Fountain Grove Waterfowl page 3
Blind 6 faces Parsons Creek to the northeast on a 60 acre marsh covering a 30 acre shooting pool.
The marsh is 12 to 36 inches in depth and is rotated from open water to flooded natural vegetation and small food plots each year.
There are some deep spots in the surrounding marsh, we recommend chest waders if you do not have a dog to retrieve ducks.
With open water blind 6 is prime for large decoy spreads to attract mallards on their way to and from the Fountain Grove Wildlife Area, which is only 2 miles to the south as the crow flies
When the marsh has flooded smartweed and millet early teal season can be action packed along with a variety of small ducks and mallards during the regular duck season.
When the roads are muddy access to blind 6 can be difficult to access.
A view facing the west from blind #6 of the shooting pool surrounding the blind.
Parson's Creek is the trees.
Rippy grass, which is a major component to the duck blind process is not for sale on the market. Each year rippy grass must be mowed, gathered, bundled by hand and stored in a barn.
To break up the color of the rippy grass we use small pin oak limbs that must be cut and placed around and on top of the blinds.
The next blind is a floater blind that can be moved each year to the area on the marsh we feel the ducks will use best.
The part of the marsh when full to capacity holds 60 surface water acres. The shooting pool around the blind covers 30 acres and is 12" to 24" s in depth, which requires hip waders, but we recommend chest waders to be safe.
Same blind as pictured immediately above.
Next, a pit blind covering 20 surface water acres of flooded vegetation including millet.
The average depth is 12 to 36 inches.
Hunters can access blind 8 with hip boots but we always recommend chest waders to place decoys and retrieve game.
Access can be difficult if the dirt path leading to the marsh is wet. We allow the use of ATV's to haul decoys and gear to and from the blinds.
The blind faces Parsons Creek which is a major flyway feeding the Fountain Grove Wildlife Area in north Missouri.
Many hunters are attracted to the Association to expand their waterfowl season since we have land in both the Missouri North and Middle Zone.
The North Zone opens a week before the Middle Zone and the Middle Zone closes a week after the North zone, which gives waterfowl hunter 2 additional weeks of hunting.
The Association membership and season begins with early teal in September. Teal as well as mallards and a variety of other duck are attracted to shallow water marshes, such as the marsh in front of blind 8, with natural vegetation to feed on. The Association membership allows continuous hunting through regular duck, late and spring goose.