Pinks in East Anglia

[Big Mat]

I was not telling You the chances are gone , I was telling someone else that PERHAPS their chance had gone if they joined the club this year on the marsh I am shooting

 

 

 

I wouldnt give up just yet, i recall last season not seeing a goose on the marsh for 6 weeks maybe, then in the space of 2 weeks i got under them 4 times, that was in january. In fact another member shot one pink whilst sat no more than a couple of yards from me on one of those flights!

[fenboy]

I have not given up Mat hopefully they will return but equally its no good a guy travelling a distance to take up a day ticket etc because he would like to get "under some geese" if there are none to get under

I am just saying that he would be wasting his time at the minute and perhaps his best chance has gone for this season on our marsh.

[6.5x55SE]

I was not telling You the chances are gone , I was telling someone else that PERHAPS their chance had gone if they joined the club this year on the marsh I am shooting

How long did it take you to count that 82000 + ? , I would have got fed up after a 100 or so

 

 

 

So why are you commenting on a thread where someone is asking for help if you are not prepared to offer any ?

Naming a club is not naming a place is it ?

I was trying to Help by stating TRUE facts that there are 82,0000 Pinks using clubs marshes that do day tickets I also stated why I won't name them Plain read and see by my last post. As for counting Geese what's your point !!!!! Perhaps it would be good if you read posts propally and understand them. Again repeating myself there are plenty on here who know where the Pinks are.

[fenboy]

I was trying to Help by stating TRUE facts that there are 82,0000 Pinks using clubs marshes that do day tickets I also stated why I won't name them Plain read and see by my last post. As for counting Geese what's your point !!!!! Perhaps it would be good if you read posts propally and understand them. Again repeating myself there are plenty on here who know where the Pinks are.

 

I think with regard to reading post properly you need to practice what you are attempting to preach .

 

Can you tell me how your club gets new members if no one can mention the club ? how do you sell those day tickets if you cannot mention the club ? , I mean its pretty pointless you saying your marshes have 82000 pinks and they do day tickets if you cannot tell anyone where it is dont you think ? is it a secret society ? do you have special events where you roll one trouser leg up and do funny handshakes ? can you explain how you know its a TRUE fact there are 82000 + pinks using you secret clubs marshes ? I mean there may only be 81600 or something

You are actually being about as helpful to the guy as a fridge is to a Eskimo.

[6.5x55SE]

Fenboy. What is your problem !!!! I never posted them geese was coming off one marsh. And by your attitude I can see why you don't know what club marshes they are using. Well how I do it and have done for years is get off my butt open my ears and eyes it's called fact finding and ground work also it takes me a hour 15min to get into Pink territory. Perhaps if you also new the amount of people I've given there first chance of Pink you'd get your stupid comments to yourself. Now another couple of fact I've done alot of goose counting for Censors the other fact keep your eyes and ears open tomorrow morning as you just might hear and see me shoot a couple of you Invisible Pinks.

Richie pm me mate I'll do me best for you with the right clubs

[fenboy]

"Fenboy. What is your problem !!!! I never posted them geese was coming off one marsh".

 

See you have done it again , not practicing what you were preaching at me to do , I am sure my post above says MARSHES , that means more than one does it not as one is MARSH

 

Perhaps my problem was when you started putting comments after my posts like

 

"Well the 82,000+ still about don't tell me the chances have gone. As Craig stated some are still turning up.Also last week I had 6 Pinks off two different Marshes"

 

As I said in my reply I was saying nothing to you or about your marshes but pointing out the OP would be pretty much be wasting his time getting a ticket for my clubs marsh at the minute

 

But rather than taking that on board you then feel the need to say

 

"Perhaps it would be good if you read posts propally and understand them.

 

Which is a bit rich considering you did not properly read or understand my post in the first place , if you did you would realize I was telling him about wasting time on my clubs marsh at the minute rather than wasting time on any marsh anywhere .

 

You may well have 82000 pinks on the marshes you are shooting but that is not going to help the guy if he is on different one is it.

 

I hope I have now made that clear enough for you.

Edited December 17, 2013 by fenboy

[motty]

I know there are still plenty of pinks in the area, just Fenland has gone a bit quiet over the last few weeks. But then I haven't been since I shot my last pink nearly a fortnight ago.#

 

I saw at least 10000 on a field just outside Flitcham last week.

[Penelope]

I saw 2-300 hundred dropping into a field just to the NW of March on Sunday.

[Richie10]

Well I appreciate all the replies.

 

So what I can gather there are a few about but less than previously and now it is harder find them.

 

Well I still fancy coming up, my expectations of actually shooting one is low on my first trip but maybe I can get a feel of the marsh and join a local club for next year.

 

Cheers guys

[fenboy]

Well I appreciate all the replies.

 

So what I can gather there are a few about but less than previously and now it is harder find them.

 

Well I still fancy coming up, my expectations of actually shooting one is low on my first trip but maybe I can get a feel of the marsh and join a local club for next year.

 

Cheers guys

 

I think by joining any of the wash clubs you will have a chance of a goose at some stage .

I am surprised you did not get much help with south lincs did you ask for it ?

I have received plenty during my time with HDWA including being mentored for my first six flights , but I am sure whatever club you join there would be someone willing to do the same.

[Double four]

And as you to know DD they roost on the Norfolk/Suffolk broads

 

Lot of pinks still in North Norfolk, I had a guest out with me last week shot a few geese and saw many thousands of pinks lifting of Holkhams mashes .

Heading inland to my caravan just up the road there were at least 10k pinks on a beet field , so as they say its never over till the fat lady sings !

[anser2]

Fenboy what I think you are missing te point from Boyd's post is that many clubs do not want to attract attention over the geese on their marsh by their member broadcasting how many birds there on their marshes. I know that the committee on one of my clubs would take a very dim view about any one talking about the geese or duck using their marsh. For this reason while I may post about a good or bad flight , but I never talk about the exact location. Mearly talking about a Broadland or Norfolk coastal marsh. Any wildfowler with any gumption would easily find out what areas hold geese from the WWT wildfowl counts or running through the bird watching forums and thenfind out which clubs control the shooting.

[Richie10]

 

I think by joining any of the wash clubs you will have a chance of a goose at some stage .

I am surprised you did not get much help with south lincs did you ask for it ?

I have received plenty during my time with HDWA including being mentored for my first six flights , but I am sure whatever club you join there would be someone willing to do the same.

 

Everytime I planned to go out I phoned a senior member of the club, He used to say he might be there at that time and he would see me on the marsh, not sure how on the expanse of the marshes they own. I am not bad mouthing the club, it probably was a bad time. i was allowed on any marsh without a guide.

I gave up after a while, it's a long drive and I saw lots of ducks, just hundreds of feet away.

I gave up for a year or 2 then joined a local club which is working out well.

They also said only go out when the tide is going out to be safe.LOL

 

I plan on joining another wash club eventually.

[Big Mat]

 

Everytime I planned to go out I phoned a senior member of the club, He used to say he might be there at that time and he would see me on the marsh, not sure how on the expanse of the marshes they own. I am not bad mouthing the club, it probably was a bad time. i was allowed on any marsh without a guide.

I gave up after a while, it's a long drive and I saw lots of ducks, just hundreds of feet away.

I gave up for a year or 2 then joined a local club which is working out well.

They also said only go out when the tide is going out to be safe.LOL

 

I plan on joining another wash club eventually.

 

I think you got very unlucky. Should you join South Lincs again ( or either of the two that shoot the same marshes ) Drop me a message and i'll take you out for a flight.

[TaxiDriver]

Do Wildfowlers shoot Greylags ?

 

Most days I drive past fields full of these on my way to/fro work

[Big Mat]

Do Wildfowlers shoot Greylags ?

 

Most days I drive past fields full of these on my way to/fro work

 

Yes, i shot one earlier in the season

[Double four]

Fenboy what I think you are missing te point from Boyd's post is that many clubs do not want to attract attention over the geese on their marsh by their member broadcasting how many birds there on their marshes. I know that the committee on one of my clubs would take a very dim view about any one talking about the geese or duck using their marsh. For this reason while I may post about a good or bad flight , but I never talk about the exact location. Mearly talking about a Broadland or Norfolk coastal marsh. Any wildfowler with any gumption would easily find out what areas hold geese from the WWT wildfowl counts or running through the bird watching forums and thenfind out which clubs control the shooting.

 

Robert all the clubs I have ever been in iv never heard that one, maybe your club doesn't want anyone to know about numbers because it doesn't want any new members ?

[fenboy]

Fenboy what I think you are missing te point from Boyd's post is that many clubs do not want to attract attention over the geese on their marsh by their member broadcasting how many birds there on their marshes. I know that the committee on one of my clubs would take a very dim view about any one talking about the geese or duck using their marsh. For this reason while I may post about a good or bad flight , but I never talk about the exact location. Mearly talking about a Broadland or Norfolk coastal marsh. Any wildfowler with any gumption would easily find out what areas hold geese from the WWT wildfowl counts or running through the bird watching forums and thenfind out which clubs control the shooting.

 

I understand that point to a degree , and I know wildfowling can be a secretive sport due to the fact you only get out what you put in .

What I cannot understand is why someone would go to the trouble of telling someone that he is shooting geese on a marshes that offers day tickets but refuse to name them , this makes it pretty pointless really

All of the clubs he refuses to mention ( I know which they are) have spaces for new members which again seems odd when the committees of those clubs what to run them like secret society's this is no way to get new blood into to the sport in my opinion , what sort of committee is running a club if a member is afraid to mention it or post photos of what he has shot ?

That should be left to the individual to decide .

[Big Mat]

 

I understand that point to a degree , and I know wildfowling can be a secretive sport due to the fact you only get out what you put in .

What I cannot understand is why someone would go to the trouble of telling someone that he is shooting geese on a marshes that offers day tickets but refuse to name them , this makes it pretty pointless really

All of the clubs he refuses to mention ( I know which they are) have spaces for new members which again seems odd when the committees of those clubs what to run them like secret society's this is no way to get new blood into to the sport in my opinion , what sort of committee is running a club if a member is afraid to mention it or post photos of what he has shot ?

That should be left to the individual to decide .

 

I wouldnt say on the open forum which clubs had geese on them. I suspect if Richy pm'd boyd he would find out.

 

I know of at least one club that has a rule that you cannot put anything about the club on the internet.

[joknob]

 

I wouldnt say on the open forum which clubs had geese on them. I suspect if Richy pm'd boyd he would find out.

 

I know of at least one club that has a rule that you cannot put anything about the club on the internet.

two things have ruined wildfowling....the tinternet and mobile phones.i remember a few years back at a north lincs meeting,the bag returns had been sorted from the last season,and the chap sorting it piped up that so many duck had been shot in september,november,december..and so on,but hundreds of duck had been shot in october ! this chap at the back said why didnt you tell us that earlier i wouldnt have wasted my time going out in the other months knob head. craig

[fenboy]

 

I wouldnt say on the open forum which clubs had geese on them. I suspect if Richy pm'd boyd he would find out.

 

I know of at least one club that has a rule that you cannot put anything about the club on the internet.

 

No and neither would I say where they were on a open forum , but what I would say is if you join club x there should be some geese to try for at some stage of the season

 

To be honest I am sure that anyone that has even a half interest in wildfowling knows the wash holds 1000s of geese for a good part of the season and from there it hardly needs much research to find a suitable club

 

So drove end has a secrecy policy , Fenland clearly does not , has that made drove end a better club to shoot ?

[anser2]

DF I was once acused of acting against the interest of a club by the committee formearly for giving an interview to the Field on wildfowling and all I talked about was about my early days wildfowling on marshes 30 miles away from my clubs ground. There was also an instant on the forum a few months ago where a forum member was basicly told not to talk about goose shooting behaviour ( high shooting on the clube ground ) on an open forum.

 

All I would say to anyone is have a good chat on the forum about your fowling experiance , but for the sake of the birds and possibly your club membership do not say exactly where you are shooting. After all does anyone else realy need to know.

Edited December 18, 2013 by anser2