My young friend, Tyler, and I went out two Saturdays ago hoping to find a bit of open water and a straggler mallard or two. It was bitter, with only one small hole open, due to three days of 45 mph winds. We took turns walking up the water to keep the hole open. The decoys froze in pretty quickly. There was 2 inch thick ice near the shore. We stayed for almost 4 hours. It was cold. We were crazy. I loved it.
Our season ends on the 27th, but it really ended a couple of weeks ago.
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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