BIG WATER GIANTS

If it isn't, it would have to be one of the most satisfying ways to hunt them. Satisfying certainly doesn't mean easy and if you're happy to be getting out of bed at stupid o-clock to do a hand full of boat trips in the dark, carting a mountain of decoys with a bunch of good keen mates, then this might be a bit of you.

Keep in mind that you are hunting birds that can be extremely cagey and have been given a good hurry up from the local sky-busting society all through duck season, with a huge body of water allowing them to land wherever they want. When you are trying to organise a good catchup with mates it's a heck of a lot easier to pick a date and stick with it - we don't quite have the luxury of saying as it's likely most of us won't be able to make it on such short notice. The biggest compromise of having a fixed date is that we don't get to plan around the weather. Ideally, we would plan the hunt around a good wind, as we all know how