Hello,
I am a brand new member and dipping my toe in. I've been snooping for a few months and decided to get in on the chat. I'm familiar with the tradition of starting up with a story.
Since as my name implies, I'm a multi-sport outdoorsman, I'll post a fishing story on the fishing page later.
Most recent adventure: Goose Huntin' Last Saturday. I spend most of my time in Marion and Yamhill counties. Saturday was Yamhill.
Been hunting the "Permit Zone" for the past 6 years. Use 40 (custom painted) Big Foots, 12 G&H Mirage Shells (that move w/ fishing string) and just ordered 3 dz G&H small shells for volume.
Took a buddy out last Saturday, hunted a baby grass field with a very large surface water slick and a small ditch with no cover in the middle. Windy, raining...perfect! :grin:
Geese were trying to land on us while we set up. Had to lay in the ditch with running water up to our wastes and lay on the mud banks in our neoprene coats.
Wouldn't have been bad, but I forgot about the small hole in my wader, (just above my ankle) that I picked up in October bankin' it for fall runs. SO, everytime I scooted down, one arm around my dog, other on my call, the water would run all the way up to the small of my back! You really got to be an idiot to hunt geese around here! (I qualify!) [img]graemlins/stupid.gif[/img]
It all ended up well with 6 tav's and 2 cack's. by 11:00. My novice buddy managed to blow alot of holes in the air from 9:30 till 11:00 (making the water in my waders all the colder)but thankfully he got his last bird (his first limit ever!) [img]graemlins/applause.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/applause.gif[/img]
There were some VERY large tav's. Almost made nervous to check them, one hade a 41mm and one 43mm culmen. The color grid, leg length,bill shape, wing shape etc..etc..confirms they were tav's. The checker had to call them Lessers (due to culmen legth), but they were tav's, no doubt, the biggest had a 1" wide white ring around it's neck. It amazes me how much color variation there is in the Tavener subspecies.
If you see me out and about in a white Ford pick up, green Honda quad in the back, little red trailer full of decoys, say hello (after I'm out of the field)
I'll be giving them the business unless the huntin' gets as bad as it was last year and I'm forced to start winter steelhead fishing.
Good Hunting!
[ 12-17-2002, 01:28 PM: Message edited by: Gun Rod Bow ]
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