Cade's first Jr. duck season!!

This was Cade's first year as a licensed hunter, and a first for me being to take him on the junior hunt! I had looked all over and had a ton of birds using one of my small wetlands, so that is where we went. As we parked the truck it was silent and I had hoped it would be, thinking that the ducks were feeding in the rice and then loafing  in the wetland during the day. As soon as we started walking to where we would set up the wetland exploded with ducks and geese both, apparently they were already there but being silent. We continued on with hopes that the birds would return as the morning wore on. Right at legal shooting light Cade killed a greenhead and then almost immediately after that a nice widgeon. It slowed down after the initial barrage of birds but they were still coming in here and there so we stayed with it and he ended the morning with 2 ducks and 2 specks!! The second day of the season I picked the wrong spot and the hunting wasn't as good but again he managed a big old speck and was super excited about it! It was a lot of fun finally having a Junior of my own that could participate in the action and by next season Quinn should be ready as well! We are looking forward to next season when we can do it again!!