Pic's From Long Island's First Half(5 days)

[BayMan718]

Me My Buddy Greg And Gerry(behind camera) thanksgiving mixed bag..
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Friday Affternoon Solo Hunt:

decoy spread...
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my duck boat...
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black duck checking out a GHG oversize BlackDuck decoy..
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full limit of ducks(black..mallard..4 buffies) and Brant
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Saturday Affternoon Solo Hunt:

loafing spread of divers geese and ducks..
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blackduck checking out the divers..
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Brant Swimming through..
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Saturdays Take..
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SUNDAY Affternoon Solo diver hunt Bag...

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[BayMan718]

The BEST Part Of the 4 Hunts..

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[Joe Fladeland]

Nice job. I would love to shoot Brant someday.

[kevin coats]

hey joe if you want to kill brant call my uncle pitboss (capt. Jeff Coats) he took me brant hunting and we got a limit and a buffle head in less than a hour. its really fun.

[Jason Mears]

Congrats on some good hunting!

[Swampy]

Nice pics!

Weird how Brant is still open for you....We have a split season for Brant..They went out on the 11th of Nov and don't come back in until the 20th of Dec....They are amoung my favorite birds to gun....Nothing says Gunning the salt marshes of the Atlantic coast like a sneakbox full of the triple B...Brant Buffies and Blacks

[Bull Island]

And yeah Joe if you want to kill brant definately plan on coming to the Chesapeke in late Dec. On about 4 or 5 hunts between my brother and, I we killed probably 15-20. Good luck if you do come.

[joesac]

Nice looking hunts. Those Brants are one bird I would sure like to get someday. Love the last picture!

[BayMan718]

glad you all enjoyed them!

swampy..

we have a split also but at the long island task force meeting last march we informed the dec that rather then have the brant open for just the month of december..

we'd prefer to have the brant open for the first split..then be closed in december and re-open in january.

the reason being early in the season on long island we dont see as many big ducks( besides black ducks) and the migration patterns of the last 3-4 years has had more bigger ducks show up in december then in january..thus giving us more chances to bag big ducks and not needingt he brant to fill out the bag so to speak..

the first half of the season is always the three b's ( brant black ducks and bufflheads) when the cold weather comes and the inland park ponds freeze up then the salt marshes of long island really get interesting

[KevinSkalicky]

Looks like a nice little meal there! Good pics!

[BayMan718]

Looks like a nice little meal there! Good pics!

those were black duck breasts marrinated in steak sauce bacon wrraped and cooked for 20 mins low heat..

the buffieheads were butterflied..deboned and put into a crock pot of saurkraut slow cooked 6 hours and served with home made german dumplings.

the brant have been ground up and mixed with pork and are going to be made into chilli at goose camp this weekend..

the mallard has been plucked and will be whole roasted this weekend at goose camp..

i love cooking with wild game :)

[CurrituckBoy]

looks like a great hunt with an awsome surprise at the end

Michael

[Jeff "Pitboss" Coats]

very nice job!

[Jeff "Pitboss" Coats]

Joe... this is Kevin's hunt from January 2006




http://www.pitbosswaterfowl.com/photos/fullsize/kevinbrant2006.jpg



Hey Kevin, wasn't it more like a 3 hour hunt??? :)

[Craig Boyd]

Nice bag of birds y'all have had!

Thanks for sharing.

[PEI Duck Guy]

Great lookin pics & hunts.

[Kevin White]

Congrats on a good hunt!!!

[BayMan718]

thanks guys