Who's wood duck hunting this season?
09-07-2013, 11:52 PM
#1
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 108
Who's wood duck hunting this season?
The 18th will be here in no time.
Where you hunting?
I've got a pond with some flooded timber and there's about 20 or so that roost on it and a few more that come in throughout the day. Gonna try to sneak in and get a few opening morning when they fly off roost. I'm gonna start keeping an eye on the pond and seeing what times they're coming in.
Any tips for hunting roost ponds?
Where you hunting?
I've got a pond with some flooded timber and there's about 20 or so that roost on it and a few more that come in throughout the day. Gonna try to sneak in and get a few opening morning when they fly off roost. I'm gonna start keeping an eye on the pond and seeing what times they're coming in.
Any tips for hunting roost ponds?
09-08-2013, 04:10 PM
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: NW Ohio , 5 min from Ottawa National / Magee Marsh
Posts: 2,051
I will be in Oct.
As right now we have early goose and teal
But those go out the 15 th and 22 of Sept
I live in Ohio
I hunt close to Lake Erie most of the time
Real close to Ottawa National Refuge
BTW I have 112 Woodduck boxs I put up and take care of each year
So I help produce the Woodies
IMO the place to hunt isn't the roosting ponds
As you will scare them away
Hunt along a creek or river where you have passing shots
IMO a easy way to hunt them
John
As right now we have early goose and teal
But those go out the 15 th and 22 of Sept
I live in Ohio
I hunt close to Lake Erie most of the time
Real close to Ottawa National Refuge
BTW I have 112 Woodduck boxs I put up and take care of each year
So I help produce the Woodies
IMO the place to hunt isn't the roosting ponds
As you will scare them away
Hunt along a creek or river where you have passing shots
IMO a easy way to hunt them
John
09-08-2013, 06:34 PM
#3
Spike
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: NOCO
Posts: 62
I will be in Oct.
As right now we have early goose and teal
But those go out the 15 th and 22 of Sept
I live in Ohio
I hunt close to Lake Erie most of the time
Real close to Ottawa National Refuge
BTW I have 112 Woodduck boxs I put up and take care of each year
So I help produce the Woodies
IMO the place to hunt isn't the roosting ponds
As you will scare them away
Hunt along a creek or river where you have passing shots
IMO a easy way to hunt them
John
As right now we have early goose and teal
But those go out the 15 th and 22 of Sept
I live in Ohio
I hunt close to Lake Erie most of the time
Real close to Ottawa National Refuge
BTW I have 112 Woodduck boxs I put up and take care of each year
So I help produce the Woodies
IMO the place to hunt isn't the roosting ponds
As you will scare them away
Hunt along a creek or river where you have passing shots
IMO a easy way to hunt them
John
09-11-2013, 01:36 PM
#4
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 108
Hunting it just one morning of the season shouldn't spook them to bad should it?
I've heard to sneak in before daylight and get upwind from them and theyll fly your way? Is this correct? I'm gonna start watching over the pond morning and evening to try and see if there's a spot I can intercept them or figure out where they're going and ask to hunt there. But most of the times ive seen them flying off or to the pond they were flying higher than shooting range.
I was out dove hunting this past weekend over a cut corn field and there was a flooded spot in the corn with so many woodies on it you couldn't even see the water. I'll definitely be there opening morning.
Good luck to you guys.
I've heard to sneak in before daylight and get upwind from them and theyll fly your way? Is this correct? I'm gonna start watching over the pond morning and evening to try and see if there's a spot I can intercept them or figure out where they're going and ask to hunt there. But most of the times ive seen them flying off or to the pond they were flying higher than shooting range.
I was out dove hunting this past weekend over a cut corn field and there was a flooded spot in the corn with so many woodies on it you couldn't even see the water. I'll definitely be there opening morning.
Good luck to you guys.
Last edited by ChasinTail; 09-11-2013 at 01:40 PM.
09-11-2013, 01:38 PM
#5
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 108
And johnch, aware me on the wood duck boxes.. Are they easy to make and maintain?
Id really love to make some and put them up and try to get more ducks. I'd get more enjoyment out of that than I would shooting them.
Id really love to make some and put them up and try to get more ducks. I'd get more enjoyment out of that than I would shooting them.
