Just pulled in a few hours ago from opening weekend at the duck camp. Arkansas had their opener on Nov. 18. There seemed to be a marked increase in waterfowl activity from the past 4-5 years. We had a pretty good hunt opening morning from the Cadillac blind. Both dogs (Phoebe and Lou) were worn out and glad to get back to the camp. A buddy hunting just north of us didn't have as much luck but still managed a decent hunt on the opener.

Sunday, however was a different hunt. The blind was in the wrong place and we are hunting a new field. We suspected it would cost us, and it did. We only had maybe 4 ducks that even tried to work our decoys and most of them skirted by at 35 yard making only a quick pass. The ducks were so uncooperative that we decided to call the hunt short to move a skid blind to another portion of the field. We were stuck in a pit blind while we watched hundreds of birds land in just the spot we wanted to setup, but such is the way when you get a new field less than 1 week before the season open. Ill-prepared was the word for the weekend. The good news though is that I didn't forget how to shoot, and thanks to the Specklebelly Geese we had a decent hunt in the short time we were out there. On top of that I managed to get some good pictures. I'll post them up later. Time to rest.