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Catahooligans, why do you brush your duck blind with pine saplings?

Posted on 11/15/14 at 5:08 pm
Posted by PetroAg
Member since Jun 2013
1273 posts
Posted on 11/15/14 at 5:08 pm
I don't get it. I've hunted Catahoula wth a friend and it goes against everything I know about duck hunting

Pine saplings to brush cinder block blinds in the middle of the marsh, more black milk jugs than decoys, no one ever picks up the decoys and the blinds are 200 yds apart. I've even seen pine sapling garages to park the airboat. I guess it works, but why does everyone do it? Because the blind next to them does?

I only ask because I saw a couple guys cutting pine saplings and putting them in their boat on the side of 165 this morning. I know it was for Catahoula
Posted by robins08
Alexandria
Member since Mar 2012
609 posts
Posted on 11/15/14 at 6:43 pm to
Extremely easy to cut , stays on limbs for a long time , and easy to break off and tuck in the hog wire . We use it on pits also .
Posted by AlxTgr
Kyre Banorg
Member since Oct 2003
81640 posts
Posted on 11/15/14 at 6:46 pm to
Because we know ducks don't take Forestry.
Posted by Grassy1
Member since Oct 2009
6256 posts
Posted on 11/15/14 at 6:50 pm to
If EVERYONE does it, I'm guessing it looks pretty natural to the birds.

Posted by Jenar Boy
Elsewhere
Member since Aug 2013
12535 posts
Posted on 11/15/14 at 6:52 pm to
From hunting there most of my life I can tell you it don't bother the ducks. Pines are readily available and easy work with. My brother and some buddies took 8 kids this morning and missed full limit by one
Posted by TigerBait413
CenLA
Member since Sep 2011
3280 posts
Posted on 11/15/14 at 9:22 pm to
Now if you don't use that you stick out like a sore thumb.
Posted by Dale Doubak
Somewhere
Member since Jan 2012
6000 posts
Posted on 11/16/14 at 7:06 am to
How long do they stay green for
Posted by PetroAg
Member since Jun 2013
1273 posts
Posted on 11/16/14 at 9:33 am to
Yeah I'm not saying it doesn't work. It's just different from where I'm used to hunting in coastal marshes and flooded timber.
Posted by PetroAg
Member since Jun 2013
1273 posts
Posted on 11/16/14 at 9:37 am to
quote:

Now if you don't use that you stick out like a sore thumb.


Haha I can't imagine ducks seeing a blind covered in roso cane and thinking 'this doesn't look right, let's go check out that pine tree blind surrounded with 200 milk jugs'

Different areas require different techniques though, the full stringers speak for themselves
Posted by dawg23
Baton Rouge, La
Member since Jul 2011
5065 posts
Posted on 11/16/14 at 11:27 am to
Posted by AlxTgr
Kyre Banorg
Member since Oct 2003
81640 posts
Posted on 11/16/14 at 11:59 am to
quote:

It's just different from where I'm used to hunting in coastal marshes and flooded timber.
Duh. Pine not close. There is pine all the way to the lake, north and south.
Posted by Spankum
Miss-sippi
Member since Jan 2007
56036 posts
Posted on 11/16/14 at 12:35 pm to
I have actually wondered the same thing through the years. It seems to me that you could use switch cane or something like that and it would blend a lot beret than pine...

However, people have been using pine for decades ant it does work pretty well...can't be too critical of something that is that effective....
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