’PEAKE SEASON

FOR DIVERSITY OF WATERFOWL SPECIES AND SETTINGS IN WHICH TO HUNT THEM, FEW WATERBODIES CAN COMPLETE WITH CHESAPEAKE BAY.

By Ken Perrotte

The wind howled as the sky spit in the eye of any hunter chancing to look aloft. Much is made about waterfowl hunting in extreme weather, but fortunately for Chip Heaps and his buddies, the after-noon hunt last year at Quaker Neck, a finger of land just below Chestertown on Maryland’s storied Eastern Shore, was staged from a blind that didn’t require a boat. The blind sat at the edge of an impoundment, and the field in front of it was decked out in silhouette goose decoys. “The wind was blowing right in our face, so we had to turn around and try to take the birds out the back and when they were coming over the blind,” says Heaps. “We did kill several out front over the decoys, too, though.” The…

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