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re: Duck Hunting Open Water Field
Posted on 12/7/16 at 2:56 pm to Ron Cheramie
Posted on 12/7/16 at 2:56 pm to Ron Cheramie
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You can't make ducks go where they don't want to go. A garhole will always be a garhole.
Why do you think that lease came available?
You can have 500 mojos and flock a flickers but it won't help. Garhole a are garholes
The dude said they kill when the other blind isn't hunting. While you're right that the ducks will ultimately choose where they want to be, there are definitely things you can do to make your spot more appealing to them. Especially since he's stuck with this blind for this season. What else is he going to do? Keep the same exact setup, shoot the same number of ducks and just be miserable the rest of the season? Or choose to do what he can to improve his situation?
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Posted on 12/7/16 at 3:45 pm to Ron Cheramie
My two buddies have been in the blind for years. A spot opened up because their third moved out of state. So it didnt "come available". I told them before the guy moved that i wanted in if he ever got out. And his job caused him to move, which resulted in an open spot.
Posted on 12/7/16 at 3:48 pm to gorillacoco
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The dude said they kill when the other blind isn't hunting. While you're right that the ducks will ultimately choose where they want to be, there are definitely things you can do to make your spot more appealing to them. Especially since he's stuck with this blind for this season. What else is he going to do? Keep the same exact setup, shoot the same number of ducks and just be miserable the rest of the season? Or choose to do what he can to improve his situation?
This.
And thats why i started this thread. To get suggestions and opinions on how to improve my situation.
Posted on 12/7/16 at 3:54 pm to Da Hammer
quote:
Find rail road spikes,
This will not make you popular with the farmer/landowner. I speak from experience.
Posted on 12/7/16 at 4:01 pm to Homey the Clown
I've hunted fields with over 1000 decoys. Would start by increasing your spread at first. Take some out as the season progresses Get some full bodies to stand on the lever and in the shallow water
Also brush the heck out of your blind and make it blend in with the levee
Make everyone keep their heads down and be still
If somebody sounds like crap on a duck call tell them to shut up or give them a pintail whistle if they have to blow something
Also brush the heck out of your blind and make it blend in with the levee
Make everyone keep their heads down and be still
If somebody sounds like crap on a duck call tell them to shut up or give them a pintail whistle if they have to blow something
Posted on 12/7/16 at 4:02 pm to Ron Cheramie
Best advice is to find out who the other blind leases from and what they pay and you go in and offer them more money!
Posted on 12/7/16 at 4:20 pm to Ron Cheramie
They lease from the same guy as us. I know the guy who hunts the blind. No way i can afford to out-bid that guy for his blind 
Posted on 12/7/16 at 5:59 pm to Homey the Clown
Could be a lot of things. Just have to try different set ups until something works, but it isn't always up to you. We used to hunt a field on a farm up in north MS delta. Our pit consistently shot better than the other 3-4 that were within 1,500 yds of ours. We'd have days where we'd kill 20 with 4 ppl and a few others immediately around us would kill 2-3. It was location more than anything.
Posted on 12/7/16 at 6:02 pm to BLM
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BLM
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Posted on 12/8/16 at 9:11 pm to jimbeam
Add some goose decoys...Canadas especially but specks will work also especially in ya'lls neck of the woods. I have shot a boat load of ducks over nothing but Canada floaters....ducks know when geese are in the water in the morning there is food....otherwise the big bastards would be in a field eating.
I would also pick up or at least drastically change the spread every day I hunted. Me and a buddy had a lease in a rice field in Arkansas for years and we consistently killed more birds because he would not leave the damned decoys alone...he was constantly moving them. We had 600 duck and another 300 goose dekes out so moving enough of the damned things to make a difference in the appearance was no small undertaking....but we did it every time...and we even picked up almost completely if we were going to be gone for more than a week (we both lived in Atlanta so we weren't in town for the entire season). Again, it was a pain in the arse but it made a difference.
I find that I am just to damned lazy to kill a boat load every trip...I can remember being more than willing to pick up a dozen dekes and wade all the way into a corner of a rice field to lay on the levee because thats where the birds wanted to be....now I would just sit in the blind and cuss the bastards LOL!!!! Hell I will gladly hunt a boat blind with nary a shot fired to stay out of waders altogether...funny how old age changes a man!
I would also pick up or at least drastically change the spread every day I hunted. Me and a buddy had a lease in a rice field in Arkansas for years and we consistently killed more birds because he would not leave the damned decoys alone...he was constantly moving them. We had 600 duck and another 300 goose dekes out so moving enough of the damned things to make a difference in the appearance was no small undertaking....but we did it every time...and we even picked up almost completely if we were going to be gone for more than a week (we both lived in Atlanta so we weren't in town for the entire season). Again, it was a pain in the arse but it made a difference.
I find that I am just to damned lazy to kill a boat load every trip...I can remember being more than willing to pick up a dozen dekes and wade all the way into a corner of a rice field to lay on the levee because thats where the birds wanted to be....now I would just sit in the blind and cuss the bastards LOL!!!! Hell I will gladly hunt a boat blind with nary a shot fired to stay out of waders altogether...funny how old age changes a man!
Posted on 12/18/16 at 1:54 pm to Homey the Clown
Have you found anything that made a difference?
Posted on 12/18/16 at 7:36 pm to SOLA
Well we hunted saturday morning, added a half dozen "flock a flickers" to the spread, which was about 3 dozen decoys short bc the south wind blew em up against the levee. We killed 18, 9 teal, 9 blackjack. Hunted until about 9:30am.
Fix the spread, ready for this morning. Got out there with 25+ mph wind and raining, killed 9, 8 teal and 1 blackjack. By 9am 80% of our spread was scattered throughout the cut. We rounded up all the dekes, threw em on the blind, and got the frick out.
Cant really credit the flickers, since saturday was opening morning so the birds havent been shot at in a couple weeks. And todays hunting conditions werent even close to typical.
If i go out there on a blue bird morning while the other blinds are hunting, and we kill 6 or 8, ill lettcha know
Fix the spread, ready for this morning. Got out there with 25+ mph wind and raining, killed 9, 8 teal and 1 blackjack. By 9am 80% of our spread was scattered throughout the cut. We rounded up all the dekes, threw em on the blind, and got the frick out.
Cant really credit the flickers, since saturday was opening morning so the birds havent been shot at in a couple weeks. And todays hunting conditions werent even close to typical.
If i go out there on a blue bird morning while the other blinds are hunting, and we kill 6 or 8, ill lettcha know
Posted on 12/18/16 at 8:52 pm to Homey the Clown
Ron cheramie,
You right about being still
It is a lost art amongst today's hunters.
It is more important than camo, decoys, guns, chokes, getting down. Calls and Mojos
Only location trumps being still
Once you see birds it's too late to get down, reach for your gun or fumble for calls.....
You right about being still
It is a lost art amongst today's hunters.
It is more important than camo, decoys, guns, chokes, getting down. Calls and Mojos
Only location trumps being still
Once you see birds it's too late to get down, reach for your gun or fumble for calls.....
Posted on 12/18/16 at 9:16 pm to Homey the Clown
If you're shooting jacks, is there a chance your water is too deep?
Posted on 12/18/16 at 9:29 pm to White Bear
Yeah, we removed a board in the cut drain, should drop the water about 10 inches. I will hunt wednesday morning, and re-evaluate the depth.
Posted on 12/18/16 at 9:31 pm to choupiquesushi
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being still
No doubt this is huge. Get the frick down, stop looking around, and barely blow that call.
Posted on 12/19/16 at 9:04 am to Homey the Clown
Golden retriever is the answer you seek.
Posted on 1/3/17 at 1:10 pm to Homey the Clown
Update:
So we still aren't killing many ducks. Maybe 1 or 2 a hunt. We have tried everything from putting out every motion decoy we own, to picking up every decoy and only throwing out about half and picking up every hunt. Nothing seems to work for ducks. Luckily, there are some geese in the cut to the north of us. They have been there for the last 6 or 7 hunts. Because of that, we are getting a lot of fly overs. We killed 4 specks this weekend. This week, im going to attempt to just throw out a dozen speck floaters and see how it goes. I wouldnt mind killing more ducks, obviously, but I'll be ok with one or two specks and a duck or two each hunt.
So we still aren't killing many ducks. Maybe 1 or 2 a hunt. We have tried everything from putting out every motion decoy we own, to picking up every decoy and only throwing out about half and picking up every hunt. Nothing seems to work for ducks. Luckily, there are some geese in the cut to the north of us. They have been there for the last 6 or 7 hunts. Because of that, we are getting a lot of fly overs. We killed 4 specks this weekend. This week, im going to attempt to just throw out a dozen speck floaters and see how it goes. I wouldnt mind killing more ducks, obviously, but I'll be ok with one or two specks and a duck or two each hunt.
Posted on 1/3/17 at 1:25 pm to Homey the Clown
If water isn't too deep, I'd go with speck full bodies. Quality dekes makes a difference. Also, even if water is too deep for full body stakes, you can use PVC pipes to sort of extend them. The birds don't know it's too deep to be feeding/walking around. Have seen lots of geese killed over full body dekes rigged up in 1-2 feet of water.
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