Porter

Decided to take the day off for one last go at ducks. Marc called me and had a private field lined up down in Porter. I couldn't pass up an offer to hunt a field that doesn't get hunted. We met up at 5:30 a.m. and crossed the fence right by the road. This field was close to his house. No long hikes. We scared some geese that was roosting at this flooded field. We set up 2 dozen duck decoys and some floating geese.

Right around shooting time, birds just started dropping in. Unfortunately they kept dropping on the other side that was just at the edge of my confident shooting range. Marc took down a nice sprig. The birds kept working for another 20 minutes. Pintails and widgeon mostly. Some of the birds finally swung close enough that I took a shot and took down a hen pintail. It was steady flight of birds all morning and this spot seemed to be the first water they look at to try to land.

We moved the decoys a bit farther out to the other side to try and push the birds closer to us. It worked, and soon we had some birds in range. I shot a hen widgeon. We called it a day at around 11 a.m. OF course soon as we start picking up the decoys birds started to show up.