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It doesn't get any better than when your dog comes out of the marsh with a bird with a band.


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Nice! Congrats man

Got my first one Sunday.




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How the hell are you guys shooting mallards already? We don't have very many yet

It's simple. get a mud motor. shoot ducks in the face.

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Ohhhhhhh so you've been shooting the park mallards

We've had very little migration in the central flyway so far

The geese are okay but the duck finding has been very hit and miss. Which is the opposite of last year. We've had really warm weather and it hasn't gotten cold north of us yet
It's simple. get a mud motor. shoot ducks in the face.

They have only started showing up down here in the past week


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We got into them last weekend in central TX.

Just now on my drive back across the state, they showed up. Every pond is full. They here now
All I had to do was bitch a little
It's simple. get a mud motor. shoot ducks in the face.

My slough has mallards now. They started showing up a few days ago. Nice hearing them call in the morning when I get off work.

Got another one this mornin!




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That's awesome. I didn't get another one but had a good pile of birds. ImageUploadedByTapatalk1448552980.614755.jpg


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Thanks fellas!

I told my buddies I just need to quit while I'm ahead this season!


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^^ 2 bands in a week, Congrats man!!!

Lol shot me a woodie hen in the salt water marsh Sunday. She was big time lost !!!!

And another one!




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Just a little info off of these birds.

The mallard drake was banded on 9/12/13 in Dodge County, Wisconsin.

The wood duck drake was banded on 8/27/14 in Cottonwood County, Minnesota.

The wood duck hen was banded on 7/2/14 in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. Which is where I killed it.

Would have never believed I would kill 3 the first week of season! I'm very proud of them.


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Is one guy banding them, then letting them go and you shoot them?

That's crazy man. 3 in a couple days? Awesome. How many have you gotten in previous seasons?

We used to band them when I worked at the catahoula nwr. Was an interesting experience, for sure. Even after all those we banded and me hunting 22 years less than 3 miles from that location, the only woodie I've ever killed with a band was done 10 miles SW of waverly, tn.

Man you on a roll

Brandon got a hook up on where they band the ducks at! Lol it's crazy how that happens like that. Friend of mine I met through college fishing up in OK killed 2 banded mallards out Of one flock. I'm still working on trying to get me a banded drake! Congrats!

Actually shot a pair last week in south Louisiana. Very odd for us normally only get a few in January

If I was you I would go buy a lottery ticket. Again Congrats, that is un herd of in these parts!!

Awesome hunt off the Illinois River. The drake was at least 6 years old and banded in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Illinimudbug where you from to be hunting the Illinois river?

I live in Danville and hunted some public ground near Henry Il.

We hunt the Wabash between Clinton and Terre Haute quite often

Okay. I live near Eville. I went to IVCC in Lasalle Peru and hunted the Illinois from Starved Rock down. I hunt the Wabash around Mt. Carmel.