Well I braved braved the rain and crawled around in the mud and came out with 4 male woody's and a goose. Could have got a few females, but had the chance to pick and choose in this pond. It turned into a great day day out after the rain quit. I walked up within 20 yards of a deer and found out porcupines can't climb beech trees. Silly thing climbed about 5' up the tree right beside me, silly me thought for a second about plucking a quill out of it's back. Looked at the tail and thought better of that idea. Anyway, it tried to climb a little higher, then thud... fell over backwards off the tree onto the ground, shook it's head then carried on to find something more suitable for climbing.
We towed the canoes out behind the boat to get tothe back of the big swamp last night with my friend and his 2 sons and we got 2 teal and woody. It was a great opening day adventure once again.