Minnesota Waterfowl Hunting

gimpfinger wrote:[quote="Bailey"]Canada freezing over solid and us not. It seems the birds now stay in Canada well into November if they can.

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Not so, birds are coming through all season.

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I'm not saying that they are not but Canada is holding alot of birds much longer than they used to. Guys are going up and having bang up hunts in early November. That was not the case 20 years ago. Heck snow geese used to stage in North Dakota in mid October. Not anymore as they stay in Canada until they are frozen out. Other species like divers are probably different.

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The total Canada freeze gives us a day, maybe. MN is a fly over state for waterfowl flying south like it is for people in the rest of the country flying east/west.

For all the "breeder" state nonsense and protecting our local birds the reason more local birds are shot is because that is when the most hunters are out.

Between next week and the first week in Nov more ducks will pass through MN than the state population and cool clear nights are your worst enemy, unless you're at that flight's end point. If the birds stayed for more than a piss break, i'd be on board with frozen Canada.

My favorite weather depends on the spot. Generally a NW wind with a dropping barometer.

Only witnessed one migration day out hunting a few years ago. Started out hunting in my tshirt then by noon there was a cold NW wind blowing hard with snow and sleet. Once the weather changed birds were migrating all day long flock after flock.

Bailey wrote:Canada freezing over solid and us not. It seems the birds now stay in Canada well into November if they can.

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Follow the FWS refuge bird counts. Migration is 90 percent done by mid November

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Waterfowlist wrote:Only witnessed one migration day out hunting a few years ago. Started out hunting in my tshirt then by noon there was a cold NW wind blowing hard with snow and sleet. Once the weather changed birds were migrating all day long flock after flock.

What year was this? 1940?

My perfect weather is basically whatever it happens to be between October 10-25

Perch_44 wrote:[quote="Bailey"]Canada freezing over solid and us not. It seems the birds now stay in Canada well into November if they can.

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Follow the FWS refuge bird counts. Migration is 90 percent done by mid November

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But all the birds aren't here till after the season closes.....

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Trigger wrote:[quote="Waterfowlist"]Only witnessed one migration day out hunting a few years ago. Started out hunting in my tshirt then by noon there was a cold NW wind blowing hard with snow and sleet. Once the weather changed birds were migrating all day long flock after flock.

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Idk exactly maybe 2011

Clear calm night with temps getting down to single digits to low teens up in canada locking up the small water. Doesn't matter what the weather is like here.

I've had good migrator shoots in your classic nasty conditions with nw winds but I've also had a lot of busts in those conditions.

Bailey, Snows are waiting longer but not until freeze up. A lot of the mallards do wait until freeze up tho.

NW wind spitting snow...cold enough to freeze water but wind keeps it open.