Talked with a friend today and we kept bouncing off where the ducks are figuring. We’re in a drought and there is very little water anywhere it normally is. Then asked where are the divers. They were the first to go missing on Pickwick years ago. One thing that happened was guys running into the rafts of ducks and blasting away. That kept being a reoccurring problem. Have any other hunters noticed the lack of blue bill, cans redheads and goldeneyes? He’s not seeing the beasts of ducks like he usually does and has been on the rivers almost since the 80s
We used to shoot blue bills and cans in the afternoons in Arkansas when we did not limit in the timber. I enjoyed those hunts almost as much as the timber shoots. You didn't need to worry about the hide, a few black and white decoys in a line to a wad of mallard decoys and you could shoot bluebills until you ran out of shells. That was the 90's and those areas are now a diver wasteland. Been years since I have seen a big raft of divers.
