Well...

Garen (G-Dawg 02) and I headed to a spot last night and got there at 12:15 am. We were about the 20th boat in line...waited awhile, launched...and dodged a zillion hunters to get a spot. Stuck out the decoys and tried to get as much sleep as we could, laying in the boat til sunrise.

Well...it rolled in after about 5 hours of waiting...

Once the first shot rang out, it sounded about like WW3. It was as if all kinds of hunters were waiting with slack already taken up on the trigger to shoot at ducks.

Shortly thereafter I had my limit. Not of mallards like we expected, but 5 green-wing teal and a woody hen.

Later on in the day Garen got his limit...4 green-wing teal and a blue-wing teal.

So the wait paid off I guess. Even though we ended up with teal and not mallards, and we had to wait the night out...and didn't get any sleep. We had a heck of a fun time this morning shooting these speedy little ducks. Here's the pics...