GH on the border

[gman]

Took the GH 12ga IM/IM out today on Memphremagog and set up about 1/4 mile from the Canadian border as the birds are starting to arrive this past week. Got a couple of big hens first thing then some bufflehead. Classic doubles #4 and New Era ITX.

[Craig Larter]

Very nice thanks for posting the pictures---Are you hunting on a river or lake---buffleheads are a lake duck here in central NY. Nice limit

[Autumn Daze]

Eric, Years ago I hunted on Memphremagog. We took a day off from bird hunting and spent a day on the lake...a great time. We were using NE Kingdom Outfitters as guides. Are they still around?

[gman]

Dave
NEK outfitters - Dave and Francis smith had the business. Dave is a good friend and we started the TU chapter to deal with the dam on the Clyde River. His son Francis passed away last year and it was a big hurt. Spoke with Dave last week and we are trying to set up a bird hunt and try to hit the whistlers also. We got a day fly fishing in this summer. He no longer guides. Dave works at wrights sports part time in Derby.
If you spend time in the kingdom you should let me walk you and your parker through our sporting clay course next season as we are now set up to shoot it any time. We are shut down for the winter. PM me if you want to go.

[gman]

Craig
Yes they fly the lake and not the potholes here. We are on the lake on the point of a bay where a river empties in. The migrating ducks from Canada come in the bay from flying the lake to rest and fuel up and for the past week the bufflehead have been thick coming off the lake. Still waiting for the blue bills and whistlers who fly the big lake. We usually get iced in in our current spot and switch to the west shore and sit right in the lake proper. Doesn't seem to bother the whistlers as we sit there looking like a shoe box and they still decoy well.
Sixty degrees today. We need some cold duck hunting weather.

[Craig Larter]

We don't see buffleheads until our second split which begins after Christmas. Lake hunting in our parts is very weather dependent, it takes a big wind and very cold temps to move the divers close to shore. If the weather is mild they just raft up in the middle of our Finger Lakes which never freeze up. Keep sending those Canadian immigrates south----we will protect the border in NY.

[Joe Guide]

Glad to see the birds are moving south. This should be a good year for waterfowl hunting all along the Atlantic Flyway.

[charlie cleveland]

scare a few of them ducks myway...i hope every one enjoys reading about these duck hunts as much as i do... charlie

[Dean Romig]

Eric, did you tell me recently that your SC club is in Lyndon or Lyndonville?

[gman]

It is in East Burke off .the Bugsbee crossing road near Burke Hollow.