A Little Action...

...would be a lot more exciting to write about. Hello again everybody. Another day in the Ditch and another day without any ducks. We've now been 10 calendar days and 4 hunts without shooting a single duck. The day started off a bit promising as we had ducks right before shooting time, 8 Can's from the North right after that, and another 4 Can's from the West right after that. We started hollering at the 8 from the North and they just weren't interested, they had the G'Ditch in mind the whole time. 4 of the 8 peeled off and dumped, the G'Ditch hammered two and we managed to call back one to our hole and dropped him. He fell so close I ducked when he was coming down. Didn't have to leave the ditch for the retrieve. It's now 730AM and little did we know it, but we're done for the day. Barely any other birds moving, saw 5 groups of high migrating snows. The only other excitment was laughing about one man's need for a 9AM hike to the weeds to drop off last nights' supper, report came back: found it and didn't have any residual in the waders. Considering the conditions, that's a success! We pulled out about 10AM, second guessing ourselves, but it sounds as if we made the right call. All reports around the area are pretty much the same. Not a whole lot going on. I ran into some MO River boat hunters back in town and they stayed out 'til 2PM North of Decatur, they shot one Mallard and one Wigeon. They reported that there was nothing moving on the river other than birds that have been around. We all had the wind today, we all had some moisture today and we all had cold temps, appartenly a guy needs to be a bit more selfish and get a snow storm in the Dakota's too. I really thought we'd do it today. It was an ideal migration day, unfortunaley the brids didn't agree with us. No telling what will happen this week. There are some good winds but I just don't know if that's enough right now. I think we need another 6 inches of snow in South Dakota to see another push. That's it for now, we'll keep reporting as we hear any information. Check back tomorrow for the latest and greatest, and thanks for all the hits.