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Where do ducks go during big freeze ups?

Posted on 12/28/17 at 8:35 am
Posted by jimjackandjose
Member since Jun 2011
6744 posts
Posted on 12/28/17 at 8:35 am
Last year, day before big freeze we were loaded with ducks. Next night and day it stayed sub 32 and pond froze up.

Where do ducks go when this happens? Saw them on a big field that wind had kept from freezing up. Big lakes?
Posted by choupiquesushi
yaton rouge
Member since Jun 2006
34838 posts
Posted on 12/28/17 at 8:37 am to
short term where ever they can eat.....

more that 2 days any unfrozen water - then feed and back and forth..

dabblers can't feed obviously in 3-4 feet of water...

divers can.....

its a very complex answer..
Posted by DirtyMikeandtheBoys
Member since May 2011
19467 posts
Posted on 12/28/17 at 8:40 am to
in the timber baw
Posted by REB BEER
Laffy Yet
Member since Dec 2010
18021 posts
Posted on 12/28/17 at 8:40 am to
The Wax don't freeze baw
This post was edited on 12/28/17 at 10:03 am
Posted by AlxTgr
Kyre Banorg
Member since Oct 2003
87308 posts
Posted on 12/28/17 at 8:42 am to
Center of Catahoula Lakeriver and the junction of the diversion canal and Bayou Boeuf.
Posted by Wtodd
Tampa, FL
Member since Oct 2013
68541 posts
Posted on 12/28/17 at 8:44 am to
Tampa for a short vaca....then back when temps rise
Posted by TigerDog83
Member since Oct 2005
8849 posts
Posted on 12/28/17 at 8:45 am to
Puddlers will go to big water like lakes and the rivers close by. They will wait out a short freeze before looking for shallows and some will turn to dry feeding even in the south if it's cold enough or lasts long enough. Big thaws in rice fields are often good hunts.
Posted by VernonPLSUfan
Leesville, La.
Member since Sep 2007
17780 posts
Posted on 12/28/17 at 8:52 am to
It aint west La.
Posted by civiltiger07
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2011
15062 posts
Posted on 12/28/17 at 9:00 am to
somewhere that isn't frozen
Posted by White Bear
probably
Member since Jul 2014
17557 posts
Posted on 12/28/17 at 9:06 am to
They go to the
Posted by The Torch
DFW The Dub
Member since Aug 2014
29382 posts
Posted on 12/28/17 at 9:29 am to
running water
Posted by Redfish2010
Member since Jul 2007
15231 posts
Posted on 12/28/17 at 9:50 am to
Heated ponds bruh
Posted by jimjackandjose
Member since Jun 2011
6744 posts
Posted on 12/28/17 at 9:57 am to
I was thinking of mounting my propane heater/blower to my blind and heating mine
Posted by Geauxtiga
No man's land
Member since Jan 2008
34401 posts
Posted on 12/28/17 at 10:33 am to
They can fly many miles in a day. They move south.
Posted by AlxTgr
Kyre Banorg
Member since Oct 2003
87308 posts
Posted on 12/28/17 at 10:42 am to
quote:

Heated ponds bruh

The ones with the nets behind them?
Posted by Larry Gooseman
Houston
Member since Mar 2014
2785 posts
Posted on 12/28/17 at 10:47 am to
In my opinion I would not hunt TX/LA during hard freeze unless I knew where they might go. I hunted the freeze last year, ducks find safe water and do not move.
Posted by Swampman
North La.
Member since Feb 2016
238 posts
Posted on 12/28/17 at 2:03 pm to
Rivers or any running water sources.
Posted by Capt ST
High Plains
Member since Aug 2011
13661 posts
Posted on 12/28/17 at 2:19 pm to
Tensas area.
Posted by choupiquesushi
yaton rouge
Member since Jun 2006
34838 posts
Posted on 12/28/17 at 2:21 pm to
quote:


Tensas area.
Hold on now kemosabe - shut u mouf......
Posted by jimjackandjose
Member since Jun 2011
6744 posts
Posted on 12/28/17 at 4:29 pm to
Naw. Was thinking the prairie with this hard freeze
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