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The Tale of Muck-Boy
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| Allegan
State Game Area |
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Information:
Maps: General Area, Bravo Unit, Fennville Farm Unit, High Banks Unit, Ottawa Marsh Unit. Area Headquarters Location, |
| Allegan Area Reporter: Travis Sabyan |
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| July-20-10 - Travis's Area Update - Crops are looking even bettert his week! Corn is 5-6ft high and the soybeans look to be about full height. The hay in all retrieval zones has been cut and bailed. Here are a few pictures for you to review. | click image for
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| July-2-10 - Travis's Area Update -Everything on and near the Farm is looking great! Corn, beans, wheat and milo are growing well. All of the ponds and rivers in the area are full to overflowing. We have seen lots of young wood ducks and geese in the area. | |
| Mar-22-10 - Travis's Area Update -Thousands of geese on the farm. Ducks and geese in every puddle in the area! | |
| Nov
- 26 - 09 -
Travis's
Area Update - As
of Sat there have been 175 geese taken. Not much to report geese came
in late had lots of ducks fly over including a flock of 250-300, we
called 50-60 back around but our skybusting neighbors ruined it to
take a 80 yard shot at one lone duck. That was how it went all morning,
and after the 7th time we gave up. I think it's time for me to put
away the decoys and release the hounds! Current DNR Bird Numbers: 2400 ducks and 7100 geese. |
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| Nov
- 26 - 09 -
Travis's
Area Update - 12
geese taken on Saturday during the youth hunt, and 76 Taken on Sunday's
opener. My party drew 105 out of 147 parties. We stuck the selection
out and enough people went home that we still got a good blind. Early
we had 2 decoy in beautifully and dropped them. Saw lots of birds,
and turned 5 flocks calling, but the next blind took 80-100 yard shots
at them and sent them on their way. Fog and rain slowed everything
down in the afternoon. Hopefully the cold weather this week will step
things up a bit. Current DNR Bird Numbers: 2300 ducks and 4800 geese. |
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| Nov
- 26 - 09 -
Lots of geese here this week. Looking good for the opener. Seeing
bufflehead on small lakes too. |
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Nov - 16 - 09 - Travis's Area Update - Hunting remains slow with all the nice weather. Current
DNR Bird Numbers: |
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| Nov
- 9 - 09 -
Travis's
Area Update -
Hunting
has been very slow because of the weather. In the mornings we have
had 100 plus ducks decoying before shooting time, but very few birds
after. We did get two nice groups to come in yesterday and shot a
few. Best hunting has been in the south and southwest part of the
farm. Very little shooting this weekend though. LOTS
of birds on the refuge, thousands of geese and mallards, and even
some snows and blues. We could have had our limit of Canada's in twenty
minutes, we had flocks flying twenty yards overhead all morning.The
crops look to be all cut in the hunting zones, and they are finishing
up on the refuge. Hopefully the upcoming cold weather will get the
ducks moving.
Current DNR Bird Numbers: 3,080 ducks and 5,875 geese. |
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Oct -23-09 - Travis Area Update - I've been watching or hunting on the farm this week. Unbelievably we've been seeing/shooting teal on small ponds! Can't believe they're still here with the weather we've had. Geese are here and more arrive everyday. Even seeing a few snows. Mallards are also increasing every day. The crops are cut in zone 8. A few other zones have some harvesting done, but the rain has put a stop to it for now. Happy hunting! Travis Current
DNR Bird Numbers: |
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Oct -09-09 - As of right now all the crops are still up and what geese and ducks were around seem to have been pushed out with the front we just had. We drove around for an hour yesterday and today and didn't see any waterfowl! Good luck this season! Current
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| Aug -02-09 - The summer crop report from the Fennvillle Farm Unit could not be any better all the fields are planted and the crops are in excellent condition. The corn in some of the areas already excedes 7 feet. The beans are also in great shape. Did not see a whole lot of wildlife this morning, of course getting here around 10:00am might have played a role in this. We did manage to spot a few Sand Hill Cranes in a bean field. | Click
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Mar -22-09 - This was our first trip to the Fennville Farm Unit to view the spring migration and we left impressed with how large the area is and all the crop units that support the wildlife. Not having any experience with the area we don't know if we were early or late for the peak of the spring waterfowl migration. But today we seen plenty of geese on our scouting trip. Stay tuned for more area reports as the year progresses.
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