Robert Rehder
The guide puts out about 100 decoys — a mix of ducks, swans and geese. We never shoot swans, but they are “confidence” decoys. The blind is a boat called a scissors rig. It carries a heavy wooden railing that is released into the water to free float. The boat is free to move about and the scissors remains stationary with a blind of pine saplings. We were in the sound about a mile from shore. We saw about 10,000 bluebills, 1,000 tundra swans and 1,000 geese. We had a good hunt and were checked by North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission wardens by boat. A beautiful, icy, raw Currituck morning.