marshman
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Ryker and I are sure having fun now! He is hitting 4th gear in his third season, getting good work done on blind retrieves!
Picture heavy post for sure.
Picture heavy post for sure.
Pacific Flyway January
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marshman
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Dont know why, but the quality of birds here this year is high, they are fat. Mallards, Gadwalls, Pintails good late season birds. 
Runnin_Chupacabra
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It’s been cold cold down our way this week. Nice birds!
JShane
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Atta boy, Ryker. Quality over quantity I say. Though from the sounds of it your into the quantity as well.
marshman
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Weather has been fantastic for hunting, I love the La Nina years colder and wetter than normal.
RanWhenParked
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Awesome pics. This is my first season waterfowl hunting and I’m having a blast. I’m starting to realize what a wonder a good dog is!
marshman
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Yes, I my opinion a guy shouldn't do a whole lot of waterfowl hunting without a four legged partner, retriever's save game!
marshman
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2021-2022 is turning out to be an outstanding season for waterfowl here in the PNW. Some more action last weekend - heavy flooding going on now with a pineapple express off the Pacific. Also got to spend a day hunting with my son, cannot beat that! JShane - found some Woodies that forgot they are fair weather ducks, the latest I have shot them up here. 
Irrelevant
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Man, you're doing way better over there than we are on the cold side. Seems like there was about 3 days with good #s of ducks then they just kept on cruising south.
JShane
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Man just look at this right here. This is how you make the most of an unusual season when weather throws you curveballs. You swing and them M'effers like Stevie Wonder with a wiffle bat.
marshman
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I think that the cold up in the Skagit country is helping me here in the Southwest area. Just lots of birds this year.
marshman
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Season is beginning to wind down. Snow has melted, flooding is subsiding and a lot of birds have gone further south. But still have tough northern mallards around.
Irrelevant
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I really like that spot, no idea where it us, but I like it. Very unique landscape/landform
BucksnDucks
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Excellent thread with great pics. Glad to see you are having a good season with Ryker. It's amazing how the retrievers really start figuring things out after a few seasons, what a joy!!! 
marshman
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The Austin Farm. Organic Dairy farm in the Chehalis Valley near Oakville WA. Jim Austin is my farming - lifetime friend. I have hunted his farm for 29 years this year. It all started with a guy and his little boy knocking on the farmhouse door inquiring about a place to go duck hunting together, and it has turned into a friendship you could only wish for!
The pics are flooded Oak - Western Ash patches strung out among his dairy fields. The Black river floods this farm before it joins the Chehalis river.
marshman
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Not the first time this has been said for sureExcellent thread with great pics. Glad to see you are having a good season with Ryker. It's amazing how the retrievers really start figuring things out after a few seasons, what a joy!!!
; It is all about hunting with my retrievers, there is such joy in me helping to teach them and then watching them perform!
Runnin_Chupacabra
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Welp, coming up on the final week of the season. Two last chances to get drawn on the refuge, fingers crossed for one out of two!
marshman
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That time has come again, the end of the '21 - 22 season. A day that I do at lot of thinking, and reminiscing about past seasons in the fields (45 of them), my long gone hunting dogs 6 of them) and hunting friends (just 2). Killed this final brace of Mallards in the first hour or so, then just watched the Widgeon, Teal, Mallards and Ringnecks decoy without firing another shot. By this time of the year, it seems that I have killed enough.
Funny, Ryker even seemed to get it. Sure cannot wait for next season, this thread will be here!
Funny, Ryker even seemed to get it. Sure cannot wait for next season, this thread will be here!
