The season of 1988 / this years predictions

[Blackduck]

http://www.farmersalmanac.com/forum/201 ... -forecast/

We'll see

[greenheadgrimreaper]

I think we are failing to forget that we have a DS'er on board who has-and will- give us a complete look at the situation up North here shortly. And if I remember correctly, he has been pretty darn accurate in predicting the fall flight over the years...

[Bercy]

1988 season -> December 10-January 8. Man, that seems like a short season.

[Hambone]

It seems like that was a short season, because it was...by the time things would get on a roll, it would end abruptly. Some may disagree, but there is a strong case to be made that "the good old days" are right now.

[Jeff]

I don't know Hambone as good as it has been lately, It's hard for me to think of topping 10 point pintail drakes and going and killing 50 of the legally in one morning.

Or maybe on the worse side looking back at the days when we didn't know how to count and would head to the blind with a case of shells a piece and shoot every shell in the case if we could. To me those days were the glory days, could be because I was a little one back then and I was hunting with my dad and grandfather but those were good days.

[MudHog]

The National Weather Service said Wednesday that drought has dropped the river's summer level in Memphis to about 13 feet below normal, and it is forecast to fall about 2 1/2 feet more by Aug. 22......Even if the river does fall by another 2 1/2 feet, it would still end up about 1 foot short of the record low set in 1988, when a section of the river was closed for days.

[bigwater]

1988. This thread brings a smile to my face and regret. Lots regret.

1988 was the year I lost my virginity. Anyway. Here we were duck season 1988. I'm laid up over at (my girlfriends) house and she and I were waiting for her parents to leave and go run errands. We had been getting pretty serious yet we hadn't made it all the way to home plate..We had been getting to third base and stopping. But she had had told me on that sat that she was ready and wanted the Bigwater's...

So it's about 2:30 that afternoon and her folks left.. And she looked at me and gave me that look. Bout that time I get a call from my brother and my dad. They were on one of them old fashioned cell phones devices. My brother was livid.. Hey man you got to see this .. Theres hundreds and hundred of ducks on the tabor hole (a private land hole that we could hunt).. Pintails my brother said. Now in 1988 I had never had any you know what and I had never kilt a pintail.. Also keep in mind were in east ms where the duck hunting was pretty tough

We'll I bounded off the couch trying to explain how fickle the duck migration can be. My girlfriend didn't buy it and off I went east heading towards the prairie and the tabor hole.

For the record that the hunting was phenomal that day. Got my pintail and then went back to my girlfriend's and ended up getting that other thing too .. Glad I went out there that day . A year later a guy bought that place and cleaned up and drained what to this day was one of the prettiest duck holes these eyes have ever seen.

[champcaller]

[eSJay]

bigun told ole gal........he said "baby....bullsprigs are in the hole...keep that skillet greased til i return"

she did & he hit it. been wantin to hit it ever since.

[teul2]

All hail the big'un!

[Anatidae]

I think we are failing to forget that we have a DS'er on board who has-and will- give us a complete look at the situation up North here shortly. And if I remember correctly, he has been pretty darn accurate in predicting the fall flight over the years...

More like lucky - although 2 years ago I couldn't tell if ducks had over-flown mid-latitude SK or hadn't arrived yet by Nov. 10th. Turns-out they showed-up on the 18th which threw the migration way late.

Too early to venture a guess - to get a clearer idea of what to expect in your area you really have to start with projections for the CA prairies and work down the flyways. Projections of ice and snow are great but the key for their effect on us down here is 'when' those events occur and in what frequency of succession.

I've seen fatheads punch through snow to get chick peas, then go sit on solid ice for 5 consecutive days before moving-out.

If this proves to be a great season for us in the Deep South - I could not have chosen a better time to retire. Main thing I'm focusing on right now is getting boats and gear ready. If the mass of this record projected population actually migrates, I plan-on giving them a good old-fashioned Southern welcome - daily.

[skywalker]

1988? So that would mean big water was 36 when he first landed a chic?

Nice, very nice.

[crow]

'88...first year I took my son (7 yrs old) into Panther Swamp. First day in, he fell into a beaver run and floated his hat! 28 degrees! He still stayed and shot mallards and turned to ice on the 3wheeler ride out. My bro-in-law and a friend hunted Panther 20 days in a row that year and killed limits of mallards every day. We shot a hole with one other fellow from a fish camp on Lake George and whoever got there first got theirs then the other party came in and got theirs. Unbelievable place back then. Wingman hunted the same area back then, I think.

[donia]

1988? So that would mean big water was 36 when he first landed a chic?

Nice, very nice.

you've aged remarkably well, biggie....for a 60 y.o. , you certainly look like a 41y.o....

[bigwater]

Thx cal. I've never landed a woman . I'm quick on da draw and I usually treetop'em