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Sorenson
Dec 23, 1978
Dog lay heavily all day in the valley Dec 22 and we were anything but optimistic when we went to bed this night. In the morning the fog was still thick but it had lifted so that there was visibility for some distance horizontally, and up about 100 yards vertically. Birds were working through and under it and in fact were coming down trying to sight especially toward our south end.
I had occasional shots in #5 and Woody was shooting up a storm in #4, finally calling to me (about 8:30 AM) that he was limited. I had three good birds by then but moved to #4 nevertheless and finished my limit in less than an hour - 5 mallards and 2 sprige. It appeared that ducks were feeding in the corn stubble west of our pond and from time to time little groups would come to the pond for water. All had full signs of corn and mud on their feet. There were birds working the main food too - Ted limited in #2 before I did and Dennis or Jason had quite a lot of action in #6. It was all in all our best shot of the season based mostly on mallards.
Woody and I then went to work on geese and he had 14 of them in an hour - killed mostly by Woody. He was shooting like a champ.