Sabine NWR

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We had scouted this hole out the last day you could fish in Sabine in October and it looked awesome. We jumped probably 80 ducks out of it, mostly mottled ducks. The widgeon grass was so thick and matted up I would have had to make holes in it just so my decoys would sit flat in the water. The water was about 8 inches deep and it seemed to be landlocked. It was a perfect duck hole and I knew none of those lazy hunters were going to walk across salt grass to get to a hole. We talked about that hole every time we would get together and shoot the **** from October 15th until opening day. We just knew we were going to smoke em. Well we get out there opening morning and start the journey across the saltgrass pulling the sled loaded down with our decoys, guns, and bags. It wasn't a fun walk, but we thought it was going to be well worth it. We get to the hole and its nothing but mud with a thick layer of widgeon grass. Not a drop of water in that hole. We sat there for a bit wondering where the hell the water went and decided to turn around and go somewhere else. By the time we got back to the boat we were exhausted. We went to try that marsh on the south side of the main canal and it was full of people. So we turned around and went back to the canal south of trappers cabin and went in there. Well we couldnt troll in due to the extreme low tide so we had to walk. By the time we got set up in the ****tiest spot on Sabine, it was probably 7:30 and I had the red azz pretty bad. After seeing about 30 ducks in an hour we decided to just chalk this up to a learning experience. After we got back in the truck, I had a picture from my dad of their 7 man limit of specks, they had finished at 7:30