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Quick Hunting area questions
McCRIZZLEY:
I'll add to be hesitant of the areas you find good information about publicly online... Usually everyone else has read the same posts and waterfowl hunting is best done without the crowds.
Get a pair of waders, binoculars, and couple tanks of gas and get out there!
HntnFsh:
--- Quote from: metlhead on October 14, 2024, 03:17:46 PM ---I encourage new folks to come to this site and ask questions. If you don't wanna give up your handed down secrets, well that is fine. Haze someone for asking and yhey will go elsewhere. These small game threads are hardly alive as it is. Fresh conversation is welcoming and a great way to extend our sport out of the field.
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Great perspective! Thank you!
Jpmiller:
I’ve never tried this personally but always thought it would be a good way to learn based on what I used to do hunting.
Growing up we had an 80 acre piece of land we hunted ducks on. It had about an acre pond on it and about a hundred years away about smaller pond, maybe 200 foot square. Because it was ours I built my dad and I a really slick blind, dug into the ground/hill a little bit and with some drainage so it was usually dry inside. It was only sized for two people and a dog so when his buddy came along (who really had a way of sucking the fun out of duck hunting! I would peel three decoys out of the spread and hunker down in the bushes by the other smaller pond.
They would call to all the flocks and about half the time (if not more) I’d get ducks coming to my pond and I wasn’t calling at all and I’d get my limit before them. I always figured taking a small spread out to a busy place and not calling might work well based on that. It would give you the chance to see where the ducks are and aren’t, how they come in, and where they go. Plus having a small spread and no blind makes it really easy to move around if you end up in a less than ideal location.
Don’t know if it’ll work, never tried it myself but something I always thought. Good luck, hope you have a fun season whatever the outcome.
ducks4days:
--- Quote from: Jpmiller on October 15, 2024, 06:41:36 AM ---I’ve never tried this personally but always thought it would be a good way to learn based on what I used to do hunting.
Growing up we had an 80 acre piece of land we hunted ducks on. It had about an acre pond on it and about a hundred years away about smaller pond, maybe 200 foot square. Because it was ours I built my dad and I a really slick blind, dug into the ground/hill a little bit and with some drainage so it was usually dry inside. It was only sized for two people and a dog so when his buddy came along (who really had a way of sucking the fun out of duck hunting! I would peel three decoys out of the spread and hunker down in the bushes by the other smaller pond.
They would call to all the flocks and about half the time (if not more) I’d get ducks coming to my pond and I wasn’t calling at all and I’d get my limit before them. I always figured taking a small spread out to a busy place and not calling might work well based on that. It would give you the chance to see where the ducks are and aren’t, how they come in, and where they go. Plus having a small spread and no blind makes it really easy to move around if you end up in a less than ideal location.
Don’t know if it’ll work, never tried it myself but something I always thought. Good luck, hope you have a fun season whatever the outcome.
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I run a spread of 6 decoys in high pressure areas, one each sex mallard, wigeon, and wood duck. Hen mallard on a pull string. It pretty much always works. If birds are looking for somewhere sneaky and safe to avoid pressure you need to be in the sneaky and safe spot. Your tactic of sitting on the small pond makes a ton of sense.
hdshot:
--- Quote from: metlhead on October 14, 2024, 03:17:46 PM ---I encourage new folks to come to this site and ask questions. If you don't wanna give up your handed down secrets, well that is fine. Haze someone for asking and yhey will go elsewhere. These small game threads are hardly alive as it is. Fresh conversation is welcoming and a great way to extend our sport out of the field.
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Unfortunately waterfowl places to hunt for the general public is currently in shrink-flation on steroids. Even my former hunting partner left me to rot on the general public hunting areas because of this problem I’ve shared about before. Can’t blame hunters being critical to protect spots and throw other hunters away like trash no matter how loyal and trusted. Just the way it is.
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