From backwaters to oxbows, here’s how to hunt waterfowl on the mighty Mississippi

John Devney doesn’t remember a lot about his early-teen years, but he does vividly recall one moment with stunning clarity: the early October morning he shot his first duck.
He was 12 years old. It was opening day. He was hunting an island on the Mississippi River near Little Falls, a town in central Minnesota, with his father and grandfather.
“I wasn’t new to the duck blind at that point, because I had been tagging long on duck hunts for seven or eight years by then,” said Devney, chief policy officer for Delta Waterfowl in Bismarck, N.D.

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