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  1. 05-06-2013, 08:18 PM #1
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    Anyone ever done it? Just got a new boss who lives in Boulder, Colorado. Old boss got shown the door last week. These guys never come to us for meetings, we always have to go to them. Did a little looking online and there are a bunch of guide services just north of Denver on the platte river. Anyone ever hunted out there? Any level of success? At least would like to have that to look forward to on one of my many future trips to Denver. Pics looked pretty cool - hunting river and fields looking out towards the Rockies. But that was the pics - who knows what you will really get.
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    My uncle guides for elk and mule deer in Cortez, their watershed lakes on the ranch get covered up when the weather gets right.
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    Never hunted down to Colorado but I know when it's on it's on big time. Holds true for most of the west. Even more weather dependent than most places. A storm out there packs a larger punch and moves birds quicker.
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    Screw Colorado and their gun laws. Wouldn't drop a dime there...
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    Great duck hunting. Lived in Breckenridge for a year after college and hunted all around the state. There are three different flyaways in CO. flew back out there in 2006 to hunt a few days. Ended up hunting on the platte river near Fort Morgan. We were about a week or two early for the big push of birds but we still limited everyday. If you pay for my fight and room I'll be your guide when you go out there
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    The Platte River is a 30' wide creek around Denver. It didn't look very ducky to me but I'm sure it is.
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    Quote Originally Posted by trentsmith View Post
    The Platte River is a 30' wide creek around Denver. It didn't look very ducky to me but I'm sure it is.
    If it is the only open water that is all it takes KNO DAT. I have killed limits in creeks 10ft wide out there, I love 10 degrees out there.
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    I've been in Denver several times during the winter and I've seen mallards, widgeon, gwt, and pintails mixed in countless numbers in rocky city creeks. Like shoulder to shoulder on the bank.

    Surely a man could kill a duck or two out that way.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BS View Post
    Great duck hunting. Lived in Breckenridge for a year after college and hunted all around the state. There are three different flyaways in CO. flew back out there in 2006 to hunt a few days. Ended up hunting on the platte river near Fort Morgan. We were about a week or two early for the big push of birds but we still limited everyday. If you pay for my fight and room I'll be your guide when you go out there
    There aren't three flyways in CO.
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    Was in Denver and the surrounding area a couple years ago and saw plenty of birds on mountain ponds around the ski areas. If you can kill ducks on public land in SC, I'm sure you could do much better out there. If you're trying to go the guide route, I'd venture to say it's worth it.
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    limits of wild birds on public land, mostly with no one near you... take the job.
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    Hey Moatsy, we need to get together sometime and swap some hunting/fishing trips. We could start up a SCDucks West chapter...
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    I'm in... just fished 11 mile canyon this am in thunder-snow.
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    Thunder snow is freaky.
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    Quote Originally Posted by trentsmith View Post
    The Platte River is a 30' wide creek around Denver. It didn't look very ducky to me but I'm sure it is.
    The Platte river in NE is only 10' wide in certain areas especially if its a low water year and I can assure you that you need 6" wide water out there to kill birds...when it gets cold enough to slush/freeze the river ducks resort to "warm water sloughs" that are ankle deep and just a few feet wide and that's when it gets stupid crazy ...

    Witnessed 9 mallard limits killed over a warm water slough that could be crossed barefooted and only 2' wide..

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    I have a friend that lives just outside of Denver, that has had a lot of success on the Platte. He described it like most metropolitan areas, you have to drive several hours outside of town to get away from the masses of hunters. I have not hunted with them, but they seem to do ok.

    I know they also drive east to Kansas and hunt public ground, i think it is like a 3-4 hour ride out of Denver.
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