Category: Idaho

Posted By:
DuckCollar
Guest

12-08-2005 18:26
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PETA, I may have made a smartass remark but it was not unintelligent. I would like to respond to your comment of me “building up my ego” by listing the number of ducks I have shot. I am probably the least egotistical male you will ever meet, I simply post to try and convey to others the great time my friends and myself had. Thats fine that you would like others to post a more definitve description of where they hunt. I do not believe that you should tell me that I am unintelligent because I do not want you to know where I hunt. I also never said that no one else has ever hunted where I hunt. I simply said that I have never seen any traces of another duck hunter.

Posted By:
PETA
Guest

12-08-2005 12:33
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jsnesset, thanks for the intelligent response.

Posted By:
jsnesset
Supporting Member

Snake 12-08-2005 11:56
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 10-20 Degrees – Open Water
Lots of birds on the Snake between Weiser and Grandview… haven’t done much scouting/hunting above that lately. Find spots on the river that are close to fields that the birds are using. This is your best bet. I know of two other groups that went out yesterday on two completely different areas on the Snake and limited. When the weather in the valley gets to the low teens or lower, get to the river. If it’s cold and windy… even better. I post a general location for other people’s benefit… but I won’t say where. If I was to say I was at Marsing and there were 2 gillion ducks… will there be 2 more boats parked at the boat ramp on Saturday?? …Possibly… I don’t want to risk it. If it’s by chance… no problem. I too, use this site for general info i.e. location, success, etc. On the other hand, some locations I don’t mind posting the location… if I fall on the floor and hit my head hard… and decide to go to Ft Boise to hunt… I’ll definitely let everyone know. Sometimes it’s to my advantage… I could say I went to CJ… everyone thinks that’s either Jacks Cr, or Loveridge Bridge… not many people try other areas. How many people knew that there were 10 thousand mallards last year on CJ within site of the dam for several weeks. Obiously very few, since we heard no other shooting. If I would have posted that last year, how could anyone with a boat resist. I know I couldn’t!

With that being said… usually, if I give the location, you can pretty much bet it sucked.

Posted By:
PETA
Guest

12-08-2005 11:35
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Thanks John-Carter, you seem to have the concept.

DuckCollar, I figured that I would get an un-intelligent response from someone. It was just a suggestion. This is a site for hunting reports. There is no point in reporting if you do not provide the details. Telling us how many birds you shoot in how much time does nothing other than build up your own ego. Look at John-Carters report, did he tell you exactly what spot he hunted? Which island, give the GPS location? No, he did not. I do not hunt in the Wieser area. I do not know it. So even if he posted a great report, I would not go there. I do not hunt CJ or the Boise River either. I have my spots that I know and like to go to just like everyone else does. And I am sure that you have your secret secret spots that only you and the ducks know about that have never been hunted in the entire history of hunting, except by you. So have no fear.

D.C., do as you like, just trying to make this a better site and more useful tool for everyone. I check out the reports from other states around us, Oregon, Washington and Montana, just to see what the birds are doing. Check out their reports, you might learn something.

Posted By:
DuckCollar
Guest

No Tellum Creek near Jackass Butte 12-07-2005 19:22
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Sorry but im not gonna tell you where I hunt. Some of the best spots I hunt never seen another duck hunter any signs of one. I do have some secret secret spots that even my closest hunting partner will never know about. Just the way I am.

Posted By:
John-Carter
Guest

snake river Wieser 12-07-2005 17:41
Cloudy, Heavy Fog – 10-20 Degrees – Open Water
hunted all morning but the fog got the best of us it did’nt break until 11:30 we got a few though. When the fog cleared and we headed back to the dock we flushed thousands of greenheads off the river there are lots of birds in the area. The small ponds are freezing so the birds have to go to the river for water. Watch out for the fog if you are running the river in the dark and fog.

Posted By:
PETA
Guest

12-07-2005 12:20
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It would be beneficial to all if everyone would include a little more detail when posting a report. Listing the Snake as the area hunted leaves a lot to the imagination. I know you all think you have the secret secret spot, but with the amount of hunters I see out anymore, I guarantee that you do not. I do not think you have to worry about others rushing into the area either because the percentage of people using this site is very small, or nobody wants to post unless they shoot a limit. The GPS coordinates are not necessary, but listing Idaho Falls, Nyssa, Homedale, CJ…. would be nice so we might know where the migration is at. I believe that is the intent of the site.

Posted By:
jsnesset
Supporting Member

Snake 12-07-2005 12:01
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 10-20 Degrees – Open Water
River was great this morning. About 17 deg at the boat ramp and about 10-15mph East wind. Lots of birds flying… two of us were done by 9:00 with mallards, pintail, gadwall, and widgeon. The birds were hard to pick out… We had to pass on two large groups because it was hard to pick out the greenies. Really good time…

Posted By:
cut emnova
Guest

12-06-2005 12:58
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they have hookers up american falls? thats it im moving north!

Darren….daz3825@comcast.net

Posted By:
jeffyoungberg
Guest

12-06-2005 10:53
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looking for a report on american falls for
hookers.

Posted By:
colduck
Guest

Snake 12-06-2005 05:58
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
Great shoot, Lots of Greenwings 20 ta 30 at atime plus good old Mallards. Geese are a bit thin here for December.

Posted By:
jsnesset
Supporting Member

Snake 12-05-2005 10:35
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 35-40 Degrees
Saturday was a sweet day. We had a lot birds flying in the area, using fields nearby. Six of us hunted a good portion of the day and ended up with 42 ducks and 1 goose. We weren’t exactly where the birds wanted to be, but close enough to have plenty of small groups to shoot at. We shot mostly mallards and gadwall… a few widgeon and pintail as well. Not very many geese in the area, but the ducks gave us a great shoot. It was the most ducks I’ve seen all season.

Posted By:
DuckCollar
Guest

Snake River 12-04-2005 20:24
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Well the ducks would have been in trouble if I could have shot straight! I guess you have your good days and your bad days, cause today I had a very bad day shooting wise. I did end up with three drakes but I should have easily got a limit. My two buddies did good, one limited and the other got five. We had a lot of mallards and wigeons in the decoys. Lots of ducks flying around. As a result of my poor shooting my dog made about a 1/4 mile retrieve down stream after one of the drakes. It was pretty cool to watch. Luckily the drake swam into some slack water in a big bend of the river and headed for shore then I knew it was all over. It was a fun hunt.

Posted By:
DuckCollar
Guest

12-03-2005 19:30
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Went out with two friends and we got 4 chuckars each then we went for quail and we each shot two and I got a really nice rooster that im gonna have mounted. It was a fun day. Duck are in trouble tomorrow!

Posted By:
BYU
Guest

Burley 12-03-2005 15:06
Cloudy, High Winds – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
We werent in open water. We were in a corn field trying our luck with geese. I came home to help my folks put christmas lights on the house. I decided to take the morning and hunt geese. A friend of mine and I just guessed on a corn field to set up in. We didnt shoot anything. We saw a lot of birds flying from the damm over to the Rupert area. Big groups in hay fields. We took time to jump shoot the canals and limited out on all mallards and a gadwall. We got lucky and only shot two hens. We had a great time shooting the ducks.

Posted By:
shdwgrss
Guest

payette river 12-02-2005 23:20
– – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
blazing a trail through the snow 2 of us only shot 7 birds lot of snow on the decoys should have had a few more birds great day to be out hunting with snow flying

Posted By:
shdwgrss
Guest

snake river 12-02-2005 23:14
– – 30-34 Degrees – Ice
4 of us went out wednesday drive down was wicked and slick roads shot 21 mixed bag of wigeon mallard and pintail got there alittle late because of roads lot of birds in the air.

Posted By:
DuckCollar
Guest

Snake River 12-02-2005 19:35
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Lots of ducks flying before shooting light. Once it got time they were all gone. About 8:30 they were flying everywhere but none of them wanted to decoy. I started packing up around 10:30 to go scouting and a guy hunting near me started decoying them like crazy. He had out a spinner and never touched a call. I saw him decoy five groups of ducks with at least 75 birds in each group. They commited perfectly. Funny though, I never saw him drop a bird. I ended up with a drake mallard, teal and a quail. I scouted a different part of the river I hadnt been to before. There were birds all over. I saw some snow geese sitting on the river also. Going out for chukars tomorrow but sunday ill be down on the river.

Posted By:
BYU
Guest

Payette 12-01-2005 20:30
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So i took some friends out for the afternoon hunt. We had tons of fun. They only shot five birds, but it was a blast. We had so many birds in the decoys that knew how to dodge steel very well. My buddies were laughing and so was I. Two very large groups of teal came right in and they all went righ out. A small flock of 5 mallards came in and two even sat in the decoys. All five mallards, also, went right on out. We had five or six flocks of spoonies come and play with the decoys. We only shot two of those. We started hunting at 1 and left by 430 with out five birds. The other birds that we shot was a mallard and solo widgeon. The shooting performance wasnt very good but what a great time. Happy Hunting. Hey, JSSNET lets get together and hunt sometime!

Posted By:
jsnesset
Supporting Member

Snake 12-01-2005 11:41
Cloudy, High Winds – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
Hit the Snake on Tuesday morning… we were the only ones in the area. There were snow geese roosted all over the river, which I’d never seen before. The ducks rafted up out in the open water all over the place… probably over a thousand birds. Not much flying, though… we only ended up with six ducks in a short morning of hunting. This morning I’m dying to get out… wind and snow… 4 inches on the ground… the river would be phenomenal…

Posted By:
BYU
Guest

Payetter 12-01-2005 00:56
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Well yesterday morning proved a limit of two green heads, One widgeon, one teal, and two spoonies. It was a good hunt. The birds came right in. This afternoon I got off early so I took off to the same area. Tons of new birds out. Tons of spoonies. When I was dressing my birds out the fat on the birds was a lot different from the locals. They must be birds from up North. Anyways, I set about 11 decs out at 4 and I was picking them up by 445. It was a fast hunt. I had a good time. There were a lot of birds. One flock after another of spoonies. I ended up with 4 spoonies and two widgeon. I have one flock of mallards sit on top of me, but i was pulling a downed bird out of the water. I got caught out in the middle. The hunt was fun and the birds were plentiful. Every flock of spoonies that came to the decs all came in. I let a lot of birds go by. It was fun to see birds decoy that well in flocks of 15 to 25 or so. I am off to Burley to go home and help my dad put up the Christmas lights this weekend. I hope to get some geese in while I am down there.

Posted By:
PETA
Guest

Snake, Parma , Roswell, Notus Area 11-30-2005 17:50
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
Went out Sunday, Tuesday and today. Not very productive. Got 2 on Sunday, 4 Tuesday and 1 today. Hard to shoot birds that are not there. Not sure where others are getting limits and seeing lots of birds, but I can tell you where they are not. Not much flying, what was flying did not want to decoy. Heard very little shooting.

Did see about 3,000 snow geese Tuesday, which I have never seen around here before, did not see any snow geese today. Saw one flock of honkers for all three days. Coots are thick should anyone want some easy shooting.

Posted By:
shdwgrss
Guest

snake river 11-28-2005 20:16
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
lot of birds son and i shot 2 limits birds were pretty decoy shy landing out in the middle of the river on sunday in the white caps looking forward to some northerns seen no geese flying

Posted By:
H20fowl2
Guest

Payette River 11-28-2005 10:19
Cloudy, High Winds – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
Nice to finally see the sun. Saturday winds out of the NW 20-30 MPH. Plenty of birds in the sky few wanting to decoy. Geese have moved into the area with several flocks working the spread. Looking forward to migritory flights later this season.

[Edited By H20fowl2 on 2005-11-28 10:20]

Posted By:
DuckCollar
Guest

Near CJ 11-24-2005 14:38
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Happy Thanksgiving! Took my brother-in-law out. Dense fog again. We took 8 birds on a short hunt. We could have got our limits but someone else always has to mess it up. I guess we were in these guys spot and they had to get as close as possible to it. They set up about sixty yards away right at shooting light. They pulled a few birds in with there spinner that I called towards us. Apparently they think a kazoo sounds like a duck. We had a good hunt though. We got mallards and wigeons.

Posted By:
Saladshooter
Guest

Snake. e of Marsing 11-23-2005 22:34
Cloudy, Heavy Fog – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
Dense freezing fog was an understatement. Not too many birds moving until 0900 and then they came in flock after flock. Mostly pins with mallards mixed. Did see 2-3 flocks of redheads circling but never came within range. Limited out with 6 drake mallards and 1 pintail drake. Always looking for new areas and hunting partners.

[Edited By Saladshooter on 2005-11-23 22:37]

Posted By:
DuckCollar
Guest

Near CJ 11-22-2005 18:27
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Five of us headed towards CJ on Sunday. It was really foggy. Even though we had some kids set up about 70 yards away right in our shooting lane we still managed to get about 25-30 birds. Almost all were drake mallards with a few hen and two drake gw’s and a hen wigeon. Luckily the wind changed and the ducks were landing over the top of us allowing us some easy shots and it kept the birds from circling out over the kids spread.

Posted By:
BYU
Guest

Payette River 11-21-2005 18:22
Sunny & Clear, Morning Fog – 35-40 Degrees
There were a fair number of birds moving high in the air. Lots of hunters out this during the morning hunt. Small groups of birds came in and worked awesome to a feeding call on the straights and short and slow quacks on the turns, while the ducks passed. Groups of two and three’s came in. Didnt take very long to limit out. Got one Canadian to come down and take a look. Shot him dead.

Hit a corn field for pheasants in the afternoon. If I could shoot straight I would have shot my three birds in the first 20 minutes of the hunt.

Posted By:
shdwgrss
Guest

lake lowel 11-16-2005 20:02
Sunny & Clear, Morning Fog – 25-30 Degrees – Ice
we broke ice to get our decoys out and had to break it up 4 more times two of us shot 12 mallards and 2 widgens not as many ducks flying as we had thought would be seen a bunch of flocks of geese but didnt get off the lake

Posted By:
colduck
Guest

Snake 11-14-2005 22:05
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 35-40 Degrees
Saw more Swans than ever and great numbers of Snows, there was more Swans than honkers moving west. Got in a lucky spot and was able to get three Snows. Starting ta see fields black with Mallards Too. Good things are coming!!!!!

Posted By:
Pudeldog
Guest

E. Oregon just a few miles from Ontario 11-14-2005 15:02
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 35-40 Degrees
Did not sit over Deeks on Sunday, spent the day chasing Pheasants. But finally saw the ducks moving around. Probably saw 1000 ducks in the area, and that is a first for this season, on this end of the Treasure Valley. Hoping the weather cooperates for next weekend. Talked to some guys who hunted our blind on Sunday, and they saw more ducks in the air than they ever have. Tall Ducks moving East to West from the Snake to who knows where.

Posted By:
jsnesset
Supporting Member

Snake 11-14-2005 11:29
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 35-40 Degrees
Saturday, five us hunted most of the day and shot 21 birs… mostly mallards. Sunday we went to a different spot west of Glenns Ferry and shot 21 birds between 3 of us. The southern wind was perfect for our setup and the birds decoyed well. We did see group after group of snow geese heading south as well. We were out by 11:00, and groups of 100-200 were heading south every 5 minutes the whole time we were out there. We probably saw 3000-5000 total for the morning. Pretty cool to see… just wish they’d stay in the area instead of heading south and bypassing the area. Didn’t see any honkers, or even that many ducks… but the snow geese kept us entertained.

Posted By:
DuckCollar
Guest

Near CJ 11-13-2005 16:22
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Good day for us bad for the ducks!. We put a hurtin on the greenheads. I am no longer bandless, 2 bands in one day! Both were greenheads. We saw thousands of snow geese flying. I have never seen that before. They flew from before first light till about 11:30. Anybody else seeing them?

Posted By:
jsnesset
Supporting Member

Pond 11-10-2005 10:46
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 40-45 Degrees
Couldn’t stand missing the first normal day since the big storms moved through over the past week… had to take the afternoon off work. It was a good move, two of us limited on ducks in 2 hours… There was a significant increase in ducks over the past week. The calm weather didn’t help, but the birds had no problem dropping right in. The bag consisted of mallards, gadwall, and a pintail. Can’t wait to get out again.

Posted By:
Doc10
Guest

Twin Lakes 11-07-2005 11:05
Cloudy, High Winds – 40-45 Degrees
I either slept in or did not remember daylight savings time but when I got to where I wanted to set up there were five geese there. So I drove to another lake and saw a large (80 to 90) flock of ducks landing. There was quite a lot of wind and a little rain. I don’t know for sure but I am guessing that this was a new flock of ducks to this area. The weather patern seems like it will change and bring us some bad/good weather.

Posted By:
jsnesset
Supporting Member

CJ 11-02-2005 09:33
Cloudy, High Winds – 60-65 Degrees
Three of us headed out for an afternoon hunt at CJ yesterday. What a slow day with very few birds around. We ended up with 7, but that was after 4 hours of hunting. There was nobody else out… We need some weather to get some birds down here.

Posted By:
BYU
Guest

10-27-2005 19:03
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Hey, DOC10 you should probably email me at cordellperkins@msn.com because your email isn’t going through for me. Thanks.

Posted By:
Doc10
Guest

American Falls Reservior area 10-26-2005 14:37
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 60-65 Degrees
This was more of a scouting trip than anything. I found a few springs and sloughs along the north side of the tributary area. The springs and ponds had lots of ducks on them. This could be a good area when it gets cold. I shot one rooster. The reservior is low. The mud flats are extensive. I understand that this is a good place for geese.

BYU e-mail me at mholliday@s-spower.com

Posted By:
DuckCollar
Guest

10-25-2005 22:10
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Went out for a short evening hunt. The spot I hunted is a small pond/mudhole. As far as I know no one else hunts this pond and I dont usually hunt there until the middle of the season. Lots of ducks but talk about call shy. They did not want to hear any quacks. The mallard drake call led them right in though. It was a very good hunt for only being about 30 minutes long and no decoys. I ended up with 2 drake mallards and a greenwing. We definetly need a change in temp its to hot to be duck hunting.Especially in 5mm fleeced lined waders:)

Posted By:
BYU
Guest

DOC10 10-25-2005 22:01
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Yeah, I would love to go out and hunt with you. What do you have in mind?