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- Psycho Trout
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I hope this sucker pushes more birds down here. It seems this time last year we had way more birds on the coast. Hell I was having to beat em off with a stick. Not so this year. Kinda struggling, well I am struggling. Got me worried.
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PT, they are all up here in DFW! Holy crap! I have never seen so many birds in one day in my whole life as I saw on Saturday.
But they were acting like late season ducks, and would not work into the Dekes. They were responding to the calls very well and it was easy as all get out to turn them and make them take a second look but they just would not get close. I thought it may be our spread or the blind but made an adjustment to them both and still same deal.
I have talked with three people from the fuge and heard the same issue happened with them. Same with my Brother in law. Weird stuff, can't figure it out.
But they were acting like late season ducks, and would not work into the Dekes. They were responding to the calls very well and it was easy as all get out to turn them and make them take a second look but they just would not get close. I thought it may be our spread or the blind but made an adjustment to them both and still same deal.
I have talked with three people from the fuge and heard the same issue happened with them. Same with my Brother in law. Weird stuff, can't figure it out.
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Dayum! That is exactly what they were doing over our dekes. I actually could get the vbirds to work for several minutes, but would never commit to landing in the dekes. I figured it was the spinner so I pulled it out of the spread and the motor started to act so we left. Gonna try again this weekend.
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I don't claim to be an expert, I have only been duck hunting for 6 years now, but I have never seen the birds act like this so early in the season. My only guess is that maybe these are older, wiser birds hence the reason they are down here so early....I don't know, I was happy to get my limit but it was not an easy task. Didn't have one bird land in the dekes
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I had a couple of Cans sit down in the spread on saturday morning but other than that everything that we shot was looking. They would circle and but never fully comit.
I got a pair of Gadwalls to commit on sunday but again other than that they were all just flyin by. I also had no luck turning any flights that were not intent on being in my area.
I got a pair of Gadwalls to commit on sunday but again other than that they were all just flyin by. I also had no luck turning any flights that were not intent on being in my area.
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Sounds like what I've been seeing on the prarie. My theory is we are all seeing birds that are fairly new to the area and they are still kind of disoriented, so to speak. Saw the same thing during teal season this year, birds didnt' work well the first couple of days of the season, later on, we got the teal tornado workin. But they at least are turning to the call this year instead of flaring back towards arkansas, unlike last year.
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