04-07-2005, 02:00 PM
Good call here.... I got that experience last fall hunting the dike out there... The first day my buddy that took me sat me down and said, don't shoot, just watch and that was the most comical two hours of my fall/winter last year.... it got really annoying after multiple trips out there so I started hauling dekes and walking way out in the units to set up so I could get away from "skybusters". If you walk a ways most of the people are too lazy to follow and you'll have birds all to yourself. This being said, during the mornings and evenings on nasty days and weekdays, you can have some productive hunts on the dike. One thing to remember, as the season progresses, the birds wise up and the flight path changes almost daily..... The smart ones don't forget which bushes spat steel at them the day before. Leaky can probably chime in on this because I met up with him at FB last year and he also hunts the Ogden WMA and some of the others. He's a good ethical hunter and one thing he will probably tell you is get a dog. You'd just about die at some of the stories he's told me about hunters that shoot ducks with no way (Dog, Waders, Boat) to retrieve them.... Good luck to you and let me know if you want somebody to go with and I'll take you out and let you and a buddy hunt over my spread.... No, I'm not a guide or anything like that, but its always nice to be able to contribute to a new waterfowler doing things right..... It sure was nice to have somebody else show me the ropes the first time out....
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