Lower Mainland watefowl ass whooping.

[lorneparker1]

Had a great weekend with some old friends and met some new ones. Great laughs, great hospitality and great bird hunting.

A few weeks back work had set up a dinner party at casacades for the 17th of Novemeber. Since i was going to be in the area anyway i made a few calls and tried to line up a few hunts, and link some people together.

I arrived at Adam and Matts farm friday night. Put my truck in the barn and headed out with Adam to pick up Matt and grab some food and a few beers. After a nice bs session and somehow getting 3 dinners and 10 beers for $49, we hit the hay early (but not before watching a few waterfowl dvd's:)).

Got set up at first light and had 16 down in 30 mins or so. We were sitting in standing corn next to a flooded depression, and had Matts dog hank doing all the retriving. It has been a long time since i have hunted without laying in a layout and not having to chase birds around. 2 thumbs up on both accounts. After a bit of lul in the action the birds picked up and we were done our limit by 8:30. No suzie widgeons died on this hunt....

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After that i headed into town to grab my fraser valley permit, back to the farm for a breakfast of champions
, then off to the casino to get drunk and beligerent.

[lorneparker1]

Day 2

I met with Dave after breakfast and dropped off all my gear as i was crashing at the casino and didnt want to have a truck full of decoys and layouts in the parking lot of cascades over night. I told him id be back at 4:30am and to be ready. Well i got up and 4:28 and was not very cohoerent, sent a text be there in 15...

Dave, Chris and I, were to meet Dave 2, and Adam at tim Hortons for 5:30, as we had our work cut out for us as far as set up goes. They had a field lined up with alot of ducks around, and potential traffic of 2500 or so lessers and cacklers. I brought over my 3.5 dozen ffd full bodies, and Adam brought along his 4+ dozen dsd full bodies all which had to be walked into the field 150 yards or so along with 5 layout blinds, a few robo ducks, and all our guns/blindbags, etc.. The plan was to shoot some ducks, then try and land some of these small geese. I must say the fellas went all out to give us the best chance to be successful. They scouted a few times the week prior to get us as close to the flight path as possible, and spent a few hours the day before cutting up stubble for the blinds and weed wacking 5 areas to but the blinds in the thick brush. took an hour or so to get set up, and when first light cam the ducks started coming. There was quite a bit of scaring and shooing the birds with shot guns rather then killing them, but we had a few limits down in short order. Then the geese started flying....

Wave after wave of lessers got up, they were in usual fashion 200 yards up and a half mile away. No amount of calling flagging and decoys could pull these puppies over.... Except one group, then 2, then 3. We pulled over a group of about 20 that started circling, 3 broke off and landed in the decoys which started sucking in the groups, in all we had about 40 on the ground within 20 yards and another 100 or so circling. We would have landed them as well if we needed to i think, but since you only have 14 shells between 5 guys, 40 is enough to shoot at. We yelled surprise they jumped up and 7 went back down for the eternal dirt nap. We would have had 8, but i guess its not routine for guys from that area to bring there guns when retriveing birds? as one got up and flew away.

There was some hilarious stuff that happened that falls into the "kinda had to be there catergory" but one that is great is we had a group of about 30 mallards light 15-30 yards out, and Dave yelled " BLOODBATH!!" and well, at least 10 shots went off and not a single duck fell. We also had a lone honker come right into the decoys as 5 of us were picking up standing in the spread with 3 robos going at the end of the day. Adam mouth called him in and i shot him at about 40 yards. to funny...

In all we ended up with 34 ducks(cpl stud widgeons), and 8 (6 lessers, 1 cackler, 1 honker) geese, and landed about 40 which was the highlight for me.

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Thanks again to everyone involved. Had a great time!

Lorne

[BiG Boar]

Lorne you forgot to tell them about that new call they have out! This one is great people....you'll have to get one for yourselves, sucks em right in!

[lorneparker1]

Lorne you forgot to tell them about that new call they have out! This one is great people....you'll have to get one for yourselves, sucks em right in!

Hahahaha i didnt forget! I just didnt know how to go about explaining it hahahahahaha

[digger dogger]

"This suck call doesn't sound very good, i think i'll take it back"
Roflmao

[Danny]

"After that i headed into town to grab my fraser valley permit"

Don't you get that before you go hunting ? just wondering

[lorneparker1]

Yes you do, if you are hunting in area which requires one. Day 1 didn't, day 2 did. Thanks for looking out for me though.

[nano]

Looks like you had fun, nice shooting!

[field marshal]

Nice of Matt and Adam to let you hold up the mallards, fatso!!!:mrgreen: I know you don't get to do that very often???---Cheers---Field Marshal.

[Crazy_Farmer]

A great hide and good decoys is the path to success on little geese. The hide was right up there with some of the best we've done. Hows that saying go "The more time you spend scouting and getting ready, the less time you spend in field becuase you're normally done quicker" Was an outstanding hunt.


Tony, You should of seen the cormies flying over the corn field. Lorne must of brought a dozen over with him becuase Its pretty rare to see them here and we saw a bunch hahahah Islanders bad luck!!

[kyleklassen]

glad you guys nailed them....i was stuck with wedding duty all weekend.

[longshot]

Awesome hunts guys! We've been quite lucky with those elusive cacklers and lessers this year it seems. My highlight on cacklers was on the opener... I called a single cackler from atleast a half mile off, right to point blank range, with no decoys, just my Tim Grounds SM.. It was great. Looks like this weekend's going in the books for you guys!! Great shooting.

[Sasquatch]

Looks like good times and a great hunt!

[open-sights]

some great mustaches in that picture. Great day Sunday boys, thanks again DD