Outdoorreb

Are you mainly bow hunting?

If you are you better practice with it on. I have never used one when shooting a bow, but I can see how it would affect your anchor points.

I don’t see where it is necessary, why not just use a mask that you use for turkey hunting? I guess I could see the need if you were in a blind on the ground and deer could see your face against the black background.

I use what they call a “Poo Shiesty Mask”, but that is strictly for the coldest of the cold boat rides when duck hunting.

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hammering the field and lawn but after some investigations it appears to be the army worms as well.

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I guess you didn’t spray Vantacor like I warned you. Hopefully you haven’t gotten rain and you can easily spray it.

How big are the army worms?

From Texas A&M and is pretty helpful.
Filamentous Algae

Chemicals

Algae and weed ID and controls

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Any moist soil plants I can still broadcast that will come up for this year? Or anyone have a moist soil blend they recommend

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Is this an Alt Account or a different person? If it is WRE in old Catfish ponds the Natural seed bank is all you need. That goes for probably 90% of the time.

The only place I have seen where it wasn’t was a WRE that went on ground that had been in cotton for the vast majority of the 1900’s and might have went under water 3 times in that timeframe. Even then after one season of deep tillage, millet, flooding, duck use, I could tell a difference in the moist soil plants starting to become more abundant.

What do you mean by “moist soil plants”? Are you talking about millets?
Jap-60 day
Golden-60 day
Browntop- 60 day (doesn’t like wet feet/saturated soils like the others)
Chiwapa-120 day.
*those are ~ days and I have seen some millets make seeds even in 40 days, just not as much and not as much bio-mass. Just hope you don’t catch an early frost.

If you are referring to native moist soil plants, I haven’t bought any in over a decade. High dollar shite. It was for Ag Research and how test chemicals would control those and other specific “weeds”.

Mossy oak sales a mix or 2, but i don’t know anyone that has tried them. I personally wouldn’t buy them and wouldn’t even waste my time if they were given to me. Someone might have experience with it and love it though.

Where are you located, or is this the same property? Depending on location you might be able to just disk and native late season grasses come up just fine.
Or use a 60day millet.
Or use what is there naturally.
Natural Moist Soil and invertebrates, if the ground is already holding them/get started by plant matter to soil contact and adding water.
*invertebrates seem to be somewhat forgotten by the vast majority of hunters*.

Hate to sound like a biologist on this, but it just depends on location, drainage and what is already there.

Pennsylvania Smartweed is good, lady’s thumb is good and pale smartweed is good. If it was me I would save the money and just make openings/ strips as soon as you have majority hard seed. Bushhog and disk or rice stubble roller.

If you have gotten permission from NRCS to thin the trees, then it must be an older “WRP”. I am guessing there are “micro topographic” holes the NRC created and they hardly ever dry out and that is why you have the Duck Potato. Is it only in the holes?

Monocultures of smartweed tell me they pulled the water off all at once in mid-late March. Why? Did they normally plant a millet/rice instead of managing moist soil? Were they not happy with their duck hunting, and that is why they sold? It might be worth trying something different if they weren’t happy with their duck hunting.

There is still a bunch of ducks in that area. I am only 30 miles NE of Panther. You might not kill thousands, but I think we went hunting 32 times last year and averaged 4.3 ducks a gun. We mainly chase mallards though. Of those numbers, we only shot 19 wood ducks and 4 shovelers. If we were strictly trying to kill numbers we could have shot way more of those 2 species.

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Aquamax MVP has larger pellets designed for feed trained bass. May be to big for bluegill…

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I don’t know about all that. I am sure feed trained bass would eat it starting out but my understanding on feed trained bass is that they grow out of it pretty fast when other forage options are available. On the back of the bag is Bob Lusk holding 2 giant Bluegill.

I go through a 1-1.25 pallets a year and I am specifically trying to feed bluegills. I have seen fathead minnows even eat on it. I am sure a bass might eat some but the vast majority of the time I just see them chasing bluegill when it goes off.

Never mind. I didn’t see the 1 acre part

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but now there isn’t any hydrilla (food) to support any ducks so it sucks now too

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What are you calling hydrilla?

I have had one done. Most of the people that do it don’t do it right. There is a strict protocol in how it should be done. The research is pretty new and out of Auburn. They say they are 100% accurate but they aren’t.

The protocol calls for multiple nights of flights and set on specific gridding and elevation. There have already been a couple changes to the protocol since it was released.

4 man today. Mixed bag of mallards, teal, pintails, 1 gadwall, and widgeon.

Will see how the season finishes but 400 ducks on the year 200 mallards with gadwalls, teal and pintails 2nd-4th in numbers. 18 woodies, 4 shovelers. And 2 widgeon pulling up the rear. Solid year so far with only 29 hunts in the book