Late morning mallards.

A bunch of mallards working in the sun late in the morning is the best thing in the outdoors, that blue on the wing and the bright green head is a thing of beauty. Good luck I hope you catch a couple bunches.

Waiting on this is one of my favorite parts of duck hunting. The guys I hunt with are overjoyed to end the hunt as quickly as possible. The quicker the better for them, even if it's a strap full of spoons. Then they brag about how fast the limit was filled like they couldn't wait to get out of the blind.

If I'm going duck hunting I like it to last. It's too late to get on a deer stand, and a crisp sunny day on the water is a great way to enjoy nature. A lot of mornings that late flight never shows, or fails to work all the way in, but man when it does . . .

I'm with you. Now if teal bomb us early I'm fine with that but on a day that I don't have anything to do, i have no problem sitting and waiting. Even if they don't come.

My goal is to be done and eating a biscuit at the gas station by 8:00. By 9:00 I'm ready to get the show on the road.

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It is a cool thing when it works out, but I'm not gonna pass on early teal and gadwall on the off chance the 930-10 am flight of mallards shows up.

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The other morning we didn't even get in the blind till 9 in hopes of shooting the late mallards. It worked.

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A bunch of mallards working in the sun late in the morning is the best thing in the outdoors, that blue on the wing and the bright green head is a thing of beauty. Good luck I hope you catch a couple bunches.

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You could not be more correct. My old man has been known to sneak to the blind about 9 and sit until 1 just to pick off a few mallards when it's obvious they've been feeding at night.

Hell, I usually pass on the mallards so I can shoot more spoonbills

Consider yourself colored

Look at the shame in that dog's eyes.

Cant beat 10 to noon flight. Some days in our pit I will stay till 1 or 2 it the birds are still flying.

I've never really had much luck hunting in the afternoon. Only time I will go is when ice is beginning to thaw from being frozen several days. Can't beat em out of there!