After 11 years on the contest calling circuit, Allen and his RNT Duck Call broke through with the 2010 World Duck Calling title in Stuttgart, Arkansas.

Here it is, the first Arkansas Game and Fish Weekly Waterfowl Report since the start of the season, and as we all suspected, there's fewer ducks in Arkansas than were here during the same time last year. But relief is on the way, weather-wise.

Ducks Unlimited now has its own iPhone app, thanks to a technology firm based in Rogers, Arkansas. The 1.0 version includes a complete waterfowl ID gallery and more than 300 videos. Here's a video of it in action and info on where to download.

A Little Rock television station follows three duck hunters into the Delta as they make arrangements for Saturday's open to waterfowl season.

The Arkansas Game & Fish Commission's weekly waterfowl report came out Thursday, and it's not the kind of thing you want to read on the eve of waterfowl season. In short, it's dry, dry, dry out there, and duck numbers are low.

Water is scarce and hunters are concerned once the shooting starts, the ducks that are around will be long gone within a few days.

Duck season opens November 20th with many hunters desperate for rain and a puddle to hunt.

A drive around Lonoke County in search of ducks and water lends a little hope for November 20th's opening day.

Greenhead.net Pro Staffer Anthony Cassinelli surveyed the Black Swamp yesterday from the air and things are awful dry on the Cache River.

Greenhead.net Pro Staffer Anthony Cassinelli hunted Canada geese and ducks for six days in northwest Saskatchewan near Battleford. After enduring unseasonably warm conditions in the first part of the week, things finally cooled off the ducks dropped in. Still, Canada's wet summer and warm temperatures could mean a late arrival of ducks in Arkansas.

Ducks Unlimited honored Tom Smalling of Paragould for his contributions to the Arkansas Greenwing Camp and the Arkansas Greenwing program by naming a Ducks Unlimited Legacy Greenwing project in Saskatchewan, Canada, in his honor.

While most of us are thinking about this coming waterfowl season, others have been thinking about the 2011-2012 season. Among them, James Hautman, an artist from Chaska, Minn., who has been named the winner of the 2010 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest, an annual competition hosted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

If we don’t have the habitat for ducks to reproduce and thrive, the fastest boats and the best calls won't raise your chances of high bag limits. Greenhead.net Pro Staffer Matthew Finley on why habitat and conservation are essential for modern waterfowlers.