Duck

Duck's land for food, shelter or just to rest. Good hunters find out where they land and then go there to hunt.

If you've ever sat in a duck blind late in the season, when most of the mallards have already migrated further south, the weather is the worst of the winter and what ducks you do see are hunter smart and call shy, you need to regroup and adapt to a handful of tactics that will improve your late-season duck hunting odds.

Big, open water is the domain of diver ducks like canvasbacks, redheads, bluebills, ringnecks, buffleheads and goldeneyes. However, seeking out smaller lakes and reservoirs and applying the right techniques can pay big dividends.

A friend of mine and his son went duck hunting the other day.