It reminds me of when I used to travel to south Florida to go redfish fishing every year. So, what really are.

Friends, co-workers and family members have posed the question. Undeterred, I visited Butch Goodwin at his Idaho kennel and spent an afternoon talking dogs. Goodwin is a Chessie expert.

The next morning, conditions seemed even worse. Warmer overnight temperatures had created dense fog over the frozen fields. We jammed a couple of dozen pintail decoys in one end of the open hole and scattered a few mallards along the far edge. The chances of a duck even seeing the decoys seemed remote, and I expected to close the season with a disappointing goose egg. So why does this foggy morning stand out in my mind? .

I may catch some grief from hard core mallard hunters for stating this, but in the Pacific Flyway the pintail is king. In the Pacific Flyway, the pintail is king. Over 1 million pintails breed in Alaska. The Canadian boreal forest provides critical habitat for breeding an.

Turkeys gobbling and elk bugling both have their own mystique and are maybe more impressive. But hearing a wood duck always reminds me of my earliest duck hunting endeavors in sloughs and creeks that seemed to be miles from anything. Eric shot me a skeptical eye, afraid that .

The German term for pre-migratory restlessness exhibited by birds. This could easily describe the restlessness shared by waterfowl hunters awaiting the next major migration. Here are a few interesting migration facts to ponder as you fight off.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,. In response to my previous blog post, taxidermist Shane Smith. 8216;s leucistic hen pintail.