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This was the first opening day of duck season that I wasn't standing in water beside an oak or cypress tree and that is due to the fact of having mild temperatures and the lack of migrating birds. We found some geese in one of our leased agriculture fields a few days before the season opener and we made the decision to hunt them instead.
We loaded up our enclosed trailer with layout blinds, full body and shell Canada goose decoys and headed out to the field. After playing the wind and setting out our spread we began getting "locked & loaded" for the legal shooting hours.
It was very cloudy and it had been raining and early on this morning there was some fog so we adjusted our style of calling for those conditions. We had Blake Langley filming for us and he did an outstanding job for the conditions, location, while being mindful not to spook the birds. We had two small flocks work in and we managed to harvest five.
Shortly after our last volley, I saw a pair of mallards flying across the field and I picked up my duck call to give them a try. I made the comment, how sweet it would be to call them in our goose spread. They responded almost immediately and told the boys, "Game on!” They were very high, but they descended quickly and worked well with the wind. After five circles, we had them where we needed them. When I called the shot, "Wreck em!" shots rang out and the drake fell, as no one even tried the hen. So instead of icing on the cake, we added a big beautiful greenhead to the mix. We gave high fives and laughed for several minutes, over what had just happened.
Team WC ~ It's what we live for.