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Other Hunting => Waterfowl => Topic started by: money794 on January 10, 2011, 11:06:48 AM

Title: skagit
Post by: money794 on January 10, 2011, 11:06:48 AM

how has the hunting been at skagit is it good ? or any rivers up north

Title: Re: skagit
Post by: jeepster on January 14, 2011, 12:18:14 AM

 :yeah: :yeah: :yeah: :yeah: :yeah: :yeah:

im gonna go tomorrow, but i would like to know how it was from everybody else...... gonna go saturaday too

however i hear there is a very very productive pond up on cultus mtn...

Title: Re: skagit
Post by: buman31 on January 14, 2011, 07:31:58 AM

I was up on Skagit bay by the Snow Goose fields.  LOTS of birds.  They are pretty skiddish now but if you set up right you could be successful.  I hunted for 5 hours and got one bird.  We had hundreds of birds about 100-200 yards out, just didn't have any luck bringing them in.

Title: Re: skagit
Post by: MP123 on January 14, 2011, 08:37:37 AM

Theres thousands of birds out on the bays.  Getting them into gun range is the problem.  They're very spooky this late in the season.  Do you have a boat?

Title: Re: skagit
Post by: money794 on January 14, 2011, 10:05:03 AM

ya i got a boat

Title: Re: skagit
Post by: h2ofowlr on January 14, 2011, 03:04:45 PM

They definately are not liking the Texas Rag decoys.  If you have shells or full bodies I would go that route or set up 100 yards to the left or right of the decoys.  Which ever side the birds skirt off to.  Lots of birds in the area.  I would put clumps of 24 decoys and cover the whole field, so you can shift to where you need to, to shoot the birds if hunting snows.  Or just go for the ducks.  Lots of them in the fields.  Been shooting limits.