re: Duck Blind Brush advice

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Kind of hard to hunt a layout blind in a flooded ag field.

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Yeah, you'd have to plan a bit and have a high spot somewhere. But in La, there is a tendency to build an appreciably large blind. Hunting the Kaw Lake in northern Oklahoma one year we came across two South Carolinians who had layout boats. They were slightly larger than a layout blind. These sat low in the water with flap doors that could be opened just like a layout blind. Damn, those guys were deadly and mostly concealed. These boats were camo'd with local vegetation. I'd say those dudes were more advanced in their planning and strategy for mobil duck blinds than the old La/Tx traditionalists. If I still hunted I'd find a way to use the system. Their profile matched the surrounding vegetation.

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How deep did the water have to be for the layout boats be used? Anything above the knee is tough for mallards to feed. I might have to look into them, if it didn’t need deep water that might be pretty good

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It wasn't a foot deep in that area at that time. When you have time look up how they prepare the duck factory at Kaw Lake. A large reservoir on the Arkansas River in north central Oklahoma, the ACOE drops the water level for the summer planting season which exposes a large area of dirt flats on the north end (look at it on Google Earth). Oklahoma plants millet via crop duster and it sprouts and grows to seed heads. In the fall the COE gradually raises the water level to flood the flats. I've seen massive flocks of mallards up there. That's what is hunted. These layout boats perfectly handled the situation. Consider how good laying at stubble level in a good rice field and that's what these were. Those South Carolina boys traveled every year to Kaw to set up and hunt for a couple weeks.
We hauled in regular layout blinds but the wet ground we were on made that difficult.