The Big Ducks arrived!!

[fox-admin]

The hunting has been slow but today the northern flight birds arrived!! Shot my pin Sterly. It's been a long wait but today was special. Looks like a few more days of great hunting but may be frozen out next week.

[Ithaca33]

Wish I could say the Same! We're in the first week of our second split and ducks are Scarce!!

[MARSHFELLOW]

Good for you Craig.....our season reopened today and I didn't go because I wouldn't even know where to begin to find a duck around here this year. We used to have a bunch of spots with puddle ducks... jump shooting was a blast, guess the puddles are all gone. Our property down on the Mohawk River doesn't really ever get many ducks until other spots start to freeze.

tjw

[loggy]

Nice looking lab. It looks like a long set of barrels on your gun. Glad you had fun.

[fox-admin]

Thanks Tom I having been hunting hard. Last week one bird in three hunts. Today it was raining ducks. Looks like a big freeze thanksgiving week which will shut down our marsh. Your spot and the big finger lakes should get hot.
My little girl Lucy is two years old. She is small but a great retriever. She has over 70 retrieves this year so far. She handles extremely well her only problem is she is vocal but that is improving.

[Researcher]

Congrats!! That is what it is all about!! Lucy looks really intense in that photo.

[jolly bill]

Atta boy Craig.

[waterman]

Good hunt.. Thanks for the pic Craig.

[Scott]

Nice pictures! Thanks!

[Jim Cloninger]

Way to go, Craig. Your Lucy is a great looking Lab. I hope you continue to have good hunting until freeze-up. The duck hunting, where I hunt in the northern Sacramento valley, has been real slow. Jim

[AmarilloMike]

Good for you Craig! Nice looking dog too. Ducks, dogs, and old Fox wildfowling guns - classic and classy.

Thanks for the pictures.

Best,

Mike

[Stan Hillis]

You are whetting my appetite strongly, Craig, but no big ducks here yet. It was 86 degrees yesterday afternoon!! Season doesn't come in until the 23rd.

Good for you taking the SW. I know "she" enjoyed the outing.

SRH

[jkline356]

That's what it's all about --dogs, ducks, and Foxes. Good going, Craig. Chase some of those ducks a little further east if you will.
Jim

[Jim Cloninger]

Hi Craig, is your duck marsh all frozen up? Do you have other places to hunt waterfowl besides your marsh? Jim

[fox-admin]

Jim: Our first season closed Sunday the 8th. Our marsh was 99% frozen except for one little open hole which held 500 blacks and mallards. Walked the boat over 3" thick ice to get to the hole----the results are pictured below---the kind of hunt you dream about. We can hunt divers during our second season on the Finger Lakes and Lake Ontario----it is very hard hunting in extreme conditions requiring specialized boats and 150 decoys.