December 22 Hunt

Cloudy, 43 degrees, west/northwest wind 10-15mph, 10am to 2pm. Mike Bodensteiner and I launched the boat at Neosho Wildlife Area around 9am. We headed to the northeast section of Pool 1. We set up off one of the mounds in the east/northest section of Pool 1 and were set up by 10am.

After about one hour a drake and hen mallard came in nicely and Mike shot the drake. Thirty minutes later a small flock of ringnecks came in and I went "slumming" and shot one drake ringneck from the flock. Two hours later a pair of drake mallards came right in to the hole and Mike and I shot both. We stayed for 30 more minutes.

The birds were working the northern part of Pool 1 pretty hard, mainly in the corn. We were set up slightly too far south but still shot as many birds as anyone else in the pool.

Next, Chris Miller and I are headed to hunt the flooded green timber along the White River near Searcy, Arkansas, on December 28 and 29 with SwampBuck Outfitters. We'll keep our fingers crossed for a good green timber hunt.