My brothers and I went to South Dakota this weekend for some waterfowl hunting. We grew up pheasant and deer hunting in South Dakota, but had never duck hunted before anywhere. The first morning we went in blind as we arrived late the night before. One of my brothers managed to get 2 woodies, one being banded (2014 in Toto Indiana). Hundreds of teal gave us opportunities...but man was our aim BAD. Took a look at some public marshes that afternoon, but they were too deep to be able to retrieve anything without a boat. The next morning we setup where we started the day before, but moved down a little to where they were flying. First light lots of wood ducks flying and we got 3 of them, 1 Gadwall, 1 widgeon, 1 shoveler, and then the teal started flying. Got 9 of them bringing the morning count to 15 between the 3 of us. Last hunting day of the trip was slow, weather started to roll in and there wasn't much flying. Ended the morning with 2 widgeon, a green wing, woodie, and a merganser (we'll see how this tastes...). Pretty cool to hear the turkeys in the trees right behind where we were and had a small buck come 40 feet behind us, he had no idea we were there until we turned around. Didn't really see any mallards until the last morning and they were all flying high up headed south. Saw a few flocks of geese everyday but they were doing the same as the mallards.
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