wickiup waterfowl

baltz526 · 11-21-2008, 05:49 PM

nice day for a walk today, so i spent the day at wickiup. lot of coots, a few widgeon, a few mallards, a few buffle heads, a few scaup, a few golden eye. 1 speck and a lot of western canadas. water level is perfect for boat hunting and big decoy spreads. little ice in the bays. it is at the balance point, good water but low duck numbers. but no pressure and the mallards where working the bays. and the canadas are IN. probaly this time till it closes the 30th is the best time to hit it before ice over

Tar Heel · 11-22-2008, 12:36 AM

Sounds like fun. What an awesome place to shoot a few birds--mt vistas and high mt habitat. Hard to beat that!

thefishslayer · 11-22-2008, 07:37 AM

some good fishing too

baltz526 · 11-22-2008, 07:42 AM

closed to fishing oct 31st, but i have in years past bank fished and shot birds at the same time. i'm going to sort decoys today and load the boat. hopefully i'll get out a couple times before the 30th

chukardave1 · 11-22-2008, 07:48 AM

Hit it twice about a week and half ago. Not very many birds at all, except coots, and some geese. Was stuck on shore. As you said water level is great for cover and decoys. WE need some birds to move into the area maybe this cooler weather will help. It definitely is a unique place to hunt.

thefishslayer · 11-22-2008, 07:53 AM

I was just sayin in general, good fishing

baltz526 · 11-22-2008, 08:54 AM

wickiup is a slow hunt at the best of times. an all day in one blind with lots of decoys type of hunt or hiking the flats for a few birds here and there. should have seen it durring the drought years. 4 duck limits in minutes, then several hours of sitting in pit blinds waiting for geese.

code1p36 · 12-01-2008, 06:59 PM

I was thinking about heading up to either Crane or Wickiup this weekend but noticed that you were saying it closes on the 30th. Are the roads to the lakes being closed, or what do you mean by that? What would anyone recommend with a medium to small sized boat with a couple dozen decoys?

Thanks.

baltz526 · 12-01-2008, 07:30 PM

season is closed dec 1st and dec 2nd for ducks

code1p36 · 12-02-2008, 07:59 AM

Ok, yeah I knew that duck season was closed then, thanks for the reply. Maybe I will head up there the later part of this week to do some scouting before the weekend.

Thanks.