Rod and gun . build a blind outside a limit dis-tance from shore or ricebcds, it isvery rare that this procedure provesefficacious anyway in decoy the scaup species, a days feed-ing will often make them feel at home close inshore, and two or threedayswill make the redhead quite as con-tented. The redhead are one of thehardest duck to decoy away feeding ground—but once onthem, they cannot easily be drivenoff and will repeatedly return to de-coys after being shot at. By sayingdecoy to their feeding bed, I do running out your flock 100yards inshore from them; it
Rod and gun . build a blind outside a limit dis-tance from shore or ricebcds, it isvery rare that this procedure provesefficacious anyway in decoy the scaup species, a days feed-ing will often make them feel at home close inshore, and two or threedayswill make the redhead quite as con-tented. The redhead are one of thehardest duck to decoy away feeding ground—but once onthem, they cannot easily be drivenoff and will repeatedly return to de-coys after being shot at. By sayingdecoy to their feeding bed, I do running out your flock 100yards inshore from them; it meanswaiting until the raft is itself inshorewhere they can be gotten at and run-ning the decoys immediately on theirfeeding waters. Your blind will varyaccording to local conditions, rangingfrom willow bushes built in the formof an oblong or V-shaped, to the bestof all blinds, where one has a marshbackground, that of dead grass boundclosely together and fastened aroundyour little craft on two cross Mixed Bag 344 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA Memory calls up a day under suchconditions some years ago. Thewriter, with two companions, wascamped some five miles from the near-est village the lake was some tenmiles straight-away, ere it ilung tothe east, and ranged from a mile toalmost two miles in width. A wholeweek had been spent with but de-sultary shooting, and the outing drewnear its close. On Sunday, sail wasrun up on our Httle 3 Rater and acruise made in search of the desiredfeeding beds—for that the birds werefeeding somewhere was certain. Fourmiles t\irther down the lake, a big bay,—rice-edged,—disclosed itself to ourview, and with the glasses a picturecame to the eye of several hundredredhead and scaup rafted immedi-ately off the rice beds. An immediatereturn was made to camp, withoutapproaching nearer, and duffle, shellsand decoys were sorted and madeready for the morrow. And on thatmorrow! Ah, tis one of the red-letter days in our shooting recordswith just two of
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