EE Wilson

birdhunter · 10-01-2002, 09:55 AM

Opened up today and just wanted to see if anyone else is hunting it for phesant. I'll be out there most Tuesday and Thursday afternoons for the next month is someone wants to tag along sometime. Good luck.

Uglygreen · 10-01-2002, 10:07 AM

Today as well? I was going to go this AM, but was busy. What time? What do you drive? Does your dog get along w/others?

UG?

Flathead · 10-01-2002, 05:55 PM

Birdhunter, do you have to have a dog at EE Wilson? My new lab won't be ready until late in the year. My old yellow lab didn't make it through the summer.

DC · 10-01-2002, 06:59 PM

My hunting partner and I made our annual first day hunt at the Wilson this morning. The chart at checkstand indicated they released 80 rosters for today's hunt. We got two and saw three others that we were not able to put up or flew from where we could not get a shot. There were very few hunters around. Not like most opening days. Guess everyone is on the eastside hunting deer. Tomorrow's release is supposed to be 50 birds and after that they get into a set pattern with fewer birds during the week days and more on Sat. and Sun.
The question regarding whether a hunter had to have a dog or not can be answered yes and no. Yes it is always better with a good dog. And no you can find birds right along the side of the roads running through the refuge. Pen raised birds usually run to an edge and stop. The most common edge in the refuge is the roads and often about 10 am or so some of the birds come out on to the blacktop. A hunter walking the roads has a pretty fair chance of getting a shot. If you see gtwo guys with a shorthair, black lab and a brittany, thats us. Good luck.

BassMan · 10-01-2002, 10:06 PM

BirdHunter... If you are going to be at the wilson around Oct 17. I would love to join you!!!!

willametteriveroutlaw · 10-01-2002, 11:32 PM

Birdhunter,
I have a chessie that I will be working out there quite a bit. Email me if you want to hook up sometime. I am also an afternoon hunter.

birdhunter · 10-02-2002, 07:31 AM

Hey all,

No I don't have my own dog in Corvallis and so ususally I hunt without one around here. Depends on who is going with me. I didn't get out yesterday but I'll be there on Thursday after 11 and probably again on the next couple of tuesday/thursday afternoons. I'll be gone from the 19th to the 25th for elk season and prefer to stay away on the weekends but otherwise I try to get out there as often as possible. A dog isn't necessary at EE Wilson but you do usually fare better. If you're willing to walk some and crash through the cover you can kick up some birds. Like DC said, by late morning I find a lot of them out on the blacktop. Whether it is to gravel or warm themselves or what, I have no idea, but these birds don't stray too much from the old roads. Anyone that wants to do a pair up sometime let me know. I drive a green toyota tacoma with an ifish sticker on the canopy. See you out there.

birdhunter · 10-02-2002, 07:37 AM

WRO,

Clear out your e-mail dude, or at least mail me a #. We'll plan out a trip some time.

jet · 10-02-2002, 07:49 AM

Last year my dog got really sick there. My vet told me it might be a light case of arsenic poisoning, she did not die but was real close. I was thinking it might have come from the big pond in the back. Remember this used to be a Military base when there was no DEQ� it was war and anything was ok to help the war effort.

Remember they just created all those ponds and might have dug something nasty up, enough about that I still-hunt there but I am more careful.

Afternoons for me, tomorrow around 2:00 Toyota Tacoma double cab silver, Black dog, not sure which side yet. I might need somebody to hunt the right or left side.

Jet~~~

willametteriveroutlaw · 10-02-2002, 10:53 AM

BH,
Email me @ rsexton@willamette.edu or my hotmail account which is now empty.

MikeT · 10-02-2002, 12:23 PM

Jet,
Last year there were signs posted around EE Wilson warning hunters that a number of dogs had been poisoned in the area.
Don't know if they ever figured out the cause but there was speculation that someone was baiting the place with poisoned food.

Mike

skein · 10-02-2002, 12:48 PM

Jet and MikeT,

I've been hearing the "poisoned dog" stories about EEW for a few years now, but, Jet, you're the first person I know who actually had a dog get sick out there. I have a friend who runs beagles out there for the rabbit hunts for the guys in wheelchairs, and he said they've never had one of their dogs get sick or poisoned.

Having said that, I'll tell you frankly it scares the hell out of me - to the extent that I won't take my dog out there. If that's the agenda of the anti-hunters who might be spreading the poison, then it works - at least for me. If I ever catch someone doing it, I will personally see to it that they eat it! I'm not very militant, but if you mess with my dog.....

Skein

jet · 10-02-2002, 01:01 PM

I really don't know but one of the dogs was mine. I refuse to burry my head and stop hunting there as that is was some wacko wants. I would like to assume it was my Vets original guess, that used to be a training base.

Jet~~~

skein · 10-02-2002, 02:40 PM

Jet,

Nope, I don't let the wacko's win either. I still hunt out there - I just don't take my dog.

I sincerely hope your vet is right, and I'm sincerely glad your dog made it.

Skein

DC · 10-02-2002, 07:13 PM

I have run dogs on the Wilson since 1965 and never have had a problem that was associated with poisoning. About 10 years ago the federal government came back and dug test holes at all the old motor pool sites and other areas where gas and oil was stored. When there was contamination they dug out the soil and hauled it away---to Arlington I think. My dogs drink from any available water when it is dry and hot. It would be pretty hard to stop them. Sometimes the water isn't pretty, but nothing much seems to bother them. The possibility of some kook putting poision bait out is a possiblily. I have not heard of anjy problems this year.