There isn’t much duck hunting around Mattawa except for a few goldeneye and mergansers on the river. It’s just not good duck habitat or on a migration corridor. There is a bit of Canada goose shooting to be had on a few of the area farms but even that is quite limited. You would be better off heading further east in the Missisippi River to Ottawa corridor. I hunted most of the Mattawa area farms for geese for over a decade and never once did we see or shoot a puddle duck of any kind and I could count on less than both hands the numbers of puddlers we saw on ponds etc in the area.