Savoring the taste (and luck) of a Downstate draw for public waterfowl blinds

The Duckapalooza area at Johnson’s Grove Park in Lacon for the public waterfowl blind draw for Woodford SFWA. (Dale Bowman)

LACON, Ill.—Dusty Culjan was dealing with kids and talking with a buddy when I bumped into him Sunday.

That’s fits at a waterfowl blind draw, the great social event of the summer across Illinois outdoors.