what the rules on hunting the skagit dikes

[upwind]

What is the rule on hunting the dike for white goose hunting. was hunting their today and people were shooting off the dikes.the popo drove by many times but didn't do anything??

[seth30]

did you get anything today?  SOrry to hear that the police were watching you.

[sivart33]

i dont think he was shooting i think he is wondering if you can shoot off of it. or hunt off it*

[upwind]

Yeah got two should of got a couple more need to get used of a pump its hard after 20 years with a auto ma tic.Seth pm you.

[h2ofowlr]

PM Sent.

[PatoLoco]

did you get anything today?  SOrry to hear that the police were watching you.

No, thank god the police were watchin you! More enforcement is going to be key to cleaning up the mess on fir island. If you aren't an idiot then you got nothin to worry about, right?

[upwind]

I wasn't on the dike i was field hunting I just seen guys on the dike and was not sure if it was legal and yeah I'm glad they are doing a better job this year.

[Dustin07]

I wasn't on the dike i was field hunting I just seen guys on the dike and was not sure if it was legal and yeah I'm glad they are doing a better job this year.

last year it was nuts. kinda funny, but also really annoying. I'd set up a good spread (IMO) and it was pointless in the long run. a few hours after i'm setup and ready, dike hunters show up with the 5 gallon buckets, shotguns, dog, and pack of cigars.

one the one hand, I can't think of a better way to spend my retirement than sitting on the dike with my dog smoking cigars and blasting at geese.

on the other hand, any birds that were decoying in on me were promptly flared by pass shooters.

[h2ofowlr]

The quality hunt thing has only been going a few years.  That was how most of the guys hunted the snows in the past.  On the dikes.  You would see a few decoys in the fields, but not many.  Now everyone has spreads everywhere.  Early season, they will decoy, later in the season it is 80% pass shooting over the decoys and maybe 20% decoying.  Pass shoot over decoys or pass shoot over the dike.

[Dustin07]

just have to add 100 decoys a week to your spread Oct 16th through end of Jan. to stay impressive. not to bad right? 

it is unfortunately though. there is a limited amount of fields to work, so of course people are going to flood the dikes. But there is nothing cooler in my opinion, then a tornado of snows working your decoys. It just doesn't happen much in skagit because the pass shooting.

[upwind]

I like hunting the dikes every once in a while its allot easy er than 2 or 3 trips pack en goose decoys but i hate when people do stupid stuff shoot real high cripple allot of birds last year their was a bunch of guys that would cheer when they would sail a goose they wouldn't Evan at temp to go get.comfronted them all they said is the eagles have to eat than they left.

[GEARHEAD]

I'm happy to feed the eagles. lol, jk, seems they now depend on cripples over there. the comment might have come from the wdfw's own site. on there site, look up snow goose. you will see that they encourage you not to attempt to recover cripples if they are on the wrong side of a dike, fence or crop line. this includes dogs. they advise that the eagles will take care of all cripples. besides, aren't these geese Comies.  they are contributing to global warming in their habitat up north, so i tell the bird watchers, i'm simply doing my part, and consider it a green hunt.

[boots]

I saw 4 eagles in a single tree on Fir Island last year, with another one 100 yards away chomping on a cripple

[Dustin07]

I'm happy to feed the eagles. lol, jk, seems they now depend on cripples over there. the comment might have come from the wdfw's own site. on there site, look up snow goose. you will see that they encourage you not to attempt to recover cripples if they are on the wrong side of a dike, fence or crop line. this includes dogs. they advise that the eagles will take care of all cripples. besides, aren't these geese Comies.  they are contributing to global warming in their habitat up north, so i tell the bird watchers, i'm simply doing my part, and consider it a green hunt.

If hunters aren't able to ethically harvest their birds than the environmentalist will get involved and hunts will shut down like the skagit elk hunt last year. They will euthanize birds if hunters are unable to do the population control. At the end of the day it is a priviledge for us to be able to hunt them and do our part, they are willing to do it without us and it's important for hunters to remember that because once we take it for granted they will take it away.

[SnowDog]

If hunters aren't able to ethically harvest their birds than the environmentalist will get involved and hunts will shut down like the skagit elk hunt last year. They will euthanize birds if hunters are unable to do the population control. At the end of the day it is a priviledge for us to be able to hunt them and do our part, they are willing to do it without us and it's important for hunters to remember that because once we take it for granted they will take it away.

 

[h2ofowlr]

Last year I had a snow goose start to sail across the field we were hunting.  An eagle swooped down and drilled it.  I ran over to it and the eagle already had one breast about half eaten in about 2 minutes.

[GEARHEAD]

i'm with you dustin, absolutely. jk gone wrong.

[cowboytodd]

I'm happy to feed the eagles. lol, jk, seems they now depend on cripples over there. the comment might have come from the wdfw's own site. on there site, look up snow goose. you will see that they encourage you not to attempt to recover cripples if they are on the wrong side of a dike, fence or crop line. this includes dogs. they advise that the eagles will take care of all cripples. besides, aren't these geese Comies.  they are contributing to global warming in their habitat up north, so i tell the bird watchers, i'm simply doing my part, and consider it a green hunt.

If hunters aren't able to ethically harvest their birds than the environmentalist will get involved and hunts will shut down like the skagit elk hunt last year. They will euthanize birds if hunters are unable to do the population control. At the end of the day it is a priviledge for us to be able to hunt them and do our part, they are willing to do it without us and it's important for hunters to remember that because once we take it for granted they will take it away.

A few anti's that live on fir Island have offered to pay WDFW to distroy nests on Wrangle Island

[GEARHEAD]

It is an interesting mix of opposites out there. just my opinion, but i believe the flooding is simply to appeeze (spell?) the bird watchers. hunters and birders passing eachother. one thing i have observed hunters seem to be more polite, while the birders are normally not, and even attempt to interfere with hunting. watched a guy go from blind to blind once a while back, and just hangingout by them in his lime green coat. it is also an interesting mix of hunters near the dykes, from tweaker dirtbags, to the guys following the rules. i make it a point to say hallo to the birders when passing and not fire when they are near. i think my gift of sunshine just rains on their paraade.

[cowboytodd]

There are some bird activist from down south that show up when there are a lot of hunters, called by some on the island.
I've seen them in action.

[Fishnclifff]

what the rules on hunting the skagit dikes ?

Take a hot chick and some red wine    you might lure some in.
Hard to look at tho. I think it is illegal to shoot them for sport.
 

Sorry