Long Shadow Limits
Long shadows either mean a late night or an early morning. For most waterfowl hunters, it’s an early morning, and usually a good early morning at that. When you’re walking back to the truck with a limit of ducks, your shadow longer than you are tall, there’s not much more you could’ve asked for. As a young and somewhat uneducated duck hunter, long shadow limits weren’t really something I was familiar with—especially hunting the hit-or-miss small lakes and rivers of forested Northern Wisconsin. Thankfully, I’ve been able to experience the astonishing avian abundance of the prairie pothole region. Something all duck lovers should see once in a lifetime. Perhaps other long shadow limit days are perfectly executed to the plan each hunter makes for the morning. But not mine. Mine took a rou...