Wanchese
Twelve Pointer
Not sure, but it was at 5,000 for a long time. Seems like every year more people apply.Dang. Wasn't it 8000 3-4 yrs ago?
Not sure, but it was at 5,000 for a long time. Seems like every year more people apply.Dang. Wasn't it 8000 3-4 yrs ago?
If you get aone good hunt out of 10 permits you are doing GREAT!I don't know why I put in for them. It's usually a waste of money cause the hunts are no good. Only remember having one good hunt out of about 10 that I have drawn for. Most of the time there are no ducks or I show up as early as I can to get my spot only to have squatters roll in around day break.
Started hunting ducks when the point system was still around.
those were the days,,,10 point teal and 90 (then 100) point hen mallards,,,,it started in 1970 as an experimental limit in NJ and FL,,,expanded from there - expect points were variable bewteen flyways, not sure on that
didn't matter where I hunted (Northern WI) as it was mostly migratory teal around the house and once in a long while I'd get an invite to hunt around horicon marsh,,,
fun days
There are an exponential amount of new impoundments in Camden, currituck, Hyde , Tyrrell, pamlico, Beaufort , and Washington counties. Add the refuges to the mix. Love or hate the private impoundments......they hold a lot of ducks.Funny thing is(maybe it is nostalgia) it seems like there were way more birds around here then versus now with the supposed record number of ducks. I can remember when Buckhorn reservoir here in Wilson was flooded and the crazy numbers of ducks that were there during the winters. Luckily I have those memories and memories of hunting the skeet and the pamlico river and seeing a ton of birds. Like I said maybe it is nostalgia on my part, but even though there were fewer ducks overall, it seemed like locally there were more birds.
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There are an exponential amount of new impoundments in Camden, currituck, Hyde , Tyrrell, pamlico, Beaufort , and Washington counties. Add the refuges to the mix. Love or hate the private impoundments......they hold a lot of ducks.
I wonder at what point the rise in private impoundments and loss of grass in the sounds intersected and started the shift? I’ve only lived in NC for 12 years so I couldn’t tell you when it happened, but a guy I work with tells me all kinds of stories about fishing in currituck when the grass was super thick in the 70’s and 80’s.No doubt at all that there are a ton of ducks being held on private impoundments and on the refuges. Back in the late 70s and early 80s all those things didn’t exist and honestly that is probably why there were more ducks accessible to the general public. I was lucky enough to have memories the hunts I got to participate in. Those memories are some of my fondest of my hunting career. Nothing like sitting on a bucket on the edge of the pamlico river with an old hump back browning and a couple of boxes of high brass #6. Watching bluebills trade up and down the river. Waiting and watching the time slide by till it was sunrise and those few quick shots and you were done for the day. So many memories.......
Honestly some of the places NCWRC has impoundments in are really good spots, but they just don’t have th birds coming in during shooting time.
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I wonder at what point the rise in private impoundments and loss of grass in the sounds intersected and started the shift? I’ve only lived in NC for 12 years so I couldn’t tell you when it happened, but a guy I work with tells me all kinds of stories about fishing in currituck when the grass was super thick in the 70’s and 80’s.
I wouldn’t bet on the impoundments going anywhere. I would hate that for the local folks in Hyde co. Other than knocking down the corn a Russian rat will do more damage to a impoundment than a hurricane. Now I would bet on a hurricane in my kids life time that will open back up a inlet in currituck sound and make the obx an even more world class inshore fisheryCurrituck was a world renowned bass fishery and was a waterfowl Mecca for a long time. Same with mattamuskette. I would guess it was probably in the 2003 time frame that the dramatic shift occurred. That is when I saw a huge increase in pressure down east. Once duck hinting got to be the ‘cool’ thing to do, that is when folks started building impoundments. Bout the only thing that may ever change it would be a major hurricane blowing through and destroying a bunch of impoundments. Those private impoundments are not going to go away short of that or something sort of major economic collapse where folks don’t have the money.
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