#75357 - 11/14/02 02:24 PM
Re: WA Waterfowl
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Spawner
Registered: 01/07/02
Posts: 919
Loc: Everett,Wa
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I havn't been out yet either,the reports are pretty bad. I usually hunt potholes most of the time,but the guide service at Mardon has had lots of tough hunts lately.
If you dont know about Waterfowler.com,give the site a try. It has a regional forum and reports page. Having read the reports recently,it looks like I won't be out for awhile.
Good Luck!
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#75359 - 11/15/02 12:25 AM
Re: WA Waterfowl
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Spawner
Registered: 01/07/02
Posts: 919
Loc: Everett,Wa
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BBVD... The reason you missed the perfect shot was...you didn't concentrate on one bird. When a group of birds comes in try to kill one bird then shoot at the next one. Were those birds mallards? If they were your lucky you missed. If you'd have hit those birds you'd have been over your limit on the hens,we don't want that now do we? Although it's legal to shoot hens,IMHO it's better to leave the hens alone,they make all the babies. Besides...drakes look better in the pictures.
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#75361 - 11/15/02 08:34 PM
Re: WA Waterfowl
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Smolt
Registered: 03/22/02
Posts: 92
Loc: Philly via Puyallup
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We hunted Crab creek last Sunday and Monday. If you don't know it, it's between Moses Lake and the Potholes.
Sunday was very poor; only 3 birds, with one jump shot from an isolated pond after a hike because we were bored out of our skulls. Monday was great in the early morning. Within two or three hours after shooting time we took 11 birds. Only two hens, three green-wing teal, and the rest drakes. Of course two of us got out of the boat to do something on shore w/o shotguns, and a flock of a dozen or so greenheads came right on in, touched down in our spread, and then high-tailed it out of there! Oh well, it was fun, and missing them means less birds to clean.
Some of the drakes were pretty big, but I am not sure if they were locals or northerns. The way many of the birds responded to our calling and spread makes me think that some of the flocks were northerns. The locals are pretty call and deke shy by now. But I have yet to see many of those huge greenhead flocks flying in yet.
Hope that helps.
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#75363 - 12/09/02 04:59 PM
Re: WA Waterfowl
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Egg
Registered: 12/05/02
Posts: 1
Loc: maple valley
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Originally posted by powerstrokincowboy: We hunted Crab creek last Sunday and Monday. If you don't know it, it's between Moses Lake and the Potholes.
Sunday was very poor; only 3 birds, with one jump shot from an isolated pond after a hike because we were bored out of our skulls. Monday was great in the early morning. Within two or three hours after shooting time we took 11 birds. Only two hens, three green-wing teal, and the rest drakes. Of course two of us got out of the boat to do something on shore w/o shotguns, and a flock of a dozen or so greenheads came right on in, touched down in our spread, and then high-tailed it out of there! Oh well, it was fun, and missing them means less birds to clean.
Some of the drakes were pretty big, but I am not sure if they were locals or northerns. The way many of the birds responded to our calling and spread makes me think that some of the flocks were northerns. The locals are pretty call and deke shy by now. But I have yet to see many of those huge greenhead flocks flying in yet.
Hope that helps.
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#75364 - 12/13/02 12:54 AM
Re: WA Waterfowl
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Parr
Registered: 02/22/02
Posts: 54
Loc: South Jetty
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Kramer,
It's been spotty. Unless we get at least two weeks of a freeze those redlegs, i.e., northerns/grain feed nothern mallards won't be down our way until January. There's been a few but right now I'm seeing Sprig, Gadwall and Widgeon from the waters of Kitsap, Pierce, Thurston, Lewis, Cowlitz, Clark and Skamania. Pacific is another issue.
Hoping to complete the final mods on my Burdick Scull and have at 'em.
5000D
P.S. Was down on the Shilapoo on Friday, i.e., Lake Vancouver. Saw more geese, swans and sand hills than ducks!
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#75368 - 12/13/02 12:29 PM
Re: WA Waterfowl
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Juvenille at Sea
Registered: 01/30/00
Posts: 182
Loc: Poulsbo,WA.
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The westside
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#75370 - 12/13/02 08:25 PM
Re: WA Waterfowl
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Returning Adult
Registered: 11/19/02
Posts: 367
Loc: Seattle, WA
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Originally posted by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy: are p-tails in season right now??? Yes, pintails are open through the 17th of December. Limit one per day, two in posession.
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#75371 - 12/16/02 10:38 AM
Re: WA Waterfowl
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Juvenile at Sea
Registered: 01/27/02
Posts: 232
Loc: Chehalis
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Will try to post a pic but don't usually have the patience....Last week 4 days in a row near Montesano. 3 shooters each day, limits every day on Mallards and Widgeon. If this pic works here is one of our blinds and a 21 duck salute. Oh well...want to see pics I can email them to you...I know how to do that Jim
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