Jason and I head out on a late season mallard hunt with three friends from British Columbia. I had spotted it a few days before when the snows, specs and ducks were all together. The bitter cold changed all that and moved the specs to warmer climates, the snows to one end of the massive field and the ducks on the other. It was drakes only on the hitlist this time and despite them dancing on the end of our barrels we still managed a few mistakes. It wasnt me Okay well maybe it was.
Bitter cold rolled in fast and had most of the birds heading south despite the pandemics border closures. With Albertas Minister of Environment Jason Nixon scheduled to hunt with us along with Outdoor Quest TVs TJ Shwanky and Vanessa Harrop to film a show about a show, the pressure was on for Jas...
Wow, the mallards gave it up on this smoker of an afternoon pothole hunt! It was a gnarly, nasty, flooded tangle, that was full of mallards using it to puddle, before feeding in the barley field the pond had been a part of since the ice age. 6 of us clamored our way through the tangled willows wi...
This hunt ended up far more complicated than it needed to be. On a normal day in the parkland the geese should have gone back to roost but on our spotting day they didnt. A big field with too many hills, potholes and bluffs kept the birds in it all day feeding heavily and moving off of the prime ...
