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Any ducks besides woodies around Woodworth?
Posted on 11/19/14 at 3:13 pm
Posted on 11/19/14 at 3:13 pm
My family owns land SW of Alexandria and can consistently kill wood ducks when we have water in our slough/timber. However, I want to kill more of a mixed bag. We are considering building a lake or putting up a levee to hold water and shoot more birds. However, we don't want to spend the money to just keep killing woodies.
We see the migrators way up but not too many low flyers, and every pothole on Kisatchie seems to only have a few Woodrows. I'm wondering if this is a "if we build it, they will come" scenario or if it will just end up being a waste of money. Does anyone frequently kill ducks (besides wood ducks) around the SW Alexandria/Woodworth area? I know East towards Marksville they tear em up.
We're only 30 miles from Catahoula and Dewey Wills but I swear the birds stay N and E of the Red river
before flying south to the rice fields and coast.
We see the migrators way up but not too many low flyers, and every pothole on Kisatchie seems to only have a few Woodrows. I'm wondering if this is a "if we build it, they will come" scenario or if it will just end up being a waste of money. Does anyone frequently kill ducks (besides wood ducks) around the SW Alexandria/Woodworth area? I know East towards Marksville they tear em up.
We're only 30 miles from Catahoula and Dewey Wills but I swear the birds stay N and E of the Red river
before flying south to the rice fields and coast.
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Posted on 11/19/14 at 3:38 pm to PetroAg
interesting question...I know the rice fields along I-49 near there hold ducks later in the year. Lots of spoonies but other ducks mixed in. I think likely scenario is that if it's not hunted often, there will be some big ducks come in later in the year to your hole, but not in big numbers.
Posted on 11/19/14 at 4:02 pm to PetroAg
I hunt st . landry and the lone pine area on occasion . Lot's of teal and a few big ducks .
Posted on 11/19/14 at 4:54 pm to PetroAg
Indian Creek gets a mixed bag, but then again it's really close to the bottom land. How far removed from the lowlands would your place be?
Posted on 11/19/14 at 9:18 pm to PetroAg
McGraws Farm right there on I49 gets every variety of duck, but that is in open rice fields. If you're in the woods in a flooded slough, gonna get mostly woodies and grays. Maybe the occasional mallard.
Posted on 11/20/14 at 9:03 am to PetroAg
I personally don't know,, but I'll be glad to ask that cop the next time he wants to look at my picture and get my autograph... That _____ ______ knows everything!!
Posted on 11/20/14 at 9:16 am to PetroAg
I have a feeling our places are really close. I'm on bayou boeuf on the south side and have hunted it since I was a kid. We have a slough we damned up years ago (for fish) and it has brought us a couple of good years of grey ducks. Other than increasing the woodies that hang around though, thats about it.
Posted on 11/20/14 at 2:14 pm to PetroAg
You could have a logger come in and harvest some of your trees for profit. With that land cleared, you would be able to use your $$$ from the timber to build levees. This of course is if you have some old growth hardwoods. I have a friend who did this. I can get you the logger's phone number if you'd like.
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