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Duck season around the corner, does everyone have water?

Posted on 11/6/23 at 10:09 am
Posted by tigerfoot
Alexandria
Member since Sep 2006
56432 posts
Posted on 11/6/23 at 10:09 am
We have water pumped in and duck numbers are reported good on our farm. I dont wish ill on anyone, but hoping that having water will take our hunting from being fair to pretty good this season.

Posted by Koolazzkat
Behind the Tupelo gum tree
Member since May 2021
1720 posts
Posted on 11/6/23 at 10:21 am to
As long as I get an east wind a couple days a week, I’ll have water, even if it doesn’t rain this winter.
Posted by reds on reds on reds
Birmingham
Member since Sep 2013
4206 posts
Posted on 11/6/23 at 10:25 am to
Anyone hearing any reports on Venice? I'll be out there Saturday morning.
Posted by Clyde Tipton
Planet Earth
Member since Dec 2007
38764 posts
Posted on 11/6/23 at 10:38 am to
quote:

does everyone have water?


Not a drop, and I rely exclusively on the rain.

We'll have to hunt public water until we get a couple good 2 day soakers to start catching on our private property.
Posted by smoked hog
Arkansas
Member since Nov 2006
1819 posts
Posted on 11/6/23 at 11:07 am to
I hunt a pit buried into a field road. The south field is full, the north field needs another 2 inches to be full.

That said we had so many ducks trying to commit suicide this weekend during early speck I think I'll be fine even if it doesn't rain.
Posted by JTM72
BR, LA.
Member since Mar 2014
1195 posts
Posted on 11/6/23 at 11:09 am to
We are hurting for water. We've got a little bit, enough to hunt. but not ideal
Posted by junkfunky
Member since Jan 2011
33919 posts
Posted on 11/6/23 at 11:53 am to
Some, will probably pump in more before the open but we'll see what happens Friday. Couple of ponds are thick with sorghum sudan and the ducks were hiding all in it. At least 100 in one pond and 250 in the other. Lots of spoonbills.
Posted by TFLEX
Member since Jun 2023
70 posts
Posted on 11/6/23 at 1:18 pm to
Our Flooded timber/swamp near the Calcasieu is bone dry. Usually 20 acres of 1ft-5ft of water in there.
Posted by Elblancodiablo
Member since Sep 2023
1829 posts
Posted on 11/6/23 at 1:35 pm to
Stuttgart area is slammed if you have water.
Posted by AlxTgr
Kyre Banorg
Member since Oct 2003
81707 posts
Posted on 11/6/23 at 2:10 pm to
I can see a couple ways of looking at this. On the positive side, I like being the only game in town so to speak. OTOH, all those slightly flooded fields made sure there were plenty of ducks in the general area.
Posted by mach316
Jonesboro, AR
Member since Jul 2012
4779 posts
Posted on 11/6/23 at 2:14 pm to
Last weekend’s rain saved us in NE AR. Most fields have water. Rivers filled up quickly, but dropping just as fast with the Mississippi being so low.
Posted by StrikeIndicator
inside the capital city loop.
Member since May 2019
448 posts
Posted on 11/6/23 at 3:09 pm to
Venice: Lil SI hunted youth. It was slow. BW & pintails. And they are scattered. Probably all be gone after everyone runs thru it before opening morning. Same reports from PAL,Delta,& Public.
One thing I noticed fishing , nothing growing in the ponds.
Posted by Outdoorreb
Member since Oct 2019
2563 posts
Posted on 11/6/23 at 3:28 pm to
Little water pumped here. Seeing a few mallards in the afternoon on some rice. I tons of woodies though. Pumping up a little right now though.
I usually don’t start duck hunting hard until late December
Posted by jpainter6174
Boss city
Member since Feb 2014
5310 posts
Posted on 11/6/23 at 3:32 pm to
One of our holes has water, but everything else is drier than the Sahara.

Posted by Elblancodiablo
Member since Sep 2023
1829 posts
Posted on 11/6/23 at 6:02 pm to
quote:

Last weekend’s rain saved us in NE AR. Most fields have water. Rivers filled up quickly, but dropping just as fast with the Mississippi being so low.


Best you can hope for this year is sheet water if you don't have levees. Takes a lot of rain to keep decent huntable amounts of sheet water. Tough hunting too.
Posted by TheGhostOfBigLee
Member since Oct 2018
862 posts
Posted on 11/6/23 at 6:49 pm to
Plenty of birds in Venice. Just all off the beaten path. Gotta know where to go there’s still good feed in areas.
Posted by bayouteche
The Beaches of Wham
Member since Nov 2012
1158 posts
Posted on 11/6/23 at 6:56 pm to
As long as diesel is for sale we’ll have water. Ducks on the other hand are subject to higher power approval.
Posted by Tigerbait1998
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2015
404 posts
Posted on 11/6/23 at 7:23 pm to
fished all over Delacroix Saturday and Sunday and saw maybe 100 ducks, heard 20 shots
Posted by SOLA
There
Member since Mar 2014
3337 posts
Posted on 11/6/23 at 9:27 pm to
Our blind is bone dry.
Posted by VernonPLSUfan
Leesville, La.
Member since Sep 2007
15873 posts
Posted on 11/7/23 at 7:19 am to
I have water but it's low and will be hard as hell for the dogs to get cripples. Lake is down 20".
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