Waterworld. Last month of season.

[mhowerton]

After hunting the second week of December in NE Arkansas I didn't hunt until after Christmas due to no ducks and spending time with family.  After the deluge of rain we received I headed over to try the flooded timber on the Black River The water was higher than expected.  We had to boat into our cabin.  

 

We couldn't quite get on the right spot due to some early risers who beat us to the hole.  We ended up with a couple of mallards.

I had to go back to work after the first and was super busy so I only got to hunt the weekends.  It was a crap shoot every time out as to where any ducks were with all the water. We would spend about all weekend running around the lake and river trying to find them with minimal results.  

 

 

Last Saturday afternoon we found about 50 mallards sitting in a creek arm.  We came back Sunday only to have them all come back and land 85 yards away. Very frustrating  We decided to give it another shot on Friday as the colder weather should have locked up most of the ponds.   We had a hunt for the ages. No less than 150 ducks in the decoys and we were picking up at 7:08.  

 

 

We went back yesterday and harvested another 7 mallards before they lake level  dropped enough and they caught on to us today.  

The only plus about having this much water is that I found several different places to hunt if we ever get this amount of water again.   Again the old saying holds true that gas kills way more ducks than any decoys or calls.  

[marcus]

great job if only i could shoot straight 

[BilletHead]

  Me like,

well done and great way to finish up!

BilletHead