Posted By:
Kwack Wacker
Guest
11-27-2007 13:57
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miss read, the post. I must need some glasses!!!!
Thought the turduckin said ton of I guess???
I don’t know what I was reading I must be goin crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted By:
Hugh-Carney
Field Editor
11-27-2007 09:10
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I re read my post and I don’t see where I wrote that I killed a ton of birds. I said there ate a lot of birds in the region, both Yakima Valley and the Columbia Basin. What are you referring to?
If you are referring to the Turduckin……it’s a joke. A Turduckin is a chicken inside a duck inside a turkey all cooked together. They don’t exist in the wild, but you can get good cooking instructions on foodnetwork.com. 🙂
[Edited By Hugh-Carney on 2007-11-27 09:14]
Posted By:
Hugh-Carney
Field Editor
Columbia Basin/Yakima Valley 11-26-2007 12:05
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 30-34 Degrees – Ice
Bird numbers have increased dramatically over the past 10 days. Seemingly mallards more than other puddlers or divers. The situation looks like this…many birds are in safe refuges until just at dusk or later…bad news for hunters, for now. This is often where the scouting and watching the weather comes in handy. These ducks will get into the pattern of moving late in the day or at night until the weather makes them change. That is usually wind or a front. Once they move you have your chance to get in on a good shoot usually on the first or second day of that weather change. I have also found that if you are close to where they want to roost and the fog moves in, they will get disoriented and you can get a good hunt for a day or two.
The other good news is that with more birds in the region, there is always the opportunity to get more birds. That might sound dumb but we often complain about no birds to shoot or not enough birds. We can’t use that as an excuse now. They are here, we just have to wait for them to move. I guarantee that there are many spots that the birds are using and they aren’t just private land.
Now that the Thanksgiving weekend is over the hunting pressure should subside for a while. I find that a relief that as the bird numbers grow in E. Wa, the hunter numbers decrease.
Snow is expected Tuesday and Thursday and temps are expected in the 40’s for highs and mid 20’s for lows turning colder by the weekend. This will freeze small water and then the big numbers of birds will be more restricted.
This is the modern good ol days in E. Wa.
-Hugh
Posted By:
Hugh-Carney
Field Editor
Columbia Basin/Yakima Valley 11-26-2007 11:43
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 30-34 Degrees – Ice
Killed a Turduckin over the weekend. Boy was it good.
Posted By:
Kwack Wacker
Guest
RES. Upper valley 11-25-2007 10:53
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 10-20 Degrees – Open Water
We got 11 mallards today jump-shooting some private land that has some drainditches flowing through, not as good as we thought, only got 2 jumps when we usually get 3-5. There was 100-120 on the drian itself, ducks seemed to move out over night and I think they may have been pushed out with cold weather and freeze out conditions. Gun clubs did’nt shoot much either.
Watch those Sunrises and Whack ’em!!
Posted By:
Kwack Wacker
Guest
res. 11-23-2007 20:07
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 10-20 Degrees – Ice
went on a scouting/hunting mission today to see what is frozen, the ice sucks!! I didi kill 3 mallards and a greenwinger on a drainditch. Saw a deccent # of birds and we’ll do good tommorow morning jumpshooting.
Stopped a feild tonight near Toppenish that had about 10,000 landing and feeding in it, WHAT A SIGHT!!! Very neat and very worth the trip!
Good luck tommorow
Watch those Sunrises and Whack ’em!!
Posted By:
Kwack Wacker
Guest
RES. 11-22-2007 16:14
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 10-20 Degrees – Open Water
Well our Thanksgiving hunt was kinda slow, jumpsot 5 of em today (mallard, 2shovlers, and 2 greenwingers) Lot’s of ducks and geese on river, but it’s high right now and you can only shoot 1 or 2 on each jump so the dog can get em before the current washes them away.
LOTS of stuff is frezzing and it’s gona get tuff for awhile, gona try some deccoying tommorow I think, going to a better spot tommorow.
Quite a bit of shooting today but I think they were mostly uplanders getting out and stirrin it up.
Good luck tommorow and Happy Thanksgiving!!
Posted By:
Kwack Wacker
Guest
11-20-2007 13:54
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yah, I know I was in a hurry. I actually hunted the Yakima river and that’s where hunting partners killed limmits on Saturday, I hunted Sunday.
I saw all the birds on the Columbia River just above the Priest Rapids dam.
Sorry for the crappy reporting!!
Gona hunt alot this long weekend, good luck to ya that are hunting too.
[Edited By Kwack Wacker on 2007-11-20 13:57]
Posted By:
Hugh-Carney
Field Editor
11-20-2007 09:18
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Nov. bird counts should be published soon. There is always a lag time between where the birds are at the time of the count, and where they are when the results are published. WDFW should have those numbers out soon.
Lower temps in Canada should add to the numbers as well.
Posted By:
Hugh-Carney
Field Editor
11-20-2007 09:14
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Freezing fog is in the forecast for the coming week. Lots of moisture on the ground from the weekend rain and snow. Icy driving in spots. Dense for in spots should burn off by afternoon and redevelop over night.
