This weekends results

[parrydog]

A coworker of mine who gave up duck hunting several years ago began divulging some of his secret hot spots around Newport.  Sat and Sun I spent the majority of the day at one of these said hotspots.  There wasn't exactly waves of ducks swarming me but I should have had a limit fairly early in the day if my shooting hadn't deteriorated after the 4th bird each day, after that I couldn't hit squat for some reason.  I didn't bring much for snacks so I am going to blame it on low blood sugar!  Both days after I got done hunting I drove along the Pend Oreille river and there was not much for ducks and geese to be seen from the highway.  Even in some of the backwater sloughs where there usually birds hiding there was nothing.  Hopefully we can get some cold weather and freeze the small lakes and wetlands and congregate some of the birds in huntable areas.  Anyone else bird hunting up here been doing any good?

[bullseeker]

I was up around Usk on Sunday and we shot 12 birds with 3 pintails. The Pintails were inmature, with one starting to get some good color. We also got 3 mallards, 3 widgon and 3 Gadwall. It was a slow docoy morning and ok jump shooting. But I agree and hope it starts to freeze up North to push more birds in.

[Professor Chaos]

I dont care if it freezes but i sure hope some snow covers all their food.  Thats what really gets them out of canada.

[ducksdoom12]

I dont care if it freezes but i sure hope some snow covers all their food.  Thats what really gets them out of canada.

snow needs freezing weather to fall

[Professor Chaos]

not quite true  But it is true that freezing weather does not also mean snow 

[ducksdoom12]

i call freezing anything 32-34 or below and the warmest i have ever seen it snow at was 34

[ducks55]

It has snowed at 37 here before. Big huge wet flakes