Salt Marsh Black Duck

I always try to live by the Boy Scout motto, "Be Prepared."  You never know when Murphy's Law will come into play.

However, just like how you never know when something will go wrong, you never know when something will go right.  Sometimes you're given a rare opportunity.  But to take advantage of this opportunity, you've got to be ready. 

For my brother and me, this meant bringing a shotgun along during some Thanksgiving trout fishing.  

Nothing like drifting down a tidal creek, in hopes of jumping a bufflehead, and instead flushing a black duck from the edge of the spartina grass.  A rare thing around here.