Originally Posted By: Tamid
My slough that I used to sit around and dream of shooting a canvasback those long years ago still held a good raft of them. At that time I had no dog, no boat and had little idea of how to hunt them.

Today I had no boat, have 2 dogs, but still no idea of how to hunt them.


Glad you got to "go home again", Tamid, to some extent.

The way to kill the canvasbacks is really quite simple, if you think about it. You just have to be there before they get there. Haven't hunted cans in Cannadey, yet, but I've never seen a place that holds the same ducks 24 hours a day. They have to come into it from their roost at some time, and you've just got to lose enough sleep to beat them there. A few dekes near the edge will usually cause them to swing by, even if they intend to light in the middle.

Being in the right spot at the right time is the best "calling technique" I know of.

SRH


Last edited by Stan; 10/16/17 07:07 AM.
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