- Dec 27, 2012
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Nice mixed bag! One day I'll do more than fish OBX
The waterfowl museum in Corolla pretty cool
Nice mixed bag! One day I'll do more than fish OBX
Hunting the Outer Banks this morning with my wife’s nephew.
Limited out on scoter, redhead, 2 large mergansers, and bufflehead.
One more day of hunting tomorrow.
More red heads, buffle heads, and a nice Greater Scaup(greater blue bill)
We only hunted the afternoon and had several large flocks of red heads come in. We also had several flocks of blue bills buzz us but not commit.
I also forgot to mention that on the Saturday hunt we had redheads and canvasbacks come right at us and when we shot one went right through the grass on the side of the blind and hit me in the lower chest, man it hurt and it still does a little.
^I think the ones on either side are red breasted mergansers. But the one at 6:00 looks different. I'm not sure what it is though because of the level of detail in the image. It looks like some sort of hen diving duck.
Most ducks I have seen all year was in Florida. Good grief, tons of them by my in-laws in Clearwater in almost every water runoff pond and tons and tons of them at Disney World. The girls were dreaming of princesses and I was just working out leads on ducks flying by.
So, what do you guys see in this pic? Believe they are mergansers, but not sure about a couple in the bunch. They were right by Cinderella's castle when a show was going on. The show ended with a cannon blast and every single duck in this group dove under the water when that cannon went off.
Awesome.
Do you trailer a boat down there for a week or happen to live around there? Been debating renting a house during the winter, or even buying a house as a rental and using it two weeks out of the year, one for fishing and one for hunting.
I've been wondering what the duck hunting is like down there, but with the number of duck blinds I have seen in the water and the size of the clubhouse on an island of one duck club down there, I imagine it must be phenomenal.
I am jealous.
Yesterdays hunt. only hunted midday, limited out on red heads, got an old squaw and a couple of blackheads. We put 2 bufflehead decoys out and must of had 50 buffle heads land with them. the other guys I was hunting with didn't want to shoot them so I shot a few until I got one I wanted to mount. After limiting out on red heads we had a half dozen flocks land in the decoys and couldn't shoot em. As we were packing up 4 or 5 large groups of blackheads flew right over us, thats how it goes I guess. Wish we had more shooters with us.