The Best state????

[NWMO H20-FOWLER]

Guys and Gals-==-
What is the best state to hunt waterfowl in???? Lets see lots of feedback on this question, PLEASE????

[CRIPLE CUTTER]

Michigan
you got divers, field mallard, geese, puddlers in the marsh, and if you got the marbles scoters and old sqwal on the big water.

[Kile Jones]

If you want mallards,pintails,wigeons,teal, shovelers and little geese - Washington

If you want big geese,divers, and puddle ducks - Michigan or Wisconsin.

And if you want everything just go to the central or mississippi flyways!

[Iambenelliman]

Iowa!!!...no just kidding. Iowa doesn't seem to care about the waterfowl hunter at all. We have good shoots and all, but nothing like other states!

[Ielase]

Definately, Southern Illinois, and South Eastern Missouri

[callem'andkillem']

Nebraska! We got some of everything.

[Aaron Hitchins]

Florida. Theres something romantic about the prospect of gators hunting you while you're hunting ducks.

Aaron

[Derek Rambo]

You can shoot pretty much all species of ducks here except for sea ducks and blacks. Not to mention a few weird ducks down on the coast...tree ducks, mottle ducks, whistling ducks.....
We also have very large populations of canada, speck, and snow/blue geese in the winter......Sandhill Cranes too!!

[NWMO H20-FOWLER]

I live in St Joseph MO, and I will have to say that our consvertion dept. does a well above average to get great waterfowl resting areas as well as the national wildlife refuge that is in Mound City, plus the mighty MO river helps us out alot, and lets not forget all the corn fields that r flooded and the ones in the hills!!!!!!!!!

[quackaddict]

If I wanted to go somewhere and do nothing but kill ducks, I would move to canada!

[goosegrinder87]

Missippi fly way you get everything divers,puddlers,geese what else do you need

[letemhaveit]

i know this is not a state but i would say canada or maybe north dakota.....you got mallards...pintails...widgeons...gadwalls...divers ...snow geese...lessers...honkers...and a few specks now and again...just my opinion...if you guys ever get the chance check it out!!

[Wingman]

Montana

[Boydo]

I would have to agree with call'em and kill'em. Nebraska has fantastic duck hunting and depending on what you would like to go after depends on the tempature the smaller ducks head out as soon as it gits cold then the green heads come inand we also have some of the best goose hunting around both in the field or on the water. Our problem is that we dont have enough public land that a person can go to, you really need to be hooked up with somebody.<><

[QuackerWacker]

Washinton, We've got some of about everything from harli's to snows and at least 7 different subspecies of Canadas to brant and sea ducks to great mallard and diver shooting on the east side, also we've got more pintails than you boys could ever imagine even an occasional euro wigeon (I've shot well over a dozen in the past 5 years) along with coastal bays that are choked with teal and american wigeon. Oh ya and the best part is our season runs for 107 days.

[NDboys]

Id say North Dakota we have a lil bit of everything

[retriever]

South Dakota

[Lybeck]

Washington- we have 7 subspecies of honkers we get specks, snows, ross geese, and brant, and for ducks we get mallards,lots of wigeons, teal, pintails,shovelers, gadwalls,and wood ducks, and divers we get all the scoters, both kinds of goldeneyes, all the mergansers, buffleheads,ruddys,and Harlequins,oldsquaws, Canvasbacks, bluebills lessers and greaters, ringnecks, and redheads. We have it all!!!!!!

[Connor M]

I grew up hunting the little farms and tidal marashes of central and eastern Virginia and it is awful hunting compared to other places. Yes we did kill ducks and we even had some decent goose hunting but to hunt the Rivers it was a rich man's sport because of blind laws and around my home deer clubs leased up all the dairy farms that held the geese. My buddy and I would motor down the Potomac 15 miles in a 16 foot jon with a canoe in tow. Pull into a little inlets and paddle in for miles to get away from the licensed blinds. I say this not to put down VA hunting because its where I learned eveything I know about waterfowling but I had to make a change, I decided to go to college at Dakota State University in eastern South Dakota. This is the best waterfowling the the US, I wouldn't go to school there if it wasn't.

[George Kuhns]

The best state is the one you live in, just look for the opportunity and hunt hard.

[Hoyt Predator]

CALIFORNIA..... Only if you like 100+ day seasons with no split

7 bag limit on ducks

6 bag limit on geese

I can shoot cinnamon teal in the morning and scoters in the afternoon if I want. Euro widgeon are getting more common, All the pintail you could want, all 3 teal, Honkers and little geese, snows, ross, and specks, also big Tule geese.

It's OK i guess

[Bograt]

You can shoot pretty much all species of ducks here except for sea ducks and blacks. Not to mention a few weird ducks down on the coast...tree ducks, mottle ducks, whistling ducks.....
We also have very large populations of canada, speck, and snow/blue geese in the winter......Sandhill Cranes too!!

I agree Derek, and I'm originally from Illinois and have hunted Minnesota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi and Indiana. The best part is the numbers of birds and the variety of terrain you can hunt, everything from rice fields to stock tanks.

[Choclab]

Big geese, snows, ross, little geese, harlies, redheads, wigeon, mallards, scoters, squaws, pins, euros, teal.....you name it we got it in Wa...plus 107 day season

[Ryan Vande Griend]

Looks to me like there isn't a "best state". Every state has hot spots, and the Hunters that find them think its the best place in the world. ;)

I love hunting North Dakota so they get my vote. Although Washington sounds really good to me also with that long season.

[Bull Island]

Virginia
No matter where I go I can shoot Buffleheads :)

[Nick Michael]

haha maryland

[Jonathan Rice]

ny or texas

[Zach Simon]

Kansas is the worst, you will never wan to come hunt here at all:D

[Kevin Carter]

I'll have to say Arkansas. You can shoot all the mosquitos you want.

[Bull Island]

I'll have to say Arkansas. You can shoot all the mosquitos you want.

Do they count toward your bag limit?:D

[rossp]

its definetely wisconsin. puddlers on the marshes and potholes, divers on lake michigan mallards in the field, geese anywhere you go, and where else can you get a show of a buck chasing a doe through the spread 3 days in a row

[dkhntrdstn]

im going to say utah.

[FishandFeathers]

New York,
You got Canada Geese, and Snows, All the puddlers, All the Divers oh yeah and lets not forget about those sea ducks.

[duckin82]

MARYLAND, MARYLAND, MARYLAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We got canadas, snows, all sorts of puddle ducks, all sorts of divers, and yes we got scoters too!!!! yessir, MD IS WHERE ITS AT!!!!!

[birddog_adam]

nebraska.. they have the most ducks and geese ive ever seen anywhere this time of year

[NWMO H20-FOWLER]

Those r all great answers, Thanks guys and gals for the information!!!! good luck the rest of the winter!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jeremy DeVries]

If you're going to kill stuff, then there is little question.

California kills more ducks than any state in the nation. (that's fact)

So everybody go to California and get crazy on em!! ;)