Paddling to your duck spot? Here are ways to be more successful

A drake wood duck blazed past me as I leaned against an old cottonwood tree that stood alongside a narrow slough in the Mississippi River bottoms of southeastern Minnesota. I shouldered my 12 gauge and swung and shot as it passed by, dropping the bird into the water.
A moment later, a second woodie followed the same path, only to meet a similar fate. With two birds on the water and no dog to do the dirty work for me, I climbed into my kayak and paddled out to retrieve them.

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