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Canada Waterfowl 2024
Posted on 10/2/24 at 2:07 pm
Posted on 10/2/24 at 2:07 pm
I am heading out for Alberta next week for 10 days. Anyone else going? Anyone been already this year? Heard any reports?
All I have heard is that the weather has been relatively mild this year. They are getting their first hard frost of the year on most of the northern prairie tonight. Mallard heads are just beginning to turn green. Specklebellies still around (but won't be much longer).
All I have heard is that the weather has been relatively mild this year. They are getting their first hard frost of the year on most of the northern prairie tonight. Mallard heads are just beginning to turn green. Specklebellies still around (but won't be much longer).
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Posted on 10/2/24 at 2:08 pm to No Colors
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Posted on 10/2/24 at 2:54 pm to No Colors
I am here in Saskatchewan right now with a 6 man. We are hunting about an hour from Saskatoon. Got here Sunday right with a front that dropped temps into the upper 30’s for lows with a 25 mph wind. We had a pretty good day Monday. Got all our ducks and close to limits on dark geese, mostly Canadas. Hunted a duck field Tuesday morning by a roost pond. It was great but could have been epic if we had any wind. We were done in about an hour. Went out for geese yesterday afternoon and got 48 with mostly Specks and Canadas with about 10 Snows. This morning was a little slow. I think we ended up with 6 Mallards and about 10 Canadas. Seems like the geese moved fields from yesterday and took the ducks with them. About to go try ducks this PM and head home tomorrow.
Posted on 10/2/24 at 2:56 pm to MWP
Solid report. Many thanks! Yall get after them! 
ETA: Quick question: Do your drake ducks have color yet?
ETA: Quick question: Do your drake ducks have color yet?
This post was edited on 10/2/24 at 3:03 pm
Posted on 10/2/24 at 3:16 pm to No Colors
Some drakes have green heads. Others are still in eclipse. Probably 50/50.
Posted on 10/2/24 at 8:45 pm to MWP
My padnahs are driving to sk as I type and others fly to Saskatoon to meet them. As other said weather turned this week and cooler weather should bring more birds. It's been warm and hunting north of Saskatoon has been meh. Crops are off, was a wet yr and potholes have water.
I'm not going this yr my mother is palliative and doesn't have long
I'm not going this yr my mother is palliative and doesn't have long
Posted on 10/3/24 at 1:37 am to MWP
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right now with a 6 man.
What is this?
Posted on 10/3/24 at 3:11 am to SOLA
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What is this?
The size of his group
Posted on 10/3/24 at 6:12 am to No Colors
is that what they say in Alabama?Posted on 10/3/24 at 6:35 am to No Colors
I’d be interested to hear about both your and MWP’s experience and also if y’all have an outfitter you’d recommend.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 7:24 am to iwantacooler
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outfitter you’d recommend.
I can't recommend an outfitter. I've gone there three times with an outfitter and I wasn't thrilled with the experience in any of the cases. For a variety of reasons. Most of them are personal and relate to the way I like to hunt and allocate my time.
Outfitters are just processing you through as fast as they can. For me, the trip is an adventure. I like to ride around and DIY. Scout. Meet farmers. Eat at small town cafes. Watch football. Shoot skeet. Etc.
I've become friends with some landowners up there who store my decoys and waders and all that stuff. So I'm there for 10 days just kind of relaxing and soaking in the experience of being on the prairie.
If you have a little extra time, I would recommend going once with an outfitter to see how they do things up there. And after that just figuring out how to do in yourself. For me, that's the reward.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 8:41 am to No Colors
No colours, that's what we have transitioned to. We use to use an outfitter for cpl days than DIY after that. Now invested the money we would have paid to an outfitter in trailer decoys a frame etc. We may not have super hunts every day but it's very satisfying to DIY and meet.ppl etc
Posted on 10/3/24 at 8:57 am to OntarioTiger
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it's very satisfying to DIY and meet.ppl etc
Correct.
For me, so many reasons to DYI. I hate being on a set schedule while I'm supposed to be on vacation for one thing. Like after I travel all day to get there, I might want to sleep until 7 the next day and just ride around scouting.
Some days we hunt morning and evening. But some days we goof off and only hunt once. And I found a cool sporting clays range that we like to go to etc
Also, my experience with outfitters up there is that they are really good goose hunters. But they could give a flip about the ducks. So I'm actually a better duck hunter than they are. Which is frustrating.
Of course I've had to learn how to goose hunt from the ground up. Which isn't that hard. And is kind of satisfying in a lot of ways.
Another thing I've found is that there are lots of landowners who won't let outfitters hunt. But they will let some Baws who are freelancing hunt if they're polite. So there are some really good fields that are basically being saved for me all season because the farmers won't let the local outfitters hunt them until after I've been and gone.
I carry a cooler
full of shrimp up there. And have a big shrimp boil and a gumbo cooking for the local landowners. They love that shite. If they're still in the field harvesting we will make plates of food and bring them out to the combine. Of course we breast out a ton of ducks and geese. And give most of it away. And this will blow your mind. But I've had multiple farmers tell me that in their entire lives, I am the only hunter who has ever knocked on their door after a hunt and offered them ziplock bags full of cleaned breasts.
Can you imagine? Like, what am I going to do with all this meat other than give it away? It's kind of crazy that duck breasts and boiled shrimp gets me into doors and into lifelong relationships up there. Like no one has ever thought of that before?
Posted on 10/3/24 at 11:41 am to No Colors
Good info. Don’t you have to get some kind of paperwork done on your gun now before you can bring it into Canada? Who are you supposed to contact about that?
Posted on 10/3/24 at 12:01 pm to SOLA
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paperwork
Not that I can remember. I just travelled with my shotgun and cleared it through customs. The customs people in Edmonton have always been really easy to deal with. They have never opened my bag or my gun case. The only thing they ask is: "Have you ever been convicted of a crime?" and then I say "No", and they say, "Ok let's check." And then they click away at their computer and say: "You're telling the truth!"...I guess because a bunch of people lie etc.
The only other thing they have ever questioned me about was if I was working in Canada. And they bring up the fact that I go up there the same time every year. So they ask if it is work related. And I just say No it's when I like to come hunt.
And starting about 5 years ago I just started leaving a shotgun up there. It saves me an extra $50 checked bag fee each way. Plus I don't have to deal with the hassle.
Also, on the way back, as far as bringing back ducks goes: It has never been a problem. You cannot breast them (whcih is stupid). You have to leave one wing attached. And you can take back 16 ducks and 16 geese. Which is an absolute metric ton of meat, especially when it is whole birds, un breasted. So I never bring back all that I could. It would be too heavy.
But the process of doing it is kind of silly. Because the way the airport is laid out (at least in Edmonton) you check your bags before you go through Customs. So the cooler with the ducks is already making its way through the baggage system. And you go through Customs and fill out a form saying you have all these ducks and geese. But you don't really have them with you. So there's nothing for them to inspect.
And you are clearing US Customs in Edmonton, Alberta. So when you actually meet back up with you bags in Dallas or Atlanta or wherever, you are actually at the domestic terminal. Not the international terminal. So there's no US Customs to clear there. So my ducks have never been inspected for whatever that's worth. Not that there's any reason to bring in more than the 32 you're allowed to begin with.
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