Any Public Land that is worth hunting Waterfowl

I don’t think the men that have spent years and lots of sweat finally finding a public land honey hole are just going to give you GPS coordinates.

Just get out there and try them out

First post on this website wanting public land duck hunting scouting reports for an undefined location.

I've said it before: you better be glad this isn't MSDucks.com circa 2007. You'd get a 4000 character post on the philosophy of caulking miter joints.

Don't paddle into big branch on a falling tide

You're welcome

Go to Canada and knock on doors. No pirouge needed

Oh sure.
Get to the launch at 2:00 a.m. and wait in your car till 4:00 a.m. Then combat launch with a bunch of other people. Set up 50 yards from the other 20 hunting parties and try not to shoot each other.

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Any specific areas north and west out of state to target? I am interested in making a DIY duck hunt somewhere in TX or OK

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I’m not familiar with any of them, but I know they had some south Louisiana guys hunting salt plains NWR last December that did pretty poorly while we were limiting out with an outfitter. That is a very long drive and a lot of work to not do much better than your average Louisiana hunt. There aren’t many options for public hunting in that area of Oklahoma though.

The best advice I can give is to pick an area and research it the best you can. Your first trip out will likely be more of a learning experience.

Its full of asshats running GTRs everywhere and hoped up mercs trying to run 60 through cypress knees.

We hunted it religiously until it got over crowded to a point you can not even work a duck any more.

Quite sad in all honesty, a many of good hunts were had in Redeye

Take up field hockey, lacrosse, knitting or cooking and you’ll be miles ahead on money and time.

Or just get a friend to kick you in the nuts. That would be much cheaper and less time consuming as well. Same end result. I would say take up golf instead but that would honestly take 2 kicks.

I’ve almost given up on public land hunting. There used to be some epic hunts up in NE LA but those were so long ago that I start sounding like my granddad did when I bring those up. The only up side is that my buddies boys who aren’t boys anymore are still mad at them. They go to Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma hunting public. If there is a shred of a possibility there is a duck in a 1,000 mile radius of Monroe, LA they probably know about it and will travel at a moments notice to get there. I just thought we were mad at them but this a whole different level of bitterness. Luckily I have been able to take advantage of some of those times when they find the X and trust me, it’s definitely not easy getting to most of their X’s. You almost have to ask yourself, is it going to be worth it?