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West TN Duck Reports

Spent saturday and sunday watching high groups of snobby pintails coming from the south ignoring our spread. Saturday they ignored it in the sun. Sunday they ignored it in between lightning and thunder claps.

Two days and we brought four ducks and a speck to hand.
 
4 gadwall 1old hen mallard. Saw less than 100 ducks today. I don't have a clue what is going on anymore. The middle fork forked deer is out a little but still should have seen movement today, I think. But what do I know. I'm still trying to shoot ducks without a single cornstalk in sight.
 
Today sucked we killed 2 red legged green heads. Monday was much better new birds worked great. I wasn't surprised though seems typical after ducks migrate a couple hundred miles they rest up after. Neighboring non hunted field picked up hundreds of mallards last night. It had very few mallards Monday. I think they will start to look around tomorrow after the sun gets up. Those with open water might have a good day.
 
Been quiet in North Mississippi but was able to pick-up a banded speck this morning
 

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tn clyde said:
4 gadwall and 6 woodies today. Saw a few mallards but nothing would work. My friend asked why won't they work down in the hole. I said well they have been called to and shot at since September. That could be the reason or maybe we just suck.
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I often think about how many blinds and spreads a duck sees by the time it gets to west TN. Not to mention how many times it gets shot at. It's a wonder we ever kill a duck.
 
WaterSwatter said:
Had three mallards set for the decoys about 60 yards out when the blind 500 yds away decided to start hail calling at them. Public hunting at its finest
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We had some guys set up 300 yards from us Saturday. They crippled every duck they killed and had to get the boat out to chase them down. I'm not kidding when I say they probably averaged 10 shots per duck. They would shoot at a cripple 3 or 4 times after they got the boat out. One time they chased a cripple down toward us. They were 150 or so yards away and we had ducks working. They shut their motor off and started calling to them. You can't make it up.
 
Spurhunter said:
I often think about how many blinds and spreads a duck sees by the time it gets to west TN. Not to mention how many times it gets shot at. It's a wonder we ever kill a duck.
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I told a guy the other day that if I had a dollar for every time the average duck in West TN has heard a duck call since September, I wouldn't be in the garhole we were in.
 
Levee Jumper said:
I told a guy the other day that if I had a dollar for every time the average duck in West TN has heard a duck call since September, I wouldn't be in the garhole we were in.
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And I'd bet the majority of those calls were blown by someone that didn't know how to call, when to call, or how to sound like a real mallard hen.
 

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