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Has anyone else noted higher doodle numbers afield this year? I feel like I've been having more woodcock flushes this year than the past three years.
Gil, you may be in for a great season...
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Caleb, our season is dependent on weather conditions up north. Gil
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I've found fewer woodcock around up here this year. It's been colder than usual and wet. Catching the flights migrating south at just the right time is always a gamble.
Karl
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Came and went this week in Downeast ME, caught the tail end last week, great shooting even for the end! No big numbers for birds this weekend, few here and there, but man you got to work for them!
Last edited by RARiddell; 10/27/18 06:53 PM.
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I've found fewer woodcock around up here this year. It's been colder than usual and wet. Catching the flights migrating south at just the right time is always a gamble.
Karl
Similar to what I found in the UP and north central WI, and I hunted them pretty regularly since the season opened. Found good concentrations of what appeared to be local birds earlier this month in both areas. Mostly gone now, although I'll probably get out once or twice more before our season ends. Never encountered anything like flight bird numbers. I saw one relatively recent post from a guy in SW Ontario indicating they still had them up there, so maybe we'll still get some. It'll be over for us Nov 5, and I've shot them right up to the end of the season some years.
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I've found fewer woodcock around up here this year. It's been colder than usual and wet. Catching the flights migrating south at just the right time is always a gamble.
Karl
Similar to what I found in the UP and north central WI, and I hunted them pretty regularly since the season opened. Found good concentrations of what appeared to be local birds earlier this month in both areas. Mostly gone now, although I'll probably get out once or twice more before our season ends. Never encountered anything like flight bird numbers. I saw one relatively recent post from a guy in SW Ontario indicating they still had them up there, so maybe we'll still get some. It'll be over for us Nov 5, and I've shot them right up to the end of the season some years. We end on the 15th of Nov, we saw the same last year and had a big flight around the 25th of Nov. This year is definitely colder earlier, but no really big flights, lots of residents which left in a hurry on the last full moon this past week.
Last edited by RARiddell; 10/28/18 11:06 AM.
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Ah, the Woodcock Moon. Perhaps some good shooting is yet to be had. I'll keep chasing them until our season ends on the 6th.
Karl
Last edited by Karl Graebner; 10/28/18 11:27 AM.
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Ah, the Woodcock Moon. Perhaps some good shooting is yet to be had. I'll keep chasing them until our season ends on the 6th.
Karl Sometimes colloquialisms have some truths to them, but in reality it probably was the front created by this Nor'easter that brought a north wind that got them to fly south, but then again it is called a Woodcock Moon for some reason!
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