Nov 3 (Lake Huron, MI)
A much calmer and beautiful day on the lake. At least to start and John and I was first up.
We had birds working before the last string of decoys was in the water. Things started off very quickly. I got a single and then shortly after I got a double. With the lighter waves, I could actually hit the ducks that still had their heads up
All three were long-tailed ducks without long tails. Hens or juveniles. I wanted to get at least one nice drake and was hoping to get a scoter. So I started trying to be a little choosy. A couple stub tails worked by me heading to John who was hunting the other layout. I let the pass and go to John. Another stub tail came in on suicide and I dropped her.
We had a HUGE flock working about 200-300 yards out in front. It was quite the wad of ducks. Unfortunately they never came our way, but it was quite a show.
About 20 ducks were looking good, but then slid off to the other side of John. Unfortunately I missed the other half of the flock because they came in from the sun. Until I noticed them they were too far to my right to shoot. There was a beautiful drake 25-30 yards away
A few more stub tails came by including two juvies that landed in the decoys. Then it slowed down quite a bit. But given it has slowed, I figured I better stop being so picky with 2 guys still in the tender boat that haven't got out yet. A nice sized stub tail came in decoying beautiful, so I take her. Clean miss on the next one. Then I got the sixth stub tail. A great day. A little disappointed I could get a long tail or a scoter, but far more excited about the great hunting.
We swapped out Jeff and Norris for John and I. Norris really struggled with his shooting. Jeff got 5 and was happy, so John swapped back in and ended up getting a beautiful drake among his last two. When we went to pick up John, Norris had had enough and called it day. Which may have been a good thing because the wind had started to really pick up and the seas were starting to build and it was getting a bit rough. We had a pretty bumpy run back to the ramp.
We ended up 16 old squaw, 2 scoters, and 1 common merganser.
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One of the two redheads I bagged during the trip
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