Tuesday night I took a trek and did some local scouting and found a field that was holding a number of geese. After about a half hour we could tell it wasn't going to pan out, but we saw a lot of ducks going down in the distance. I decided to take a walk and see where these ducks were landing. After a long walk through the cornfield I popped out on the edge and I couldn't believe the picture in front of me. Hundreds of ducks jumped up everywhere and what was left was a small flooded section of a bean field only about 40 yards long by 15 yards wide. I knew that this flooded little haven was the spot to be come morning. To say the least, I was excited to get out of bed this morning. We carried in a few decoys and a couple of layout blinds and that is all it took. Ten minutes before shooting time the ducks started showing up.

At one point I counted over fifty Mallards on the water and countlessothers were circling and dropping down. We even had a nice flock of Lessers lock up and land. When the time hit, the results were instantaneous. We gave new meaning to fallin' skies. We passed on a few flocks of Teal and it paid off with big curly tailed Mallards. A flock of snows gave us a quick fly by and we dropped two of them. After the smoke cleared ten ducks andtwo snows were on the ground and it was time to head to class. What an experience and it will only get better! I'm tempted to stick around to hunt, but Lake of the Woods and Rainy River are calling. Stay tuned; this weekend should yield some fins! From North Dakota....... Ben Brettingen