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    When divers key in on a pond, and there’s tens of thousands around, 4 man limits of ringnecks for every blind are the norm on more ponds than not.

    .....twice a week.
    Be proactive about improving public waterfowl habitat in South Carolina. It's not going to happen by itself, and our help is needed. We have the potential to winter thousands of waterfowl on public grounds if we fight for it.

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    It’s just one of those years. We had a pile of birds on coast before thanksgiving with that cold front. They moved on. A lot of the coastal impoundments haven’t completely recovered from the last few years of floods. Also the refuges weren’t even flooded yet.
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    That doesn’t answer the question about the divers.

    Tens of thousands of ringnecks and scaup are MIA.

    Where are the wood ducks?

    Where are the wads of greenwings?
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    Quote Originally Posted by BOGSTER View Post
    That doesn’t answer the question about the divers.

    Tens of thousands of ringnecks and scaup are MIA.

    Where are the wood ducks?

    Where are the wads of greenwings?
    I haven't see scaup in like 8-9 years. Used to see wads of them around where I hunt. I miss them skimming the water buzzing through my decoys.

    Hell....it's been so long since I've had scaup up close I've forgotten what they sound like. Made some type of grunting sound. I used to get shots a 3 or 4 vollys a hunt.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BOGSTER View Post
    That doesn’t answer the question about the divers.

    Tens of thousands of ringnecks and scaup are MIA.

    Where are the wood ducks?

    Where are the wads of greenwings?
    Teal have been low for a good while. You know I don’t touch my gun on them other 3 you listed anymore.
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    Well I guess I’d shoot a wood duck if they came in
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    I too remain flooded very late and hold ducks in February and March.
    There's a lot at play, it's an interesting topic..... I'm disheartened but love managing water and wetlands and consequently want to flood more habitat.
    It's an illness.....
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    We used to kill those little bitty scaup at the coast. We had them magnum scaup up here at the lake.
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    Gross
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    The Feds are in charge of keeping up with waterfowl..........Anybody that can screw up something as simple as a gas can, should not be responsible for keeping up with something as important as millions of waterfowl......

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    Quote Originally Posted by BRR View Post
    The Feds are in charge of keeping up with waterfowl..........Anybody that can screw up something as simple as a gas can, should not be responsible for keeping up with something as important as millions of waterfowl......
    You are exactly right. Now.... Get a motorcycle racing can
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    If all these corn ponds are so good for habitat and resting areas and food and they have increased 10x in the last 10 years why is the hunting getting worse??


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    Pressure.

    Inland corn has drawn more waterfowl to the Santee Cooper lakes than most know.

    Private hunting got so good, that it almost got greedy.

    First it was every Saturday.
    Then it was Wednesday’s and Saturday.
    Then it became tues/fri on one pond, and wed/Sat on another.

    What has happened is the ducks have learned when they can and can’t feed there.

    Think I’m crazy. Today there were 1500 puddle ducks on a private impoundment just up the road.
    They’ll be there tomorrow too.

    Saturday morning they’ll leave the refuge and head up that way.

    As soon as the River Road guns turn loose at 7am, they’ll quite literally 180 in mid flight and head back to the refuge.

    Sunday morning they’ll be back on the impoundment.
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    @flopduster
    The ponds in reference shoot approx. 1200 shells per hunt, twice a week, to kill 57 ringnecks and 51 clip toes.
    (hunts run approx. 4 blinds per acre, 4 guns per blind)


    *figures may be - SLIGHTLY - exaggerated*


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    i'll take weather for 1000.00 Alex.

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    I think most of the wild mallards left in the state left sometime yesterday and made a push back north.

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    Weather doesn't explain the total lack of gadwall we saw in Canada this year. Scum Skimmers are always in most every roadside ditch.

    Like the Old Man commented, "So this is what Bayou Meto is like" after running into the 4 millionth group of hunters this year...

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    A lot of questions at play.....very few answers!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Catdaddy View Post
    I think most of the wild mallards left in the state left sometime yesterday and made a push back north.
    Yep, but the bass fishing should be spectacular. Please post up some pictures of what you catch.

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