A Wisconsin duck hunt can begin with fog rolling over a cattail marsh, decoys rocking in a cold chop, and a dog staring into the dark as if the birds have already spoken. On Green Bay, the water can slap a layout boat before the sky turns pale. Along the Mississippi backwaters, mallards may drop […]
Read Guide →A West Virginia duck hunt can start with fog folded into a river bend, frost on sycamore leaves, and decoys rocking in slow black water. A wood duck may cut through the morning like a spark off a whetstone. Mallards may work down a reservoir arm, wings set, feet open, as the hills hold the […]
Read Guide →A Vermont duck hunt can begin with mist lifting off Lake Champlain, maple leaves gone bronze on the hills, and a dog sitting still enough to look carved from cedar. On a small beaver pond, wood ducks may whistle through the trees before the sun has a clean edge. Along the Connecticut River, mallards may […]
Read Guide →A Utah duck hunt can begin with mud on your boots, cold stars over the Great Salt Lake, and decoys riding shallow water like corks in a tin cup. At Farmington Bay, Ogden Bay, Public Shooting Grounds, Bear River, or a small desert marsh, the first flight can come fast. Teal skim the water. Pintails […]
Read Guide →A Tennessee duck hunt can begin in the dark with cypress trunks standing in flooded timber, decoys knocking softly in a boat, and a dog watching the water like a judge. At Reelfoot, the lake can feel alive before the sun even touches it. On the Tennessee River, the morning may open with fog, mud, […]
Read Guide →A South Carolina duck hunt can begin in blackwater stillness, with cypress knees standing like old fence posts and wood ducks squealing through the first gray light. On the coast, the morning may smell of pluff mud, salt, and marsh grass. In the ACE Basin or along the Santee, a blind can feel like a […]
Read Guide →An Ohio duck hunt can begin with frost on a corn stubble field, cattails clattering in a north wind, and a dog staring through the dark like it already hears wings. On Lake Erie marshes, the water may slap the blind before first light. On an inland pothole, mallards may fall through the fog like […]
Read Guide →A North Dakota duck hunt can start with ice on the cattails, a dog shaking in the dark, and decoys bumping together in the truck bed. The prairie is quiet until it is not. Then mallards roll over a slough, teal slash across the water, and the morning feels like a match struck in cold […]
Read Guide →A New York duck hunt can start in a frozen cattail pocket, on a Finger Lakes point, in a Long Island salt marsh, or along a big river with fog sliding over the water. Decoys rock in the dark. A dog watches the sky. Then wings appear, low and fast, like charcoal marks across gray […]
Read Guide →A New Hampshire duck hunt can begin with frost on the dock, fog lifting off a river bend, and the faint slap of decoys in black water. The first birds may come out of the gray without warning, fast as thrown stones over the reeds. A dog shifts beside the blind. A hand closes around […]
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