For Saturday morning, we decided to hunt somewhere else and give the ducks on the other hole a rest. There are several ponds on our land that usually keep ducks in them since they are all right beside the river. We drove about a mile down further than we had been hunting to a new pond that had several sloughs that mouthed out into it. We had never hunted this hole before, but had always seen ducks in it. We arrived about an hour before daylight to throw decoys out. Since it was a bigger hole, we threw about fifty decoys in this one.
It was as if turning on a light switch as soon as it became daylight. The ducks were coming into the hole in pairs perfectly. We were only shooting the drakes, and letting the hens fly so that we could hunt longer. About ten that morning, two of us had a limit, but we needed one more duck to fly in so that my buddy could get his. It took about twenty minutes for a lone duck to fly through, but after calling back at it and tempting it with duck calls, the drake finally circled through and gave him a perfect one shot kill.
This was a fun weekend of duck hunting. Three hunts and Three limits of mallards. This is a great start to a opening weekend of duck hunting. I am looking foward to doing more hunting over the christmas holiday if I can get away from work for long enough.