Not long now lads and ladies
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Countdown to 4. Mai 2013 06:30 in Auckland
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Not long now lads and ladies
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Countdown to 4. Mai 2013 06:30 in Auckland
RRRROOOAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!! that's my duck call!!!! :thumbsup:
That is quite good. I may send that link to my brother in law.
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almost time for roast duck again cant wait
Soon, I heard some ducks on the pond the other night so I know I may have a chance at 2 anyway
Ouchhh had a look see last night at the main pond where the mothership Mai Mai resides and proceeded to walk across it with out getting wet feet.
Its not been empty since mates longest memory way long ago 20 yrs + Cant pump it as no water source close enough comes from a stream way up in the Kaimais ..
Bugger ....
found a little hidden pond today holding bout 60 odd mallards problem is every man and his dog, litterly, walks or runs past it most days :oh noes:
so im not ho;ding my breath some bugger wont stumble over it:pissed off:
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Not long now tagged the maimai yesterday so many ducks, parries, swans & canada's just plain ridiculous
In past season's my water has looked like this
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Not so this year and a die back of raupo
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Still plenty of water for ducks BC:thumbsup:
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Raupo die off has really opened the area out
what a crackin spot bc
Public water too mate I moved to the BOP and needed to find somewhere to shoot F & G were worse than useless to deal with :( So I got in the wagon one Sunday and did some legwork myself shot here ever since took a couple of years to site the maimai in the best possie but it's worked well for the last four or five years. Done a lot of planting now flax, oak trees etc it's starting to look real good
Have your own little pest control system in place?
Not practical to do Toby it's a two hour drive from home but I certainly have thought about it - poison would be the only way
Shock horror yes I was wandering the river today:ORLY: Dropped my fishing gear and snuck upstream for a few pics of the birds:D
Enjoy members
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At least you have some ducks around dundee. I have seen a few in maize paddocks but the ones I shoot might not picked until june which is too late haha.
I been mucking around at one of home ponds today as the dam syphon had stopped again.
Thanks to Happy and the gadget he sent us I did some gps work and got the elevation right.
Bottom pond was 684ft above sea level
So changed too one of the higher ponds that had water which was 700ft asl
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Changed the big blue float to a cuppla decoys but it was a lot of work shifting foot valves tieing decoys and turning valves on.
Top dam:D Some water at 700 feet asl
And hopefully tomorrow last fill up of syphon it should be running:omg:
Tap at the shed where we are dragging water from the pond is 640ASL so hopefully bit more pressure tomorrow
"almost time for roast duck again cant wait" ....still got a couple of C box's of them in the freezer,I'm the only 1 here eats them.
Whacked some wholes to fit motion stakes in my old decoys last week, no water in the ponds so be shooting over paddocks .
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Looks like you are ready to rip into it Dundee
2 weeks before the season opens they'll be no-where to be found ,like every year.Must be bred into them or some thing.
Shit Dundee I thought you had got in early with the first pic in the above post. The realised I've seen some of those photos before.
We went down and did some work to the Mai Mai today, Pond looks well used and grain is getting cleaned up. Only problem is I've not seen anymore than 20 mallards on the piece of water in question. As for the rest of the river heaps of mallards spread around.
Four weeks ago we were sitting on my deck counting 5 to 6 hundy a night now all diss appeared and none. What's with that ???
No water in our main pond. A little in the home pond. No idea what's gonna happen on opening morn !!
still nailin those eels dundee!! just been having a chat with our bank and on hoppin in the truck to come home sees 50odd mallards wheelin about above the shoppin mall.thats gotta be a good omen me thinks!
You can't beat the moving decoys cheaper than a roboduck:D
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Thats a great idea. just on my pond I need water and when there is water the eel will probably just go over the bank and swim around in the creek and I'll lose my decoy
That is so sweet mate:)
A few more old ones:D 23 days to go
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I'm keen for shooting even though I don't think I'll get much just being able to duck shoot is going to be great.
Headn over too the no.1 pond to do some work............20 days to go
20 could be worse, could still be 21 or 36...20 will have to do:O_O:
Done some work,this was the approach from the top of the ridge.
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Possom trapper and my mate with the gear and I bagged the hare
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We ripped the back wall off and built it out a bit more
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A bit more room in the back for gear
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And the end result
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Last photo taken at top of the ridge it blends in quite well
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