Cody Williams
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...Cause I love to lay in coffins!
Took a trip to one of my favorite later-season spots to hunt yesterday....it's a spot that stays open late in the year as it's part of a river delta that flows out onto the Great Salt Lake. It's quite a mission to get out there, it's about a 4 mile boat ride down a tight channel followed by a 5-600 yard walk out to where the birds are hanging out. There are usually tons of birds out there once the fresh water starts to freeze over, it's a really unique hunting situation as there is almost no tall cover out there to hide in, which makes coffin blinds the preferred means of camouflage. It's really one of my favorite ways to hunt, you can hide so well in them that the birds are usually right in your face, similar to hunting out of layouts in a field.
Here's the view of our setup from my coffin blind
Cedar has her own dog blind that we pack out there-she acts like she hates being in there but I know she secretly loves it!
We had a special visitor too-my first banded teal! This guy was banded near Artesia, New Mexico last December. I know that Al Hansen has gotten a few birds down his way that were banded on the Great Salt Lake-there must be some kind of mini migration corridor between the GSL and the Pecos and Rio Grande rivers. It's so cool to be able to see where a particular bird has been!
All in all it was a fantastic trip-we saw several thousand ducks and had several flocks come it that we were content to just watch. I feel so lucky to have been on such a great hunt!
Took a trip to one of my favorite later-season spots to hunt yesterday....it's a spot that stays open late in the year as it's part of a river delta that flows out onto the Great Salt Lake. It's quite a mission to get out there, it's about a 4 mile boat ride down a tight channel followed by a 5-600 yard walk out to where the birds are hanging out. There are usually tons of birds out there once the fresh water starts to freeze over, it's a really unique hunting situation as there is almost no tall cover out there to hide in, which makes coffin blinds the preferred means of camouflage. It's really one of my favorite ways to hunt, you can hide so well in them that the birds are usually right in your face, similar to hunting out of layouts in a field.
Here's the view of our setup from my coffin blind
Cedar has her own dog blind that we pack out there-she acts like she hates being in there but I know she secretly loves it!
We had a special visitor too-my first banded teal! This guy was banded near Artesia, New Mexico last December. I know that Al Hansen has gotten a few birds down his way that were banded on the Great Salt Lake-there must be some kind of mini migration corridor between the GSL and the Pecos and Rio Grande rivers. It's so cool to be able to see where a particular bird has been!
All in all it was a fantastic trip-we saw several thousand ducks and had several flocks come it that we were content to just watch. I feel so lucky to have been on such a great hunt!
