05/30/2025
Down to the wire. The last couple of weeks till it’s over.
If I could only have two weeks to hunt every year it would be the last two weeks of January. Year in and out it is the most consistent period of the season for good water, weather, and ducks.
Podcasters and private land hunters tend to have a huge disdain for late January. Their food sources are depleted, their fields are often frozen over, and ducks tend to leave them for the new water in the bottoms and they pout for more days in November.
Call shy mallards on supposedly overcrowded public land the last week of season. Down to the wire.