. Thursday we probably saw 1000 teal in front of the weather. Today maybe 50. We had four groups come in to the guns and we made it count.
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I dont wear waders in early season. Im ok with wet pants, but I took a spill and sunk up to my gut in pluff mud today. The guys thought it was funny and had to have a picture of me.
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Way to go, that's smashing those smoking fast little jokers!! It's not a good waterfowl hunt until somebody takes a good spill. :z-guntootsmiley:
Way to go! That was some good shooting..... :icon_thumright:
MMMM, smothered teal over rice or grits.
Quote from: Gold Spur on September 16, 2011, 08:01:05 PM
Way to go! That was some good shooting..... :icon_thumright:
:agreed: :z-guntootsmiley:
Quote from: dirt road ninja on September 16, 2011, 09:25:41 PM
MMMM, smothered teal over rice or grits.
Sounds like recipe time to me.
:z-winnersmiley: way to go - Ive got about 1 week for our teal season - should be real good :you_rock:
WTG Del. I've never killed a drake blue wing. We don't have them here. Very rarely do we ever see them. We have lots of green wing and some cinnamon. Congrats on a nice shoot.
TRKYHTR
We dont get a lot of them either. They are usually in Florida when fully plummed. Early season blue wings arent plummed. Never get Cinamons.. when ever you want to travel and head to FL....count me in.
Here is the ONLY fulled plummed blue wing drake I have ever killed. Teal are my favorite. Ill take six over any other duck out there all day long.
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That is sweet Del. I like that alot.
TRKYHTR
Nice shootin :icon_thumright:
Looks like yall had a blast. congrats
Quote from: savduck on September 16, 2011, 11:00:21 PM
We dont get a lot of them either. They are usually in Florida when fully plummed. Early season blue wings arent plummed. Never get Cinamons.. when ever you want to travel and head to FL....count me in.
Here is the ONLY fulled plummed blue wing drake I have ever killed. Teal are my favorite. Ill take six over any other duck out there all day long.
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That's a great looking blue wing drake, we never see them fully plumed here in MI. Shot my first green wing drake that was fully plumed last year after 47 years of duck hunting. They're long gone before the Oct. season opens.
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That is a beatdown Del, congrats. Get ready for another push of them just before the end. I saw close to 300 this morning in an area they shouldnt have been
Congrats on some great shootin!
Went out and scouted a few notorious well known south Florida areas for teal on Sunday , there was one flock with 1500 teal in it out in the wide open with out even a blade of grass to hide behind , and another 1500 spread out in the rest of the area
One thing I noticed is that the teal avoided the areas with cattails and went for the open cells telling me they may have had a few hunter encounters on the way down to south Florida
soo.... I plan on whipping out one of my specialized duck boats I made and layout hunting for some fun - I have a spread of about 90 teal decoys and that should do the trick for me
Here is a picture from last year , when I get in the rim of the boat goes level to the water , ducks come right in -
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Savduck:
What region of GA were you hunting?
You really ought to get some breathable waders with stocking feet, some are only waist high. The stocking feet are better for mud, it keeps your feet from rising up out of the boots. Of course, you have to cinch the boots tight because you can loose one in the mud.
The boys in La. like this time of year, they go down and hunt ducks in the delta in morning and fish for reds and specs in the afternoon. Not a bad life.
Quote from: Turkey Trot on September 24, 2011, 02:28:40 PM
Savduck:
What region of GA were you hunting?
You really ought to get some breathable waders with stocking feet, some are only waist high. The stocking feet are better for mud, it keeps your feet from rising up out of the boots. Of course, you have to cinch the boots tight because you can loose one in the mud.
The boys in La. like this time of year, they go down and hunt ducks in the delta in morning and fish for reds and specs in the afternoon. Not a bad life.
I live on the coast. I prefer not to hunt wit waders during teal season. Makes me more mobile, and its cool.