Morning vs Evening Hunts

[cstemig]

Which has been more productive for you?

My hunting has been better with the morning hunts. It seems to provide more activity with bird movement.

[Hansen]

Closer to winter, PM hunts are better. Otherwise AM.

[Duckman23]

Mornings are usually better but this year with a lot of flooded corn around in the area I hunt we have been doing better in the evening. Birds have been staying in the corn overnight and then going to refuges.

[Nershi]

Morning hunts. Eves if hunting fields early in the season or during warm spells. Once the temps are staying below freezing for most of the day late morning or eves if hunting fields. Birds don't seem to like corn frozen rock solid.

[Quack]

Warm temps and clear skies promote waterfowl flights that are brief and mostly after LST

[h2ofwlr]

Mid day (10-1) can be delightful hunting at times. You can get returning Mallards from the fields and also get into migrating ducks too. Some of my best puddle ducks hunting has been later AM hunting. But there were Mallards staging in the area, so the birds were around. Catching the migration flights can be spotty. Kind of like hunting Snows in the spring, some days crappy, some day holy crap lots of migrating birds. Some of my best Fall Snow hunts were in later AM as the birds were coming down out of the stratosphere right into the decoys.
Point being, don't rule out mid day hunting, or if hunting in the AM, maybe stick around until 11 to see what may happen as sometimes you can be pleasantly surprised.
Good luck gentlemen what ever time you get to head out.

[get-n-birdy]

I concur.

[tornadochaser]

Evening has sucked balls last over the last week here in SD. Morning flights have been weak, maybe 25% of roosts going to feed. Mallards flying out after sundown and feeding into the night...but not moving from water to water in the mornings either.

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