Author Topic: What's the most common duck in your area? (Read 1259 times)

Michael Brigman · « **on:** December 29, 2004, 05:22:15 AM »

I've heard lots of guys talking about Mallards. But where I'm from, north-east Texas, the Mallards are few and far between. The Wood Duck is #1 around here. If you look on a flyway map you'll see that my hunting area is right in between the Central and the Mississippi flyway. The only Mallards we see are lost, LOL.

What's the most common duck in your area?

bgjohn · « **Reply #1 on:** December 29, 2004, 05:46:43 AM »

The large WHITE ducks. At the park. But the police won't let you hunt them. :-D

JM

Graybeard · « **Reply #2 on:** December 29, 2004, 06:13:56 AM »

I don't hunt waterfowl so my observations my not reflect what is really most common. But I see more wood ducks and mallards than all others put together. Not sure which is really most common as both are quite common here. We have a nesting population of both in this area.

bgjohn · « **Reply #3 on:** December 29, 2004, 06:15:48 AM »

Teals and Mallards out here.
JM :-)

Specklebelly · « **Reply #4 on:** December 30, 2004, 01:51:28 PM »

Mallards are king in Central Oklahoma. Every year they lead the species count for our group.

MGMorden · « **Reply #5 on:** December 30, 2004, 03:46:40 PM »

Around here it's wood duck by far.

Specklebelly · « **Reply #6 on:** December 31, 2004, 01:59:43 PM »

MGM

How many Woodies are you allowed in your limit?

We are only allowed two, which isn't a problem. I went about 10 years without shooting one. Shot one last year and about 5 this year.

MGMorden · « **Reply #7 on:** January 01, 2005, 09:22:28 AM »

Quote from: Specklebelly

MGM

How many Woodies are you allowed in your limit?

We are only allowed two, which isn't a problem. I went about 10 years without shooting one. Shot one last year and about 5 this year.

2 of them here. I've gotten around 9 so far this season, with my brother getting a few more than that. I've hunted for quite a few years now and I've never shot a mallard :shock:. Up until this year the environment I hunted (flooded timber) was just much more friendly for woodducks. Now that I'm hunting in the rice fields in the river more I'm seeing more variety.

Bill in IL · « **Reply #8 on:** January 04, 2005, 07:41:38 AM »

Wood ducks are the most common ducks in our area for the start of the season. As the season progresses the mallard becomes the most common.

Michael Brigman · « **Reply #9 on:** January 04, 2005, 01:21:21 PM »

Quote from: Specklebelly

How many Woodies are you allowed in your limit?

Here in the north-zone of Texas we're allowed two Woodies in our limit.

Bill in IL · « **Reply #10 on:** January 05, 2005, 04:28:31 AM »

C130E
I hunt south of you. We hunt between Beardstown and Meredosia.
Bill

Bill in IL · « **Reply #11 on:** January 07, 2005, 06:26:40 AM »

At first we were able to stand in the trees and hunt as the blinds were under water. When the water got higher we had to revert to hunting out of boat blinds. This was by far the worst year we had there. How were the results at Anderson Lake this year?

Bill in IL · « **Reply #12 on:** January 08, 2005, 12:39:44 PM »

C130E
Thanks for the update on Anderson Lake. For the last 4 years I have not hunted ducks anywhere but our lease along the river and our annual trip to Arkansas.
Last year we did shoot alot of ringnecks. This year we did not harvest any. Most all of the ducks we harvested this year were teal, wood ducks, and mallards.
Arkansas was a bust this year. We harvested very few ducks and had to work really hard for them.

Zcarp2 · « **Reply #13 on:** January 26, 2005, 02:52:50 AM »

Greys = Gadwalls are the biggest in the bag in the marsh south of Lake Charles, Louisiana

Early in the season Teal are wonderful, but not many were taken this year. Something really held them up and didn't see many.

Scaup have become the largest species taken. They make great Duck'derves.

Few mallards and we saw a LOT of Pintail flying. With a 1 per hunter limit, ya watch a lot of them land in the decoys. Beautiful birds!!!

Greenheads are uncommon, but with the right weather, they find their ways into the marshes.

My buddies did decent this year and I didn't get to go enough.