Sauvie Island

Steelin Steel · 01-23-2004, 09:17 PM

Whos going out to Sauvies Saturday morning, west side? I am just wondering so that I have a kinda guess on how much good luck I need on drawing a good chip...the last couple of hunts its been horrible!

Swamp Puppy · 01-24-2004, 08:08 AM

there were quite a few people there on friday lance. my guess is that there were probably a lot of people there with you today.

hope you had a good shoot.

-Ed

Steelin Steel · 01-24-2004, 06:06 PM

Well we pulled 26 or 27( I forgot) but we got around the 20th pick. We wanted to try Mud Lake 12 since they have been shooting some birds. We stayed out there until 10am. Never took a shot, and from the sounds everywhere else, no one else took a shot, but a couple of people. Lets put it this way, it sucked. But it was fun for just being out there. Heres my report.Lancethefisher :smile:

Killertraylor · 01-24-2004, 06:16 PM

Yes, there were plenty of people out today, Ed! I really doubt the guys in MUD 11 were ifishers, but if they do lurk here, I wanted to tell them that they are the most obnoxious duck hunters I've ever had the displeasure of hunting next to. They called non-stop high-ball from 10 minutes before shooting time until we left at noon. You know the sound, WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAK, WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAK, WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAK, WAAAAAK, WAAAK WAAK WAK... Guys, here's a tip - go listen to a pond of ducks sometime before the season starts - it doesn't sound anything like you - it's not a contest to see who can blow the loudest call! What's even worse is they must have been spread out 100 yards and kept yelling back and forth to each other. What a zoo. Several times ducks were circling the lake and they were yelling "I'm going to shoot 10 boxes of shells today," and my favorite "You just need to keep talking to them..."

And the very worst part is they somehow hit a mallard at 150-175 yards (no exaggeration) early on, so of course they kept shooting at them (and missing) at that distance all morning, screwing up the hunting for Mud 8, 9, and 10. The few mallards that actually got past them actually decoyed quite nice and came in within 25 yards.

I talked to Kasey (the odfw girl) when I checked out and she was out in Mud 9 for awhile and agreed she hadn't seen anyone as obnoxious as those guys in Mud 11. It's a shame a couple of misfits have to ruin it for everyone. Too bad they can't police that.

Despite the harassment, I actually had a great time with ifisher Wak and his friend Ben. We ended up with 7 birds before noon, 5 teal and 2 mallards. We got in line at 5:15 and we were at least 20 cars back on the blacktop! Lots of people, but I drew my best # of the year, #7!

Thank God this is the last weekend, I'm not sure if I could put myself through another weekend of that type of torture. Feels great to write it down here and get it off my chest though! Good luck to those of you who make it out tomorrow for the last day!

billc_sbio · 01-25-2004, 06:59 PM

My friend, Kevin, and I went out on Friday...drew #72 and still managed to snag Seal #2!

The shoot day before that blind had shot 4 ducks. We had fog and there was lots of shooting across the Gilbert on Malarky, and it seems that there's a Malarky/Seal tie-in with one or the other doing well when birds are working that area. It was pretty foggy and we'd have an errant Mallard drop in on us once in awhile...sometimes come in close enough for a decent shot. We ended up with 9 ducks.

Went back on Sat. morning in a party of 4 and our best draw was #54. With LOTS more hunters in line, there were many more numbers taken and we snagged Seal #4 this time. Wow, what a difference a day and a change in the weather can make...we had NO ducks coming into Seal this day and NO shooting going on over in Malarky (and I know there were hunters over there!). By 10 we hadn't fired a shot and decided to pack up just before the skies decided to open up and pour down rain!

About those idiot types over shooting ML#12, I talked with Jerry Ronne at the eastside check station about flagrant, repeated skybusting and what could be done about it. I mentioned that I'd hunted on NWRs before where they had observers and when they saw hunters skybusting they'd go give them ONE verbal warning, and if that didn't work they'd go eject them out of their hunting location for the day. Jerry said, "We'll do that too! We just have to know where the offenders are and we'll take care of it." So, there ya go...in this day of many people having cell phones, get their cell number (if they have it) or, on a weekday call the Sauvie Is. WMA Hq. and report what's going on and where and ask them to radio the appropriate check station. I'm not sure how well this will work, but it might be worth a try?!!

I'd imagine it would only take some hunting party being ejected once or twice and they'd catch on...ya think?

steelhead22 · 01-25-2004, 07:27 PM

Hunted the Eastside Mon, Wed, and Fri. We got 15 the first day, 8 the next and 12 the last day. All were shot at Rentennaur. Hunted Seal 1 on Sat. and managed only 4 teal. Picked up the same time as billc_sbio. How 'bout that great display of shooting on the widgeon at 30 yards? 4 guns blazin' and I don't think we even ruffled a feather :blush: :blush: . Not the best way to end the season but I can't complain. This was a good season for us despite "interesting" conditions throughout. See ya'll next year.

live to fish · 01-26-2004, 04:33 PM

I went back Saturday and ended up with chip 56 and got Seal#5 and by around 9:30 never fired a shot.So we packed it up.Besides that the two boys i had with me were getting a little ancy.

Wak · 01-26-2004, 06:51 PM

Isn't there some sort of rule about how close to the marker stakes you have to be. Seems to me I always heard 100 ft.

Killertraylor is not exaggerating about the bozos in Mud 11. Some of them may have been within 100 yds, but not 100 ft. Kasey had to of seen that.

Oh well, still managed 7 birds. That is better than most of the days I spent out there this year.

On Wednesday we pulled 16 birds out of Mud 11 and Friday Cast and Blast, his Dad, a buddy and I were limited out by 10 am on Mud 10.

Time to give the dog a rest and find some more private land to hunt on.

Steelin Steel · 01-26-2004, 11:33 PM

It ia 20 yards from the white stake.

billc_sbio · 01-27-2004, 12:37 AM

I'd say it's "usually" something like 20 yd.s

But I've been there when when there wasn't any dry ground within 20 yards of the stakes.

And I've been there when, if you didn't know WHERE the stakes were you'd have no idea where you were! Even then, sometimes, with things so under water, that the units looked entirely DIFFERENT and nothing like they normally do!

Of course that's the exception rather than the rule...

Just for grins, take a look at this pic

http://community.webshots.com/photo/...1023tnCaXurkxC

in this pic we're hunting out of my little Sportcanoe, that's tied up in the TOPS of those trees you're normally standing UNDER! :grin: