Waterfowl Photos

[Bryce]

Not too bad in western MN

[PerchPounder]

45 minute limit. low water made it a real challenge today.

[mrg]

best opener for this guy ever. added one more mallard after pic.

[mrg]

one of my favs from today.

[Ray1]

Saturday was a great day for ducks. Today was a great day for geese.

First pic is me with 3 drake mallards, 1 hen mallard, a woody, and a blue wing teal. I did not see many teal in my area. Second pic is our 6 man limit of honkers from this morning.

[Bryce]

Let the old girl do some work today. Kinda nice to have the B team dog be SH with several hundred wild birds under her belt.

[mallardnwalleye]

Went out solo on Saturday with the pooch and got this in an hour or so.

Made the mistake on the hen but was rewarded with a band for the desk drawer anyway. The most rewarding experience was the pintail that I got after shooting the mistake hen mallard. I didn't want to shoot another hen but knew by the shape (long and skinny) and flying style (straight and banking-no quick turns)that it was a pintail and okay to shoot.

Hunt was public and less than 1 .5 hrs from the west metro. Didn't see as many teal as usual but was happy opener was as early as it was.

[TylerS]

A good weekend in Nodak:

[Andrew Erickson]

awesome pics

[walleyeking19]

Awesome pics Tyler! Looks like you got hundreds of birds coming in on that first picture!

[certified jumbo]

Very nice pics guys!!! Here's a few more.....My dad was a trooper crawling through the cattails with me and Nemadji had some great retrieves.

[mallardnwalleye]

Love the second and third pics, certified jumbo. Good to hear about your dad (I assume the old timer pictured above)still crawling through cattails.

[KidMoe]

Love your woody pictures! Here's my first two birds ever, i was pleasantly surprised that i had woodys come through.

[TylerS]

Awesome pics Tyler! Looks like you got hundreds of birds coming in on that first picture!

Ha, yeah it does look like that, doesn't it? Those are actually geese going out to the fields to feed. Ducks were a different story. Few and far between, but we managed to entertain ourselves for the morning, at least

[ChuckN]

[JJensen]

Awesome pic!

[Bryce]

Forgot we had taken a shot of the fog Sunday also until seeing yours.

[Gordie]

Great sunrise photos guys and I would have to say that that is my favorite time of day bar none.

[Todd Caswell]

Sweet photo's guys, here's a post hunt photo

Grilled to perfection

[certified jumbo]

awesome looking meal.

[Lunker]

Limit from this afternoon's hunt on the Miss. Willie(the dog) and my first ducks together (adopted this year).He did very well.

[fishuhalik]

Pics from my hunt yesterday. Best day of duck hunting I've ever had. I recapped the day in the "Waterfowl Reports" thread.

1st half of the day. 5 drakes and 1 hen. Thought it was a young drake, oh well!

My old man standing in the beaver pond with a few brown drakes. You can see almost the entire pond in the pic. There were around 2000 mallards sitting there when we got there. He wouldn't fire a shot here, let me do all the shooting. I hope I can be as good of a dad as he's been, I consider myself extremely fortunate. He's taught me everything I know about hunting & fishing and can't wait to pass the same knowledge onto my boy.

This is why I love beaver pond hunting. This was our "spread" that was drawing in hundreds of mallards.

Total take for the day. 5 drake mallards, 1 greenwing, 5 drake woodies and a hen. And a grouse that decided to show it's head on the drive home. What a day!!

[shortfatguy]

Looks like you guys had a great day for sure!

[Odonata]

Nice pics! Certified, great woodies! Looks like a Pendleton toast to the Cattail Crawler.

[certified jumbo]

fish - excellent pics and beautiful ducks, what a hunt.

and yes odonata - last saturday was a "pendelton moment" with the old man. once we unloaded the guns, the flask came out!! Hope we have a few more this fall. look forward to seeing you next wkd.

[fishuhalik]

Thanks guys. None of the woodies were real trophies, but I'm getting 2 of em mounted for my dad for this Christmas to put above the fireplace at their new house. Sometimes a trophy isn't the animal itself but the memory that goes with it.

[monstermoose78]

very true fish

[Todd Caswell]

Pretty slow this morning, but still beats sleaping in...

[fishersofmen]

That last pic is fantastic!

[123fish]

Yep that last pic is great. Two real good looking subjects.