Cold Limit
 

Cold Ohio Mallards fell to The Parker Gun today.
Merry Christmas to the PGCA family!

Rick, that looks like fun!

Well done, Rick!

Very good. Our late season starts on Monday. The lakes will be frozen, so the ducks should
be on the ditches or gone!

That practice at the Hoosier Classic paid off :rotf: Nice shooting !

Indeed the Hoosier Classic gets one ready for the birds!

nice I never tire of looking at mallards.....charlie

They were probably so cold they wanted to die!!





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I took a drive this afternoon. With two days of -11 all of my ditches are frozen over, so no duck hunting in the morning.

The mallards have left our marsh, only black ducks remaining. I hunted the bomb cyclone front passing through western NY, that was simulating!! Most likely we are done for 2022 in the marsh but divers are still around in good numbers on the big lakes. Nice looking bag of mallards!!

My young friend, Tyler, and I went out two Saturdays ago hoping to find a bit of open water and a straggler mallard or two. It was bitter, with only one small hole open, due to three days of 45 mph winds. We took turns walking up the water to keep the hole open. The decoys froze in pretty quickly. There was 2 inch thick ice near the shore. We stayed for almost 4 hours. It was cold. We were crazy. I loved it.

Our season ends on the 27th, but it really ended a couple of weeks ago.

Duck hunting is definitely a sickness that is incurable. This sounds like my kind of ice hunting. I’m headed to Chesapeake eastern shore Tuesday. Always a good time. Stay safe.

Rick, nice shooting, and great pictures.

Rick, tell about the Chesapeake hunt. Location and outfitter.