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Hunters returns from a foggy morning hunt to the Steel Wings lodge on Arkansas' Grand Prairie. (Steve Wright photo)
By Steve Wright, OutdoorChannel.com
SNAKE ISLAND, Ark. — It was well past sundown when I drove across the bridge over Buffalo Ditch, turned on to a gravel road and punched the keypad to open the electronic gate that led to the Steel Wings duck hunting lodge. I would leave two days later in a thick noon fog, after adding five pounds to my bodyweight.
Five freaking pounds — in less than 48 hours.
Duck season hasn’t been good for me, falling into a lifetime pattern of the seasons before it. I had already put on a fat 15 in the previous six months, most of it since October, when photographer James Overstreet and I had started this season’s “Duck Trek” in Canada’s Delta...