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Since I've never duck hunted.
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This should be fixed pronto!
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I will ask what may seem like basic questions.
1) Why are mallards so sought after. They seem like a common duck which you can find year round in the PDX area. So I don't see whats special about them.
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As with anything, it depends on who you ask. Mallards are the biggest birds out there, at least for the common puddle ducks that are shot in the North West. They are also the most common. However, in looking at the pictures in this post, you can see that "common" doesn't always mean "dumb". They seem, to me at least, to wise up the fastest and become the hardest to pull in. They sure have their own way of doing things. Now, don't get the idea that green heads are just like the ducks you feed down at the park. They aren't. And a lot of people think this.
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2) What is the hunting situation at SI like. I hear people post about blinds and numbers. Is this some type of daily draw situation. As far as the blinds, do they sit on the water/land. Do you need a boat?
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There are two different management units on Sauvie Island. There is the East side, and the West side (actually, I guess there are three, there is the North Side too). The West side is a "Morning of" draw situation. You drive out in the morning, get in line, and wait for them to pass out chips with numbers on it. Number one gets to choose first, then number 2 and so on. Everyone has the same chance of getting a good draw that day, and there are no reservations.
The East side is a little different. You can apply for reservations through the *** clerks around Oregon. You just tell them what day, and what unit you want to hunt in.
Both the East and West sides have different units. There tend to be three different typs of units. Blind units, roam units, and stake units. The blind units are what you would normally think of as blinds... you walk to them, you sit in them, and you shoot from them. Roam units allow you to do just that, roam. There are no fixed shooting areas, and if you can get to it, you can hunt it. There are plenty of walk in roam units, as well as a few boat in units if you choose to bring a boat. The stake units are like the blind units, but without any blinds. You are required to hunt "near" a stake that you draw. So, if you draw stake #1, you will have to hunt near that.
The way the East side is run tries to merge both reservations and non reservations. The reservation holders will get in a line and start moving an hour and a half before shoot time. It's first come, first served, as in if there are two people with reservations in same unit, the first one in line gets the first choice. Once the reservation people have gone through, the non-reservation line starts through (roughly an hour before shoot time). They get to choose from what's left.
Hope this helped some... please feel to correct where wrong.
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