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<blockquote data-quote="r00s7a" data-source="post: 1592653" data-attributes="member: 9675"><p>This year just finding good water will be your main challenge! There was another thread talking about the effects of the drought on deer hunting, unless we get quite a bit of rain this fall, I think it will have an impact on duck hunting a lot more than it will deer. My suggestion is kinda like JTMF's... find someone experienced to take you and show you how it is done. You can learn on your own, read a lot and hang out on the duckhuntingchat, you can learn a lot and there are lots of people to ask questions. Keep your duck call in your truck and toot that thing going down the road. Listening to tapes helps, but I think some of those guys blow calls just to hear themselves. Go to a park or something and listen to real ducks. Pay attention to what they are quacking about, what do they do when other ducks are coming in, what are those incoming ducks doing. I try and practice finishing calls more than highballs and whatnot. Those are the calls that will put ducks in your bag. You don't have to have some monstrous spread to get birds in, and sometimes smaller is better. I hunt smaller waters, tanks, and sloughs more than anything, and when I do, I often use no more than half a dozen decoys. Just enough to get something out there they can see. Motion of some sort in your spread will save you on still days, be it a mechanical deek or a jerk string. It won't take long till you consider getting a dog to retrieve your downed birds. Once you get a dog, the game really changes. You will officially be hooked, it is more about the dog work than the ducks at that point. There is absolutely nothing better than working birds and sending the dog on a perfect retrieve. You can be a succesful hunter without sinking a ton of money into the sport. But if you want to really get into it, you can sink a LOT of money into your habit.... trust me! It is an awesome, addictive, and beautiful sport. Good luck!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="r00s7a, post: 1592653, member: 9675"] This year just finding good water will be your main challenge! There was another thread talking about the effects of the drought on deer hunting, unless we get quite a bit of rain this fall, I think it will have an impact on duck hunting a lot more than it will deer. My suggestion is kinda like JTMF's... find someone experienced to take you and show you how it is done. You can learn on your own, read a lot and hang out on the duckhuntingchat, you can learn a lot and there are lots of people to ask questions. Keep your duck call in your truck and toot that thing going down the road. Listening to tapes helps, but I think some of those guys blow calls just to hear themselves. Go to a park or something and listen to real ducks. Pay attention to what they are quacking about, what do they do when other ducks are coming in, what are those incoming ducks doing. I try and practice finishing calls more than highballs and whatnot. Those are the calls that will put ducks in your bag. You don't have to have some monstrous spread to get birds in, and sometimes smaller is better. I hunt smaller waters, tanks, and sloughs more than anything, and when I do, I often use no more than half a dozen decoys. Just enough to get something out there they can see. Motion of some sort in your spread will save you on still days, be it a mechanical deek or a jerk string. It won't take long till you consider getting a dog to retrieve your downed birds. Once you get a dog, the game really changes. You will officially be hooked, it is more about the dog work than the ducks at that point. There is absolutely nothing better than working birds and sending the dog on a perfect retrieve. You can be a succesful hunter without sinking a ton of money into the sport. But if you want to really get into it, you can sink a LOT of money into your habit.... trust me! It is an awesome, addictive, and beautiful sport. Good luck! [/QUOTE]
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