Hunting Washington Forum
Other Hunting => Waterfowl => Topic started by: addicted on December 01, 2007, 04:42:17 PM
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limted on scoters then finished up with golden eye and bufflehead. ill start putting together a review on the guide service and post it later asap
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so i finally broke down and went on a guided hunt......it was awesome. :IBCOOL: I had been researching it for about a month and when i finally got my seaduck card in the mail i decided to go for it. This was all sparked by seeing an add on craigs list for a guided seaduck hunt based out of marysville.
-- Guide Review--
Getty's Northwest Guiding Service offered several species of seaduck. Scoter(black, white wing, surf) old squaw, bufflehead, goldeneye, and the prized harliquen. Ben Getty owner of the buisiness and the man in the boat pictured above is a US coast guard certified captian and offered the sea confidence of a duck water boat witch if you have seen them is a very spacious very sturdy waterfowling boat. www.duckwaterboats.com Ben Getty is a not only a knowlegable captain but is also a very down to earth washington hunter who has a love of the outdoors that rivals many of us. He was very helpful in providing information via email sometimes several emails a day.
Your guide can be the nicest guy in world but it doesnt matter if he doesnt deliver, and ben getty delivered. Despite my poor shooting Ben put me on enough birds to limit by about 1 in the afternoon.
All in all it was a great day out on the water. Saw more birds than i could count 2 seals and only one other hunting boat. Not to mention the guide service provides lunch and hot drinks all day. In 30 degree windy weather a hot drink goes a long ways.
www.gettysnorthwestguiding.com
thanks-josh
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Gamehog! :chuckle:
Wow, great job! Sounds like a great time. Nice write up.
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it definately was. thanks ice
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Who shot the bow of the boat?
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hahaha it does kinda look like that but its from tying up to a steel beam i beleive.
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Josh
Thank you for the nice words. That always means a lot to us. It was great to meet you and I am glad we got you your birds.
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Managed to sneak one more seaduck hunt in with ben getty today. had a couple of buddies with me today. shot 5 limits plus ben got a couple birds. smdave was there with his camera so we took more pictures this time.
there are bits and peices of it over here
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,3676.0.html
so once a again a great hunt, lots of birds, tons of fun.
this is my last free day before the airforce and i was very happy to spend it on this hunt. Good friends and good shooting, nothing better.
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guys it was a blast. It was good to meet you guys and finally be able to put a face with a name. Good luck in the rest of your season and be safe out there.