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!!!!!
