"Cans gone wild" - Canvasback duck hunting

[@hideawayhollow]

I am located in Wisconsin on the Mississippi River. Yes you can only shoot one canvasback per day here most years but there are lots of other ducks to harvest while on the hunt. I havest 20 or more species a year. From mallards to an occasional sea duck. So quite a bit of shooting takes place during a hunt. The feds counted 450,000 Canvasbacks this year just on a couple miles of River this year. When there are only 650k in the world no where else has the numbers of cans like we have.

[@stevepoe3667]

I do remember a NO KILL BAN ON CANVAS BACKS, back in the 70s and part of 80s here in Illinois!

[@kelliralynn1772]

Dayyyum! Can I hunt with y'all? All them cans... I'm jealous as hell, I won't lie.

[@xPGxConfusionzZ]

The cans do this all the time. If you buy some OS Canvasbacks from GHG they will pretty much just suck on in. still pretty much amazing to watch

[@blazebackwater]

Wow nice! if we get groups of 30 on the Columbia it is a big group, those are flat out massive flocks!

[@PFCSmith07]

AMAZING! Truely jealous, I live on the eastern sierra side of the pacific fly way in california, and I have NEVER seen so many birds. Very lucky!

[@Bodycarver]

I live in California and we can shoot one per day. That is a joke. We have more Cans on the lake then all other birds combined. Our lake is White with cans. Everywhere you look. You will kill your Can before you finish putting out decoys. Great video guys.

[@tannervirden4364]

Damn in Delaware all we have are mallards black ducks sea ducks wigeons and teal sometimes we get pintails but redheads and canvas backs are rare

[@johnheuy376]

Better background music choice? Have voices louder and music lower volume.

[@TritonFrontier17]

Nice! Same deal for me on the Miss. I believe I'm a few pools south of you. Cans all over and limit was 1. Clouds of Bluebills and limit was 2. I'm lucky to get a Mallard (any puddle duck) to even decoy my diver spread. Mallard limit was 4. How about the Feds/States give diver hunters a break. I'll trade my puddle duck limit for diver ducks. You would think the USFWS and DNR could get a little more creative on baglimits.

[@jadahouston4787]

I live in Alabama and cans are very rare on our lakeside but although we have numerous mallards, reds, and also wood duck.

[@EthanSmith2398]

Jada Houston Catahoula is the undisputed King of the South for Cans. Chesapeake Bay is a great hunt for any diver

[@kelliralynn1772]

Jada Houston, got cans on Seminole. (Donalsonville)

[@hideawayhollow]

@Gbwbaseball It is 1 per person per day. Probably will have one again this year. It is a fairly rare duck which we have a ton of but the rest of the country they can be few and far between. hence the 1 per person. In 2010 my boat averaged over 10 ducks per hunt for the entire season. So besides cans we get a good variety of ducks to shoot aswell as we view the thousands of cans flying around.

[@mallerdblaser]

where bouts is this video taken? me my dad and one of my buddies hunt the Wisconsin side of the river right across from Wabash back in Indian slough and i remember seeing flocks like that the past couple years...its fun just to sit and watch em fly around

[@hideawayhollow]

@blazebackwater I have the largest concentration of canvasbacks in the world during peak migration. This year I believe we peaked at 380,000. So the sky can almost turn black with them. I decoy hundreds if not thousands of canvasbacks most days thoughout November. I probably harvest more Canvasbacks than anyone in the world and like to think of myself as the go to outfitter in the country if people are looking to shoot one.

[@garrettw9981]

Wish they would still come in those numbers on the Chesapeake

[@gregbarnes4660]

You can thank the market hunters and greedy other hunters for that demise - to be honest most ducks left eventually will be mallards and geese - I'm an avid hunter but wow not any ducks besides mainstay migration route - those too will lessen as time goes on.

[@etlovestohunt]

Complete wood!!!!!

[@dawgman569]

dang ive never seen so many canvasbacks

[@shawnmatla3872]

at 3:56 what brand and type of duck is the flyer on the pole?

[@TritonFrontier17]

@ watrfwlnut - Give the guy a break. He offers a service for people who dont have a proper boat/decoys/location etc that want to shoot divers and perhaps cant afford to hunt in Mexico. Thank God for young ambitious guys who will take a chance to start a business in the USA and create wealth. Who are you to criticize.

[@omegaseamaster1550]

Only Can I have ever seen in the wild is off the Alaksan wildlife Preserve . Dam bird flies about a million miles an hour off the Preserve and real hard to get a bead on him(pass shooting)

[@limbwalker7]

You might say you have the largest concentrations of Cans in the world but obviously you've never been to Lake St Clair on the Ontario/Michigan border, because we too get those type of numbers during peak migration..Good video..

[@philnowack9911]

The point is 80% of the cans migrate through Pool 9 every year

[@MrGuitars8]

Well I'd love to get one of those also , what gun/shot setup works best on these ? I see that they have some size and are fast while flying . Blaze where you located I'd love to hunt some of them .

[@MrGuitars8]

@hideawayhollow Where are you located ? I'd love to hunt some of them and what shot size works best on them ? I've never used faststeel is that the best shell out there or that blackcloud ?

[@thurnishaley6334]

And wow that is just really amazing. I would love for a big Canadian bull can. To be on my wall.

[@HammerHeadGarage]

For a duck that was almost shot to extinction they seem to be doing pretty well.

[@rossshipley1]

leave a landing strip. try a broken up S pattern of decoys

[@kingtut8381]

WOW AWESOME. THANX

[@broussard2403]

Second split here in louisiana. All cans an divers. Wish they would up the limit to 2.

[@fullstrutn]

that would a tough hunt ,,since your'e allowed 1 bird and they come in so fast and grouped up like that

[@Jackdanielsbullrider]

You guys on pool 9 -19 of the mississippi?

[@pride968]

are those diver decoys set on a long line

[@thecountryman850]

What lake are you on? We have them on Lake seminole in fl and ga

[@stejos60]

really cool.

[@scfloundergig]

@redneckrider250 Well I'm sure they have a chance of shooting some other species like bluebill or something. Besides that though, how could you deny yourself the opportunity to see something like that live? Must be awesome... It's not all about shooting ducks

[@LCfisherman]

where is this

[@stopcallingmekevin]

Where do I sign up for a hunt... Like seriously!

[@johnsonthehunter]

wow ive only seen one canvasback during hunting season...and i shot it haha. Where is this?

[@AmbushOutdoors]

We have right many in VA

[@orangepower88]

WOW

[@junkzdude]

Dam you should take me out i am located in fort atkinson right by lake koshanong there arnt alot of ducks her i work my ass of every time and am lucky to get a duck

[@nolanmilroy1760]

are you in pool 9?

[@luckiest1201]

looks like the ducks were hit at 1.16, thats whythey were on the water

[@BooneDawg88]

you can shoot 6 a day in CANADA this year 2011

[@reedaxthelm5047]

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[@willysell]

song?

[@theohioduckslayer]

man makes me sick ive seen cans like this twice in my life only one time hunting in north dakota and the first flock came thru at first light i was all pumped up i jumped up and missed the big bulls and crushed a hen had to sit their and watch everyone kill big bulls made me sick

[@Mrsbe2]

corn pile!

[@packfan741]

where is this at like what state

[@kelliralynn1772]

packfan741 I wanna know same thing!

[@15Stammer]

This would be in La Crosse, Wisconsin on the Mississippi River largest canvasback flyway in the world! Right in my backyard!

[@15Stammer]

A week after season the raft up 200,000 strong in the refuges and stretch across the river 1.2 miles.

[@KanMan4240]

Good Eating Ducks slow Roasted