Hot, Mild or Fire?

Hello again all my technologically advanced and well connected waterfowl enthusiast friends. Welcome to Muck Bottom Outfitters Waterfowl Report. Well we all saw the weather yesterday and it looked and felt like it was a "fire" day. A day where you just should be out regardless of prior commitments. Then the phone didn't ring, the emails didn't come and my attitude turned from "fire" to "hot", still thinking they were flying and everyone was just too busy to call. Then last night I got on the net, counted birds in South Dakota, counted birds in Mound City, and tried to find someone posting something successful from the day and nothing.

Then I got an email titled November 16th Ditch Report: Had calls and emails flying yesterday. Snows moving high, Canada's moving high and Specks and Snows landing at the Hay Ditch. A note from Kearney had and influx of "chickens" (cacklers). But, around 11AM, when it was all said and done and the phone slowed down, the final total from all the emails and phone calls was a whopping 2 Greenwing teal shot by 1 guy out of the South Ditch. Pretty impressive for November 16th. One the bright side, there has to be thousands of birds still to come. That's all from the Duk Master.

And then - got another email! Waterfowl Wizard wrote: Spoke to the short guy.....He just returned from N. Dakota on a pheasant shoot. He reported millions of geese in the Garrison area (snows and canadas). He also said that he saw very few birds in S. Dak. on the way back. Looks like we will be waiting a little while longer......................................WE NEED A WINTER STORM!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just like that, it turns "mild", and "mild" only because you could actually see birds flying and migrating, other than that pretty much a bust all around. Definitely not the reports we were hoping for. That's all I got for now, check back for the latest and greatest and thanks for all the hits. Email us your report.