Waterfowl
State Choices
| We certainly appreciate the value waterfowl hunters place on the quality of wetlands and we will attempt to show some on this page. However, our wetlands coverage is extensive covering all of our different habitat types, locations, water level blind photos and more. This page is meant to be just a sample of what is available through all the links.
One of our more popular flooded crop leases with water level controlled by an electric pump and well, along with a levee system is in the northwest part of Missouri in what is called the Northwest Watershed or the smallest of the three sub-basins that compose the larger region identified as the lower Missouri River basin. This lease has over a 1,000 acres of crop ground. We flood about 90 acres with 4 blinds. The surrounding crop stubble is for field duck and goose hunting. This acreage plus our marsh abuts the Missouri State Bob Brown Conservation Area which is just a mile and a half south of the Squaw Creek Refuge which means several things. First other non-MAHA member hunters are kept at distance. Next, the overall area has a lot of standing water structure. Third, this portion of the Missouri River Valley is broad and flat giving much to crop land and none to cattle. All that together makes for great layover, controlled hunter pressure and the right combination of water and food. The last aspect about the picture above that is consistent amongst most of the Association hunters are the number of decoys in the spread. Over water most use two to four dozen. Field spreads of four dozen to several hundred is more common
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