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Other Hunting => Waterfowl => Topic started by: steelnducks on April 07, 2015, 09:11:19 PM

Title: What type of water do you prefer to hunt?
Post by: steelnducks on April 07, 2015, 09:11:19 PM
Do you like to hunt ponds, lakes, rivers, creeks, or salt? Which ones your favorite and why?
Title: Re: What type of water do you prefer to hunt?
Post by: Pnwrider on April 07, 2015, 09:15:29 PM
Whichever one doesn't have another hunter 50 yards away!
Title: Re: What type of water do you prefer to hunt?
Post by: steelnducks on April 07, 2015, 09:19:42 PM
I love hunting small ponds and creeks because early season wood ducks get my blood pumping.
Title: Re: What type of water do you prefer to hunt?
Post by: NW-GSP on April 07, 2015, 09:35:21 PM
I prefer ponds but open fields can be allot of fun.
Title: Re: What type of water do you prefer to hunt?
Post by: Commando on April 08, 2015, 04:52:04 AM
I think field hunting is fun but prefer to hunt the small ponds and rivers. Done the best there and its downright fun.
Title: Re: What type of water do you prefer to hunt?
Post by: fowl smacker on April 08, 2015, 05:40:19 AM
I prefer to hunt whatever type is holding the birds.  I scout, and wherever I find birds is my favorite.
Title: Re: What type of water do you prefer to hunt?
Post by: JJD on April 08, 2015, 07:08:11 AM
While I prefer to hunt water, a day when ya set up right and really fool'em in the field is fun too.

The reason I really enjoy water is my dogs absolutely love it.  If the day comes that they make hunting with dogs illegal, I'll likely hang it all up.
Title: Re: What type of water do you prefer to hunt?
Post by: Brad Harshman on April 08, 2015, 07:03:43 PM
I prefer to hunt whatever type is holding the birds.  I scout, and wherever I find birds is my favorite.
Agreed.  I love hunting the "X" and completely fooling the birds.  Nothing better than locked wings and landing gear.  Even if it's only two birds a day.  I love it!
Title: Re: What type of water do you prefer to hunt?
Post by: lokidog on April 08, 2015, 08:22:03 PM
I think I would prefer ponds/marshes for the simplicity, but it has been so long since I have hunted these... Mostly I hunt saltwater, shoreline or open water and I used to mostly hunt a river.
Title: Re: What type of water do you prefer to hunt?
Post by: Revwrangler on April 08, 2015, 11:06:17 PM
I love hunting small ponds and marshes, but getting permission to hunt them around my area has been super hard, so most of my hunting has been lakes, and going to hit try Nisqually Basin this year.
Title: Re: What type of water do you prefer to hunt?
Post by: 270Shooter on April 09, 2015, 11:26:21 AM
I love hunt small potholes out of a layout blind. Having 1000 mallards coming in on a 1/4 acre pond is something that will never get old. My next favorite would be large flooded feilds. My best hunt of the year last year my girlfriend and I shot 2 limits of green and drake pins in a flooded horse pasture, water was only about 3 inches deep.
Title: Re: What type of water do you prefer to hunt?
Post by: vandeman17 on April 09, 2015, 11:28:17 AM
pothole ponds are my favorite water to hunt. I like the little ponds that you can throw a rock across, especially when they are partially frozen so the birds only have a little open water.

Is it duck season yet?  :chuckle:
Title: Re: What type of water do you prefer to hunt?
Post by: metlhead on April 11, 2015, 06:23:42 AM
Definitely rivers during the the first few days of an extreme cold snap. Don't care much for lakes so tidewater or the bigC for the rest of the season. Sheet water on private land is like gold for those who have connections. I hunted a cornfield of roughly ten acres once. It was diked and flooded, with slightly underwater pathways leading to submerged indi pits that swiveled. That was a Yakama Ducknado.
Title: Re: What type of water do you prefer to hunt?
Post by: Tealer on April 17, 2015, 09:37:25 AM
I like wide open water. Roughly 15 to 20 feet deep in the middle of the river.


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