This last fall I took all 6 kids with me over south pass and gave Kim a day off. It was duck season and so we brought the shotguns just in case. The water on Salt Creek (Thomas Fork) was quite low, the fish were spooky but rising. We found some beaver ponds along the highway and fished those for a little while.
I went down stream to look for another pod of fish (The one Tyler and I caught in the picture below sent everyone else back into hiding) and instead spotted a nice group of mallards. We switched from fishing to hunting real quick and Tyler, Corey and I snuck down the stream through the willows to the ducks. When they came up Corey dropped a young drake with the single shot 20 gauge I bought the boys for Christmas last year. Tyler managed to knock feathers out of another but it kept flying.
We fished for a little while longer and then chased a blue winged teal around for a half an hour. That duck was either bullet proof or could dodge BB's. The boys just couldn't get it. We then headed down river to see if the original pod of duck could be found. They were at the extreme far end of the canyon and the boys and I made another stalk. Tyler and Corey picked out and shot the same duck out of a possible 10 targets! They shot almost simultaneously and boy was that drake dead! It only kicked once or twice!
Tyler with a nice Bonneville Cutthroat trout. Caught on a #12 Iresistible Wulff.
Corey and his first duck EVER! Make that his first game bird ever. We just can't seem to find him a grouse he can kill!
The boys with their prize. Corey is holding my (and my brothers') old Stevens, bolt action 20 gauge. We killed lots of grouse with it, a few upland birds too.
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