Win Mitchell has lived long enough to see the good times, bad times and good times again on Marsh Lake, a 5,000-acre bulge in the Minnesota River.
Now he's seeing the good times ... with vegetation.
In advance of Saturday's regular-season duck opener, Mitchell, 79, of Northfield, past state chairman of Ducks Unlimited, was on Marsh Lake on Friday, scouting the large, shallow — and reborn — western Minnesota water body with a buddy, Pete Bohlig, 48, of Farmington.