Thread: Good weather for Ducks

Who is going to skip it a day or 2 due to the weather? Ducks are everywhere at the moment.

Instead of driving half hour to #1 spot, backwater, or #2 spot, river,.....I'll venture 200m from house and shoot some puddle ducks. Take a small square of silage wrapped around a chair in the middle of one of the numerous lakes I've got

SH75 shut and road to Selwyn huts also closed, the road next to it down to Yarrs flat has water to top of tyres at least maybe deeper further down. Seen a couple of 4x4 parked up the lane a bit as can't get down. Selwyn river normally dry is from one bank to the other side. Seen lots of Ducks on paddocks.

Went for a poke around local river now the waters gone down abit. Just about all the spots that've been tagged are gone. One had decoys out couple of days back on a backwater.........it's now part of mainstream. Not to much quiet water around, so paddock ducks it's gonna be

Ducks will be flying high tomoro,clear sky's and bugger all wind.Good luck out there.

Sounds like someone's living 24hrs ahead of everyone else where we are been bombing up the waitaki riverbed all afternoon

Originally Posted by SAUM

SH75 shut and road to Selwyn huts also closed, the road next to it down to Yarrs flat has water to top of tyres at least maybe deeper further down. Seen a couple of 4x4 parked up the lane a bit as can't get down. Selwyn river normally dry is from one bank to the other side. Seen lots of Ducks on paddocks.

according to latest info the "authorities" are waiting for favourable conditions to open the lake-according to data Iviewed its at its maximum mean depth .we abandoned our rakaia jaunt for opening w/e miles too bloody risky .plenty of time to go bag fat guts and co!!!

Pretty muddy pond where I m in waikato, we would need 200mm of rain at least to get the water at a descent level

Good luck to all participating in the best of traditions

A couple of years ago now .

Conditions are great down here and forecast not bad for tomorrow. Just need a little sleep now...

Yes, it could be a fine day with not much wind to start the day off in the morning so its going to be all about how good you are at calling them in I would say

[QUOTE=oraki;1681706]Instead of driving half hour to #1 spot, backwater, or #2 spot, river,.....I'll venture 200m from house and shoot some puddle ducks. Take a small square of silage wrapped around a chair in the middle of one of the numerous lakes I've got[/QUOTE


morning sweetheart -just popping down the paddock to shoot my bag limit ,ill get you a coffee when i get back ...wont be long .

no no need to get out of bed to pluck em yet love ,gotta shoot em first .!!!!

well ya wouldnt credit it -animal rights protestors greet shooters at ellesmere -whoopti dooo! photo of one holding a bannert "honk for geese"what did ya want me to do fella fart ????????????????ive enough calls to give him my rendition of the goose symphony as played by the te waihora chamber(3""sir) quarte t in steel shot 2 3minor!

Typically this crowd rely on emotional blackmail,know 6 7/8 of SFA about tha actual harm geese bloody cause and Id be happy to take them and show them spots and give the miscreants a gooseshit face pack as a livng momento .

Their drone was shot down -FFS what did ya expect when the dorks fly it in a live firing area-a bit like aeroplanes doing low passes of the military range at westmelton....
seems theres a dearth of commonsense evident here .
If its of any consolation the crew from red stag timber hunters club lost a drone in identical circumstances but they didnt whine to the sycophantic media about it!!!

anyhow all the best to those who did pick up a few for a feewd well done and heres to hoping it carries on .

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Originally Posted by oraki

Instead of driving half hour to #1 spot, backwater, or #2 spot, river,.....I'll venture 200m from house and shoot some puddle ducks. Take a small square of silage wrapped around a chair in the middle of one of the numerous lakes I've got[/QUOTE


morning sweetheart -just popping down the paddock to shoot my bag limit ,ill get you a coffee when i get back ...wont be long .

no no need to get out of bed to pluck em yet love ,gotta shoot em first .!!!!

And there in laid the problem......Cows had been moved into the paddock nearby, so no shooty shooty, plucky plucky for me.
Went for a wander down river, but ducks encountered were not in the right place to shoot. I shot them without pulling trigger......up, follow through, say bang, feeling confident with each one. No dog, dirty high flowing river and no way of safely retrieving them meant they lived another day. Next few days will change that when flows drop some more