wanted to drop by and show my recap video from my waterfowl season here in southeast NY and Long Island....we had a tough season with the WARM weather but had a few good hunts and LOTS of fun along the way....enjoy
Larry, I just viewed your film clip, you had some very nice still shots, the lighting in them was pretty good. I see you also hunt out of a layout rig on the open water, I never hunted ducks like that; only out of a duck boat or a floating blind.
I see you shoot Brant, Surf Scoters, and I could not tell if the other species was the White Winged or Black Scoters in your still photos.
In the film footage (video) segment I saw some Goldeneyes, Buffleheads and Brant flying around. Hey, do you eat those Mergansers that I saw in your bag limit? I used to shoot them for target practice when things were slow many years ago.
Dick my crow hunting partner says he has eaten coots and mud hens in Saskatchewan and they were prepaired by an old Canadian. Dick said they tasted pretty good, it all depends on how you cook them.
Larry, is your kayak and lay out boat one in the same? Dick used to shoot Bluebills on Sandusky Bay in Ohio out of a lay out boat.
So how many ducks can one hunter shoot before he fills his limit these days? It can't be just two Bluebills and then you are done, what other species can you shoot to limit out?
Larry, I just viewed your film clip, you had some very nice still shots, the lighting in them was pretty good. I see you also hunt out of a layout rig on the open water, I never hunted ducks like that; only out of a duck boat or a floating blind.
I see you shoot Brant, Surf Scoters, and I could not tell if the other species was the White Winged or Black Scoters in your still photos.
In the film footage (video) segment I saw some Goldeneyes, Buffleheads and Brant flying around. Hey, do you eat those Mergansers that I saw in your bag limit? I used to shoot them for target practice when things were slow many years ago.
Dick my crow hunting partner says he has eaten coots and mud hens in Saskatchewan and they were prepaired by an old Canadian. Dick said they tasted pretty good, it all depends on how you cook them.
Larry, is your kayak and lay out boat one in the same? Dick used to shoot Bluebills on Sandusky Bay in Ohio out of a lay out boat.
So how many ducks can one hunter shoot before he fills his limit these days? It can't be just two Bluebills and then you are done, what other species can you shoot to limit out?
bob...
sea duck hunts are a mixed bag of white wings...american and surf scoters along with old squaw mixed in....
when we marsh hunt its a mixed bag of everything depending on the weather....puddle ducks like mallards..black ducks widgeon and gadwalls....divers such a bluebills buffleheads and mergansers....brant and canada geese..
my friend owns a layout boat but lives on the finger lakes....thats where i shot the redhead in my profile picture...my kayak is only used to hunt flooded timber as a means to transport...
the mergansers we shoot i use for crab bait...
The daily limit of 6 ducks includes all mergansers and sea ducks (scoters, eiders and long-tailed ducks) and may include no harlequin ducks and no more than 4 mallards (2 of which may be hens), 3 wood ducks, 1 black duck, 2 pintail, 2 scaup, 2 redheads, 2 canvasback, 4 scoters, 4 eiders, 4 long-tailed ducks or 2 hooded mergansers. For all other duck species found in New York, the daily limit is 6.
brant are one a day and canada geese in my zone are 8 a day...
having an 8 bird goose limit is nice....this is a really fun solo hunt i had one morning when the brant limit was two...geese were 8 and ducks six....all in 2 hours in the snow..
Great waterfowl hunts there Bayman! Love shooting bluebills but Canvas and redheads rule. Posted a pic from a recent bluebill shoot.
Ted
thank you....nice pile of bills....sadly we do not see many canvasbacks or redheads on long island....there really are only 3 main divers...bluebills buffleheads and mergansers....the buffleheads are thick as fleas down here...and of course we have EXCELLENT seaduck hunting....
heres one of my favorite bluebill hunts...it was the first time in 20 years our bluebill limit was raised to 4 birds....this was on opening morning and my friend and his boss...shot 12 bluebills and 6 brant by 8 am....
Bob...that photo was from the 2013 season where we were allowed 4 bluebills instead of 2...and 2 brant instead of one...yes i am in the blue hooded sweat shirt in the middle :)
We have an 8 bluebill limit up here. Canvas and redheads too. Mostly because our birds are not in winter plumage and difficult if not impossible to differentiate on the wing. Waterfowl biologists have been known to shoot a fast limit of bluebills only to find that half are young redheads.
Ted
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