Thread: Game bird diary for all

Originally Posted by kotuku

spoke to cousin who shot on coast opening day .in past years theyve had no probs with getting bag limits in morning session on opening day.him&his brother shot a pond on a private farm -very frustrating -6 7/8 SFA mallards and even the parries played hard to get! obviously something is altering the parries habitual instincts but im buggered if i know why . westcoast F&G pre season estimates predicted good populations of gamebirds altho down on previous years -hence the daily limit reduction but still this niggling trend shows up
any bright ideas.

The group I was shooting with has shot there for 7-8 years. Back in the day they were happy with 40 parries for the whole weekend sothe last couple of years has been way better.
Where we were is part of their flight path with lots of decoys, spinning flapping etc. Not targeting proper ducks so cant grizzle about not getting any but by the same token didn't see many flying around either. Not a lot of shooters out either.