Tomo-1 Posted December 27, 2015 Report Share Posted December 27, 2015 Hi, this is my first season on the marsh and I am still very much in the learning curve. I went over to the marsh on Christmas eve in plenty of time for the evening flight so that I could have a recce and learn the area. The weather was dry but pretty windy so I thought that I may be in with a chance of a duck or two flying low enough for a shot. The tide was seriously low, no water to be seen just acres of glistening mud (I have to go when work allows!) I set up at the edge of the main channel and waited.......and waited...... I saw a single mallard about half a mile away. It was a gorgeous evening non the less with a beautiful sunset and moon rise, but no bird movement. My question is: do you bother flighting if there is no water? Can the evening (or morning come to that,) be worth the effort if the marsh is devoid of water? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildfowler.250 Posted December 27, 2015 Report Share Posted December 27, 2015 I don't think flights are anywhere near as good if there's a full moon but that's just my opinion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenboy Posted December 27, 2015 Report Share Posted December 27, 2015 I have certainly shot plenty of duck when there is no water in sight , evening should bring duck off the marsh and inland to feed . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motty Posted December 27, 2015 Report Share Posted December 27, 2015 Get to the marsh as often as you can. You can then gain experience of what happens in all situations and circumstances. You can learn valuable lessons when you least expect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackpowder Posted December 27, 2015 Report Share Posted December 27, 2015 Flighting Lindisfarne wigeon under the moon as a low water job. Blackpowder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudpatten Posted December 27, 2015 Report Share Posted December 27, 2015 If it`s safe to do so on your fowling grounds, get yourself a pair of mud pattens and find where the zostera grows. Probably too late for this year since the brent and wigeon will pretty much have eaten it out by now but as a project for next season it could result in some exceptional early season low tide shooting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawntredder Posted December 27, 2015 Report Share Posted December 27, 2015 Yeh Lindisfarne out on muds/sands chuck a few deeks in main channel works for me...whan I can get there ha-ha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misser Posted December 27, 2015 Report Share Posted December 27, 2015 rather there be no moon... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandalf Posted December 27, 2015 Report Share Posted December 27, 2015 If that one duck that you saw in the distance had come over you and you'd shot it then this topic would never have been written. Always worth going to the marsh. Even out of season... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edenman Posted December 27, 2015 Report Share Posted December 27, 2015 If that one duck that you saw in the distance had come over you and you'd shot it then this topic would never have been written. Always worth going to the marsh. Even out of season... Spot on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Footu Posted December 30, 2015 Report Share Posted December 30, 2015 I'm a probationary on the dee,have been taken out 3 times this season. I'd go just to listen,watch and learn. I prefer evening flights and water or not there's always something.at the moment I'm being told it's not very good to go as there's so much water everywhere from rains the birds are all over the place. I'd still take any opportunity to get out though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent Posted December 30, 2015 Report Share Posted December 30, 2015 Firstly here in the nw it's perhaps the hardest season ever for fowling with thousands of duck sat inland on many thousands of acres of lakes that were once fields Yes it's worth doing evening flight over low water on the channels that form the duck highways Is it always worth it? No wildfowling ain't like that. If you only try something once and it works or fails you can't draw anything from it. I have had great flights under a set of conditions then failed to repeate it many times over under the same circumstances If wildfowling was guaranteed I shouldn't bother with it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent Posted December 30, 2015 Report Share Posted December 30, 2015 I'm a probationary on the dee,have been taken out 3 times this season. I'd go just to listen,watch and learn. I prefer evening flights and water or not there's always something.at the moment I'm being told it's not very good to go as there's so much water everywhere from rains the birds are all over the place. I'd still take any opportunity to get out though. Carry on the dee is good ground but it really is hard this year all over the nw area. I shot the dee myself for a few years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misser Posted December 30, 2015 Report Share Posted December 30, 2015 You'll shoot nowt in front of the telly......if you don't go you don't know..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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