Cody Williams
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Had a great morning today chasing the water doves-I decided to hit up a spot I like to call Whistler Lake due to the prolific amounts of teal, wigeon, and pintails it holds. When the birds are in there you can hear a constant back and forth of whistles from all 3 kinds of ducks, it's pretty cool! The teal were really flying at first light, I could have limited out in a half hour if I was shooting decently-I swear those teal can fly right through your pattern and come out the other side without a scratch! I've never shot so many shells to get a limit of birds.
When I first started carving my own decoys about 5 years ago, I decided to start with a rig of greenwing teal, mainly because I thought that since they were small they would be easy to carve and because the drakes looked like they would be fun to paint. Looking at them now is like looking back at a drawing you made in elementary school-there's so much I would do different now, and they look crude and simple, but they still seem to work! Goes to show that the ducks aren't usually nearly as harsh a critic of decoys as hunters are! Hope everybody has been having a good season!
When I first started carving my own decoys about 5 years ago, I decided to start with a rig of greenwing teal, mainly because I thought that since they were small they would be easy to carve and because the drakes looked like they would be fun to paint. Looking at them now is like looking back at a drawing you made in elementary school-there's so much I would do different now, and they look crude and simple, but they still seem to work! Goes to show that the ducks aren't usually nearly as harsh a critic of decoys as hunters are! Hope everybody has been having a good season!
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