Duck Camp 2011

The first four weekends of the season brought long, warm days and lots of wood ducks and a few blue wing teal and mallards. By mid October the days were changing and ringnecks, redheads and canvasbacks were showing up in good numbers. Camp was full the first week of November and the peak of the fall migration was near. Big flocks of cans, redheads and bluebills came in on the twenty ninth of October and on November second large flocks of mallards were coming on the lake but they did not stay for long. By the next day most were already gone. On November seventh trappers and hunters on the lake reported seeing huge flocks of mallards. The next day ducks were everywhere and it was one of those days when the limit comes too quickly. November thirteenth the north end of the lake was full of ringnecks but not much else. A week later, after nearly sixty cold, windy, grueling days, 3/4" of ice and an inch of snow shut down camp for another year.