Ridgefield

[goober]

It would be my guess that it was a hen Cin teal. They look very similar to the hen Bluewing. If it was actually a Bluewing, it is very rare cause they don't like any cold weather and head out well before it (like early Oct), whereas Cinnamon teal don't mind it.

[xd2005]

Anyone heading out tomorrow? My buddy has #9 pick (I think) tomorrow so I'll be out there again. Hopefully better luck this time.

[Fishnclifff]

I will be there tomorrow.

[Fishnclifff]

So how did everyone do in the monsoon on Sat?

I had the #7 pick, which with the low turnout, turned into the #4 draw.
My son and I hunted #12 blind.
We managed 3 birds each.

[Tealer]

I will probably be in the handicap tomorrow.

[Fishnclifff]

I hunted up north with my son. Total hurricane hunting. Cold as hell.
I will prob. hunt thursday. Gotta clean my gear of all the salt mud. My choke tube showed rust 2 hrs after we got in the blind.

[Crispy]

I'll be out there Thursday morning on standby. Not sure with the holiday if I'll have a decent shot or not, but I've had decent luck thus far.

I got #15 pick on the 18th. Anyone else get any decent draws?

[Tealer]

We got bumped for a handicap blind. There was a ton of people out there for sure. More them I have seen all year, heard the shooting was not great. I would expect it to be packed Thursday.

[Fishnclifff]

Didn't get any draws for Jan.

I'll be on stby the rest of the season.
Hope we start gettin some more birds.

talk up north is, birds are holdin up near the border.

[Crispy]

Was out there hoping to get in on standby on Saturday morning and got to be part of the lucky crew that went to breakfast with the guns in the car 

Birds or no, I'll still give the 18th a shot just for fun. If you see me in a red '00 Tundra feel free and say hi.

[Fishnclifff]

I'll be there in tuesday morn. Got no job, and my chores are done.
Bring on the green heads.

[Fishnclifff]

Well i guess my string is broke. Got drawn everyday until today.
The odds weren't good.
24 groups for 4 blinds.
I did get drawn #1 for the 10 o'clock list 

Ahhh well  Thursday will be better.

[Fishnclifff]

Whoo hoo  got drawn again. Blind 3.
Got my usual 3 ducks from blind 3.  2 widgeon and a spoonie.
 A lot of fat on them widgeon.

[WDFW Hates ME!!!]

Good to see ya today Cliff... Maybe we should become duck hunting partners...

We got blind 10 and we were shooting all day. Alot of pass shooting right over the dekes. To much sky busting around us for my liking. The guys in 9, 13 and 13a were sky blasting like crazy.

I shot a drake spoonie with my first shot of the day and that was the only bird i hit. I missed a drake pinner 20 feet infron of the blind i could see his eyes when he realized he was about to go down,i pulled the trigger as he was cupped and reeling and have no clue how i missed 3 times.

My buddy got a spoonie hen and that was it for him also. We had the chances. We left at 2:30 and i had shot 20 shells and he had shot 15. With 2 birds to show for it...

You would have laughed at me, i went after his hen spoonie and she was swimming away from me, i caught her and rung her neck. As i was walking back to the blind 2 more spoonies were committed to the dekes and i set her down and shot 2 times and missed of course,i look down and she is swimming underwater away from me. I was trying to grab her but she was fast. I did get her when she came up but man it was pretty funny.


It was my first time expierencing ridgefiled and although i had a good time i didn't enjy the amount of sky busting that was going on. Really hard to get birds to work when that is happening.

[Crispy]

It was my first time expierencing ridgefiled and although i had a good time i didn't enjy the amount of sky busting that was going on. Really hard to get birds to work when that is happening.

I often wonder how much of the shooting I hear is done at in-range birds. The last time I was hunting out there we had several birds committed and on their way in and someone on our end of the hunt area would shoot. There were enough birds that day that I could believe it being legit, but you still have to wonder 

Sucks about the shooting, but it sounds like you at least had a convincing spread and were concealed well enough