Still seeing a lot more mallards than usual. I’ve killed at least one on 4/6 hunts so far, and seen them every time. That’s already more than I normally kill an entire season on this lake. The lake has also dropped several feet since opening day, taking away all the flooded vegetation and duck food, and it made a big difference in bird numbers. Sunday last weekend was the last day it was really good. We ended with 10, should have had 2 limits but we lost a greenhead and had some poor shooting on another flock. Today I ended the the first part of the season with a mallard and a gwt. I actually doubled on the pair of mallard that came in but one of them came back to life and took off after I sent my dog on the second bird. I sat out till about 11:30 today hoping some migrators would come in with the north wind but it was completely dead.

Great picture.

Greatness, what kind of rig are you running?

It’s an alumacraft waterfowler with a 23 mud buddy

Thanks!

Thats awesome! This is definitely on my wish list...both boat and dog!

cant complain with that compared to last year

Nice pics as usual, glad to see you had some good hunts this first split, was really good for me and my pup too!

Agreed, and nice write up.

nice