Hey guys Mankato and I am wondering if anyone ever shoots any ducks on the river near by. I am not looking for your hot spot but just the genneral are and the easiest way to get there. Any help would be great

I meant to say I live in Mankato....

its pretty tough to find em with all the backwater ponds I have hunted it later in the year when the sloughs freeze with little success, try floating it from courtland to kato and you will find that thier are not to many birds on it.

spring lake in north mankato has been good for me for the last few years.

i would say jdrummer is right spring lake is a good place to go but make shre that you hide really good .......and i maean really good .....lol


well if you going to be in this reagen the best place to go is swan of you have a boat ......but you allso have to fight all the people out there but the lake is low this year so that might keep some people off .......i hoope

better have some power behind your boat if your hunting swan this year has been low the last couple years out thier. I have a go devil and sometimes wonder if I'm gonna make it. that thing blows my mind on what it can go thru

I grew up in Belle Plaine and we hunted the Minnesota pretty often.

We did alot of backwater hunting but when things slowed down after the first couple of weeks we would float the river.
We dressed the boat up to look like on be brush pile and would jump shoot the ducks as we went down stream.
I was always suprised at the number of ducks up on the shore and also up on the brush piles. I also was suprised by the lack of other hunters we saw. We did get some pretty funny looks as we would float by the hunters we did see.

Sifty

I always park my bass boat on the west side of the pond in the reeds . slop some mud on the sides to keep the sparkles from scaring the geese. I'm heading out there tomorow so if anyone wants to tag along? just e-mail me. justkiddinglol@yahoo.com

good thing you posted that email, or someone would have gone down there and actually tried it.

i'm still laughing. i should make another account on yahoo and see if anyone really does e-mail me!lol

hey 7/10 i have a shack on swan and if you want to talk swan put your email address out there. thanks for all the info guys

7outof10@gmail.com ......... i cant forget it this way lol ever useer name i have is 7outof10

if I could be included in this deal that would be fun, locking up a couple great spots on swan can really increase your bag. zimmerman_dan_c@yahoo.com

maby we should have a fishing mn duck hunt ....lol i have to go out there to day and cut weeds lol ....

early season is the best....we have 2 backwaters that only we have access to and we always smack the woodies in there have floated from courtland to judson....waste of time if u ask me