The water surface looks deceptively small in this picture. It is much larger than it looks. This entire area to include that beyond our lease is lowlands that collects and retains water through the year and gives no elevation for a good picture. This is an example of how our self guided hunts work. We make this type of information available and then the hunter must experience the hunt for himself. The confidence this spot is a good do it yourself duck hunt location is that we spent money to make it good. | 
Pictured is a wade-in area on one of our wetlands. The "wade-in" designation means a shooting pool within a wetlands where the wetlands has duck blinds on other pools, just not the one marked as "wade-in" on the wetlands maps. |
Wade-in areas are typically for members that like to set up on their own with layout boats or their own make shift blinds. True do it yourself duck hunt with the benefit of no public wetlands hunter mentality. Several designated wade-in areas once had blinds but the bird pattern from year to year with fluctuating water levels was unpredictable and it's to the hunter's advantage to set up own their own. This combined with increased requests from mostly retriever hunters for more shoreline areas has resulted in expanded wetlands and tree cutting.
If you reserve a wade-in area we will not allow another member to hunt the same area on the same day unless you request us to do so. Many hunters with inexperienced young dogs prefer wade-in areas so the dog is not confined to a blind and the dog has greater visibility of the game.
On several of our properties with irrigation lakes the landowners discourage permanent blinds because they interfere with their equipment during the off season. Many of these lakes are designated wade-in areas that are greatly under utilized, but on the right days as good or better than many of our wetlands with permanent blinds. Each wade-in pool is sufficiently large enough for an entire day's hunt and with the right spread and calling any nearby flights should be able to be decoyed in just as well as in the duck blind areas. | 
