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<blockquote data-quote="PrairieGhost" data-source="post: 228120" data-attributes="member: 704"><p>I don't duck hunt much. When I do I like how fast scaup fly and I have never had one try land in my goose decoys in a field. So that leaves mostly large water. My favorite duck hunts were with the kids. A half dozen decoys and sitting in a hawthorn patch on the banks of the Sheyenne River. Ducks don't notice smoke I guess because in that hawthorn patch we cooked ducks we were shooting while we hunted. One of the funniest things was one of my boys trying to blow out three scaup that caught fire. He and my hunting friend in those days are both gone now, but I will never forget it. That was in our camp on East Devils Lake. Hunting is about enjoyment not how much you can kill or if you can kill more than the other guy. </p><p></p><p>I doubt more than 10% of the duck hunters can distinguish between a roost and a feed on a chironomidae emergent or some other plentiful resource. Often these emergents last two or three days and people think someone shot out the roost. Often one will see an empty wetland during noon, then in the evening find hundreds of birds. Different aquatic macroinvertebrates emerge or are active during different times of day or night. Hunting a wetland with decoys isn't the same as roost busting. When you find large flocks of males in eclipse on a wetland that staging area is likely to be a real roost later on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PrairieGhost, post: 228120, member: 704"] I don't duck hunt much. When I do I like how fast scaup fly and I have never had one try land in my goose decoys in a field. So that leaves mostly large water. My favorite duck hunts were with the kids. A half dozen decoys and sitting in a hawthorn patch on the banks of the Sheyenne River. Ducks don't notice smoke I guess because in that hawthorn patch we cooked ducks we were shooting while we hunted. One of the funniest things was one of my boys trying to blow out three scaup that caught fire. He and my hunting friend in those days are both gone now, but I will never forget it. That was in our camp on East Devils Lake. Hunting is about enjoyment not how much you can kill or if you can kill more than the other guy. I doubt more than 10% of the duck hunters can distinguish between a roost and a feed on a chironomidae emergent or some other plentiful resource. Often these emergents last two or three days and people think someone shot out the roost. Often one will see an empty wetland during noon, then in the evening find hundreds of birds. Different aquatic macroinvertebrates emerge or are active during different times of day or night. Hunting a wetland with decoys isn't the same as roost busting. When you find large flocks of males in eclipse on a wetland that staging area is likely to be a real roost later on. [/QUOTE]
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