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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zoops" data-source="post: 125210" data-attributes="member: 790"><p>Similar experience as you.  The PPR was quite a bit dryer than recent history.  Had to scout quite a bit to find a couple decent spots for opener - got beat to the first one but the backup was a good transition slough and had one of our best opener hunts ever.  Once NR opener passed I really didn't scout much as I didn't have much faith and so many people I talked to kept saying how hard it was to find ducks.  Plus had a couple weekends of pheasant hunting in there and then went to Canada and then deer season so my effort wasn't great in late Oct-early Nov but I have my doubts that it would have helped much.  One farmer I know in the Goodrich area whose family hunts most every weekend said it's the worst season they'd seen since the 80's.  It was just so warm - we barely had a frost before November and Saskatchewan was just as warm and much wetter.  One thing it seems I've noticed is that 5 years ago you'd almost always find a pod of honkers worth setting up on (talking regular season) and I haven't seen that much recently.  If you do, it's like 10-20 birds.  So apparently the early season is working.  Positives were that the snows were around in pretty good numbers from about Nov. 10-Dec. 1 and had a couple decent shoots on them.  Some bad luck where a couple of the days I could hunt were sunny and no wind.  Ducks finally seemed to come down in good numbers about Thanksgiving (again, crazy how late it was) and I think a guy could have done real well if he had a week off around there.  Knew some guys hunting on the last day of the season in the DL region not even hunting birds coming off of DL or Stump that were thick with mallards.  Rare that duck season (low plains) closes with plenty of birds still north of 94.  Overall, a bit of a slow-developing season but luckily we have pheasants and fishing to fill in the lulls.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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