Ducks were in! Is what I heard last night so we shut down our crabbing / sturgeon trip to Tillamook in lue of a duck hunt on private property in the Tualatin river watershed. We set out the decoys at 0-dark thirty and my dog Woody was giving me the look. You know the you had better shoot me some birds today look
And boy did they show up! About 10 min before shooting time we had 3 or 4 flocks circling our spred I just knew it would be a great day. But when you can't hit the broad side of a barn you tend to give the ducks the upper hand. Several people have told me to stick with fishing but I owe it to my dog to get him out at least once or twice a year. A box of shells later we had 3 fat drakes in the bag and should have had many more. Woody sure had some fun chasing down those ducks
I have to say that I had a great time today and it was nice to get the dog out and do some duck hunting for a change. Passed on lots of pintails but had plenty of chances on teal,widgeon and mallards. Looks like I will be eating duck tonight!
[ 01-22-2003, 05:25 PM: Message edited by: fishhog1 ]
duck hunting 1-22-03
No opening shooting hour shots descernable anywhere. First ducks were Pintails at 8:30 then another group at 9:30. That's it. Now that goose is closed we had about every goose we could see in any direction land in the Fescue fields. :shocked: For miles they came. There were a few thousand by the time we left. Even the new cook at The Decoy in Linnton could not get things right!
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