re: Taking advantage of low duck pond levels? As in bone DRY!!!

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did he get in trouble?

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Naw, and when he saw them floating he scooped up as many as he could find.

I better look it up first.

I was scheduled to go on a dove hunt over a corn field last year. I called the guy I was going with the weekend prior to the hunt to clarifiy directions and asked what he was doing. His response was "planting corn, duh!"

I went fishing instead.

Planting

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A normal agricultural planting is undertaken for the purpose of producing a crop. The Fish and Wildlife Service does not make a distinction between agricultural fields planted with the intent to harvest a crop and those planted without such intent so long as the planting is in accordance with recommendations from the Cooperative Extension Service.
Normal agricultural plantings do not involve the placement of seeds in piles or other heavy concentrations. Relevant factors include recommended planting dates, proper seed distribution, seed bed preparation, application rate, and seed viability.

A normal soil stabilization practice is a planting for agricultural soil erosion control or post mining land reclamation conducted in accordance with recommendations of the Cooperative Extension Service.

Lands planted by means of top sowing or aerial seeding can only be hunted if seeds are present solely as the result of a normal agricultural planting or normal soil stabilization practice (see section on wildlife food plots).

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An old timer told me they would get a 55 gal drum and fill it w sweet potatos then water and start a fire around it on the ponds levee. Cook the potatos and then dump that in your pond

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Not if they're in a burlap sack...so I heard.

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I assume the burlap sack had a brick or something in it.

Did you hear if it worked?

riding a 4 wheeler through in constitutes manipulating... boom...

also... the sweet potato thing is in fact illegal..


but.. if you sink a sack of sweet potatoes ducks will certainly like that pond..

I tried to make my own deer attractant once with a bunch of cut up sweet taters and apples. I dont know what I did wrong but not even the pigs would touch it.

ETA: I wonder how hard it would be to detect someone using the horribly wrong burlap sac potato trick? I wonder how many sacs per acre you would be lookng for? I bet the ducks tear the sac open after a while.

we used to put a sack in a pond in a salt marsh about as big as a football field...

we were the only group that hunted that area that had more puddle ducks than divers... back then

and we always had ducks.....

why it works NO clue... but it sure did..


actually i think baiting for deer may be illegal in la..

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i think baiting for deer may be illegal in la..

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Not on private land.

about 8-10ft