DoeNob
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Houston, TX
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Post by DoeNob on Jan 25, 2004 21:21:50 GMT -5
Ended duck season with a 1000 mile road trip this weekend. Hunted south of Norman OK saturday and Ray Bob Sunday. Those ducks can go back north for all I care, they've done frustrated me enough this season. Weather (lack thereof) I think significantly impacted texas hunters this season. Mallards didn't make it down in very sizable numbers, Gadwall were a welcome filler to most straps statewide throughout the season. All in all, mediocre to poor season, with too much hunting pressure and not enough birds. I duck hunted 24 days and killed 35 ducks this season, I'm going to find a new lease and do more scouting on public coastal areas to improve that number for next year. May get motivated to conserve some sky carp before they head north, but they can be even harder to hunt than the ducks. Here's hoping for spring rains in the Dakotas and Canada and a weeklong whiteout blizzard from the arctic cirle to the red river November 15th, 2004.  |
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Post by ICMCumin on Jan 26, 2004 13:47:17 GMT -5
Ended duck season with a 1000 mile road trip this weekend. Hunted south of Norman OK saturday and Ray Bob Sunday. Those ducks can go back north for all I care, they've done frustrated me enough this season. Weather (lack thereof) I think significantly impacted texas hunters this season. Mallards didn't make it down in very sizable numbers, Gadwall were a welcome filler to most straps statewide throughout the season. All in all, mediocre to poor season, with too much hunting pressure and not enough birds. I duck hunted 24 days and killed 35 ducks this season, I'm going to find a new lease and do more scouting on public coastal areas to improve that number for next year. May get motivated to conserve some sky carp before they head north, but they can be even harder to hunt than the ducks. Here's hoping for spring rains in the Dakotas and Canada and a weeklong whiteout blizzard from the arctic cirle to the red river November 15th, 2004. I tried the extended snow goose season a couple of years ago - pretty close to where your lease is. to make a long story short we brohgt as many shells back as we went out with - it was a pretty frustrating day, to say the least. By the end of the season, they are a lot smarter and don't want to come into rags or decoys or pretty much anything else......... Just my 2 cents worth. |
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DoeNob
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Houston, TX
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Post by DoeNob on Jan 26, 2004 23:53:22 GMT -5
Yeah, I really don't go unless the weather is going to be good. I need a south wind and a low cloud cieling or fog to get me out. That and I need to know its going to be like that at 7 am with enough warning to get out and try and find some geese on our properties. I will either do that, or if I find some good flight lines and am too lazy, just pass shoot em.
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Post by ICMCumin on Jan 31, 2004 4:08:56 GMT -5
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Post by ICMCumin on Feb 5, 2004 22:51:42 GMT -5
Hey Doe - am seeing quite a few snows still on the Katy prairie near HW 90 between Katy and Brookshire. One has been near the intersection of Pederson Road and HW 90 for the past two days during the afternoon......
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