After having a very successful previous night before, my good buddy Slade and I decided for a morning hunt. We got to our new honey hole and threw out our dozen and a half dekes and then stood there waiting for shooting time to arrive! Its funny how when your late time flies by, but when you’re standing there waiting for shooting time it seems like the world is at a standstill. We had ourselves in an obvious good spot, when you’ve got hundreds of birds around you waking up making all sorts of sound it certainly gets your blood pumping, that’s for damn sure. After waiting what seemed like an eternity shooting light was here and it was time to start laying down the law. The first group came swooping in and decoyed great, 3 birds locked up and dead right over the decoys, yep all 3 of them. Couldn’t have written it up any better. So me being the great friend that I am, I send Slader out to pick up the dead birds. While he’s out there I holler at him and tell him to get down because there is a group headed right towards us from the south. So he gets down and the birds that I thought I was going to get a shot at slide me and went right towards Slade. Another group of 3, right as the birds get over Slade I watch him pull up and wham. The mother lover shot all three birds with one shot! I can say that, that vision is forever engrained in my head. I never have seen and doubt that I will ever see it again so that was something that we both thought was pretty special and pretty freakin’ awesome. So we sat there and it only took us 3 more groups and we had our limit and were headin’ out of one of our new coveted spots before 730am! That’s right, a 30 minute hunt! What a great morning, that I will never forget! Get out in the outdoors, you’ll see something new or different every time you go out as long as you’re paying attention! I can’t wait to get back to my new honey hole.
Adam Smith

Well it was late in the afternoon and I was really wanting to get out and kill some ducks. So I gave my reliable buddy Slade Volkman a call and we conversed for a few minutes and I convinced him that it’d be worth our time considering the scouting I had done in the area the previous night. So Slade and I met up and headed out to my new hopefully honey hole. Getting out there around 5pm we were a little bit later than I had had in mind but having only a dozen and a half dekes made it a quick easy set up. So we tossed out our dekes in two very undefined groups leaving plenty of room between each decoy being sure to not get them bunched up. And sure enough not having been standing there 30 seconds after throwing the last decoy out, the first group of early flying teal were headed our way. We slid back into the reeds and kneeled down letting the birds work into the wind right our way. Boom, we slayed the first group of 4, already had a one person limit. We had a few more groups come in and in 40 minutes we had our limit and were picking up and headed back to the truck. You know after a short notice to Slade and a hurry-up fashion of getting our butts out and into the water, it was only appropriate that we kill our birds and be back to the truck in 50 minutes. We ended up shooting 6 blue wing and 2 green wing teal. This hunt is what it’s all about, putting the time in before hand, scouting. And then calling a good buddy and getting out there and having a fun successful hunt. Some times you just gotta go with your gut and Just give it a try.
Adam Smith