First Wetside Woody of the year..

[Whitenuckles]

 Today we had 2 hours to get out hunting in the morning. We saw lots of geese heading south. And a little improvement on the local duck numbers. We landed up with 5 mallards, 6 teal, 1 pinny, and our first and probably last wetside woody of the year.

 Over all we had a good hunt, the birds worked great. If only geese were open right now, we would have had a hell of a day.

[ser300wsm]

Awesome color on that woody. Great for tying flies ..

[Whitenuckles]

Awesome color on that woody. Great for tying flies ..

He's heading to Birdman Studios. He beats all the other woodies I've got, hands down. He really is a primo bird.

[jordano]

gorgeous bird! nice work!

[270Shooter]

I love wood

[carpsniperg2]

very nice 

[pjb3]

Definitely a nice woody, a must for the wall!!!!

[haulinbass]

My buddy got a drake and a hen woody today. Beautiful birds

[ducksdoom12]

very nice!!! thats next on my hunting to do list after the band that I shot a couple weeks ago!

[Crispy]

Great bird, and a great picture of it. 

[Dustin07]

nice job bud. I got a woody 2 weeks ago on the west side too, didn't kill it, found someone elses kill. There are definitely more of them than there used to be.

[Elkrunner]

Great looking bird!

[ducks55]

So it took you two weeks to get your first woody? You know they make pills for that...

 

[seth30]

Awesome color on that woody. Great for tying flies ..

He's heading to Birdman Studios. He beats all the other woodies I've got, hands down. He really is a primo bird.

I tie flys regualry, and have always purchased my feathers, or taken them directly from chickens.  For ducks is there any way to clean the feathers or are they safe from the get go?

[boneaddict]

Safe from the get go as far as I know. 

[seth30]

Thanks, now I have something else to look forward to for the hunt!

[ducksdoom12]

skin them out, remove as much of the fat as you can and all of the meat, then give it a good wash with some dawn soap to make sure the feathers are clean and the grease is gone, then blowdry and salt.

[seth30]

thanks for the help on that!  Cant wait to give it a shot   Almost got a coot today, i bet they got some nice feathers as well.

[WCTaxidermy]

Nice looking woodrow whitenuckles.  It sounds like you had a great hunt.  John