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Shiawassee Harvest Data 2009

Posted January 20, 2010 By Dan.Boivin and has 1 comment.

Just got this years harvest data from Vic in St. Charles.

Department of Natural Resources – Wildlife Division

Shiawassee River State Game Area

Zone Effort and Harvest: 09/19/2009 – 12/06/2009

FIELD: 1-5

Hunter    Hours                                                        Ducks        Birds
Trips    Hunted                                                      per Trip     per Trip
Zone          Hunters                            Geese       Ducks    Cripples    % Cripples

1 23 25 86.00 5 35 1 2.44 1 1.6

2 98 118 443.50 23 130 5 3.16 1 1.3

3 71 95 358.00 23 113 15 9.93 1 1.4

4 62 83 324.00 15 98 13 10.32 1 1.4

321 1,211.50 66 376 34 7.14 1 1.4

FIELD: 6-14

6 65 77 289.00 4 65 4 5.48 0 0.9

7 78 84 319.00 7 60 6 8.22 0 0.8

8 39 43 155.00 2 47 4 7.55 1 1.1

9 81 94 343.00 15 119 12 8.22 1 1.4

10 152 209 781.50 27 260 23 7.42 1 1.4

11 125 154 580.00 15 175 24 11.21 1 1.2

12 63 70 242.50 8 72 1 1.23 1 1.1

13 147 162 617.00 20 117 15 9.87 0 0.8

14 97 101 381.00 4 46 7 12.28 0 0.5

994 3,708.00 102 961 96 8.28 1 1.1

FIELD: 137-150

137 58 64 222.50 3 70 16 17.98 1 1.1

138 7 7 22.00 0 6 0 0 0 0.9

139 17 19 73.50 0 16 4 20 0 0.8

140 18 18 71.50 3 21 0 0 1 1.3

142 11 11 41.00 0 27 1 3.57 2 2.5

143 7 7 28.00 0 8 2 20 1 1.1

144 7 7 25.00 1 18 6 24 2 2.7

145 7 7 28.00 0 7 2 22.22 1 1.0

146 3 3 11.00 2 1 1 25 0 1.0

147 6 6 28.00 0 24 5 17.24 4 4.0

149 4 4 10.00 0 4 0 0 1 1.0

150 4 4 13.50 0 5 0 0 1 1.2

157 574.00 9 207 37 14.62 1 1.4

FIELD: 15-20

15 23 23 89.00 0 7 1 12.5 0 0.3

16 55 64 239.50 11 33 7 13.73 0 0.7

17 29 31 111.00 4 24 1 3.45 0 0.9

18 16 16 63.50 0 5 1 16.67 0 0.3

19 12 12 50.50 0 5 0 0 0 0.4

20 22 23 83.00 2 12 6 30 0 0.6

169 636.50 17 86 16 13.45 0 0.6

FIELD: 21-22

21 9 9 30.00 0 7 2 22.22 0 0.8

22 8 8 32.00 1 1 1 33.33 0 0.2

17 62.00 1 8 3 25 0 0.5

FIELD: 23-28

23 14 14 37.00 4 11 1 6.25 0 1.1

24 17 17 56.50 0 12 2 14.29 0 0.7

25 39 45 173.00 19 40 3 4.84 0 1.3

26 85 115 443.50 26 86 20 15.15 0 1.0

27 41 46 181.50 12 34 8 14.81 0 1.0

28 27 34 127.00 16 50 8 10.81 1 1.9

271 1,018.50 77 233 42 11.93 0 1.1

FIELD: 29

29 40 42 144.00 2 30 6 15.79 0 0.8

42 144.00 2 30 6 15.79 0 0.8

FIELD: 30-38

30 14 14 55.00 5 15 1 4.76 1 1.4

31 24 29 113.00 4 34 4 9.52 1 1.3

32 11 12 46.00 1 11 0 0 0 1.0

33 87 107 396.00 21 135 16 9.3 1 1.5

34 164 211 755.50 46 247 18 5.79 1 1.4

35 77 83 326.00 15 138 14 8.38 1 1.8

36 66 74 294.00 25 143 7 4 1 2.3

37 106 154 599.50 29 265 10 3.29 1 1.9

38 51 54 216.50 6 81 1 1.14 1 1.6

738 2,801.50 152 1,069 71 5.5 1 1.7

FIELD: 39-48

39 58 61 266.50 10 94 13 11.11 1 1.7

40 57 59 231.50 20 86 11 9.4 1 1.8

41 115 132 554.00 29 215 20 7.58 1 1.8

42 170 216 864.50 44 332 35 8.52 1 1.7

43 93 108 433.00 26 175 16 7.37 1 1.9

44 99 113 451.00 26 216 23 8.68 1 2.1

45 65 72 291.00 8 89 23 19.17 1 1.3

46 116 144 513.50 29 168 24 10.86 1 1.4

47 41 42 182.00 8 13 3 12.5 0 0.5

48 68 84 307.00 3 109 16 12.5 1 1.3

1,031 4,094.00 203 1,497 184 9.77 1 1.6

FIELD: 49-52

49 57 66 244.50 6 83 19 17.59 1 1.3

50 6 6 16.00 2 5 2 22.22 0 1.2

51 8 8 25.50 1 18 3 13.64 2 2.4

52 7 7 30.50 1 7 2 20 1 1.1

87 316.50 10 113 26 17.45 1 1.4

FIELD: 55-60

55 118 151 561.00 3 88 11 10.78 0 0.6

56 66 70 246.50 1 25 4 13.33 0 0.4

57 191 223 864.00 18 265 32 10.16 1 1.3

58 185 204 766.00 14 172 24 11.43 0 0.9

59 184 235 904.00 35 479 43 7.72 2 2.2

60 197 234 902.50 35 344 57 13.07 1 1.6

1,117 4,244.00 106 1,373 171 10.36 1 1.3

FIELD: 61-66

61 57 64 236.00 0 69 11 13.75 1 1.1

62 127 143 533.50 13 138 11 6.79 1 1.1

63 128 138 539.50 2 185 19 9.22 1 1.4

64 155 177 675.50 19 311 31 8.59 1 1.9

65 144 186 659.00 11 344 26 6.82 1 1.9

66 160 202 760.50 19 354 28 6.98 1 1.8

910 3,404.00 64 1,401 126 7.92 1 1.6

FIELD: 67-76

67 40 59 197.00 4 63 4 5.63 1 1.1

68 3 3 12.00 0 0 0 0 0 0.0

69 6 6 26.00 1 5 0 0 0 1.0

71 7 7 19.00 0 12 0 0 1 1.7

72 4 4 10.00 0 3 0 0 0 0.8

74 4 4 15.00 0 10 0 0 2 2.5

75 3 3 9.00 0 0 0 0 0 0.0

76 3 3 5.50 0 5 0 0 1 1.7

89 293.50 5 98 4 3.74 1 1.2

FIELD: 77-117

100 8 8 3.00 2 3 5 50 0 0.6

101 1 1 2.00 0 0 0 0 0 0.0

103 6 6 23.00 0 3 0 0 0 0.5

104 5 5 24.00 0 14 0 0 2 2.8

105 7 7 28.00 0 15 0 0 2 2.1

106 2 2 8.00 0 0 2 100 0 0.0

107 3 3 7.00 0 0 0 0 0 0.0

108 7 7 12.00 0 0 0 0 0 0.0

109 3 3 9.00 0 3 1 25 1 1.0

112 7 7 25.00 1 8 0 0 1 1.3

115 5 5 20.00 0 12 0 0 2 2.4

116 7 7 27.00 2 17 2 9.52 2 2.7

77 141 191 713.00 6 173 38 17.51 0 0.9

78 39 42 161.50 1 35 6 14.29 0 0.9

79 53 59 207.50 6 51 15 20.83 0 1.0

80 41 43 137.00 0 47 8 14.55 1 1.1

81 32 33 131.50 2 24 6 18.75 0 0.8

82 24 24 78.50 3 20 4 14.81 0 1.0

83 31 33 120.00 0 34 7 17.07 1 1.0

84 26 26 83.00 0 34 4 10.53 1 1.3

85 18 18 68.50 1 42 10 18.87 2 2.4

86 26 26 104.50 0 28 7 20 1 1.1

87 20 20 56.00 0 19 4 17.39 1 1.0

88 12 12 42.00 1 18 3 13.64 1 1.6

89 21 21 74.50 0 25 8 24.24 1 1.2

90 14 14 50.50 0 16 6 27.27 1 1.1

91 14 14 46.50 0 9 2 18.18 0 0.6

92 12 12 48.00 0 12 4 25 1 1.0

93 10 10 28.00 0 7 1 12.5 0 0.7

94 7 7 26.00 0 13 4 23.53 1 1.9

95 7 7 25.00 0 15 1 6.25 2 2.1

96 11 11 44.00 0 18 5 21.74 1 1.6

97 9 9 36.00 0 27 4 12.9 3 3.0

98 5 5 20.00 0 1 0 0 0 0.2

99 1 1 3.00 0 0 0 0 0 0.0

699 2,492.50 25 743 157 16.97 1 1.1

FIELD: A ONLY

A 33 52 159.50 7 14 2 8.7 0 0.4

52 159.50 7 14 2 8.7 0 0.4

ALL FIELDS: 6,694 25,160.0 846 8,209 975 9.72 1 1.4
0

Harvest Counts By Species

Canada Goose: 846 Wigeon: 175
Mallard: 5,351 Scaup: 30

Black Duck: 345 Ring Neck: 119

G.W. Teal: 944 Bufflehead: 25
B.W. Teal: 71 Redhead: 58

Wood Duck: 553 Merganser: 33

Shoveler: 32 Other duck: 171
Pintail: 299 Other Game: 3

Geese Shot and Ducks Shot and
Not Found: 104 Not Found: 871

Categories: Shiawassee State Game Area

Just when you think your day is going bad…..

Posted December 30, 2009 By Dan.Boivin and has no comments yet.

think of this guys day.

Categories: Personal

12′ V-bottom FOR SALE

Posted December 9, 2009 By Dan.Boivin and has no comments yet.

I’m selling one of my light shiawassee dike rigs. This is a little 12′ v-bottom that is outfitted to pull dikes on shiawassee state game area. I fabricated an inside the boat winch mount that pulls directly through the hull. It comes with a trailer and early 80’s (82′ i think) evinrude 9.9hp. This boat runs. I used it a couple times this year and had no issues. This boat would make a great starter boat for the flats.

Included in sale of boat are:

12′ V-bottom with winch mount. (no winch included)
Early 80’s Evinrude 9.9hp
Trailer (trailer is in excellent condition)
WINCH IS NOT INCLUDED (just the mounting system and guides are)

*note: tiller handle was cracked previous to me owning it but it was welded and works perfectly fine. I tried to take a picture of the welded area but it didn’t turn out great.

Any questions, feel free to call 989-574-7557 ask for Dan.

PRICE $1,000

Categories: Personal

Delta Waterfowl – Traveling decoy “Bob” has arrived.

Posted November 12, 2009 By Dan.Boivin and has no comments yet.

I’ve been anticipating this decoy for a few weeks now. I received him in the mail today and looking forward to hunting over Bob saturday morning. I have a good feeling that bob is gonna see a lot of dikes this weekend. I’ll burn a set of camera batteries of Bob at work and make a pretty big post this upcoming week. Check back.

Delta Waterfowl Traveling Decoy - "Bob"

Categories: Shiawassee State Game Area

Shiawassee Mallards

By Dan.Boivin and has no comments yet.

I know I’ve been neglecting the site lately….sorry for this. I’ve been swamped at work and have not hunted much at all. Here’s a picture from this week though….there is still a few birds around, you just need to be in the right fields.

Butch and the Brickel brothers

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Another photo

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I forgot that I had snapped this shot just outside of Grand Forks on way out to Nodak this year. I noticed a strange plane lifting off the air base as we were passing by so i stuck my camera out the window and guessed on where it was overhead. Pretty cool watching a Predator Drone lift off and maneuver around knowing there was a guy somewhere remotely controlling it.

Predator Drone over Grand Forks

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Recipe’s

Posted November 6, 2009 By Dan.Boivin and has 6 comments.

I’ve had a couple requests for recipe’s for duck. Figured i’d post them here so they are easy to reference.

BBQ Duck (shredded)

Celery – 4 or 5 ribs sliced up
Onion – 1 cup chopped
Green Pepper – 1 cup chopped
Butter/margarine – 1/2 cup
Ketchup – 1/2 cup
Brown Sugar – 1/4 cup
Worcestershire Sauce – 3 tablespoons
Chili powder – 1 1/2 teaspoons
Salt – 1 teaspoon
Pepper – 1/8 teaspoon
Frank’s or other hot sauce – 1/4 teaspoon (I use more)
BBQ sauce – 1 cup
hamburger buns or rolls
cole slaw (optional)
Duck breasts (5 or 6 large ducks, or 10-12 small/medium ducks)

MAKES 10-12 SANDWICHES…MORE IF YOU USE COLE SLAW ON THE BUN WITH IT

Directions: Put butter on bottom of crock pot. Cover bottom with celery, onion & green pepper. Lay duck breasts on veggies…stack on top of each other if necessary. In separate bowl, mix ketchup, brown sugar, worcestershire, chili powder, salt, pepper and hot sauce. Spread this mixture evenly over top of duck. Cook in crock pot 8-9 hours on low, or 5-6 hours on high. When duck flakes apart easily with fork, it’s done. Shred the duck right in the crock pot with a fork, then mix all contents of the pot, and add the BBQ sauce. Heat through and serve on buns (with cole slaw if desired).

DUCK WRAPS

2 Goose/Duck Breasts
Jalapeno Peppers
Cream Cheese
Bacon Slices
Shredded Pepperjack cheese
Toothpicks

Soak the breast meat in milk for at least 12 hrs to remove blood.
Cut each breast into strips.
Lay out a piece of bacon and place a strip of duck meat on one end.
Place a sliced jalapeno pepper on the bacon after the duck meat, followed
by a dab of cream cheese, then another strip of breast meat.
Roll up the bacon with all this inside and secure with a toothpick.

Place on cookie sheet/tin foil and bake in oven 400° for 45min or so….when bacon is done it is ready
sprinkly pepperjack over bacon wraps and melt…then serve

Also works on grill.

Categories: Misc.

The last big bang

Posted October 23, 2009 By Dan.Boivin and has 1 comment.

Since the mallards haven’t cooperated we just settled on hammering gadwals and wigeons (and any other species that felt the need to bomb our decoys). Tonight Dave and I absolutely had one of the best marsh hunts ever. It took longer to unload canoe, paddle to spot (about 70yrds) throw out decoys than it took to shoot 12 gaddies. Tanner got a workout as the water was belly deep. He got very little rest as we had birds down while he was still bringing the previous bird back like 3-4 times. This hunt made my week. Dave and I shot really well, the dog did absolutely awesome and we were loaded back up in the truck before it was even close to dark. great hunt by all standards.

This is the last night here at camp and Chris, Johnny and Steve are heading out in the morning. Dave V. and I are gonna hit our favorite hole in the morning and head out around noon or so.

so far after totaling ducks/geese/swans this week. In the past 7 days we have shot 192 ducks, 4 canadas, 1 snow, 3 swans. Dave and I will have a chance in the morning to extend that total another 12 more to bring it over 200. We probably woulda easily made that mark if Dave would have been here sunday and monday.

tailgate stack

crew, dogs and birds

just had to include this, Otto has the best poses.

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Operation Swan Removal

Posted October 22, 2009 By Dan.Boivin and has 1 comment.

Today we took it easy and cruised for swans and a few ducks. Chris’s crew had a swan down (we actually got to see it happen as we were driving up to them) at around 9:30am. After we left those guys we went about a square or two over to a big slough. We spotted 50 swans on the water in the upwind end and decided to push them up and setup hoping they would fly back into it later. About 45min after setup the lifted off the slough about a mile over and came back just as we had hoped. Flock of about 8 swans cruised over dave and he pulled a helluva shot (about 50-60yrds) broke a wing and brought it down hard. Tanner attempted to retrieve it but kept chasing/pushing it out farther into water which got deep. We eventually got it and Dave was one happy camper!!!! made the day for sure.

Evening we hunted another slough for ducks and finished out a limit of gaddy’s and wigeon (i accidently shot a shoveler)…..thought I could make the whole trip without shooting a shoveljunk. On our way back to the truck we passed a rockpile and tanner was up there sniffing on something hard…so i walked over and checked it out….it was the antler shed pictured below. Pretty solid rack, wish i could’ve found the other half.

shed i found next to the slough

: 2 happy successful swan hunters

: happy crew, was an awesome day.

johnny doing a trophy pose

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what a day

Posted October 21, 2009 By Dan.Boivin and has 3 comments.

5:30am this morning we started dragging about 10 dozen decoys into a tilled wheat field that Chris S. had scouted out the night before. After setup and much anticipation….the plan just never came together. Wind shifted off from North to Northeast and changed the flight line. Lots of ducks and geese this morning, just about a mile to our east. After shooting a few ducks we called it, left our stuff in the field and headed back for breakfast.

At about 1pm we decided to split up and do some pothole shooting from 1-5pm and then meet back at the layouts for evening hunt. Dave V. and I went to the same territory we did the night before and moved about a mile north on a small, shallow, weedy pothole. I had scouted it out last saturday and kicked about 100 gadwal off it and marked it on GPS then. This was first time back to it…we pulled in the driveway and gently drove back to the edge of it. It was 75yrds off the road. When I got about halfway to it, i noticed a bunch little duck heads staring at me through the weeds…hehe. I shifted in reverse and before I could backup they jumped up and vacated…about a 100+ gaddies. Dave and I quickly got our waders on and grabbed the guns, 24 deeks, spinner and the dog. 2hrs (4pm) dave finished the last bird off with a zinger of a blue wing teal, hell of a shot.

We met Chris and crew over at the field blinds to watch them jump shoot their last 5 ducks in a slough 100yrds in front of the layout blinds.

tanner retreived solid today. nice long retreives....using his nose and he even brought them all the way to heal. amazing day for Tanner.

crew holding todays smackdown

straps!

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