Thread: Game bird diary for all

Had a blank morning with a few dozen flying of the big pond before our start.I'm nackered so is the dog.0330 to get to work in the morn.Night shoots always give the goods.Here is a few pics of todays efforts.

What did that pilot taste like @Dundee

Originally Posted by Dundee

Had a blank morning with a few dozen flying of the big pond before our start.I'm nackered so is the dog.0330 to get to work in the morn.Night shoots always give the goods.Here is a few pics of todays efforts.
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Looks like you only winged that last one @Dundee .....gunna be a long retrieve for Bo

I had good weekend got 20 parries,8 mallards,1 spoonie and a sawn. My young lab worked well but the sawn's size was a shock for him
I'm glad to see everyone had a fun time

We battled away for 12 yesterday and we were all commenting on the lack of birds and even the lack of birds in the sky. Didn't really hear too many shots either. Chalked up a few sundries to keep the spirits up.

And on a side note the mates boy cooked up some pukeko breast in the pan and it was delicious. Couldn't believe it

Great weekend ducks were slow for us over the coast ,me and the boy ended with 4 each 3 mallards and 5 greys apparently he shot all the mallards. dog went well and didn’t want to come home although a bit hard on the 1st bird ( as excited as the 8yr old)



Have said if he heads back to school without fuss tomorrow we’ll go for a evening shot at our pond over this side ..... so he better as I can’t wait to get back out there.

Good morning for our crew, kids shooting well, they all managed a honker each, even the 28gauge dropped one.

Very quiet in the district Sunday.Bo managed a few retrieves.

Great opening 2021 for me limit bags Saturday on Greylards & Swans birds for Africa so I manipulated the 6 bag limit so only decoying birds flaps down wings out were shot no pass shooting.
Mack couldn't have been better an absolute pleasure to have, no breaking only when bid and ever bird retrieved from heavy raupo and cover

Had a great weekend but only fired two shots for the one mallard that flew down my end of the pond other end had a bit more luck but quietest opening morning I've had... Sunday morning was alot better with five mallards and a few more flying around but yeah pretty quiet... Bring on next weekend

I had to go in the my paddock where my pond is of the road today, on the gate post there was a "notice of entrance on to private land" from fish and game never seen one of these before. Had time of entrance and who was present and a comment nice looking pond.
I was gutted i wasn't ,then i could have ask what hell i was doing wrong and why i struggle for ducks on the place

Two more down last night.4 had a look tonight but didn't commit.

@Dundee I do admire the simplicity of your set up but man I reckon one of my dipper set ups would do wonders for your tally....
its an old school idea but works well and is dead easy to do...Ive got two,both are the old taiwan mallard decoys,low profile with long beak and good keel...drill small hole in tip of bill/beak...tie heavy/20lb nylon onto that,run it through heavy weight..about a lb is ideal and back to your maimai...bush you hiding in...when you pull nylon the deke will upend..if you keep tension on and pull you can bob that sucker and really make ripples,gentle tugs will have it bob,slightly firmer it goes bum up like feeding,let nylon go and it pops back to rest....you can add loads of ripples/rings onto flat water in a hurry and the ducks seem to commit so much better.

@Micky Duck we have hooks on our decoys on the big pond add a bit of bait and the eels drag the decoys around nicely.