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Ducks in Dry Fields
Posted on 4/10/26 at 1:12 pm
Posted on 4/10/26 at 1:12 pm
Been filling the offseason void by watching plenty of duck content on youtube and it got me thinking. Why is it that these dudes in the upper midwest and maybe even as far south as Kansas can consistently kill ducks over dry fields? Why is it that by the time they get down here they're only interested in landing in an area with water? Geographically, where does that behavior stop from a hunting effectiveness standpoint?
Have any of you ever had successful hunt in LA or surrounding states over a dry field for ducks? And by dry I don't mean decoys on the ground near a pond, I mean an ag field that is holding zero water. I've shot two pintails over a big snow goose spread in a dry rice field but that was a fluke.
Have any of you ever had successful hunt in LA or surrounding states over a dry field for ducks? And by dry I don't mean decoys on the ground near a pond, I mean an ag field that is holding zero water. I've shot two pintails over a big snow goose spread in a dry rice field but that was a fluke.
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Posted on 4/10/26 at 1:29 pm to Tiger Pants 318
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Why is it that these dudes in the upper midwest and maybe even as far south as Kansas can consistently kill ducks over dry fields?
Because there's little to no water and that's where the food is.
Posted on 4/10/26 at 1:43 pm to LSUballs
True, but there's plenty of food in a dry standing cornfield or dry rice field in Louisiana, but they don't frequent those.
Posted on 4/10/26 at 2:03 pm to Tiger Pants 318
I have seen it one time in La. In 2021 during that hard freeze. All the ponds behind the house were thick ice.
Posted on 4/10/26 at 4:04 pm to Tiger Pants 318
Much more water down here than up north.
NODAK they will roost on large water bodies and hit the fields to eat. Very few will hunt water as it’s a roost.
Panhandle is the same, many ducks/geese will roost in the over flow ponds side the city limits and leave to feed in the AM.
NODAK they will roost on large water bodies and hit the fields to eat. Very few will hunt water as it’s a roost.
Panhandle is the same, many ducks/geese will roost in the over flow ponds side the city limits and leave to feed in the AM.
Posted on 4/10/26 at 4:53 pm to Tiger Pants 318
I've seen woodies walking the bank of a creek where I grew up just gobbling up on some acorns and beech mast.
Side note. Beautiful clear water creek ruined by sand from a damn gravel pit that would overflow during rain storms and muddy sand filled water poured into the creek.
Side note. Beautiful clear water creek ruined by sand from a damn gravel pit that would overflow during rain storms and muddy sand filled water poured into the creek.
Posted on 4/10/26 at 7:34 pm to Tiger Pants 318
Hunt ducks and geese north of Saskatoon. Ducks pour… and I mean pour into dry fields in early afternoon. I’m talking rolling fields with no water close by at all.
Pretty amazing seeing 20-50 mallards coming in to land and walking around in a bone dry field.
Pretty amazing seeing 20-50 mallards coming in to land and walking around in a bone dry field.
Posted on 4/10/26 at 8:37 pm to Tiger Pants 318
Food, water and weather. The answers for all duck questions.
Posted on 4/11/26 at 9:01 am to Tiger Pants 318
Need a few hundred acres of peas with dry pods hanging on the plants in December and you’ll have a dry field duck massacre.
Posted on 4/11/26 at 10:11 am to YbTexas
quote:you left out pressure, especially mechanized human traffic... it shallow draft boats roaming 7 days a week, crawfish boats, atvs/utvs people discount that way way too much.
Food, water and weather. The answers for all duck questions.
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