Migration

Looks like the birds will stick around in the Dakotas and Kansas

Yep everyone better stay home. It is going to be 1 or 2 degrees above average in the north half of the US this winter. No ducks or geese will be migrating except a few blue wings and spoonies.

Will be interesting

I'm putting all my guns and calls up for the year, this is horrible.

Yep nothing to hunt. Everyone just stay home on the couch

Shooting decoys thrown in the air might be fun! lol

I plan a hunt or two with guides who have single spots open and can put with a group that doesn't mind. It's a bi**h when you're the only duck hunter you know. So with all of you saying home my chances improve. Thanks all of you.

going to be "you better hunt over food" on small water, or hunt big water w smartweed kinda year- see 5-25 ducks a hunt- better get them to decoy

Or drive to kansas

Or Nebraska

I would like to do that also, if you go take pictures

Woulda been nice when I was in Montana last year. Freaking -50 before thanksgiving.

It'll be almost like nothing's different.

I don't think some of you understand migration. It might hurt the mallard numbers but all the other species go where they go just because they do what they do when it's time to do it.

Hell w that. Challenge is ok. Just have to find them.

Pretty simple. You can sit at your spot and hope the weather is just perfect (1% chance in TX) or you can go to where the ducks are. Expensive? Time consuming? Exhausting? Sure but it's the price of consistent success.

Bingo.

Some folks just don't have any adventure in their soul

Glad i prebooked northern trips

It's duck hunting...the only thing consistent is change. Adapt.

Where you headed?

In order:

south West Illinois, NE Arkansas, Lubbock, Oklahoma, Kansas

very nice.

What outfitter are you going with in Lubbock?

This post looks familiar, do you just copy an paste it or rewrite it every year?

lol

Can't be copy and paste because it doesn't have that cool animated map showing the wind blowing the wrong way to let ducks migrate, last year's post was better.

I don't like yalls tone.

I'm the same way. Eat. Sleep. Crap.

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Oh yeah, y'all didn't know? Ducks can only fly with a north wind or was it they only land into the wind so they only migrate with a south wind?

Panhandlesbest

Beav posts a sky is falling thread every year. And every year the ducks migrate regardless..

Sure, but when much warmer up north, most ducks stay there a lil longer

Cmon kdub, with all do respect, you know better

With all do respect..

I'm not going to call doom and gloom from a weather prediction posted on the thf. Just make sure when you book your guided hunts you line em up with cold fronts. More for your $$ that way.

Yeah, you even got "time of year" migrating mallards. Cold weather will force all the ducks down only when it completely freezes over up north. But seen big wads of mallards migrate down with out the cold temps. Just need the north wind, they will not migrate down with a south wind.

An extremely overlooked point. Regardless of temp.....