Since the north zone is out, me and two buddies decided to try an Ohio River bird trip. One buddy has a friend over there that hunts the Ohio that gave us some insight, but we were pretty much on our own. We used Google Earth and found a spot that we thought we would try. I rolled out of bed at 1:45am to get ready and to go meet my buddies. At 7:15am we were scrambling to get the last of the decoys set. Shooting light came and there was literally nothing flying. We sat until 9:30 and did not see a bird. Needless to say, we were all pretty bummed. We decided to take a trip up river to scout a bit and not more than a mile up from us we hit the mother load. Ducks were everywhere! Black clouds all over the place! Hundreds and hundreds of them all piling in and out of a single location. We picked out a spot and set all of our decoys out and gave it a try. At this point it was already after 10:30. We had non stop action with what seemed like no more than a minute going by without birds in the air. We ended up scratching out five mallards, a black and a goose before heading home. Birds seemed to quit flying around 1:00. It a great trip and we plan on going back for the last weekend down there.
