My Greatest Duck Hunt

[Cajun Outdoors]

Ready for the season, so felt like reminiscing.

Over the years I've had some great hunts. Quick limits, all big ducks, snow hunts, ice hunts. But if asked, my best hunt is the one below.

The year: 2000
The place: Atchafalaya Basin - Gravenburg Area
2 hunters : 8 green heads 1 woodie hen

Me and my buddy Jacob got slightly hammer drunk the night before. Everyone got up early to go hunting, but we slept in. We were going to catch the "9 o'clock" flight. It wasn't particularly cold that week of early January but the water was the right height and there were no lillies and the mallards had found the swamp.

When we got to my father in laws blind about 8:30 we jumped about 200 mallards out of the decoys. We could've shot our limit unloading the pirogue. We just looked at each other and never said a word. We knew it was about to be on.

We paddled 250 yds to the blind and got set up. I immediately called in a flock of mallards and Jacob jumped up and dropped a green head. We proceeded to take turns killing one green head per flock, alternating shots. As soon as we'd shoot at a flock another was coming back down trying to hit the decoys. Within 45 minutes we had our 8 green heads and one woodie shooting one bird per flock. We could've stayed and tried to pick up some grays to fill the limits but I told him I'd rather end the hunt this way.

It's a hunt I will never forget and I hope to someday share a similar one with my son.

We've never had a season like that since...

The pic is of me and Jacob in front of Camp Croche on the GA cut with our birds.