Lots of ducks; lots and lots of fish.
It’s been a very busy 25 days. Duck season has been truly unbelievable so far in Dingville, where I have been working as their hunting guide. Dingville had their best opening weekend in 15 years; we killed over 160 ducks, of which 30 were mallards. There are a whole bunch of birds in the North Valley. This is in part because we had a better wet spring and all the new wetland projects throughout the Valley raised a lot of local mallards and teal.
Water goes on at my blind next to Dingville this week and it should be shooting good by Thanksgiving week. I have lots of dates still open in December.
On the fishing front, I ran a few steel head trips up the Yuba River with good results; landing between 2 and 4 real steel head and about 12-15 trout per trip. On October 29, I fished the upper Sacramento from Los Molinos to Salt Creek; there are very few salmon beds to target for steel head, but there are a few and we found them. We landed 7 real nice steel head between 1and 3 pounds, with one being a triple hook-up. About 10-15 trout mixed in made for a great day of fishing.