Ducks in Long Creek

5" plus of wet snow yesterday. Found large numbers of mallards using Long Creek and got permission from S. Hansen to hunt this morning. Monte and I went, no ducks on the creek when we arrived in the dark (yeh!, a day pond). Ducks started just after shooting time and never quit. We each shot 5; unfortunately, when I shot one of my drakes two additional ducks closer than the one I shot fell (all three were dead), and one was a hen, first of the season (duck I shot was 25 yards, and the other two about 5 and 10). May well be more hunts in this area over the next week, but will have to wait as Hansen has relatives coming to hunt deer and pheasants.