I get so many e-mails from people with training issues looking for a little help. These notes always sound so serious and frustrated, when 99. 9 times out of 100 they are easily cured, and with just a little reflection, can be worked out. The first word and probably the most important is Patience.

The next morning, conditions seemed even worse. Warmer overnight temperatures had created dense fog over the frozen fields. We jammed a couple of dozen pintail decoys in one end of the open hole and scattered a few mallards along the far edge. The chances of a duck even seeing the decoys seemed remote, and I expected to close the season with a disappointing goose egg. So why does this foggy morning stand out in my mind? .

I may catch some grief from hard core mallard hunters for stating this, but in the Pacific Flyway the pintail is king. In the Pacific Flyway, the pintail is king. Over 1 million pintails breed in Alaska. The Canadian boreal forest provides critical habitat for breeding an.

Turkeys gobbling and elk bugling both have their own mystique and are maybe more impressive. But hearing a wood duck always reminds me of my earliest duck hunting endeavors in sloughs and creeks that seemed to be miles from anything. Eric shot me a skeptical eye, afraid that .