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HUNTING DUCKS IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
When the Duck season is over in Indiana and you’re not ready for the
season to end there are options that are available to hunters. Wild Bill,
Rick Dibkey and Ryan Bennington decided to go to Southern Illinois for a
long weekend of Duck hunting. In Olive Branch Illinois there are many
hunting clubs and public property available around Horseshoe Lake, a lake
that can hold many ducks and geese late in the year. We decided to try are
luck at Mike Renauds Hunt Club. The club has a couple available spots for
hunters to hunt ducks. This is club that is sitting on some beautiful
property. Flooded cornfields with sunken pits that are well camouflaged.
With public hunting a person has to get up real early and try to secure a
spot to hunt. With this club we paid a hundred dollars a day to hunt. Is
it worth it? I feel that it is. When hunting Renaud’s Hunt Club the
morning starts off with breakfast. You are than transported by a
four-wheeler ATV to the pit that you are hunting. One does not need decoys
on this property, they are already laid out. Than around eleven you are
picked up for lunch at the clubhouse.
The people that run this club are good people and good hunters. One of the
guys at the club none as Mike #2 hunted with us one day bringing his 2
year old lab named Mack. Mack was getting a little antsy do to the rusty
shooting from Rick and Ryan. After the third volley of decoying birds the
dog got some work in. This retrieve here was a banded drake mallard. Rick
and Ryan both shot at the bird and Rick won the coin toss.
Here we are getting ready to leave the field that we were hunting. On the
way back in riding four wheelers it is a sight to see flocks of snow and
blue geese covering the skies.
When the hunters go up to the clubhouse they are responsible for legally
tagging their birds. Mike Renaud and his people run a nice club and are
blessed to be able to have a duck and goose hunters dream property at
their disposal. We will definitely be back next year.
-Wild Bill-
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