Question for the rice field hunters

newly flooded spots - are full of feed that hasn't been touched.....


they usually don't head to stuff that was already flooded..

That’s what I was thinking, but we’ve done well a few times when it was just a light drizzle in and already flooded field

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This but generally the very few Mallards that do still make it into LA typically prefer to not work the woods so much in the rain thus making field hunting more productive.

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this too...

I don’t know how they know, but since I was a kid when it rains in cenla the hills drain to Red river, where it backs up the birds come and stay a couple days and leave. They do it to this day, but mallards have been replaced with grays.

But been hunting marsh for 2 decades, I know after a rain event birds are gone for a few days. Just something you have to accept

I believe its a feed and visibility deal. Fresh feed exposed when it rains. Its a death wish dropping into a hole with low visibility.

Also I find the first few days after geese clear out stubble in a rice field the ducks like to go sit in the spot.

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I don’t know how they know, but since I was a kid when it rains in cenla the hills drain to Red river, where it backs up the birds come and stay a couple days and leave. They do it to this day, but mallards have been replaced with grays.

But been hunting marsh for 2 decades, I know after a rain event birds are gone for a few days. Just something you have to accept

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best hunts I have ever had were in the point system era hunting previously dry hayfields, cattle pastures and bean fields that were holding about 2-3 inches of water after "wet" fronts...... gosh 10 pt sprigs were a beautiful thing...

MWP



Damn son. Chill.

Ha. Very few of us whack em in the pines.