DUCK STALKING
A few weeks ago, when duck season opened, I along with buddies Josh and Ryan decided to float my favorite river, the Ocklocknee, in search of wood ducks. We had not scouted the river before hand so we were unsure as to wheather there were ducks there or not. Boy were they there.
Almost immediatley after launching we had ducks passing over. Most were to high to shoot at, but we did get a few shots off. Our hopes were that the river's sloughs would be full of ducks, and we could quietly slip up on them in our kayaks. Some sloughs did hold ducks, but most were packed into the back and we could not get to them, before they noticed us.
Many other ducks igonored the slough's altogether and simply swam in the middle of the river. We soon developed a method of duck stalking that helped us bag a few. One person would paddle up front as stealthy as possible, while the other two would hang back. The point man, if he was quiet, could get pretty close to the ducks, before the ducks took off. We nearly bagged our limit.
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