re: I need a duck hunting mentor in the Mandeville area...

Lake Van said you can hunt with a kayak. Either in it or just yakking to a pond and pulling up and just sitting. The ponds aren't that big, but there is a big pond/lake in between Cane and Bayou Lacombe that I hunted a lot in the past and thought about throwing fast grass on my yak and hunting in the middle.

I just find a spot and hunt on shore and pull my yak in little ways in the back. It's better if you have reeds to pull into. That's mainly what I look for. The grounds a little harder and you have tall reeds that give you more cover