Ducks skirted the decoys all morning. I could have shot birds as they swung wide or flew overhead, but to pass shoot would be giving in. I shot a couple teal and went home, flustered.
Three days later I was back and the wigeons were thick. In addition to the dozen floating decoys used last time I hunted the little pond, I added five dozen Big Al’s wigeon silhouettes. Down the center of the pond, I set the floaters in two parallel lines, 10 yards apart. On the shallow end, 15 yards from one line of floaters, I pegged a dozen silhouettes in the water. I spread the other four dozen in two groups on the shoreline, between my one-man blind and the floating decoys. A dozen of the silhouettes were situated on the shoreline, with the remainder spread out in the short, green grass on land, as if they were grazing.
The addition
