Posted By:
tigerduck
Web Member
Upper Klamath/Agency Lake 11-25-2007 18:29
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 45-50 Degrees
Lauched at Agency Lake and headed to the new flooded area that is part of the Nature Conservancy project. Broke ice most of the way to the N/W dike and breezed through the cut. Water level is very good and should’nt be a problem for those with standard outboards.
Ice conditions worked to our advantage as large numbers of waterfowl drained into open areas. The entire area was active with huge amounts….thousands…of widgies, cans, malards and divers. Widge’s accounted for most of the numbers. The entire area is loaded and active despite clear and calm weather conditions. Good to see the migraters are finally making their entrance into the basin.
Posted By:
Paul-Cantrell
Field Editor
Siltcoos 11-25-2007 15:18
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 45-50 Degrees
Well, I made my first trip to Siltcoos yesterday. Man have I missed going over there. I really love that lake. The Bluebills are scarce right now, there are a few on the lake but not the normal amount by any means. We mostly had opportunities at Buffleheads through the day. I did end up with 3 scaup and 2 buffies for the day. The Salmon fisherman help keep the birds moving and there was a good amount of shooting on the lake, I watched the guys on Booth Island nail a few. We hung out until about 2pm then headed home. How everyone else do?
Paul Cantrell
Black Ice Retrievers
Posted By:
Paul-Cantrell
Field Editor
Fern Ridge 11-22-2007 19:58
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 30-34 Degrees – Ice
We didn’t have much luck this morning. Very few birds to speak of. Hunted the east side of the lake, there were a few small groups of Mallards that gave us a small look but for the most part we just sat and watched thousands of Geese fly over us. Oh well, it was good sit training for one of my young dogs.
Paul Cantrell
Black Ice Retrievers
Posted By:
Casey-Huxoll
Field Editor
Boardman 11-21-2007 10:33
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Lots of rain over last weekend. now it has really cooled off. this moring brings a heavy fog bank. I hear it is supposed to be like this through sunday.
I did run down to McCormick slough this morning at around 8 am. They said there were about 45 hunters out this morning.
I sat and listend to the slough and did hear a lot of shooting. So i am guessing that there has been a good number of ducks that i have moved in.
I think that if the weather stays like this the birds should be on the move for the next couple of days.
I think this is a good chance to get out there and really get on the birds. Looks to me like some of these are notherns moving through.
Everyone have a good thanksgiving and make sure you are safe out there.
Posted By:
Paul-Cantrell
Field Editor
Mohawk Valley 11-18-2007 18:25
Cloudy, Occassional Rain Showers – 45-50 Degrees
Wow, the rain has hit and the rivers are full. The Mohawk is up about 7 feet in the past couple of days and the ponds are full. Great bird action this morning, and they responded well to calling. We shot 6 Greenheads and a Widgeon this morning over the pond. My neighbors up the street we doing a lot of shooting as well. Thanksgiving is right around the corner and the season starts in earnest for me this week. Its hear, the weather is cruddy and I’m loving it. Hit em hard and be safe….
Paul Cantrell
Black Ice Retrievers
Posted By:
Casey-Huxoll
Field Editor
McCormick Slough 11-14-2007 18:31
– – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
Cold this morning. 20 degress.
Even had a little ice forming around the decoys.
Hunted McCormick this morning with decent success. Shot a mallard, teal and 2 gadwalls. missed 1 shovler and passed on 2 buffleheads. so there was a chance for a limmit.
Not many ducks though moving around the slough but did see a lot of geese leaving the refuge headed on to some private farms just up the road.
I did hear some shooting from the guys that were hunting the fields on the refuge, i think they had pretty good succes.
Just took a drive around a couple of the local farms and there are a lot of geese hitting just about every corn field around.
Saw probably 1000 snow geese spread between 3 differnt fields each about 3 miles apart. Usually i dont see the snow geese show up until like the last 2 weeks of season so i am not sure what these guys are doin here… maybe they just changed there migration route or there are just to many of them so they had to go other places.
I think we are in for one heck of a year…..Makes it hard to get any work done.
Call em in and shoot em close.
Posted By:
Casey-Huxoll
Field Editor
Boardman 11-12-2007 12:38
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A good number of geese have moved in to the area including some snow geese.
Had a good hunt on sat. Had a budy shoot his first goose. that is always fun.
On sunday was a different story. the wind blew pretty hard and the birds didnt want to work very well. pretty hard to decoy in.
I watched a field of live geese in the afternoon and saw flock after flock lock in then spin off and leave just like they had done over my decoys that morning.
So i figure if they dont want to go into live birds then it is pretty tough to get them to decoy.
I think that we have not seen the big push yet of migrators, and i think once they show up the hunting will be great.
Stay out there and shoot straight.
Posted By:
jsdod04
Guest
upper columbia 11-11-2007 10:53
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
thursday good shoot mixed bag saw few groops of new birds two groups like casey said hope to be leading edge returned saterday thought may be would se more action but not storm mouved quick but with no bird action shot red head and spoony saw one flock new birds was able to call doun from stratis but could not suck in last 100′ big fat mallards thursday 10;00 their was about 2000 geese sitting on river came out of washington
Posted By:
Paul-Cantrell
Field Editor
Mohawk Valley 11-11-2007 10:06
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 50-60 Degrees
The past few days I’ve had noticeable increase in the birds working river. Some geese working the valley as well. As soon as I get my boat fixed I’ll hit the coast and give it a try. I need some rain to get the ponds filled up again, they raised during those storms in October but have gone down again with the better weather. Now that deer season is finished I can put those dogs work…
/Paul
Posted By:
Casey-Huxoll
Field Editor
Boardman 11-09-2007 12:20
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I went down to McCormick slough this morning and there were a good number of geese working the fields. Talk to a guy that said they had limited out on geese on both sunday and monday down there.
Duck numbers are really picking up as well . i think the birds are really starting to show up and hopefully it will be a good weekend.
