Choices
Administrative | Just as a reminder this entire series is to capture the pre-season work done to ensure good during season duck hunting. There are plenty of during season flooded blind pictures with ducks throughout the website offering plenty a good review of what the wetlands look like during the season. This sampling of pre-season work is offered as decision criteria to use when comparing other duck hunting options.
Looking out from inside the blind over the shooting pool area.
Looking back to the blind from what we estimate would be the shotgun range maximum. At this point the millet is just coming into head at mid summer.
A closer view of the same blind. This is one of our blinds that the walk into from the parking area is best seen first in daylight. This one shooting pool and blind is in an area about the size of a football field created by cutting the trees out in an area between the river channel and a small lake and crop field. The entire shooting pool is encircled by the trees and the area floods through a gated pipe in the levee that retains flood waters. A free water wetlands. This spot is also much safer than hunting the slough proper with its uneven bottom and current. The pictures may appear deceiving as this shooting pool is well served by chest waders. the water immediately around the blind is typically knee deep. After the season the inflow gate is closed and the drainpipe opened to ensure the trees do not die and the pool area dry for planting in the late spring/early summer. The surrounding region is along a low bottoms area that frequently floods with standing pools of waters. the general observation include the ducks fly the creek line feed on the acorns and crop fields as well as seek out these quiet spots for layover. |
