Devil Creek

Went out ice fishing with Annie, Todd, and Jaron on Monday morning.  The fishing was good and the weather was nice.  It was the best ice fishing experience my wife has ever had.

Hay, Some Ducks

Mike Ballard called me and invited me to come set up on some geese with him, his boy Jake, and Jeff Hill.  We did see a few geese but they didn't work like we wanted.  We did, however, get a few quackers. It was the first time I have ever killed ducks in an alfalfa field. I had to call like crazy, and Jeff flagged like mad, but we were able to bring em in. 

Slow

Spent a cold, slow day at Ogden Bay today.  I went out at 10ish and didn't come back till 4.  Part way through the day my uncle Steve and Chad from the DNR met me out there.  There just wasn't much moving though.  We ended up with 5.  Its getting tough.

Ice

Todd and I went out to Ogden Bay today to try and find some water to hunt ducks.  I had a pretty good idea where a flow was and thought we could set up there.  We got out that way and found some ducks, a few hundred actually.  They were just chillin on the ice though.  They kept flying 50 yards or so and going down again on the ice. There wasn't any water around.  We set up and got them out of there.  It took us about 3 hours but they eventually trickled back in.  12 mallards, 1 pintail, and 1 gadwall.  Pretty fun hunt on the ice.

12/01/11

Todd and I decided to brave the wind today.  We started by setting up on 12 geese in a corn field in West Weber.  We laid under burlap for two hours and nothing.  On the way home we checked the roost; I guess the wind was enough to keep them on the water for most of the day.  After that we headed out to Crane for a little duck action.  Mitch ended up not working today so he joined us.  It was just a little too windy though.  We had decoys upside down and blowing away, mojo's that wouldn't spin, and just plain cold everything.  We had our pintail limits in about 10 minutes, and  that was 90% of what we saw today.  The bull sprigs were the best we've seen this year though. Also, we hunted both dogs on islands with no cover; Jick used the blind and I wrapped Chase in burlap.  It was kind of old school but it seemed to work.  They are two good dogs to hold still enough to decoy birds in wide open territory.  It was a slow, fun, windy day. 

What a stud!