Attention Duck Hunters!

[jdmidwest]

Schell Osage turned out to be a great place. Things are alot better up there, more water, better crops, no cockleburs, blinds are brushed good, all day hunting, and ducks moving around all morning each day. We drew pill 23 and 21 each day and took advantage of something they don't do down south. Schell puts the ADA blinds in the pick if no Disabled Hunters show up to claim them. We hunted F1 both days and had a mix bag of ducks. We limited out on redheads on Thurs, we killed teal, shovelers, ringneck, mallards, and gaddies. We had some pintail work the dekes but they stayed out of good gun range. Really good hunting for the bluebird skies we had to deal with. We were out of the blind each day by noon and met the average kill of the place of 3.32 birds each day.

Thurs. eve we went out and found several geocaches, one on a hill called Hackleman Cemetary, a nice peaceful place with graves dating back to 1820's. Had walleye for supper at Stockton. Visited Truman and Pomme De Terre also for the first time. Came across some of the rivers I see posted on here. Surely a great place to be for a sportsman. I will put in for it again next year for sure, just wish it was closer. The 6 1/2 hour drive is a pain.

Was a little worried at first when we arrived and saw the lot full of big duck boats. We were the only ones there that was "human" powered. Once inside, we found out some of the blinds were more than a mile from the ramp. But we paddled it out and still made out before shooting hours.

Billet, when we hunt fields locally or rivers, we have covers for our yaks to hunt out of them or camo them at the blind. If we have corn or timber, we step out and hide in the material available. Locally at Otter Slough, they allow zone hunting, you can move around the entire unit assigned. At Schell, you had to keep to the blind mounds unless you hunt the timber A unit. Same thing goes at Duck Creek at most positions, zone hunting. Zone hunting is usually done out of the yaks or in the corn/timber standing in water.