Hello friends,

Fifty duck seasons ago I camped on an island on the Mississippi river near Ferryville for the first time and hunted ducks with my brothers Mike and Tom Walters and my dad the late Robert Walters.

I am 100-percent addicted to this gear oriented, scenic challenge that is a pure blast.

Friday, October 1

High 81, low 57

Before daylight on Saturday morning there would be seventeen of us calling our island paradise home and that is how I am going to kind of angle this week's colum...