Hunting Report - 11/04/09

If you've been reading our updates every week, then you know how we’ve been complaining about all the rain/snow we’ve been getting. Well, the National Weather Service records show this was the second wettest October on record with 7.49 inches of precipitation total and the added distinction of the second snowiest October with 7.9 inches of snow. So far in November, it has been dry....let’s hope it continues.

Also, we have started to see some migrators move through the area. Along with the scouting we’ve been doing, it’s easy to see there are more birds in the Rochester area. Although, with warmer temps during the day, the birds like to stay in the refuge.

As far as the hunting, a few of the boys hunted last Wednesday and shot a couple birds. We didn’t see a lot of movement, but the fog was pretty thick, so it’s anybodys guess to what was going on. It was raining all day Thursday, so nobody went out hunting and Friday was spent as a day of scouting. We saw movement mainly on the north and south sides of Rochester. We decided to hunt the south side on Saturday and ended the morning hunt with a dozen downed birds. The birds really worked the decoys well. On Sunday morning, we managed to coax some more birds into the decoys. We didn’t see as much movement, but the birds we did see got hammered. We are still consistently shooting birds, but we really expect the action to start getting more intense within the next couple of weeks.

Until next time...

Shoot straight and stay safe.

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