Sea Ducking
November 18: Decided to go sea ducking this morning. This type of hunting is different than normal duck hunting. All the hunting is done over big water, such as the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, from boats. The birds do not require as much finess or realism to convince to toll to a decoy spread.
The most common types of sea ducks we shoot in the Chesapeake are Surf Scoters and Old Sqauws. In this photo, the all-black bird with the white head markings is a scoter, the other birds are Old Squaws (also called Long Tailed Ducks):
Today we were going to target Scoters. A proven tequnique for attracting these birds is to flag them. Jeremy demonstrates:
It requires such little finesse to shoot these birds that we use black crab buoys as decoys. They toll to shapes, so anything the same size and color will work:
However, they have to be around...
We are used to large flocks of birds divebombing our spread, and I decide to go sea ducking today on the strength of a solid report from Jeremy Mercer of a great shoot yesterday, but the ducks never showed up today. Disapointing. Jeremy's quote "They were here yesterday"
We got bored, so bored that Jeremy turned on the decoys:
Returned to Chestertown, and hunted in the afternoon with Steve Picarde, Brent Prossner, Pat Stedman, Rob Hooper and Mark Prossner.
It was a better hunt:
The most common types of sea ducks we shoot in the Chesapeake are Surf Scoters and Old Sqauws. In this photo, the all-black bird with the white head markings is a scoter, the other birds are Old Squaws (also called Long Tailed Ducks):
Today we were going to target Scoters. A proven tequnique for attracting these birds is to flag them. Jeremy demonstrates:
It requires such little finesse to shoot these birds that we use black crab buoys as decoys. They toll to shapes, so anything the same size and color will work:
However, they have to be around...
We are used to large flocks of birds divebombing our spread, and I decide to go sea ducking today on the strength of a solid report from Jeremy Mercer of a great shoot yesterday, but the ducks never showed up today. Disapointing. Jeremy's quote "They were here yesterday"
We got bored, so bored that Jeremy turned on the decoys:
Returned to Chestertown, and hunted in the afternoon with Steve Picarde, Brent Prossner, Pat Stedman, Rob Hooper and Mark Prossner.
It was a better hunt:
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