Im planning on being there with my father-in-law, a friend of his and his kid. Just wondering if anyone else will be there. We got 3 geese on their opener last year.
Exciting new set-up in the corn fields this year! The county has agreed to leave 12 standing rows of corn in the zones that have corn. Another 12 rows bordering it will be chopped. Could be a game changer.
Nic checked my birds at the launch Sat am for avian influenza. He said a bunch of gesse had come down with the last cold front. A good number of fields will be open. He's encouraged by the standing corn too. This along with the revised rig road rules last year have shown that they are making changes to improve the quality of the hunt. Now we have to get out there and USE IT!
I bet once the usual fennville crews hear about standing corn at Muskegon, some of them will start going there. I figure the need for a layout blind(or something similar) keeps some of those guys from using the MWW. I was surprised at the low number of parties there last year as I'm used to hunting fennville. Leaving standing corn should boost party numbers and give them even more incentive to improve the hunt experience there. Fennville now has flooded areas to attract more ducks and hopefully things only continue to improve. Hopefully I'll see some of you out there this weekend.
I see the count went from 1000 to 3200 this week. Do you guys think the cold night last night and tonight will bring more birds in or push them out? Ill be hunting there either way, just curious on your thoughts.
42 parties this morning. Saw a few MS members at the draw.
We were lucky enough to get drawn 11th. Sitting in an alfalfa field now. 1 mallard and 1 pintail so far. Geese haven't been moving a whole lot this morning, at least not on our side.
Did you check in at about 11:50? That's when I was there and saw 5 or 6 geese and 4 ducks checked just when I was dropping off my big fat 0. I have terrible managed area luck. We were in the last 5 groups of the draw, as usual.
And watching the board scouters go straight to that field for two weeks straight, not understanding the puddle in 51 had dried up since then. Won't forget you pulling a V of 50 geese bound on leaving the WW down from 100 yards up and putting them feet down in the pocket either. Glad I didn't miss.
Drew 25th and got into the spot I planned on going to even if we drew first. Let's just say, the mallards played nice and paid dearly for playing so nice. Dad, buddie and I had a blast ( literally).
we drew in the 30's somewhere. had another party set up in our zone. their first time out there, and we handled it fine. no luck in our camp. did watch someone take a real stretch of a poke at a group of ducks and sail one of them.
Field 18? They were part of my group of 5 and we split into 2 & 3 since you can only have 4 hunters per zone. When we met back up after the hunt, they said they accidentally set up on the wrong half.
We set up in the wrong zone a couple years ago on the opener. I've only hunted there about 100 times? Things get kind of weird in the gray area between 43 and 46 in the dark....
Well I'm the lucky guy who scouted his rear off all week, took a newbie, and scored dead last in the draw on Saturday morning. Picked the furthest east you could go. All of the honkers were headed out on a mission and only had 1 small flock of ducks that we could see. Got out early, ran back through on a solo afternoon hunt and got my 2 geese in the south. 43 parties in the am, 2 for the draw in the afternoon and a handful who ran back through as well.
I shot 3 mallards 1 woodie 1 goose. Probably 5 parties. I hunted standby solo so I wasn't in the draw
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