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White Lake lottery hunts
Posted on 8/19/19 at 7:22 pm
Posted on 8/19/19 at 7:22 pm
What’s your experience. I hear it can be really good at times but a friend of mine went a few years back and he wasn’t impressed doesn’t think I should enter? Is the marsh or the rice fields better and what are the blinds like? The field is 250 if chosen for 3 people and the marsh is 350 for 2 people. Also says guides provided? I’m assuming this is just to get u to the blind or do they actually send green jeans to hunt with you?
ETA says guides provided for marsh hunt
ETA says guides provided for marsh hunt
This post was edited on 8/19/19 at 7:26 pm
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Posted on 8/19/19 at 7:35 pm to WPsportsman
I did the teal hunt last year. We killed 8 teal between 2 of us. Wasn’t impressed with the so-called guide they placed us with. Outside of that, it was a nice experience. Very unique. Saw tons of teal but they didn’t decoy at all. We hunted the marsh. I would do it again for sure.
Posted on 8/19/19 at 7:48 pm to OGhunter777
If you hunt the marsh the guide has a boat? Or how does that work
Posted on 8/19/19 at 8:07 pm to WPsportsman
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If you hunt the marsh the guide has a boat?
Yes
Hunted the fields twice. Wasn't good both times. problem is, they get you out the field at 9am. Just when the big good birds start to fly.
Posted on 8/19/19 at 8:15 pm to fishfighter
Says hunting ends at 930. I could understand 11 or mabe even 10 but dam 930? Thats prime time for flight ducks
Posted on 8/19/19 at 8:30 pm to WPsportsman
Yes the marsh hunt had guides - if you wanna call them that. Wasn’t impressed to say the least.
Posted on 8/19/19 at 8:31 pm to OGhunter777
Saw tons of teal and the marsh is beautiful - definitely something to see.
Posted on 8/20/19 at 8:25 am to WPsportsman
Marsh hunts are better than the field. The pits in the field are barely taken care of and look like trash(crappy decoys, little brush, and buffaloed bullseye for landing area). Birds get stale quick and know exactly where the pits are. Marsh hunts are worth the experience though.
Posted on 8/20/19 at 8:54 am to WPsportsman
hunted the field once (last year)
We showed up, I believe there were 4 field blinds being hunted that day. Someone from each group drew from a hat for a blind (blind 1, blind 2, blind, 3, etc). A guy drives all 4 groups in an atv trailer being pulled by a UTV and drops each group off on a levee that their assigned pit blind is on. We sat in the dark for an hour waiting on the sun to rise. Decoys are out. We only had about 2 dozen old, faded decoys. The blind was not brushed. At 9am sharp, the trolley shows back up to pick everyone up. We were the only blind to kill a duck, I think we ended the day with 6. We did get to see a pair of whooping cranes fly around in the distance which was pretty neat. I wont apply for a field hunt every again but may give the marsh lottery a try.
We showed up, I believe there were 4 field blinds being hunted that day. Someone from each group drew from a hat for a blind (blind 1, blind 2, blind, 3, etc). A guy drives all 4 groups in an atv trailer being pulled by a UTV and drops each group off on a levee that their assigned pit blind is on. We sat in the dark for an hour waiting on the sun to rise. Decoys are out. We only had about 2 dozen old, faded decoys. The blind was not brushed. At 9am sharp, the trolley shows back up to pick everyone up. We were the only blind to kill a duck, I think we ended the day with 6. We did get to see a pair of whooping cranes fly around in the distance which was pretty neat. I wont apply for a field hunt every again but may give the marsh lottery a try.
Posted on 8/20/19 at 10:17 am to WPsportsman
I've hunted both.
I've hunted the marsh twice for teal season, having a good hunt both times. Killed an easy limit once, and were 2 short of a limit the second time. The second hunt was a really high water year and we saw a ton of birds, but they were all spread out in the marsh. The marsh hunt is a cool experience and I would gladly go again if I still lived in the area.
I've hunted the rice fields 4 or 5 times with mixed results. Had one hunt during a bad drought when no fields had any water, never fired a shot, but the only other blind hunting that day shot a 3 man of specks. I've had another hunt where we shot limits of specks with a few mallards, and then one really good duck hunt where we shot a few short of a 3 man limit with mostly mallards, teal, and wigeon.
The rice field is super hit or miss. I'm not sure I would go again if given the opportunity. It's frustrating in that you are hunting in one of the really good areas of the state, but LDWF runs it like a Circle K. If they would let you hunt until noon, or 1 PM, I think it would be much better. But them ending the hunt at 9:00 AM or whatever is a joke.
I've hunted the marsh twice for teal season, having a good hunt both times. Killed an easy limit once, and were 2 short of a limit the second time. The second hunt was a really high water year and we saw a ton of birds, but they were all spread out in the marsh. The marsh hunt is a cool experience and I would gladly go again if I still lived in the area.
I've hunted the rice fields 4 or 5 times with mixed results. Had one hunt during a bad drought when no fields had any water, never fired a shot, but the only other blind hunting that day shot a 3 man of specks. I've had another hunt where we shot limits of specks with a few mallards, and then one really good duck hunt where we shot a few short of a 3 man limit with mostly mallards, teal, and wigeon.
The rice field is super hit or miss. I'm not sure I would go again if given the opportunity. It's frustrating in that you are hunting in one of the really good areas of the state, but LDWF runs it like a Circle K. If they would let you hunt until noon, or 1 PM, I think it would be much better. But them ending the hunt at 9:00 AM or whatever is a joke.
Posted on 8/20/19 at 11:26 am to Canard Gris
Have likewise had mixed results in the White Lake rice, but overall pretty good. If not an opener, weather is key, just like any other rice blind. Clear? Calm? Ain't happenin.
With ugly weather, we did well. Only time we were allowed to stay out later was on a day a nasty front line was blowing through mid-hunt which basically forced us to hunker in the blind to ride it out. Think they gave us another 30 mins or maybe an hour, hunting was strong before and after the weather.
Did a marsh teal hunt last year, came away extremely frustrated. Saw a bazillion teal but they wanted no part of our set up/pond. Other blinds did pretty well overall, we killed 1 suicide bird, the only one we fired on.
Later found out that the "guide" that had been hunting that spot bailed on it because of same observations we had made. So why use a blind that's not been producing when they have soooo many others to work with? Guys that work there have all day long to ensure tax paying guests are put in best position possible for success.
With ugly weather, we did well. Only time we were allowed to stay out later was on a day a nasty front line was blowing through mid-hunt which basically forced us to hunker in the blind to ride it out. Think they gave us another 30 mins or maybe an hour, hunting was strong before and after the weather.
Did a marsh teal hunt last year, came away extremely frustrated. Saw a bazillion teal but they wanted no part of our set up/pond. Other blinds did pretty well overall, we killed 1 suicide bird, the only one we fired on.
Later found out that the "guide" that had been hunting that spot bailed on it because of same observations we had made. So why use a blind that's not been producing when they have soooo many others to work with? Guys that work there have all day long to ensure tax paying guests are put in best position possible for success.
Posted on 8/20/19 at 12:49 pm to Tigah D
If I pay 350 dollars to hunt public land we better kill ducks.
Posted on 8/20/19 at 1:33 pm to WPsportsman
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350 dollars to hunt public land
Might as well pay a bit more and go with a real guide.
Posted on 8/20/19 at 1:44 pm to speckledawg
yea part of the $350 for the marsh hunts is the experience of visiting, that's just to be understood.
For less than that you can make a hunt at a lot of good private places.
For less than that you can make a hunt at a lot of good private places.
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