Posted By:
jereme
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Fish Springs Goose hunt 10-12-2005 21:30
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Cut emnova
Up North looks like it has alot of potential. I havent even seen that many greenies this year. Sounds like an awsome outing. I’ve only gotten out 5 times so far this season and haven’t had a goose in acceptable range yet.
Hope everyone got your permits in for the Fish Springs Goose hunt. The drawing and results should be posted on the Fish Spring site by the 20th.
Posted By:
jereme
Guest
Fish Springs Goose hunt 10-12-2005 20:55
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Cut emnova
Up North looks like it has alot of potential. I havent even seen that many greenies this year. Sounds like an awsome outing. I’ve only gotten out 5 times so far this season and haven’t had a goose in acceptable range yet.
Hope everyone got your permits in for the Fish Springs Goose hunt. The drawing and results should be posted on the Fish Spring site by the 20th.
Posted By:
cut emnova
Guest
up north 10-11-2005 22:56
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jereme, yeh i would say you’ve been slacking!!! haha jk buddy!
well we just got back from the opener up in idaho, we acquired 300 acres of wheat grain fields that shared the shores with the snake. we got up there the night before, walked out in the field and found that the farmer had just barely disked the field leaving hardly any cover. 5 am came around pretty fast and as we walked out of the house, we were greeted with nothing but geese in the star filled sky, all the boats heading up the snake for the opener must of pushed them off of their roost early. we got set up with around 5 dozen full body geese, 4 dozen shells, and around a dozen mallards. first light came around and the sky was filled with birds, we had a single goose come right into the decoys and the new SBE II claimed its first honker on its first attempt. the rest of the day brought us nothing but frustration, the geese were either flying the snake or i-15, they didnt want to leave those flyways. we ended up decoying alot of mallards in which kept us smiling and the barrels smoking nonetheless. we decided to head in for some lunch around 1 pm. as we were leaving the spread we commented to the rookie that was with us, about how many times we leave our spread and come back an hour later to find birds in the decoys. (we jinxed ourselves there) we headed back out and looked at the decoys only to notice about 30-40 more decoys than we had set out. TYPICAL. we walked out and bumped the geese up, when we did that about 15 mallards came out of the spread also, we looked at our rookie and he just laughed at us.
needless to say we had a great time in the field decoying in the ducks, they just couldnt say no, no hesitation or nothing. we ended up with close to 40 mallards and 1 widgeon. the geese won again, i think the pressure of the opener and them being disturbed on their roost early just altered their normal patterns. should only get better the later in the year it gets. the winter wheat is about 3 inches high and it should be about a foot tall by the end of the month when we hit the area again, that should help out blending in the x-landr’s.
p.s. im loving the new firearm.
Darren….daz3825@comcast.net
Posted By:
jereme
Guest
Willard Bay Sat. Oct. 8th 10-11-2005 20:10
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 60-65 Degrees
Saturday October 8th
Willard Bay
Hit the big bay early and got setup for some geese. Pretty slow. We ended up taking the boat out of the vegetation and set up in the middle of nothing but water. We salvaged the day with some Gaddies, Widgeon and a Pintail.
Saw lots of Shovelers. Very few geese even moving.
Stay as close to the large rafts of coots as you can and you will get some shooting.
Posted By:
jereme
Guest
Bear River Bird Refuge Scouting Unit 2 and 3 10-11-2005 20:05
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Friday October 7th
Bear River Bird Refuge
Scouting Units 2 and 3
We did a lot of running and gunning different Units in the boat today. Overall conditions on all of those units look good. Took two Green heads while scouting. The mallards are using a lot of the smaller ponds enclosed by the reeds and cattails.
You could probably get some good shooting if you are willing to work your way through the stuff and sit on a small pond.
Posted By:
jereme
Guest
Howard Slough Saturday Oct. 1st (Evening) 10-11-2005 19:59
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 60-65 Degrees
Saturday October 1st (Evening)
Howard Slough
There were lots of birds moving all evening long. There were groups of hunters spaced about 50 yards apart all the way around the entire slough. I couldn’t even count the number of vehicles in the parking lot.
Most groups were trying to take birds between 100 and 150 yards. Made you kind of sick to watch. My poor dog (Ranger) ended up retrieving several people’s birds before we could get out of there. I just have a hard time saying no. The mud sucks around the dikes so take a dog out there if you have one. I ended up with one Green Winged Teal on the way out of there.
You know a ten shell max count out there for opening weekend would do wonders for those sky busters.
Posted By:
jereme
Guest
Bear River Bird Refuge Unit 3 Oct 1st and 2 nd 10-11-2005 19:51
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
O.K. I feel like I’ve been slacking a little so here goes. I’ll run this through several posts. It’s just easier to read that way.
The opener Saturday October 1st
Bear River Bird Refuge Unit 3
Shooting started in earnest about 8 min early according to my watch so I just stood in amazement as a dozen woodies buzzed my decs several times. None the less my buddies and I stood like oak trees. We saw a good mix of birds early on in the morning being a bit heavy on the teal side. Between us we ended up with Widgeon, Pintail, Mallards, (1) Blue, (1) Green, Several Cinnamon Teal and some Gaddies.
Not the best opener but it was just good to get out.
Sunday October 2nd
Bear River Bird Refuge Unit 3
Got a little earlier start today but the shooting was really slow. We took a few Teal, Widgeon and a Pintail.
We saw quite a few geese moving up through Unit 2 towards the North but not a lot of shooting.
Before you go to BRBR know the regulations. The link is below.
http://www.fws.gov/bearriver/hunting.html
Posted By:
Kurt-Case
Guest
Poor Bird Numbers 10-05-2005 20:51
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Spent the P.M. in the ouray valley only had 1 gadwall decoy in she is in the freezer.
Kurt
Posted By:
dhinds
Web Member
Westside Duck Club 10-04-2005 21:35
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 60-65 Degrees
Had 2 great days with my boys out the HArrison Duck Club. We killed 3 limits on Saturday and 3 limits on Sunday. Killed some mallards, gadwalls, a few widgeons and the rest teal. Great weekend.
Posted By:
andrea7683
Web Member
N OGDEN BAY 10-04-2005 01:05
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 45-50 Degrees
WENT OUT THIS AFTERNOON TO SEE WHAT WAS HAPPENING AT THE BAY DROVE ALL AROUND THE CANALS AND CHK PONDS NOTHING STAYED TILL DAK AND SEEN MAY 20 DUCKS HEADED IN NO GEESE ON THE OPENER ONLY SEEN 10 GEESE AT THE BAY QUITE SUPRISING
