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Baiting Fields for Ducks
Posted on 8/30/10 at 7:43 pm
Posted on 8/30/10 at 7:43 pm
When I did, I would put rice in burlap sacks. After they were VERY saturated and rotting I'd cut a few slits in the sacks.
Friend of mine from Lake Charles who was a game warden told me when they fly over to check, the water magnified the grain and it was easy to spot if you threw corn out, etc. Said sweet potatoes looked like watermelons.
Friend of mine from Lake Charles who was a game warden told me when they fly over to check, the water magnified the grain and it was easy to spot if you threw corn out, etc. Said sweet potatoes looked like watermelons.
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Posted on 8/30/10 at 7:48 pm to Geauxtiga
Ive never hunted over baited ponds. Not worth it IMO
Posted on 8/30/10 at 7:48 pm to Geauxtiga
Shoulda used milo
Corn glows
Corn glows
Posted on 8/30/10 at 7:49 pm to Geauxtiga
Ive never hunted over baited ponds. Not worth it IMO.
The risk not worth the reward
The risk not worth the reward
Posted on 8/30/10 at 7:53 pm to mylsuhat
We're talking about old time things on the other thread but I can tell you, baiting ponds was part of building blinds back then, unless you had a good stand of widegeon grass or smartgrass, the milo was dumped in the ponds, if you had gotten caught once, if not, corn
Things have changed nowadays but that was the way of the world back of Crown Point/Lafitte in the 40-60's and up until the 70's in some spots
Things have changed nowadays but that was the way of the world back of Crown Point/Lafitte in the 40-60's and up until the 70's in some spots
This post was edited on 8/30/10 at 7:54 pm
Posted on 8/30/10 at 7:54 pm to mylsuhat
quote:I agree and only did it once and that was years ago.
mylsuhat
Ive never hunted over baited ponds. Not worth it IMO
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Tiger 79
Shoulda used milo
Corn glows
I'm not sure if they don't have instruments now to detect heat from grain fermenting.
Posted on 8/30/10 at 7:55 pm to Geauxtiga
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I'm not sure if they don't have instruments now to detect heat from grain fermenting.
I don't know about all that now cuz a duck will have to fly over my house for me to get a shot on one.
Posted on 8/30/10 at 7:55 pm to Tiger 79
quote:Yeah, back then the risk of getting caught wasn't nearly what it is now. Dark-thirty was prime time for shootin.
Things have changed nowadays but that was the way of the world back of Crown Point/Lafitte in the 40-60's and up until the 70's in some spots
Posted on 8/30/10 at 7:57 pm to Tiger 79
quote:I lost my hunting partner three years ago (dad). Haven't hunted since and with daughters it's filled the void as far as staying busy. Miss it sometimes but putting out and picking up ALL those decoys.
I don't know about all that now cuz a duck will have to fly over my house for me to get a shot on one.
Posted on 8/30/10 at 8:02 pm to Geauxtiga
If I go outside on opening day of duck season. I prolly could kill one or two flying over the homestead. Alot of people shooting on boths sides of the river.
I'm tempted to do it to piss off my younger brother who hunts like the Robertson's of Duck Commander, walk outside, in my robe and coffee and 12 gauge and shoot a woodie or teal and text him a pic.
I'm tempted to do it to piss off my younger brother who hunts like the Robertson's of Duck Commander, walk outside, in my robe and coffee and 12 gauge and shoot a woodie or teal and text him a pic.
Posted on 8/31/10 at 6:59 am to Tiger 79
Growing up it was a way of life. It was the way most kids were raised, part of the heritage so to speak. In fact most boat ramps had corn available to buy wiht the launch fee. Just like going to the blind with at least a case of shells every time.
I am as by the book as it gets now, but I won't lie I was raised baiting. With all the coastal erosion it would be very difficult to bait right now as the tide would scatter most of the bait.
However seeing ducks over bait was something amazing to see.
I am as by the book as it gets now, but I won't lie I was raised baiting. With all the coastal erosion it would be very difficult to bait right now as the tide would scatter most of the bait.
However seeing ducks over bait was something amazing to see.
Posted on 8/31/10 at 8:11 am to Geauxtiga
but they can spot it with infrared now days
Posted on 8/31/10 at 8:51 am to Geauxtiga
How does a duck even begin to deal with a sweet potato?
Posted on 8/31/10 at 9:36 am to AlxTgr
One o four spots in Nebraska is a flooded corn field. That shite is the bomb. We flood the field to just below where the ears hang.
It is like a Luby's on free night the mallards just pour in.
It is like a Luby's on free night the mallards just pour in.
Posted on 8/31/10 at 9:48 am to AlxTgr
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How does a duck even begin to deal with a sweet potato?
We use to cut them in chunks, they would go bat shite crazy for them.
You'd be shooting at some ducks and more would be piling in.
Kinda like hunting in Iowa nowadays where DU shortstops em.
Posted on 8/31/10 at 10:07 am to Tiger 79
I still don't understand the reasoning of being able to hunt over a flooded field of corn, rice or whatever, but I can't add the same to my ponds?
Posted on 8/31/10 at 10:11 am to Tiger55
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I still don't understand the reasoning of being able to hunt over a flooded field of corn, rice or whatever, but I can't add the same to my ponds?
I really don't know. But it sucks
Posted on 8/31/10 at 11:57 am to Tiger55
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I still don't understand the reasoning of being able to hunt over a flooded field of corn, rice or whatever, but I can't add the same to my ponds?
Not agreeing or disagreeing, but if I had to guess I would think the reason you can hunt in a flooded crop field would be for the fact that ducks wouldn't leave those fields. Pretty much all of SW Louisiana is rice fields. If they cut the rice and couldn't shoot, the ducks would sit there all season long affecting all the other hunters.
Posted on 8/31/10 at 12:37 pm to Richardheadtigah
quote:They feed there but MANY love to stage in flooded woods and/or bayous.
Not agreeing or disagreeing, but if I had to guess I would think the reason you can hunt in a flooded crop field would be for the fact that ducks wouldn't leave those fields. Pretty much all of SW Louisiana is rice fields. If they cut the rice and couldn't shoot, the ducks would sit there all season long affecting all the other hunters.
In regard to your reasoning, and I'm not disagreeing either, just pointing out that as long as people don't go over the limit I don't see what difference it would make.
Posted on 8/31/10 at 12:45 pm to Geauxtiga
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They feed there but MANY love to stage in flooded woods and/or bayous
I agree with you, but I was thinking if a duck flew to the woods after a morning in the cut rice field, and got shot at a few times, him and his friends would learn to avoid the shooting by staying in the rice fields.
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