GETTING THE BEST OUT OF YOUR LAYOUT BLIND PART ONE
A faulty alarm clock and a bunch of cows that were going to be shifted in the wee early hours of the morning were to blame.
The grass we were to use to cover the layout blinds had already been picked but was unfortunately an hour north of us in a wool sack in the back of David’s truck. This meant we would have to pick some before we could start hunting. This didn’t not thrill Jake one little bit.
Funnily enough, I had my first real job after leaving school on this particular farm. Back then, I thought a life of dealing with live animals was the life for me but back then wages were terrible, and the hours weren’t flash either, so I decided instead to work indoors with dead animals.
Anyway, here we were, waiting for the first ducks of the morning, which conveniently arrived just as the sky was lightening. We were hunting a large bit of surface water where I had seen a good number of ducks a few days prior to the hunt. It looked to me as if a drain had blocked and had flooded
