Finally, Good Hunting Weather!

This morning it was around 30° with a 15–25 mph northwest wind. Throw in the significant cloud cover and you have a recipe for good duck hunting! We again sat on the tip of the island at the small Brekken pond, which had thick enough cover to break the wind as well as provide us with very good concealment.

We finish the day with 9 birds, seven of which we recovered, and should have easily added on three more to fill our limits. We had a couple situations of poor shooting and a couple instances of second-guessing the shot call that impacted our overall success. In total: Dan shot 4, we doubled on 4, Bill shot 1. 

Of our 9 birds, we shot: 1 teal, 2 shovelers, 2 hen mallards, & 4 gadwall. The two that we didn’t recover were wounded and swim to the far cover, far enough away that it didn’t make sense to disrupt the hunt by trying to get them at that time. At the end of the day Jackson and I took a walk through those cattails but didn’t quickly come up with anything. We were both cold and tired, so we didn’t spend too much time looking for them, when they were not readily found.

At one point this morning, we observed what appeared to be rainbows in the clouds on either side of the sun. Hopefully, the picture below does justice to how cool that looked.

With wind at 15-20mph, we elected not to hunt phez tonight. We drove (past McClusky) to scout our spot for ducks tomorrow morning & think/hope that the spot we picked will stay liquid overnight (temps expected to get down to19°).