It could be a hit or miss from my experiences. But if you can get into a blind for a pm hunt most of your blinds in the main slough are pretty good, and a few river blinds can be good depends all on the weather.

 

Excellent - thank you ORwaterfowler. Have you got an opinion on what kind of crowds I might run into on a Saturday afternoon, and how late I can show up and still get a blind?

I'm hoping I can get in an evening hunt. Of course, as you say, weather is a big factor. Evening hunts on bluebird days can be pretty slow, until shooting time ends and the birds start swarming in as you pick up the decoys....

 

The few times that I jumped around from different blinds I always showed up at just after 12 when all the upland hunters are done checking in. Not to sure how long there would be someone in the check station I been told till 1:00 and 3:00 but like I said I show up when just after the upland hunters are wraped up.

 

Not sure about the crowd on the 2nd weekend. But a kid i work with has a uncle that lives close to the refuge and he hunts from standby darn near every weekend of the season and does well. I know i have a couple draws later in the season both are for saturdays. So i plan on hunting from standby on sundays to make a weekend out of it. Can't really help you as far as where to go,this will be my first year hunting there also.

 

wind!!!! gotta have wind in afternoon or it could be a worthless trip