Show t Duck Weather Greets Pheasants Hit Deep Cover over By 3 Bill Coltrin Duck hunters had their fun Frida Friday Friday Fri Fri- da day afternoon with practically perfect perfect per per- feet weather for the noon open opening n nas as as well as plenty of ducks ducks but but pheasant hunting devotees were more than slightly dubious about the prospects for their opening at noon Saturday Sat It seems a cinch that unless Fourth of July weather should hit Saturday morning the fields willbe will willbe ili be muddy and the birds in fairly deep cover And of course most hunters believe that getting the cocks to rise at noon or shortly afterwards will be a little more I difficult than jumping them in early mornin morning But this is rather good news to those folks who cant can't make It out in the fields Saturday for on Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day the shooting will vill begin besin at 7 am and likely that will be the best time to get et a brace or so of ol the tasty birds Three Limit The limit is three cocks per day with the possession limit six The season will last through Monday with the closing hour on each of the th three ree days das set at 5 30 pm p.m.- p.m. and plenty of wardens will vilI be around and about to see that al all allor all of or the laws are obeyed Naturally the duck hunters took to the marshes around the Great Salt lake in m big numbers Biggest crowds were gathered at the public public pub pub- lic lie shooting grounds on the north northend northend northend end of or the lake along with the Farmington bay and Ogden bay areas Practically anyone who can can hit the broad side of or a barn should get gel his limit of ducks the first part part part-or o of the season The birds are arc thick and even the geese Jeese mostly locally hatched birds are more plentiful than usual Limit on ducks is five per day daj and all hunters must have a federal federal federal fed fed- eral duck stamp obtainable at any post office and their guns uns must be plugged so that the gun will hold hole no more than three shells This plug must be the type that cannot be removed without dismantling the weapon Fair Weather As for weather predictions the forecasters figure now that Saturday Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day or at least Saturday afternoon should be fair Which of course is good news for the pheasant chasers However Howe with the big bi storm o or of orthe the past day or so soaking the fields hunters had better be prepared prepared prepared pre pre- pared to wade in a little mud The brush and all of the cover will be bevet wet vet and the hunter who returns home looking lookin like something other than a drowned rabbit will indeed be rare A lot of or areas In the state require require re re- re- re quire a fee to hunt pheasants And there will be a lot of posted farms arms around and about which will keep the hunters off Naturally the areas arens where here the fees are required are arc loaded with pheasants and wilbe will wil willbe willbe be loaded with hunters Possibly the best sections for pheasant hunting will be in the south end of Utah count county around Lakeshore in the basin country around Vernal and in Davis js count county west of or the highway down clon to the lakefront |