Late season

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dpittmanAF

Discussion Starter · Dec 3, 2015

Attention to all the avid duck hunters in N. Utah. I haven't hunted the waterfowl here yet due to surgery this fall, but wondering if it's even worth getting out as its getting later in the season. I'm from AR so I'm not too familiar with the patterns or movement up here and this far west.

Also, I don't have a dog and haven't been able to get my boat up here yet so are there any good spots to jump shoot or setup a blind and still be able to retrieve my ducks? (Aka smaller bodies of water to hunt)

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hotspot

· #2 · Dec 3, 2015

Not worth it. Stay home! Next question.

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Fowlmouth

· #3 · Dec 3, 2015 (Edited)

Yes! There is a lot of ice now, but still places holding birds.
Yesterdays solo hunt....I lost a greenhead and a teal in the phrag.

As I am looking at the drake mallard on the far right, he sure has a lot of hen markings on his feathers.

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cootlover

· #4 · Dec 3, 2015

Fowl its good to no there is still open water.

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Jrdnmoore3

· #5 · Dec 3, 2015

There is going to be water opening back up after the next week highs in the 50s lows in the mid 30s

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Fowlmouth

· #6 · Dec 3, 2015

Jrdnmoore3 said:
There is going to be water opening back up after the next week highs in the 50s lows in the mid 30s

This is a bad thing, just like last years freeze. A lot of the birds are gone and that will give the remaining birds more options and scatter them from hell to breakfast. Hope for more migrating birds out of the North or it will be slow.

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Pumpgunner

· #7 · Dec 3, 2015

Fowlmouth said:
Yes! There is a lot of ice now, but still places holding birds.
Yesterdays solo hunt....I lost a greenhead and a teal in the phrag.
As I am looking at the drake mallard on the far right, he sure has a lot of hen markings on his feathers.

Nice job Fowl! I'd say that's either a really young drake getting his first breeding feathers out of eclipse or a really old hen....apparently when hens get old and stop laying eggs they will start producing testosterone and start to get drake markings. A buddy of mine shot one a few years ago that had a full hen body with a green drake head-it was a little freaky! They will still keep their orange bill or it will turn orange-yellow.

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twopoles

· #8 · Dec 3, 2015

Ogden Bay has been spotty. We were there a week ago and it was pretty slow. we did manage to get two birds. Good luck and be careful. we were in unit one in a boat.

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JuniorPre 360

· #9 · Dec 3, 2015

twopoles said:
Ogden Bay has been spotty. We were there a week ago and it was pretty slow. we did manage to get two birds. Good luck and be careful. we were in unit one in a boat.

I live very close to the northern entrance. I've been scouting it every couple of days. It's all locked up pretty tight. Lots of ducks flying way out west, but I think that's airboat territory. Thanksgiving week was when it all froze up. Right before it did, I did very well in little pockets of open water. I even got a goose!

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