I have family in upstate NY who are avid waterfowlers, and I have gotten the opportunity to hunt with my cousin and uncle and their hunting buddies after Christmas for the past five or six years. I have had the honor of experiencing some action like you see on TV. I killed my first Redhead from a layout boat on Seneca lake on a morning which we saw nearly 20,000 ducks of all varieties. We have taken field mallards and geese that tried to land on our foot bags. We hunted from the shore line of Silver Lake last year and saw 15,000 birds on the one day they were passing through.
And then I come back to VA and work my tail off to see 10 birds.
I would love to shoot a mature drake Widgeon and a bull Pintail (have always wanted a dead mount of a pinnie, widgeon and mallard). But more than that, I would love to find a place in VA that would make the time and money necessary to hunt waterfowl worth while.
As Dale said, its tough to waterfowl in VA. But the friends and experiences I have gotten to enjoy with them has been more of the hunt than the birds have ever been
