fred slyfield
Well-known member
Fellow member from the UK Paul Scott arrived in Ellensburg Thurs evening for a few days on the water and around the state.
After getting all set with licenses and such we headed out for a late afternoon hunt to target Cans and redheads , finally after 4 weeks of not many birds around and a 300 mile road trip on Thursday we were able to get in on some birds for our first afternoon hunt.
Paul with his first ever Canvasback
Whistler with a nice drake
Paul with the results of our first hunt, The weather was pretty mild so after putting out a jerk cord the birds wanted to work a little better with some ripples on the water.
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We had Jarhead the traveling decoy out while we were hunting, I hooked him up with a carved can by Bob Jobes for company. We kept the pair off to the right so no stray shot would damage them.
Today we had good wind and lots of birds working the area we hunted, Paul is use to shooting anything that says "DUCK" on it because that's the way they do it in England. We got picky today and let lots of Ringnecks, dirty lessor Scaup, dirty cans and most anything that was brown (read,hen) escape our wrath, we ended up the day with a nice bag of Cans, Redheads a couple Ringnecks and Pauls prized Goldeneye. We also met fellow member Brad Harshman while out today.
So far Paul has been able to take 6 different species, tomorrow we, (and Jarhead) are headed west to the salt water for several days of sea ducks.
Paul has some great stories as a game keeper in England and his years spent as a gun loader on driven pheasant shoots, he has loaded guns for former world leaders and US military commanders, these first two days have been great, we have several more days planned out on the water, I can't wait for some more stories!
After getting all set with licenses and such we headed out for a late afternoon hunt to target Cans and redheads , finally after 4 weeks of not many birds around and a 300 mile road trip on Thursday we were able to get in on some birds for our first afternoon hunt.
Paul with his first ever Canvasback
Whistler with a nice drake
Paul with the results of our first hunt, The weather was pretty mild so after putting out a jerk cord the birds wanted to work a little better with some ripples on the water.
We had Jarhead the traveling decoy out while we were hunting, I hooked him up with a carved can by Bob Jobes for company. We kept the pair off to the right so no stray shot would damage them.
Today we had good wind and lots of birds working the area we hunted, Paul is use to shooting anything that says "DUCK" on it because that's the way they do it in England. We got picky today and let lots of Ringnecks, dirty lessor Scaup, dirty cans and most anything that was brown (read,hen) escape our wrath, we ended up the day with a nice bag of Cans, Redheads a couple Ringnecks and Pauls prized Goldeneye. We also met fellow member Brad Harshman while out today.
So far Paul has been able to take 6 different species, tomorrow we, (and Jarhead) are headed west to the salt water for several days of sea ducks.
Paul has some great stories as a game keeper in England and his years spent as a gun loader on driven pheasant shoots, he has loaded guns for former world leaders and US military commanders, these first two days have been great, we have several more days planned out on the water, I can't wait for some more stories!
