Bear river ducks 12/30

[HookJaw_Brimhall]

Hit up the Bear river again. We set up a few miles down river from the Honeyville launch. On the way down we jumped about 30 geese a bunch of mallards and hundreds of goldeneyes. Once we set up we had goldeneyes coming in and out every few minutes. The occasional mallard or two would come in and we took care of those pretty quick. Afternoon it got pretty slow so we decided to head up river a little. We jumped about 40 greenheads on the way up right next to the boat. We immediately stopped the boat and waited to see if they would come back down to land. While waiting I heard something get up off of the water. I turned and caught a glimpse of the small duck. I pulled up and dropped it, unfortunately it was wounded and I had to shoot again on the water. As we got closer to it I realized that I had just shot a Wood Duck. I really wanted to mount it but I kind of messed it up with that second shot. We had a great day and ended up taking some of those mallards we patiently waited for. See attached pics
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