What's your dream duck hunting destination?

[Mossyhorn]

I've had a real bad itch to go duck hunting lately just haven't found the time between work and just finished deer hunting. So I've been day dreaming at work and looking at all kinds of duck hunting stuff on line.

So I thought this would be a fun one...What's your dream duck hunt? Where would you love to go and for what species?

I have always wanted to go back east or Canada for some big water diver action. The idea of big water, nasty weather and big flocks of redheads and canvasbacks has always intrigued me.

I would also like to hunt somewhere for sea ducks, eiders and harlequins. Some place like the rocky shores of Maine.

So what are your guy's dream hunts?

[CRR]

My dream hunt is in Tricities for mallards in the fields. Nothing like a cyclone of birds coming in to land by you!!

[redfish89]

Alberta for big fat northern mallards.

[Wingman Or.]

Cordoba, Argentina for Chilöe Wigeon and Bahama Pintail. More realistic is East Coast Black Ducks and Eiders.

[baltz526]

summer lake for snow geese in the morning ducks in the afternoon. last week of october with a good storm.

[duckboy]

Pribloff Islands... King Eider

[SImudBogger]

mudhen on a saturday!

[steelheadslayer]

Arkansas for flooded timber mallards and/or New Zealand. I'd love to try a combo duck/goose hunt with flyfishing for trout.

[Tulelicious]

No exactly Ducks but I have always wanted to go for Snow Geese in Texas. Might make my dream come true next year. Something about those hugh flocks comming in gets my blood pumping

[lentz]

Anywhere that birds are at. You have to make the best of what you got, i guess.

[BrianMaguire]

I use to think I was crazy thinking about the far off lands to hunt big game. Not any more. Thanks guys, you give me a great example, I am not as crazy as those guys wanting to hunt 2 lb ducks in the same far off lands. A guided Sheep hunt pencils out far better than a South American duck hunt. I am >< much closer to selling the sheep hunt to my wife.

[MarshBum]

• Plum Island, Massachusetts for Black Ducks.
• Chesepeke Bay, body booting, for Canada Geese.
• A trip out, for anything, with Pit Boss (Capt. Jeff Coats)
• Rocky shores of Maine for whatever flies by.
• Which ever Canadian province or American state that still allows sink boxes.
• Great Lakes for divers.
• The Dakotas for a week of freelancing.
• Izembek Lagoon.
• The Coca Cola club... for anything (I think that's the name)
• A week in the cabin, on the lake, that Gordon Macquarrie made famous with "Hizzoner"
• ...and I know it ain't ducks, but anywhere with Worth for band-tails

So, a little more than one spot, but once the day dreaming train starts, it's hard to stop.

Geoff

[DogZilla15]

I did the Saskatchewan this this year....I'd do it again....

[rrust1]

My cousin and I are planning a trip to Argentina (near-distant future). 31 species of waterfowl. A red stag. [and a wife]. Well I had to rethink the last part, as I was engaged in November. But 2 out of 3 won't be bad... and the future bride wants to visit friends there, so selling the trip is much easier.

[stlhdr1]

The Lower Columbia on a mega-freeze... Wait that will be next week........

Keith

[Adjhunt]

Originally Posted by SImudBogger

mudhen on a saturday!

aww..... you stole mine. I guess I will take Sunday's

I would really love to go to Canada someday for layout hunts on some big honkers. Or down in Mississippi in the timber for a mallard/gadwall hunt.
Or any good hunting with great friends and family!

[SImudBogger]

I would really like to hunt the pothole region in the midwest. Or flooded timber would be cool.

[lor]

Sea ducks in Alaska

[Headhunter]

6th fairway at Eastmoreland Golf Course.

[arkansasbasser]

Arkansas timber. For old times sake.

[HonkerKnocker]

true flooded timber in Arkansas..it just seems so unique compared to any other duck hunting in the country

[duck_crazy101]

maine for eiders and alaska for oldsquaw and harli's and canada for a speck and snow hunt

[goosegunner]

Arkansas-flooded timber hunt with Charles [Hammertime] Snapp or one of the RNT guys.

Alberta- combo hunt duck and goose from layouts.

[Threemuch]

Sea ducks. Alaska and Nova Scotia.

But realistically, these would have to be guided hunts. I just don't get the pleasure out of a guided trip that I do out of a DIY trip. On a guided hunt, you are basically just a shooter.

[Hunt'nFish]

Originally Posted by Mossyhorn

So what are your guy's dream hunts?

I live the dream every weekend.

But I have to admit that sea duck action off the coast of Maine sure looks like a lot of fun.

And those flooded timber hunts of Arkansas......oh MAN! To DIE for! I love timber hunts!

Come on water levels! RAIN, SLEET, SNOW....I don't care just so long as it brings up the river.
I'd take about 6ft.
Hunt'nFish

[Linejerk]

Originally Posted by Adjhunt

Mississippi in the timber for a mallard/gadwall hunt.
!

I love hunting timber

[sharpshott]

Either a flooded timber hunt in arkansas or somewhere to get a bluewing-teal i've always wanted to have a mount done with all three teal. If you really want me to dream i would like to add a Baikal Teal to the mix but thats really going out there...haha

[cureless1]

Might sound funny but all I want is to see one HOT HUNTING DAY anyplace here at home, with my dog working to retrieve all the shot birds.

this is my second season so many things are still new to me, good news is there are so many exciting firsts still left for me.

Nothing compares to seeing my boys make spectacular shots and the dog making spectacular retrieves.

The only thing I am spectacular at is bragging on what they do.....

Just one HOT HUNTING DAY WITH LOTS OF BIRDS FEET DOWN is all I want to see.

[Hunt'nFish]

AMEN!
Hunt'nFish

[goosebware1]

arkansas flooded timber or argentina would be a dream hunt

[croation2]

125.00-45.00 line

[Hunt'nFish]

Originally Posted by croation2

125.00-45.00 line

[mnfisher]

Saskatchewan duck and goose trip or an alaskan sea duck trip

[huntercope]

How about ANYWHERE I can go on my first waterfowl hunt ever!!

[whtelk]

burbank hunting in Washington....Paul's pond.

[DogZilla15]

Beautiful Lake Bob.......

[Headhunter]

New England seaducks. I would really like to try that open water UFO layout style hunting. Hunting in some of the old maritime/whaling towns with all that colonial architecture as a backdrop....that would rock!

Someplace in the Southern Hemisphere like Argentina. Duck hunting May-August would make our long off season more bearable.

[sukor lihp]

Disnyland

[arkansasbasser]

Originally Posted by whtelk

burbank hunting in Washington....Paul's pond.

Me too.

[arkansasbasser]

Originally Posted by huntercope

How about ANYWHERE I can go on my first waterfowl hunt ever!!

Get some waders and a 12 gauge. I'll take you if you want to go.

[huntercope]

Get some waders and a 12 gauge. I'll take you if you want to go.

I would love to go sometime!! I have both. Although my waders are not camo.

[DTSportsman]

Anywhere is good, but lots of shootin', lots of laughin', lots of quackin' and Honkin', and a motor that operates all of the time are all in my dreams .

[Tar Heel]

Friday, right here in Oregon. Getting cold, new birds should be showing up, and the cold will make even the whiley old drakes do sumthin stupid. All we need is a pr. of waders, camo kayak, 2 doz deeks and a couple boxes of sells.

[gotZem]

I'd really love to hunt Alberta for giant honkers (not these "squeakers"!) from a laydown blind. But--- Hunting waterfowl in South Dakota RULES!! Seen over 250,000 ducks in a cornfield. It was so loud when we drove by that you couldn't hear each other talking! Just "had to" stop and whhhhhack a limit! As we picked up the dead, the others didn't even flinch! Unreal stuff. Also seen a field "turn white" with snows many times. That's fun too. It's called "bonzai"-- You drive your rig right out into the field until they get nervous, then "bail and whail"!! Hunting the migration in SD has to be the best!
gotZem!!!

[sprigkiller09]

Sorry i have a list

1. Mexico for Bull sprig limits
2. Canada in late september for ducks, honkers, specks and snows.
3. Our property where we work hard all summer planting duck food, camoing blinds, fertilizing, and much more. To see the birds use it in the fall and reap the benefits is very rewarding. My goal for this year: our property for a 7 drake wood duck limit.
4. South Dakota for spring Snows.
5. Argentina
6. Washington for harlis and oldsquaw
7. Lower columbia for WUSKY'S.
8. Quality goose hunts right here in the valley. Decoying cacks, tavs, lessers, duskys, westerns, aleutians, specks and snows. Seriously i feel like i am living the dream.

OK I think im done

[Wreckless]

Reading these lists shows me that we really live in a GREAT area!!!!

As for my dreams, getting my wife into a good limit SOON!!!!

Baltz has another, Summer Lake with a good wind!!!!

Exotic - Maybe a combo trip to Magdelena bay for Brant & Snook!!!

[Sauvie's Slayer]

Originally Posted by duckboy

pribloff islands... King eider

amen!!!

[Tar Heel]

My dream duck hunts are the memories of the great hunts I've had, wondering if they can ever be topped. Always looking for the elusive perfect hunt, but coming away warn out and satisfied nontheless.

[TheJester357]

Just a day on the salt with me and my Boy, and the lab at my side. Doesn't really matter what the birds are, does it?

Bob

[Northwest Pest]

Clackamette park of course.

[duckintheblood]

hahaha i love the clackamette park one thats awesome!!
me and the pops made the dream trip earlier this year went and hunted alberta for a couples of weeks and then north dakota for a week north dakota sucked for waterfowl but it was just because we got there before the birds did but alberta was absolutely amazin had incredible hunts and met some awesome people and not to mention saw geese do things i have never seen before and shootin ducks in a field it was AWESOME!!! we got the invite to come back every year for a week and let me tell ya i don't care what i have to do i am making it up there every year haha
Dan

[Longfin]

Sitting in my hot tub at dusk as the flocks pour in.

[HuntNFishAddict]

Originally Posted by DogZilla15

Beautiful Lake Bob.......

Interesting Location. Don't know if the birds would decoy very well?

[adobe wall]

Originally Posted by Longfin

Sitting in my hot tub at dusk as the flocks pour in.

If I had a hot tub in my yard, and if it was legal to hunt in my yard, I could take a few easy limits

I've been reading this thread with a fair amount of interest. Hunting black ducks back east is certainly challenging- they can be one of the wariest ducks around. But the bag limit is pretty darn restricted and it really isn't worth travelling out there for one black duck a day, even though you could legally bag a Tundra swan on the same trip.

Having hunted an awful lot of the east coast and midwest, I don't think there are many places in the US that offer a combination of quality of life, good employment opportunities, and excellent wing shooting as right here in the northwest. Nothing wrong with dreaming about going somewhere else- but overall y'all have it pretty darn good right here. Plus you've got salmon, steelhead, sturgeon, albacore, and halibut. Elk, blacktail, muleys....

If i was going to travel to duck hunt, it would likely be somewhere in Canada but when I have travelled up north it's usually been almost too easy to enjoy.

jmho, aw