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re: T-Storms and Duck hunting

Posted on 1/2/22 at 4:03 pm to
Posted by aTmTexas Dillo
East Texas Lake
Member since Sep 2018
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Posted on 1/2/22 at 4:03 pm to
Yeah, I'm just thinking about the times I hunted in pit blinds in rice fields and they were effective. But with some low platforms/knolls in several places around a field/marsh one could set up layouts and they would work. I hunt occasionally up here in the floodplain above a reservoir. We hunt from a welded up frame on drums that float obviously. It is camo'd reasonably but sticks out like a sore thumb. There are little knolls above water level where one could set up a layout. It would work. But people like big-assed Duck Dynasty blinds. Water levels that fluctuate would render layouts problematic. Now I did see some dudes hunting from perfect layout boats on Kaw Lake in Oklahoma. They limited out in no time. Kaw Lake is a duck magnet because they lower the reservoir level, crop dust millet and it grows over the summer. It sets seed heads and then they gradually raise the water level in the fall. But damn it gets cold in north Oklahoma so you have to be careful you don't get wet and freeze to death.
Posted by BorrisMart
La
Member since Jul 2020
9026 posts
Posted on 1/2/22 at 4:21 pm to
I'm used to hunting blinds in a controlled water environment, but the big brushed blinds don't work everywhere. Whenever I get a boat, I do think I may try to get one that can double as a blind, depending on where I am living at the time. Hunted some pit blinds near Opelousas over some farm land (not sure what they were growing its been forever) and there were tons of ducks but we didn't have the dog with us that morning and its impossible to find them when they land without a dog sometimes. But you can walk the ponds on either side and usually jump some out of it.
Posted by aTmTexas Dillo
East Texas Lake
Member since Sep 2018
23874 posts
Posted on 1/2/22 at 4:31 pm to
quote:

Whenever I get a boat, I do think I may try to get one that can double as a blind, depending on where I am living at the time.

These boats I'm talking about were about eight feel long and very low profile. There were two flaps to cover the hunter and then the boat was brushed with local vegetation. Push the vegetation through loops and tie down. They floated at a very low profile in shallow water. Frickin' deadly boat blinds. And this was northern OK and these hunters were from South Carolina. You have to look hard to find these blind boats online. They look nothing like a brushed up flat bottom boat.

I'm way off topic so I'm out.
Posted by BorrisMart
La
Member since Jul 2020
9026 posts
Posted on 1/2/22 at 4:42 pm to
quote:

These boats I'm talking about were about eight feel long and very low profile. There were two flaps to cover the hunter and then the boat was brushed with local vegetation. Push the vegetation through loops and tie down. They floated at a very low profile in shallow water. Frickin' deadly boat blinds. And this was northern OK and these hunters were from South Carolina. You have to look hard to find these blind boats online. They look nothing like a brushed up flat bottom boat.

I'm way off topic so I'm out.


I follow you, sorry I lead this topic astray. I wanna hear how everyone who hunted did today.
Posted by Redfish2010
Member since Jul 2007
15231 posts
Posted on 1/2/22 at 7:44 pm to
Always hunt a front when you can. Especially in a field. Rain, snow doesn’t matter. It’s almost always better.
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