Seasons over.... lets see some pics!

[lorneparker1]

Some of my favs from this season.

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u279/LorneP/21_zpskkt8g3mb.jpg (http://s170.photobucket.com/user/LorneP/media/21_zpskkt8g3mb.jpg.html)

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u279/LorneP/20_zpscd2hbevj.jpg (http://s170.photobucket.com/user/LorneP/media/20_zpscd2hbevj.jpg.html)

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u279/LorneP/16_zpswu6iesb3.jpg (http://s170.photobucket.com/user/LorneP/media/16_zpswu6iesb3.jpg.html)

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u279/LorneP/13_zpssbbk1zqp.jpg (http://s170.photobucket.com/user/LorneP/media/13_zpssbbk1zqp.jpg.html)

[lorneparker1]

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u279/LorneP/17_zpsk8wrreta.jpg (http://s170.photobucket.com/user/LorneP/media/17_zpsk8wrreta.jpg.html)

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u279/LorneP/14_zps3yf7vg4t.jpg (http://s170.photobucket.com/user/LorneP/media/14_zps3yf7vg4t.jpg.html)

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u279/LorneP/12_zpsb2ww6y3m.jpg (http://s170.photobucket.com/user/LorneP/media/12_zpsb2ww6y3m.jpg.html)

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u279/LorneP/9_zpsyz6nmg7z.jpg (http://s170.photobucket.com/user/LorneP/media/9_zpsyz6nmg7z.jpg.html)

[lorneparker1]

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u279/LorneP/11_zpsabifwgj3.jpg (http://s170.photobucket.com/user/LorneP/media/11_zpsabifwgj3.jpg.html)

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u279/LorneP/10_zpsvuat2god.jpg (http://s170.photobucket.com/user/LorneP/media/10_zpsvuat2god.jpg.html)


http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u279/LorneP/8_zpstrmrrqek.jpg (http://s170.photobucket.com/user/LorneP/media/8_zpstrmrrqek.jpg.html)

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u279/LorneP/7_zpsxgkbrvid.jpg (http://s170.photobucket.com/user/LorneP/media/7_zpsxgkbrvid.jpg.html)

[lorneparker1]

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u279/LorneP/5_zps8lolf48f.jpg (http://s170.photobucket.com/user/LorneP/media/5_zps8lolf48f.jpg.html)



http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u279/LorneP/6_zpsxasjpzkd.jpg (http://s170.photobucket.com/user/LorneP/media/6_zpsxasjpzkd.jpg.html)

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u279/LorneP/2_zpslkzpu3jq.jpg (http://s170.photobucket.com/user/LorneP/media/2_zpslkzpu3jq.jpg.html)

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u279/LorneP/3_zpsouetwkxn.jpg (http://s170.photobucket.com/user/LorneP/media/3_zpsouetwkxn.jpg.html)

[nature girl]

Very nice pictures. Really like the one with the two dogs and the ducks on the log.

[Beachcomber]

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u279/LorneP/3_zpsouetwkxn.jpg (http://s170.photobucket.com/user/LorneP/media/3_zpsouetwkxn.jpg.html)

Nice beaver. What did you use to decoy it?

[guest]

Great pics Lorne ...... Looks like you had a lot of fun with friends and family.

Geese aren't done yet lol ...... Ya do have to have some sympathy for the Greenheads, it appears we pick on them.

Nice Beaver as an add on ........ Got to remember though, he can help to keep your pond full of Water haha.

congrats

[ActionJackson017]

Here is my favorite shot of the season, only because I had to play so much with exposure time and camera settings to take this pic well after bed time. Hope you guys enjoy our amazing sky:

https://i.imgur.com/qnq7414.jpg

[ActionJackson017]

Or this one from a different angle :)

https://i.imgur.com/PKLybMH.jpg

[MichelD]

You Quincy too eh?

[Viper]

Awesome pics Lorne. Brings me back to my younger days in the marshes of the Detroit river.

[pnbrock]

nice pics was hoping for a panty shot but full on beaver always trumps!!!!

[lorneparker1]

Awesome pics Lorne. Brings me back to my younger days in the marshes of the Detroit river.

where are abouts? I'm from Lasalle, and spent most of my childhood and teens on the Detroit river and Lake St.Clair

[kyleklassen]

I'd love to post them up but I don't know how

[Viper]

where are abouts? I'm from Lasalle, and spent most of my childhood and teens on the Detroit river and Lake St.Clair
From the county but my uncles lived in River Canard and would take me out. I remember hauling bags of corn in with them. Later in life I water fowled in various parts of Ont.

[Stone Sheep Steve]

Had the privilege to have my first waterfowl hunt this year with BCrams and his kids. Truly an honor hunting with the 5th generation of Greg's family to hunt this area and to witness his daughter take her first bird!

https://i.imgur.com/kvYam15.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/9ncrWVK.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/B8xzV3m.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/anvb7qm.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/9Toy872.jpg

[Stone Sheep Steve]

https://i.imgur.com/NDZfRmR.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/cIKIrU1.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/JsgMQ9Z.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/xm7u1jx.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/m0vdLpn.jpg

[Stone Sheep Steve]

https://i.imgur.com/XRQ7fBF.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/n4AQfOb.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/t6rrQ2y.jpg

SSS

[pnbrock]

very nice i was hoping to have BCrams school me on goose calling in vanderhoof but didn't work out .congrats to young lady on first bird careful its addictive.

[guest]

Great pics as usual SSS ........ Great times together there, congrats to the New Waterfowlers !

[kyleklassen]

ok after a lesson from a computing genius I may have it. Our last hunt of the season.
https://s20.postimg.org/5gdvhqmel/20180107_120939.jpg

[kyleklassen]

Got out during a cold snap for a decent shoot
https://s20.postimg.org/gfz2t9kil/Screenshot_20171225-144642.jpg

[kyleklassen]

Adam shot his first Gadwall
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[kyleklassen]

https://s20.postimg.org/l1v71wvul/20171231_103926.jpg

[kyleklassen]

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[kyleklassen]

https://s20.postimg.org/ywthkd34d/20171216_124543.jpg

[kyleklassen]

Picked up Adam from school and had a quick evening hunt in early November
https://s20.postimg.org/in3bgxpq5/20171110_184956.jpg

[kyleklassen]

https://s20.postimg.org/rncifetd9/20171221_072912.jpg

[kyleklassen]

https://s20.postimg.org/jo3k64jl9/20171221_101053.jpg

[kyleklassen]

Opening day
https://s20.postimg.org/rtlm4mv31/Screenshot_20171007-190632.png

[kyleklassen]

Nowhere near the duck season we had last year....but still managed a few. Lets all pray for a freeze up for next season.

[guest]

No freeze up please ....... I like my wild duck to taste like wild duck , not Bullheads lol

[kyleklassen]

If you are going to be a westcoast waterfowler you need to make hay while the sun shines (or the bay freezes)......never had a fishy one last year...learn your birds and treat them accordingly. Heres 212 lbs of last years freeze up, not a hint of fishiness....also have 10 bacon wrapped teal in the oven right now.
https://s20.postimg.org/havbdvvh9/Screenshot_20180121-174358.jpg

[guest]

That's awesome right there ........ Newman and Krammer would be jealous lol.

Just wondering though, how can I tell if a Mallard flying forty yards out has spent the last three weeks on the foreshore or not.

When we get a freeze up in the Fraser valley for longer periods of time, many birds head to the foreshore ....... Then can taste fishy. No I'm not shooting divers period.

[kyleklassen]

Do you need lessons on how to tell a fishy one from a non fishy one in the hand?

[kyleklassen]

Deal with them accordingly

[guest]

Do you need lessons on how to tell a fishy one from a non fishy one in the hand?

lol ...... After over fifty years of Water-fowling I guess I do ........ We dress birds either same day or next day, remove all breasts, legs thighs, soak in salt and water remove blood and shot, pluck some big mallards .......
But some, pins widge and mallards even can at times taste fishy when we have a lengthy freeze. No freeze = better taste.

Best tasting birds we have are from the prarries ....... Early birds here are quite tasty too.

Thanks for the tips, always nice to learn something new. After talking with Kyle, I have learned more of that fishy or ocean based mud flat eel grass taste or smell is in the FAT. makes complete sence. If we roasted plucked ducks, we would often have the strong smell, and fishy taste. We always remove the fat from breasted birds, and remove it from legs and thighs before cooking too. Ma hated the smell of them fishy roasting mallards. Lol