Duck hunting Jordan lake ?

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Am I out if my mind?
I’ve got a hunting buddy still living behind enemy lines (read: CA)
We’ve duck hunted the Bay Area for Blues some green heads and an occasional honker or 2.
Looking to get him out to visit this year and thinking about going Jordan,
I don’t have a boat, trying to get that sorted out. Would walking in to a creek/swamp be stupid? Should the minimum be a canoe to get into those areas? I’m not used to hunting around all these trees, CA is mostly wide open.
Anybody got the hot tip?
 
Yes, canoe is nice as it let's you setup on islands, place decoys & retrieve birds.

Forgot to add, duck stamp, plug your shotgun and read the regs super carefully. Your in Federal Territory with ducks.
 
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With all the crazy protections around that lake and its basin, do they let you hunt in/on/around it?! I could see the enviroNazis claiming the lead pellets are destroying something...
 
If you do it now you'll get a free vaca at the Grey Bar Hotel... Seasons gone... Do you have you hunter's Ed Cert?? How about your Bud?? 'Cause without that ain't nobody hunting anything....
 
Try Sharon Harris instead...you can pound ringnecks all day long there.

If you just want a couple Woody's and maybe a stray domestic greenhead or Canadian bomber, on Jordan you need to get all the way up into one of the fingers.

Be careful wading, recommend a guide stick...you can be ankle deep and step off into an old stump hole and find yourself armpit deep and you waders filling fast...ask how I know;)

No way I would use a canoe on Jordan or Harris to duck hunt, unless it has serious stabilizers...both lakes can get waterfowler rowdy real quick and a canoe just goes turtle to damn fast...about ten years ago there were even some #3 and #4 shot exchanged over perceived good spots on Harris.

Regardless of what you decide to do, you have plenty of time to SCOUT it out and make decisions before next season. You might have a much better time just forking up some dollars for a guided hunt on Pamlico or Albemarle sounds or somewhere else on the coast, maybe an outfitter with some layout boats, get a real salty taste of Carolina waterfowling.:D
 
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I agree with Long Hunter. Check out guide services and go with one of them. Duck hunting is like deer hunting, it takes a lot of legwork to start out with.
 
If you do it now you'll get a free vaca at the Grey Bar Hotel... Seasons gone... Do you have you hunter's Ed Cert?? How about your Bud?? 'Cause without that ain't nobody hunting anything....




Did you read the part about Hunting in California? IN the Bay Area ? How far do you think a guy in Camo.. toting a " Black Assault Weapon " will go without having his 'papers' in order ?

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With all the crazy protections around that lake and its basin, do they let you hunt in/on/around it?! I could see the enviroNazis claiming the lead pellets are destroying something...

Hunting is allowed on /around the lake. All waterfowl hunting and also some Bird hunting requires non lead shot when around where water migrating birds can be.
Here's a link to the Gameland Maps.

https://www.ncwildlife.org/Portals/0/Hunting/Game-Land-Maps/Piedmont/Jordan.pdf
 
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Save yourselves a headache and book a guide/hunt down east. The Jr Commanders on the local lakes and gamelands have ruined the hunting.
 
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