Tonight we hunted at Jerry's place from four to 6:30 PM. Wind was 25mph out of the north. We set a small spread of six decoys to mimic the birds that have been using that spot and hid ourselves in the adjacent cattails with the wind at our back. To start, we had Mag on the retriever stand, but decided to move her and she was very content to then reside in her dog blind at the ground level, protected from the wind.
Shooting was minimal, with us taking three mallards, two of which were Drakes, on 3 shots. We got those as we snuck into the spot to start the evening. On those birds, Maggie made the second triple marked retrieve of the trip!
We are very pleased with our new decoys from decoyflocker.com. They are so realistic that Dan was almost tricked into shooting one yesterday. After watching it from 15 yards away for a few seconds, he was nearly convinced that it was a live duck that had swam into our spread.
As he was walking on the property to look for other ducks near the end of the day today, Dan flushed three pheasants and nearly baged a rooster. That would have been the second duck hunt in a row where we took a pheasant!
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