HUNTING
Nullify The November Lull Northwest duck hunting expert Bill Saunders on finding birds when locals get scarce and northerns have yet to drop in.
By MD Johnson
I (JULIA JOHNSON)
t’s called the November lull for a reason. You started hot right out of the gate. A limit here. A limit there. Most of a limit on the not-so-good days. But then two weeks pass. The local birds, those that haven’t made the transition from mallard duck to duck jerky, are in hiding. Deep hiding. Or gone. And yes, while the weather in the Pacific Northwest may have changed from summer heat to what I not so affectionately call The Wet, there’s been
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