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Article: Here a `Peep,' There a `Peep': Wet Spot in Woods Rings to the Sound of Woodies
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- The Washington Post
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- October 16, 1988
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Jim Clay says success in hunting is like anything else: 90
percent preparation, 10 percent luck.
Which is why we were heading to his secret place a day early and
unarmed, to watch events unfold the evening before Virginia's
four-day early duck season opened in the foothills of the Blue Ridge
last week.
"I just wish I could go with you," said Clay, who had a meeting
to attend. "You're going to see an amazing number of ducks."
Back in a notch in the hills that time forgot, Clay had found a
stand of flooded timber where fresh water backed up into a long,
narrow draw. The water was clear and cool and the trees it flooded
out were now drowned, standing dead like fragile scarecrows against
the ...