I have only shot one mallard, a hen, the first time I went duck hunting, can anyone say 90 point duck?
I don't know why but that's the duck I most want to get before they turn me to ash.

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I have found butt loads of mallards, but getting them to decoy has been a challenge. I think mallards are becoming unsociable. Really tho, its like they fly into an area, and land where there are no other ducks, like they are looking for an empty spot.

Well Guy, here's what I've always thought was funny about Mallards in the Central Flyway,.... They have been known to really only fly after 9:30 or 10. I'm not saying that's the only time they fly but they have been known to be called mid morning mallards.
If this was the case in the Mississippi Flyway then there wouldn't be a guy in the woods before day break .
Mallards fly all morning in the Mississippi and south of the Mason Dixon and you are out of the woods by 9 or 10.

So with that being said, personally,,I think the Central Flyway will one day be like the Pacific Flyway, where Mallards will be a bonus duck. I hate to say it but I've like many others have been at water fowling going 3 decades and I have seen it change every season and it has not got any better,... Yes we are still killing birds and yes that's what's up! But there is still something to be said about how things are changing with each and every Flyway.