Fly Fishing Trips, Vacations, Equipment & Gear: Notes from the Running Hun Lodge

The Excalibur Drilling Boys with Tish and a few Pintails

The wet Spring and Summer in Saskatchewan has made things interesting ... in a lot of ways .
Wet conditions have made it almost impossible to drive the "gumbo " roads and the wheat fields remain uncut ... with all this standing water around we have had one excellent option ..Ducks ! and lots of them .Pintails ,Mallards , Teal and Wigeon are around in epic numbers.
We have broken out the decoys and Robo Duck , we have been shooting from coffin and willow blinds and our guests have been stimulating the local economy thru their purchases of Tungsten and Steel Shot.
The Britts and English Pointers have had to take a back seat and the one and only Lab in Camp who has stolen the show .We have been all over it and so has Tish who over the last 7 days has retrieved over 100 ducks.She is marking her birds well and getting right into it , whimpering as the birds circle above the decoys.

A long shot on a Mallard

Despite the tough conditions on the Upland Front , we have been finding birds in the places where they should be , it's not great but it is decent and should improve once the farmers start cutting the fields as it will enable us to get around better and force the birds to the edge of the fields.
Covey sizes vary from 4 -25 birds , the small coveys are left alone , the larger ones are fair game. Now that the Pointers are getting out a bit they are shaking themselves out after a summer laying around in Arizona,funny how dogs who have not pointed birds since April pick up where they left off .
As we head towards and into October this area will start filling up with more White Fronts ,Ducks and Cranes , We are suggesting that Clients take advantage of the Waterfowl hunting and mix it up.