Everyone thinks that their hunting club is the one that everyone wants to be a part of and since 2006 Team DrakeTakers has been that one. Head Pro-staffer Justin "The DrakeTaker" Reamer and Pro-staffer Austin Urban started DrakeTakers up 3 years ago and it has grown to have the reputation of killing waterfowl. Being part of Team DrakeTakers is known pretty well around the Topeka area and we are even asked about it at local Ducks Unlimited events. It all started in one of our early morning duck hunts on the Kansas River waiting for the first drake to take flight we started talking about making a name for ourselves. So as the day went on and in between the ducks landing in our laps we started coming up with names. Thats when Justin Reamer came up with DRAKETAKERS. From that moment on Team DrakeTakers was born. We now do everything we can to hunt ducks and geese, adding decoys to our spread, perfecting our calling and scouting out fields to ensure the hunt will be limitless fun with limits of waterfowl. Along with loving to hunt ourselves we also love to volunteer our time to DU. Justin is on the Topeka and Oregon Trail DU committees. Our biggest enjoyment from hunting is getting the younger generation out on some hunts. We started taking out younger kids from our area during the youth season. There is nothing better then going out and watching there faces light up when the first duck or goose gets into range. That is what being a DrakeTaker is all about, we have spread into making shirts, decals, and the latest being this website. We hope you enjoy it and will use all the information and tips to get the ducks and geese close enough to yell “DRAKE TAKE EM”.

Sunday, August 23, 2009

NoDak Early Goose Season - Day 2

Kyle (Rick Hahne Calls), Josh (Rick Hahne Calls), Myself, Jason (Team DrakeTakers)

Myself, Josh (Rick Hahne Calls), Kyle (Rick Hahne Calls), Tyler (Tribal Outdoors) Picture by Team DT Pro-Staffer Jason Tarwater



The DrakeTaker

Pro-Staffer Jason Tarwater


Now You See Us!

Now You Don't!!!


On day 2 we hunted in the morning on a cut wheat field we had scouted two days before and had geese in it, the night before it didn't have any geese in it, but we figured since we got to scouting so late and the amount of birds around us that we would be ok. We got setup and we could hear tons of birds to the North of us on a huge watershed. The wind was howling out of the North around 35-40MPH and we figured the birds would get up and not wanting to fight the wind would just sail right to our field to the South, well they didn't and we ended up with just 2 birds for the morning. We did have a ton of ducks working our spread and landing in the decoys all morning long so we weren't bored my any means and I now have a new favorite quote from the fields thanks to Josh, "Just eat the pop-tarts already!" You had to be there to understand it. Anyways after picking up for the morning we spotted the field that all the geese were going to and got permission to hunt it. Now in North Dakota if a field isn't posted you don't have to get permission to hunt it, but we still felt like doing things the right way and getting permission. That afternoon we got out to the barley field that was cut and put into windrows. We set out 6 dozen X-treme Honkers and put the blinds in the windrows and got ready to hunt. The birds were wanting into our field, but our only problem was the wind kept pushing them off to one side of the decoys. We still ending up shooting our 23 to finish off our daily limit in about an hour and a half.
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