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After an area floods, how long til the ducks find it?
Posted on 10/17/14 at 12:11 pm
Posted on 10/17/14 at 12:11 pm
During duck season, if you get a good hard rain or river rise that floods a new area, how long does it take the ducks to move in to take advantage of the newly available food? A day? A week? Longer?
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Posted on 10/17/14 at 12:17 pm to gorillacoco
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A day? A week?
In between these two. We killed Teal this season on a field that was flooded two days before.
Posted on 10/17/14 at 12:18 pm to gorillacoco
Not even a day
They can smell newly flooded food.
They can smell newly flooded food.
Posted on 10/17/14 at 12:21 pm to Evergreenie
If it is near a heavy traffic flyway or a big waterway it will be instantaneous. They will be there if they are around.
Posted on 10/17/14 at 12:34 pm to gorillacoco
I think you have different answers based on the type of land. A flooded open field like rice or soybean is going to be located very quickly. A flood timber section make take a while longer.
Posted on 10/17/14 at 12:40 pm to gorillacoco
Overnight, place by my grandfather would flood maybe 1-2 times a season and only stay flooded for a few days. Until they cut the timber, they showed up so consistently that he could call me when they had a good enough rain and tell me to get up there.
Posted on 10/17/14 at 12:46 pm to ChadJones4Heisman
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If it is near a heavy traffic flyway or a big waterway it will be instantaneous. They will be there if they are around
This. Mallards and Wood Ducks stay on the new flooded timber when the water is rising where we hunt. Staying on the newly flooded stuff is the tricky part.
As for the fields, don't let a big rain come up during duck season and put sheet water out in fields that were otherwise dry. Will frick you big time, especially on Pintails. They love feeding in those little mud puddles.
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