Hunting Reports Week 1/3 - 1/9 2004

Rauly · 01-03-2004, 06:07 AM

Snow and more snow. Someone has to be killing something. I love hunting in the snow.

Rauly

mcknerkneykak · 01-04-2004, 12:40 PM

Took the weekend off to rest give the chukars a break In E. Ore. Cabin fever forced me and my dogs out yesterday for Quail. They all seem to be hanging out around haystacks on private. About a foot of snow out and about and still coming down. All my duck ponds are frozen over. There are fresh geese around but this old farmhouse is sure nice and warm. When I told my chukar hunting partner I wasn't going to Juntura, he looked at me like I was from outer space and went by himself anyway. I hope he runs off the road on the way home.

Gun Rod Bow · 01-05-2004, 12:12 PM

I went east for Chukars on the 26th and 27th and with 3 buddies we managed 39 Chukars and 12 quail. Good stretch of the legs for the fat man.

Got all excited about huntin in the snow last Wednesday for geese. Went to Yamhill County where I'd been smackin 'em and it was bleak. 2 suicide singles and that was it. It was the absolute least number of geese flying I've ever seen around here. Saw a few ducks but wasn't set up for them.

Waiting to see what the flood waters look like later this week. They usually = good ducking for me locally. We'll see.

Rauly · 01-05-2004, 02:38 PM

This is a pic of DuckCommander71 on last Wednesdays goose hunt. We got 7 and should of had many more. We tried to put them on the ground and passed an many 15 - 25 yard shots. Next time we won't be so greedy.
http://www.ifish.net/uploads/3430154.jpg

Rauly

#1 Okie · 01-05-2004, 04:33 PM

Just got back from Wyoming last night. We shot 4 dogs and 3 limits of geese two days strait.

steelheadslayer · 01-05-2004, 11:50 PM

Went out Saturday morning with my partner Joe. We managed to scratch down 2 Westerns and a Vancouver. Better shooting and we would have done better. This is my buddy Joe and my dog Daisy. [img] 0745124.jpg [/img] OK, got the digital for Christmas and am trying to figure out the pic upload thing. Any helpful hints out there. I've been through tutorial a few times.

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Fishfaced · 01-06-2004, 07:13 PM

We pounded'em today! 5 shooters 22 birds. Mostly Widgon, Gadwals, and Mallards. Ducks were sticking to the Gilbert River (open water), and coming into just a couple of deeks. They flew off and on all day. I ended the day with a tripple, breaking in my new Benelli Super Black Eagle! No more pumping for me.

wife&3kids · 01-07-2004, 07:14 AM

On off days, can you hunt the Gilbert?

Swamp Puppy · 01-07-2004, 04:30 PM

he he..i was wondering the same thing.

anyway, today was a shoot day at sauvies. at least, that is what they call it when you are allowed to hunt..cuz' "shooting" was NOT what was going on out there. hold on to your keyboards, because when i checked out with my one measly greenhead today at 1pm there was maybe 1 or 2 blinds left on the island and a grand total of 8 birds had been checked out. including mine.

the ice out there is almost thick enough to walk on and the birds are as hard to find as virgins on prom night.

ANDYCOHO · 01-07-2004, 04:57 PM

Only 8 birds....Thats terrible!!

Glad I stayed home...

Thanks for the report!

straightweave · 01-08-2004, 10:47 AM

Does that apply to navigable water? What about the CR around SI? If you come in from another direction, and access via boat, do you still have to check in? Isn't the Gilbert accessible from the mouth upstream?

billc_sbio · 01-08-2004, 02:17 PM

Yep, about 1/4 mile UP the Gilbert, at the public float along the edge of the river is the SAME "Permit Required Beyond This Sign" sign as they have all OVER the WMA...gotta have a permit to go beyond there!

Mossberg 3.5,

What were the conditions there? Any open water anywhere?

Got a reservation for Malarky for tomorrow...and a friend has one for Johnson that a few of us could go in with as a party...just wondering!

Spooney · 01-08-2004, 09:41 PM

My decoys are under three feet of snow and three inches of ice. I have been shoveling for two days and I havn't reached them yet.

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Going on the 13th

Swamp Puppy · 01-09-2004, 04:24 PM

billc - totally frozen over when i was there on wed. in fact, it was almost thick enough for me to walk on. hopefully this little batch of above freezing temps we had today will clear a little of that ice up. i'll be out there on sunday to check it out.

billc_sbio · 01-10-2004, 08:15 AM

Mossberg 3.5,

I went out (late) yesterday to the east side...it was a BATTLE just getting out there! The roads were still a sheet of ice and lots of downed trees between Sauvie Is. Rd. and Reeder Road all the way to the checkstation!

We picked up a couple of tags for Footbridge, which HAD been the hot unit the previous shoot day...Dead! The few birds that were around came in over the top of us and headed straight down into Dead Willow! The idiots there, divided into about 3 small groups, wouldn't LET the birds come down...even though they wanted "in"!

Jerry R. said it's the same group of guys...who've been hunting there lots this season...they just WON'T let 'em work in!

Seems goofy as they were shooting at birds 80-90 yards high! Lots of geese "working" the area yesterday and it looked crazy to see them shooting at ducks that were twice as high as the geese close to them!

I guess the unit that was getting most of the shooting on the east side yesterday was Rentenaar. But who, knows? It seems to change from one day to the next. :whazzup:

We barely heard any shooting coming from over on the west side...a little bit from over in McNary, and there were ducks somewhere over there, I think actually somewhere near Ray's Lake, or maybe just in the corner there...seems like some of the birds, coming in from Washington were coming over the trees heading towards Ray's Lake, then making a left before going into the north end of Dead Willow/

The ice layer on the snow was starting to melt off by mid afternoon and the ice on the water was getting pretty "rotten". By Sunday it will either be gone or else easy to break through and get rid of...should be anyway.

On the way back the Sauvie Is. roads were even WORSE! Geez, now the smooth glazed layer of ice was gone and in places there were tracks and/or RUTS...'bout ripped the wheel outta my hands a few times. Hopefully that should be better by Sunday also.

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Swamp Puppy · 01-10-2004, 08:58 PM

thanks for the update..hopefully things will sort themselves out by the time morning rolls around. looks like we might be in for some serious fog tomorrow. it's rolling in pretty thik right now.