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As ducks migrate from North to South, they can be heavily pressured by hunters along the way. Understanding their behavioral instincts is crucial to strategizing how to setup your next decoy spread for duck hunting.  Here are a couple decoy spread tips or "general rules of thumb" to keep in mind no matter how pressured the ducks you're hunting are: Setup with the wind to your back, ducks and geese approach their landing by flying into the wind. If you can't do wind to your back, then worst case scenario is a cross wind. Leave an open space for the ducks to land, and...

Duck hunting was a natural transition for me. I grew up with access to family land that allowed me to hunt and process whitetail deer every year. Once I moved out, I moved away for work and no longer had land access so close - so I started looking for options available to the general public. Fishing is done on public "land", so naturally my spring and summers were spent fishing on the gulf coast. A friend of mine first took me duck hunting near one of my favorite fishing holes in Rockport, Texas and we limited out within an hour. I...

Navigating the flooded timber and cattails can be a tough task to accomplish without the proper lighting. We'll talk through the ins and outs of key features you should consider when looking for lights for your duck hunting boat. When I first started duck hunting I would use a Q beam spot light to navigate through the marshes at night. It got the job done, but over time I started to get tired of having to hold the spot light up while keeping one hand on the tiller to drive through the marsh. In addition to this, I spent most of...