Hunting the Columbia...

[CountryslickR]

Anyone been hunting the columbia in the Wenatchee/cresent bar area?  Just wonderin how many birds are being seen? Colder weather should be gettin some birds movin, but havent got over to check it out...Thanks!

[ducks55]

Yeah Ive seen about this many....





ZERO




No seriously though Im not seeing the big numbers up north around Pateros on the river or down around Wenatchee...


Sunday we saw maybe 50 Bluebill... 20 Mallards... 5 Widgeon and 10 Geese....


Not here yet but soon I hope.

[CountryslickR]

Dam...was hoping to get some shooting in this weekend.......we'll see how it goes...a day in the blind is better than a day at home...

[ducks55]

You might get into a few early in the morning with this weather but... Id look between Rock Island Dam and Vantage.. Thats the only place we saw the few. Nothing really in between Wenatchee and Rock Island and the farther north you go there are some but the numbers really aren't worth it.

Why don't you head out to the basin?

[CountryslickR]

Im going to hit it sat-mon maybe tues or wed depending on the flights.....i'll let ya know how I do.

[Elkrunner]

Not much..my father in law lives in Crescent bar.  We still have a few more weeks before it gets going.

[baldopepper]

I can't speak much to that area specifically, but I do know that when I drove past soap lake last Sunday there were about 5,000 Canadas on it.  Don't usaully see them bunched on there like that until much later, I suspect the fields  around Ephrata right now are red hot.  Sorry, if I'm giving away anyones secrets, but I don't hunt much in that area.  I drive thru there a lot though, and last year the birds were'nt bunched up on the lake like that until late December.

[CountryslickR]

Went out a week ago, and saw the usual first 30 minute local bird flight, had a couple guys that don't get out much, which was pretty fun....we got one limit of ducks, some geese, but im guessing after the weekend it will start to get better with this weather coming in...any weekday hunters seeing anything new with conditions in the last week or so?

[teal101]

Nothing around Crescent Bar.  Checked it out last Saturday on our way back from the basin.  No big rafts, the backwaters had about 30 ducks total.  Few geese using it later in the day.  North of Wenatchee has more birds, but they are spread out around Daroga, still nothing to write home about.  Time to go chukar hunting.

[Elkrunner]

I am going over Wednesday for 4 days.  I'll keep everyone posted.  I am hoping this cold snap will help move some birds in.

[ducks55]

Definitely a lot more birds around since the snow started falling.   

[Nimrod]

Darn cold froze our field all the birds our i'n the Columbia now it got to be red hot cause we were i'n um tell it froze now all that's left is crickets

[Elkrunner]

I went out on Friday with my brother in law.  We ended up getting 5 mallards and 6 canadian honkers.  I saw quite a few birds this weekend over that way.

[CountryslickR]

Startin to heat up...went out yesterday with 3 other guys and we all limited with ducks........

[Ellensburg]

its pretty loaded now

[thomasmx]

Are you hunting up river from Cresent Bar or just out to the other side of the river from Cresent Bar.