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…
