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When most people hear about duck calling, they tend to think that it is literally calling the ducks. This is not the case. It basically means using an appliance specifically built to draw the ducks to the direction it is coming from. It may not sound challenging but the interesting thing is that there are hunters who have never fathomed the art of how to use it.
The duck calling resonance should be audible and obvious; this is the only way you can be sure that they will be drawn to you the hunter. With all the different noises that a hunter should learn, the most important is the most basic called the quack. The hunter should know when to use each noise if they to catch as many ducks as possible.
From the Duluth News Tribune
published Nov. 6, 2008
 BISMARCK, N.D. — North Dakotans who ate wild game killed with lead bullets appeared to have higher lead levels than those who ate little or no wild game, according to a study released Wednesday by the North Dakota Department of Health.
The study examined the lead levels in the blood of more than 700 state residents. The elevated lead levels were not considered dangerous, but North Dakota officials say pregnant women and children younger than 6 should avoid eating venison killed using lead bullets. Those groups are considered most at risk from lead poisoning, which can cause learning problems and convulsions, and in severe cases can lead to brain damage and death.
© By Othmar Vohringer
 Yesterday I sat in my office, also serving as my hunting gadget storage room, getting all my duck decoys ready by attaching new anchor lines to each of them. Each time I finished a decoy I set it on the floor in a neat line, drake, hen, drake, hen… From the TV upstairs my ears caught the faint announcement form the Canadian Comedy Channel, “are you ready to rumble?”
Looking at my duck decoys all lined up on the floor I thought to myself. “Yes indeed my ducks are all lined up and I am ready to rumble – in the duck marsh that is.” For weeks I am lining my ducks up to get ready for waterfowl season.
Because geese are among nature’s best-insulated inhabitants, it’s important to do all you can to cool your goose as quickly as possible to preserve the meat. So, start by using your sharpened field knife and make an incision below the breastbone, then carefully pull out the innards. Feel free to save the heart, gizzard and [...]
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From the Duluth News Tribune
published Sept. 28, 2008
The Rev. Paul Larson, an ardent duck hunter from Deer River, remembers the good old days of bluebill hunting.
“It’s nothing like it used to be,” Larson said this past week with Minnesota’s duck season just around the corner. “I used to shoot — oh, from about Oct. 20 to the middle of November — I’d get bluebills all the time. Now, if I get two a year, I’m lucky.”
From the Daily Telegram
published Sept. 22, 2008
MADISON (AP) — Wisconsin wildlife experts say ducks are healthy and abundant heading into the autumn hunt.
Department of Natural Resources migratory bird ecologist Kent Van Horn says the numbers are so plentiful that hunters can enjoy the maximum 60-day season allowed by federal regulations.
The duck hunt in the northern zone opens next Saturday and continues through Nov. 25.
In the southern zone, there’s a split season, with the first one opening Oct. 4 and running through Oct. 12. The season reopens again Oct. 18 and runs through Dec. 7.
Van Horn says the four most abundant ducks are mallards, wood ducks, green-winged teal and blue-winged teal. He says the breeding and brood rearing habitat in the state was good this year.
From the Duluth News Tribune
published Sept. 21, 2008
If you’ve never hunted ducks in a snowfall, let me tell you that it is a remarkable thing. The ducks appear as if out of nowhere. How they even know that there is water down below when the air is as thick as one of those shaken snow globes I’ll never know. But down they drop, brazen-chested, feet dangling and wings cupped, suddenly appearing before startled hunters who rise cold and stiff, shotgun barks muffled by the wet air. And so it was this day, both blinds seeing great action, six men relishing the experience, and one very happy retriever.
From the Duluth News Tribune
published Sept. 21, 2008
Wisconsin’s waterfowl season opens Saturday and the state’s hunters will have the maximum 60-day season allowed by federal regulations.
“Wisconsin waterfowlers should have a good hunting season,” said Kent Van Horn, migratory game bird ecologist for the state Department of Natural Resources, in a prepared statement. “Overall, populations of waterfowl game species are healthy and abundant.”
The duck hunt in the northern zone opens at 9 a.m. Saturday and continues through Nov. 25.
The two main changes this year are a closed season for canvasback ducks and dual framework for scaup, also called bluebill, with a daily bag limit of one scaup for 40 days and two scaup for 20 days, according to a Wisconsin DNR news release. In the northern zone, the daily bag limit is two scaup from Oct. 18 through Nov. 6.
From the Duluth News Tribune
published Sept. 16, 2008
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources conservation officer reports for Tuesday, Sept. 16
District 5 – Eveleth area
CO Darrin Kittelson (International Falls) spent time on wetland issues within the station. Checked grouse hunters and archery deer hunters, very little activity with the rainy weather. Bear hunting activity starting to slow a bit. Handled an injured eagle complaint, the eagle was captured and later sent on a plane to Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota.
From Forum Communications Co.
published Sept. 7, 2008
Q Goose season already is under way in North Dakota, and the regular waterfowl seasons are right around the corner. What’s the outlook for waterfowl in the Dakotas and other parts of the Prairie Pothole Region this fall?
A Scott Stephens: I would say that, across North Dakota and probably South Dakota as well, we have drier conditions than we saw last year. I know I was out a couple of weeks ago looking at some of the areas where I spent time last year, and several of the wetlands that I had hunted were dry, just bone dry. That’s something I think people will experience as they go afield. And then, with that, comes the fact that we had fewer birds breed here this spring and summer, and production was probably down a bit compared to years past with those drier conditions.
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