Today I traveled back to Lodge Corner, Arkansas to hunt on Roger Rieves' farm. Going with me was Ben Brown, Fielding Watts, and Robert Brown. These three guys are from Alabama and from my conversation with them they seemed to be die-hard Auburn fans. Robert is a camera man for Rusty Faulk Productions.

Roger took us out to a pit blind in one of his rice fields. It was 20 feet long with a dog shelf on one end. Ben Brown put his 3 year old yellow Lab, Maggie, on it. I left my dog, Taxi, in the van for some rest this morning. Maggie was trained by Ben and she did a great job retrieving for us this morning. She took hand and whistle signals from Ben and they were a good team to watch. It was obvious they have spent a lot of time working together.

It was a heavy overcast morning with rain coming down from time to time. The pit was covered by two rolling tops that will roll either direction to allow quick shooting which Fielding demonstrated to us all morning. We wound up with a limit of 24 ducks, consisting of 19 Gadwalls, 3 Widgeons, and only 2 Mallard drakes. Roger told us that it is traditional for the Gadwalls to arrive at his place before the Mallards do each season. It appeared that we have new ducks in the area with more on the way.

Robert Brown did a good job filming our hunt this morning. Ben Brown did the interview of Roger and me. I presented Roger a pretty green Banfield's Best duck call and Roger told the camera where he is located and about his guide service.

Roger is located at Lodge Corner, Arkansas which is 15 miles south of Stuttgart, the rice and duck capital of the world. He can be contacted at 870-946-4314.

After the hunt we ate at the "Little Chef" in Stuttgart. We had a late breakfast and talked about the great hunt we had just experienced.

More later.