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Carl

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Who would ever think we would get our first snow fall before most of the northern US???
Forecast is for clear sky, 28 degrees and stiff north wind at 6am tomorrow. Perfect conditions for us, I will be out there.


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I saw a photo from Louisiana earlier today and it looked like they had more snow then most of SD has. A lot of ours will be gone after Sunday, forecast is for upper 40s.

Tim
 
I was in New Orleans overnight, this morning all the new stations had gone about 20 miles northwest of downtown to film the snow, part of Louisiana got 4-6".
 
Good luck on your hunt, Carl. Thankfully we didn't get any snow however, we did have our coldest temps in a long while with it dipping to 11F here. I decided stay home.
Al
 
Carl, I'm straight North of you in the toe of Minnesota, you got more than we did, maybe a half inch dusting here.

Enjoy!
George
 
Carl said:
Who would ever think we would get our first snow fall before most of the northern US???
Forecast is for clear sky, 28 degrees and stiff north wind at 6am tomorrow. Perfect conditions for us, I will be out there.

Couple inches here in jersey today. The cold brought the ducks down for sure!
 
Woke up to over an inch of snow on the ground, in Mobile, AL, that just about unheard of in December!
First time I have ever left the driveway with snow on the boat.
Temps bottomed out around 28 but the roads were still above freezing, so no black ice to worry about.
Winds were still around 25kts on open water, so going down to MS Sound was out of the question.
Headed to northern Mobile Bay, where things were more sheltered and a lot calmer.
Set up a little deeper than usual but the tide wasn't going to bottom out until 1pm and the north wind was going to make it lower than normal.
Put a wad of cans, redheads and bluebills on the south side of the boat and about 2 dzn gadwalls on the east side.
Beautiful chilly sunrise. Lots of shooting to my west, in shallower water, but it took a while for me to get my first bird, a nice drake mottled duck around 7:30.
Just short time later a diver dropped into the gadwall decoys, turned out to be a greated scaup. Nice fat juvenile drake.
Missed a gadwall that came in high, probably shoulda let him work.
Around 8:15, a lone big diver came in from the south and made a high banking turn over the west side of the boat. He came over so fast I didnt shoot. Saw that it was a big drake redhead. He went over my head, headed east about 80 yards and made a wide banking turn and came straight back into the decoys. I was watching him the whole time. He was feet down coming into my diver decoys. As I rose to shoot, I noticed another diver swimming in the decoys, must have came in while i was watching the RH! I dropped the redhead drake and swung over and killed the second bird with my second shot. Another juvenile drake greater scaup.
After that it slowed down, had hen buffy come buzzing in and added her to the bag. A little while later a few more hen buffies came in but I let them swim off. Nothing flying and I was ready to go, so I packed it in around 9am.
Didn't see as many ducks as I expected after this front but still a great morning. With all this cold weather, next weekend should be another good one.
 
Carl said:
Woke to 1” of snow in the yard and on the boat.

You beat us in Maine. First snow flakes of the season hit here this afternoon while we were paddling in from a very slow whistler shoot. 4-6" predicted tonight, but more early next week and then real cold.
 
We had over a foot of snow a couple of days ago, and a new winter storm today, as I write this.

Made for good still hunting conditions, but few tracks and deer seen.

DEC says our area is paying for the four feet of snow (at least) on the ground, for months, back in 2015. Deer mortality was very high. I can vouch for then, and now.

Muzzleloader season starts tomorrow.

I look forward to being in the woods, with few other hunters and snow on the ground, before the next warm up.


The light refraction off the snow inspires me to paint, but I'm not ready to put up the guns just yet.

Lots of squirrels need attended to, after deer season.
 
Nice bunch of birds Carl. I heard that Escambia County in FL got about 2" of snow from this storm. We didn't get any snow and I thought this would have been a good storm for the second opener....push ducks down...maybe have a really nice shoot. The hunting was SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW and from the lack of young war on the big lake, it was slow for a lot of people. It was pretty disappointing. I did get one hen woodduck and that was the only bird that came by all morning on Saturday.
 
Dani, I also didnt see as many birds as I expected. Really got lucky and pretty much shot every one that came within range except the gadwall I missed.
I'm thinking it was probably too soon after the cold front, I bet we have more ducks today vs. Saturday am.
Hoping at least!
 
Hope it moved some birds in your direction. I was hoping for snow tomorrow, but looks like it will be rain. Hunting ducks in a snow storm are the days I live for.
 
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