David,
Thanks for sharing with us. I enjoyed it vicariously through you. Hopefully you enjoy many more.
I grew up in Pocatello and hunted there until I moved away after completing high school, (1982). Obviously I'm younger than you, but I have many fond memories of hunting waterfowl off the breaks of American Falls. We used to hunt the potato fields for geese after everything froze. I don't think there is an inch of the Portneuf I didn't walk from Chesterfield to the Snake. Thanks again for the memories.