Duck Blind Drawing - A Family Affair
Ask my dad or brother and they both can tell you about my first duck. Since the moment I got out of bed on opening day in 1998, I've been in love with waterfowl hunting. Like so many other waterfowlers I enjoy every aspect of it. From decoy preparations to the cold wet November mornings.
In order to go waterfowl hunting you have to have somewhere to go. Throughout Illinois there are Waterfowl Blind Drawings, where each blind is allocated a number and a drawing takes place for ownership of that blind for the season. My first waterfowl drawing was in 1999 at Wolf Lake in Cook County. Hundreds of people were there, walking around sharing stories in hopes of winning a blind for the upcoming season. At the time I wasn't old enough to participate but my dad and brother put their names in. Even though we didn't win a blind that year we were still able to get out and enjoy this state park. Wolf Lake was good to us, we harvested a lot of birds during our tenure hunting there.