Thread: Opening 2022

Originally Posted by Tertle

just back from the coast and finished cleaning up the kit, sadly the lake has been shooting progressively fewer ducks for a number of years now, opening morning i grabbed by far the biggest bag, ten and there were seven shooting the lake, i don't think the remaining hunters combined surpassed my lot, no one bagged anything sunday. But still a great occasion with family and new friends

Birds must be somewhere else then ? My mate from Hokitika had his best opening weekend in memory and he's been shooting for quite a lot of years. Sorry your weekend wasn't better.

Originally Posted by dannyb

Birds must be somewhere else then ? My mate from Hokitika had his best opening weekend in memory and he's been shooting for quite a lot of years. Sorry your weekend wasn't better.

Spoke to a local farmer and even he commented that the days of seeing ducklings in the drains and culverts are a few years back, there are a couple of other lakes around where we shoot and even they fell a bit quiet early, but again it was great seeing 2-3 new shooters joining in on the lake, and its always good to get out and enjoy the challenge