ALASKA DUCK HUNTING

[Phil Nowack]

I spent a week up in Valdez with Tim at Alaska Wildfowl Adventures. It was a successful and enjoyable trip!

I always wish for better footage, but the video gives a good feel for the trip.

https://youtu.be/kbENF3Qy8Rg

 

[Joseph Sarno]

hello Phil. that video is great! and the scenery looks beautiful what a great trip.

 

[Steve Steffy]

Really cool hunt Phil. Awesome scenery and ya gotta love that boat action. Cool tunes too!!

 

[Eric Patterson]

Phil

What an amazing trip you took. As much as I like duck hunting I think the highlight for me would be the spectacular scenery. Just how big were the waves your captain was running in?

Eric

 

[Carl]

I am not sure how you could get better footage than that!
Looks like an amazing trip, absolutely incredible scenery.
What was the coldest you hunted?

 

[Rod VanZile]

Keva thought I was watching Frozen. Awesome adventure. What was your ammo?

RVZ

 

[Phil Nowack]

Phil

What an amazing trip you took. As much as I like duck hunting I think the highlight for me would be the spectacular scenery. Just how big were the waves your captain was running in?

Eric

Most days we were in 1-2 footers... we got into to a stretch of 6 footers on the last day where we could not get to a Lee side.... these were not every wave...more rogue waves. . But we were pounding on them...they have the equipment.. 30 foot cabin boats with twin 300 Yamahas... to think they used to guide out of open boats!!! I am sure they were going slower and picking easier spots...a d not doing 30-40miles runs one way! We certainly were not I. The roughest seas that they have been in.

 

[Phil Nowack]

Keva thought I was watching Frozen. Awesome adventure. What was your ammo?

RVZ

I should Hevi 12 1 1/8oz #6 or ha d loaded Heavyweight 13 #6 1 1/8oz all year .. I used the same up there. Lots of birds are close, as you can see from the Barrows part of the video. I just prefer the Tg.

 

[Phil Nowack]

I am not sure how you could get better footage than that!
Looks like an amazing trip, absolutely incredible scenery.
What was the coldest you hunted?

It wasn't bad... warmer than Pool 9 in late season!!! Coldest morning was 14 degrees... but some days int was around 32... water temp was 43-44....

 

[Carl]

Thats actually nice waterfowling temps!
What month was the trip?
I believe i have a new bucket list trip. [smile]

 

[rfberan]

Thanks for sharing. Cool music.

 

[Phil Nowack]

Thats actually nice waterfowling temps!
What month was the trip?
I believe i have a new bucket list trip. [smile]

That was from last week. So December

 

[Todd Duncan Tennyson]

Nobody brought a dog for the cove hunts!

We hunted puget sound a couple of times. Good variety and not as cold. We got Mallards, pinners, red breasted mergansers, harlequin, oldsquaw, surf scoter and whitewinged scoters too. Chris even blasted a couple of geese.

At about 14:40 you guys were like a cork in a washing machine. What a great adventure. I spent some time in Cordova years back and and thought it was remarkable that just a few miles from town, it was total wilderness and devoid of any humans. Our last frontier.

Great video.

 

[Phil Nowack]

Nobody brought a dog for the cove hunts!

We hunted puget sound a couple of times. Good variety and not as cold. We got Mallards, pinners, red breasted mergansers, harlequin, oldsquaw, surf scoter and whitewinged scoters too. Chris even blasted a couple of geese.

At about 14:40 you guys were like a cork in a washing machine. What a great adventure. I spent some time in Cordova years back and and thought it was remarkable that just a few miles from town, it was total wilderness and devoid of any humans. Our last frontier.

Great video.

[w00t] [w00t] [w00t][w00t]14:40 was calm water! Running on autopilot, and Engines were running 3500RPM!!!

Ben and I wanted to... but not putting our CBRs in the cargo hold...

 

[Carl]

We have an office in Anchorage. I need to schedule a meeting early next December.!

 

[Phil Nowack]

FOR SURE!