When I joined the duck club in '13 was averaging 250 ducks a year, carrying 8 members. Last year we killed either 26 or 32 ducks, total. The duck club I joined is now a deer camp that I didn't sign up for...even dusted off the deer rifle and hunter's orange, after nearly 10 years of time off. I just don't have the desire to get up pre-predawn to hunt pine goat, like ducks.

Doesn't help that we have a "roadblock" landowner getting up in years and ornery...he throws up "roadblocks" at every turn...didn't even have water pumped on the opening day of duck season (IF we had birds). After telling us not to turn on the pumps, due to his soil sampler coming that week, and that he'd turn them on....he just didn't get around to it.